--- title: "September’s reading list\n | Ubuntu" description: 'Here’s a selection of the links we shared in September: Evolving the Google identity Guidelines for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps Screenings Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual Emotional Intelligence in Design Earth View from Google Socality Barbie Origamica Hello, My Name is Design research guide Introducin […]' url: https://ubuntu.com/blog/septembers-reading-list?format=md keywords: index, follow --- 1. [Blog](https://ubuntu.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Inayaili de León Persson](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/inayaili-de-leon-persson "More about Inayaili de León Persson") 1 October 2015 # September’s reading list [Design](https://ubuntu.com/blog/tag/design) --- Share the article Here’s a selection of the links we shared in September: * [Evolving the Google identity](https://design.google.com/articles/evolving-the-google-identity/) * [Guidelines for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465424.aspx) * [Screenings](http://screenings.io/) * [Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thestandardsmanual/reissue-of-the-1975-nasa-graphics-standards-manual) * [Emotional Intelligence in Design](https://medium.com/facebook-design/emotional-intelligence-in-design-abcd1555b3e7) * [Earth View from Google](http://earthview.withgoogle.com/) * [Socality Barbie](https://instagram.com/socalitybarbie/) * [Origamica](http://origamica.com/) * [Hello, My Name is ](http://alistapart.com/article/hello-my-name-is-error) * [Design research guide](http://www.slideshare.net/madebymany/made-by-many-design-research-guide-52303718) * [Introducing the NHS.UK Alpha](http://digital.nhs.uk/2015/01/introducing-the-nhs-uk-alpha/) * [The Tools Designers Are Using Today](http://tools.subtraction.com/) * [Beyond Conference](http://beyondconf.co/) * [Alvy Ray Smith: RBGA, the birth of compositing & the fouding of Pixar](http://www.fxguide.com/featured/alvy-ray-smith-rgba-the-birth-of-compositing-the-founding-of-pixar/) * [FlowingData](http://flowingdata.com/) * [AMA: Hi everyone, I’m Thomas Knoll and 25 years ago this week I co-founded Photoshop with my brother John](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wh6fx/hi_everyone_im_thomas_knoll_and_25_years_ago_this/) * [UI Palette](http://www.uipalette.net/) * [Elastic Progress](http://tympanus.net/Development/ElasticProgress/) * [What the Color?](http://www.miraclesalad.com/whatthecolor.php) * [Seven Brief Lessons](http://www.sevenbrieflessons.com/) * [Starbucks Android Material Design](https://medium.com/android-news/starbucks-android-material-design-142e2c43feb) * [Rhei – Time flows. Literally.](http://www.hellorhei.com/) * [Themes: A Small Change to Product Roadmaps with Large Effects](https://medium.com/uie-brain-sparks/themes-a-small-change-to-product-roadmaps-with-large-effects-a9a9a496b800) * [Product Design Workshop at HackMIT 2015](https://medium.com/hh-design/product-design-workshop-at-hackmit-2015-596c94262147) * [HTML Color Codes](http://htmlcolorcodes.com/) * [Prevent Feature Creep and Bad Product Requests](http://www.productstrategymeanssayingno.com/) Thanks to [Jouni](http://design.canonical.com/author/jounihelminen), [Luca](http://design.canonical.com/author/lucapaulina), [Karl](http://design.canonical.com/author/deadlight), [Anthony](http://design.canonical.com/author/ya-bo-ng), [Alejandra](http://design.canonical.com/author/alejandra-obregon), [Joe](http://design.canonical.com/author/faooful), [Jamie](http://design.canonical.com/author/jamiedawsonyoung), [Olga](http://design.canonical.com/author/olga-kemmet) and me, for the links this month! 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