--- title: May’s reading list description: 'Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: MyData 2016 Conference Next-level collaboration: the future of content and design Collection of popular UX flows Microsoft’s hover gestures for Windows phones are magnificent What Happened to Google Maps? Surprising Changes to Google Maps’s Cartography 7 Things Every D […]' url: https://canonical-com-2950.demos.haus/blog/mays-reading-list?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical-com-2950.demos.haus/blog) 2. Article --- [Inayaili de León Persson](https://canonical-com-2950.demos.haus/blog/author/inayaili-de-leon-persson "More about Inayaili de León Persson") 1 June 2016 # May’s reading list [Design](https://canonical-com-2950.demos.haus/blog/tag/design) --- Share the article Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: 1. [MyData 2016 Conference](http://mydata2016.org/) 2. [Next-level collaboration: the future of content and design](http://blog.invisionapp.com/future-content-design/) 3. [Collection of popular UX flows](http://canvasflip.com/inspire.php) 4. [Microsoft’s hover gestures for Windows phones are magnificent](http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11595564/microsoft-3d-touch-kinect-gestures-windows-phones) 5. [What Happened to Google Maps? Surprising Changes to Google Maps’s Cartography](http://www.justinobeirne.com/essay/what-happened-to-google-maps) 6. [7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About Accessibility](https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/7-things-every-designer-needs-to-know-about-accessibility-64f105f0881b#.mupt8ma2k) 7. [Meaningful CSS: Style Like You Mean It](http://alistapart.com/article/meaningful-css-style-like-you-mean-it) 8. [Bicycles Built Based On People’s Attempts to Draw Them From Memory](http://www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/bicycles-built-based-on-peoples-attempts-to-draw-them-from-memory/) 9. [Learn From the Past, Enhance for the Future](https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/learn-from-the-past-enhance-for-the-future/) 10. [Atomic Docs. A styleguide generator and component manager](http://atomicdocs.io/) 11. [How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist](https://medium.com/@tristanharris/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.v877pdy45) 12. [Star Wars Episode IV in one picture](http://swanh.net/) 13. [Airbnb Design: Building a Visual Language](http://airbnb.design/building-a-visual-language/) 14. [Dribbble Comment Generator](http://commments.com/) 15. [Confident, Instinct, and Knowing When to Fight Back: An Interview with Canonical CEO Jane Silber](http://uk.pcmag.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-att/77675/feature/confidence-instinct-and-knowing-when-to-fight-back-an-interv) Thank you to [Alejandra](http://design.canonical.com/author/alejandra-obregon), [Ant](http://design.canonical.com/author/ya-bo-ng), [Carla](http://design.canonical.com/author/carlaberkers), [James](http://design.canonical.com/author/jamesjosephmulholland), [Jamie](http://design.canonical.com/author/jamiedawsonyoung), [Joe](http://design.canonical.com/author/faooful), [Jouni](http://design.canonical.com/author/jounihelminen), [Peter](http://design.canonical.com/author/peter-mahnke) 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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