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March’s reading list


Here are the best links shared by the design team in March 2017:

  1. China’s zombie factories and unborn cities
  2. IXD17: Let’s Make the World We Want to Live In
  3. Great README
  4. A list of 30 women rocking in UX to celebrate International Women’s Day
  5. Design Better Cards
  6. Chat Systems
  7. Google gives Hangouts a Slack makeover
  8. Messaging Hell
  9. BitlBee: an IRC to other chat networks gateway
  10. Shipping code isn’t just for engineers. It’s for designers too.
  11. Design Museum: Imagine Moscow exhibition
  12. The UX of a Banana — Understanding What UX Design is All About
  13. Kap: an open-source screen recorder built with web technology
  14. How a roadside rest stop inspired an entirely different approach to FAQs
  15. Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems
  16. Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017
  17. Google Open Source

Thank you to Alejandra, Ant, Barry, Jamie, Karl, Peter and Will for the links this month.


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