Website of the week:

SCREEN CAST REVIEW: Check out ‘Spencer Gabor’ on the UMS website

Links of the week

Dark Patterns Detective
Uncover the hidden design tricks that manipulate user decisions online.
https://games.productartistry.com/games/dark-patterns 

QuickFill - Design faster with ready content
This plugin helps you populate your designs with meaningful content in seconds instead of searching across multiple sources. All assets are carefully curated and regularly updated to maintain quality and relevance.
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1460705789268746232/quickfill-design-faster-with-ready-content 

Redefine Your Design Skills to Prepare for AI
Designers must embrace 5 principles as our industry shifts with AI.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/prepare-for-ai/ 

Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me
https://matduggan.com/stop-trying-to-schedule-a-call-with-me/ 

The 10 reasons bad design happens
This list explains where things go wrong and every designer should know them
https://whydesignishard.substack.com/p/the-10-reasons-bad-design-happens 

Balancing Text In CSS
Balancing text in CSS helps make designs look cleaner and easier to read. Features like text-wrap: balance and text-wrap: pretty help us in fixing that. Thank you for reading!
https://ishadeed.com/article/balancing-text-css/ 

Iconic
Free, “do wtf you want with” pixel-perfect icons.
https://iconic.app/

Resources To Make You Better

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