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title: April’s reading list
description: 'Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month:
  Framer – Design tool for creating interactive designs, interfaces and animations
  Cinematic Continuity in User Interface Design The Design Issue 2016 – Bloomberg
  Businessweek Improving your UX and UI with phantom guides Still thinking you don’t
  need HTTPS? Your kids mig […]'
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3 May 2016

# April’s reading list

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Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month:

1. [Framer – Design tool for creating interactive designs, interfaces and animations](http://framerjs.com/)
2. [Cinematic Continuity in User Interface Design](https://medium.com/ux-design-1/cinematic-continuity-on-ui-design-8aa191ab9c8e#.5ookid42r)
3. [The Design Issue 2016 – Bloomberg Businessweek](http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-design/)
4. [Improving your UX and UI with phantom guides](http://blog.invisionapp.com/improving-your-ux-phantom-guides/)
5. [Still thinking you don’t need HTTPS?](https://scotthelme.co.uk/still-think-you-dont-need-https/)
6. [Your kids might live on Mars. Here’s how they’ll survive](http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_petranek_your_kids_might_live_on_mars_here_s_how_they_ll_survive)
7. [Clarity. A conference about style guides and design systems](http://clarityconf.com/)
8. [Best Front-end frameworks to try in 2016](https://hashnode.com/post/best-front-end-frameworks-to-try-in-2016-cin1unmcn00tvrb535out1y08)
9. [Welcome to the Invisible Revolution](http://news.microsoft.com/stories/invisible-revolution/)
10. [Bruce Springsteen singing Purple Rain to honor Prince](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqIsxyyQuTA)
11. [The Making of “The Aviator”: Animating a Basic 3D Scene with Three.js](http://tympanus.net/codrops/2016/04/26/the-aviator-animating-basic-3d-scene-threejs/)
12. [A revolutionary new way to access all your files](https://blogs.dropbox.com/business/2016/04/announcing-project-infinite/)
13. [Magic happens with the Ubuntu tablet](http://www.techrepublic.com/article/magic-happens-with-the-ubuntu-tablet/)

Thank you to [Andrea](http://design.canonical.com/author/faenil), [Barry](http://design.canonical.com/author/barry-mcgee), [Femma](http://design.canonical.com/author/femma), [James](http://design.canonical.com/author/jamesjosephmulholland), [Jamie](http://design.canonical.com/author/jamiedawsonyoung), [Joe](http://design.canonical.com/author/faooful), [Luca](http://design.canonical.com/author/lucapaulina), [Richard](http://design.canonical.com/author/ricgard) and [Robin](http://design.canonical.com/author/nottrobin) for the links this month!

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