--- title: October’s reading list description: 'Here are the best links shared by the design team in October: Writing to Think How We Fixed Our Icon Problem Writing Developer Job Postings The Stages of Fear Building and Enterprise CSS Framework Project Apollo Archive HoloLens project X-ray Aurous CSS vs SVG: The Final Round(up) Tech For Good Motion UI Accelerated Mobile Pages […]' url: https://canonical.com/blog/octobers-reading-list?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Inayaili de León Persson](https://canonical.com/blog/author/inayaili-de-leon-persson "More about Inayaili de León Persson") 16 November 2015 # October’s reading list [Design](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design) --- Share the article Here are the best links shared by the design team in October: 1. [Writing to Think](http://alistapart.com/blog/post/writing-to-think/) 2. [How We Fixed Our Icon Problem](http://blog.trello.com/how-we-fixed-our-icon-problem/) 3. [Writing Developer Job Postings](http://www.tokyodev.com/2015/08/28/writing-developer-job-posting/) 4. [The Stages of Fear](https://the-pastry-box-project.net/eric-a-meyer/2015-October-2) 5. [Building and Enterprise CSS Framework](https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/building-an-enterprise-framework-is-hard-1e8d8b33e082) 6. [Project Apollo Archive](https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums) 7. [HoloLens project X-ray](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkoS0vNQTY&feature=youtu.be&t=92) 8. [Aurous](https://aurous.me/) 9. [CSS vs SVG: The Final Round(up)](http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2015/09/css-vs-svg-the-final-roundup.html) 10. [Tech For Good](http://www.meetup.com/techforgood/) 11. [Motion UI](http://zurb.com/playground/motion-ui) 12. [Accelerated Mobile Pages Project](https://www.ampproject.org/) 13. [How to Get Your Client to Say ‘Yes’](https://medium.com/@myddelton/how-to-get-your-client-to-say-yes-f3b2e11a02c8) 14. [Blend – Generate simple and beautiful CSS3 gradients](http://colinkeany.com/blend/) 15. [Why UX design patterns work and how to use them](http://www.creativebloq.com/web-design/ux-design-patterns-work-91516961) 16. [Bootstrap Studio](http://bootstrapstudio.io/) 17. [Object-Oriented UX](http://alistapart.com/article/object-oriented-ux) 18. [The Future Is Now! – 10/21/15 – A Special Message From Doc Brown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwL0HZSc2Sc) 19. [Kai Brach – Offscreen Magazine](http://screenings.io/posts/4HhMQmcBuiTLF9E8K/kai-brach-offscreen-magazine) 20. [Git Large File Storage – How to Work with Big Files](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLR1RNqJ1Mw) 21. [Melting POP @ Alexandre DUBOSC](https://vimeo.com/141178611) 22. [Project Faces – Adobe Max 2015 – Sneak Peeks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcUo9ULvVq4) 23. [British Library offers over 1 million free vintage images for download](http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/illustration/british-library-offers-over-1-million-free-vintage-images-for-download/) 24. [Adapting without assumptions](http://blog.yoav.ws/adapting_without_assumptions/) Thanks to [Alejandra](http://design.canonical.com/author/alejandra-obregon), [Anthony](http://design.canonical.com/author/ya-bo-ng), [Elvi](http://design.canonical.com/author/elvirafigueras7), [James](http://design.canonical.com/author/jamesjosephmulholland), [Joe](http://design.canonical.com/author/faooful), [Luca](http://design.canonical.com/author/lucapaulina), [Richard](http://design.canonical.com/author/ricgard) and me, for the links this month! [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. 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