Collective #143
Inspirational Website of the Week: JSConf Buenos Aires
The wonderfully creative website of the JSConf in Buenos Aires is our pick this week.
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Flow
Flow is a static type checker from Facebook, designed to find type errors in JavaScript programs.
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The State Of Animation 2014
An insightful article on the new Web Animation API by Rachel Nabors.
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Web Sensor API: Raw and Uncut
Boris Smus writes about the need for a Web Sensor API in the spirit of the extensible web manifesto.
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Frame Timing API
Read about the Frame Timing API which is the first step towards fixing our need to track frames per second more reliably, comprehensively, and in a cross-browser way.
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UX for the Enterprise
An interesting article on enterprise UX by Jordan Koschei for A List Apart.
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Pricing Tables
Some beautiful responsive pricing tables with different styles and a lovely effect by Claudia Romano from CodyHouse.
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Linotte Semi Bold
Joël Carrouché designed this beautiful rounded font with soft a touch. Linotte Semi Bold is offered for free.
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Aquarelle Designers Kit Mini (PNG, ASL)
A fantastic freebie including 16 watercolor Photoshop layer styles and 10 watercolor shapes by Stella Caraman for PixelBuddha.
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Naminum
A great tool that suggests company names based on some input.
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Jelly Torch
A fantastic demo by LegoMushroom with a moving torch light.
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UCSS - Utility CSS
A configurable collection of reusable utility classes by Seegno.
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Simple things: styling ordered lists
Christian Heilmann demystifies the ordered list and shows how to use CSS counters for creating custom styles.
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Lining.js
An interesting JavaScript library that gives you nth-line styling control.
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Website Style Guide Resources
A great compendium of useful resources related to front-end style guides and pattern libraries.
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Flexbox Nav Bar with Fixed, Variable, and Take-Up-The-Rest Elements
A great flexbox-based solution for a common layout problem by Chris Coyier.
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Pixact.ly
A fun online tool that tests how well you know your pixels.
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7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 2)
Some great advice from a "nerd" on how to design clean and simple UIs. Read the first part here.
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Free Font: Ainslie Slab Regular
Ainslie is a unique slab serif font by designer Jeremy Dooley. The regular style is for free.
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Three Maze
Random mazes using three.js and tween.js by Johan Satgé. Check out the GitHub repo, too.
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