Collective #176

Inspirational Website of the Week: Newstech
A fresh, futuristic design that truly stands out. Our pick this week.
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Introducing Material Design Lite
Addy Osmani introduces MDL (Material Design Lite), a library of components & templates that allow you to add the Google material design look and feel to a website.
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The anatomy of a credit card form
A insightful article on the UI of credit card forms by Gabriel Tomescu.
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Image Blur Plugin
A small and very useful plugin for blurring images by Maksim Surguy.
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React.js Introduction For People Who Know Just Enough jQuery To Get By
This is a fantastic resource to learn React. By Shusaku Uesugi.
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Command Line Power User
A video series for web developers on learning a modern command line workflow with ZSH, Z and related tools. By Wes Bos.
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“Web Design Is Dead.” No, It Isn’t.
Vitaly Friedman explains why he believes that Web Design is not dead.
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Exploring Dynamic Layout in Sketch
Matej Hrescak shows how to use his interesting Sketch-Flex-Layout plugin for creating dynamic layouts in Sketch.
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Mocktotype
A useful tool for displaying your mockup in the browser. Made by ScriptSyndicate.
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Portal CSS
A great tutorial by Donovan Hutchinson on how to code a 3D project.
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Art-Directing an SVG Embedded Using <object>
An interesting mini case study of embedding, art-directing and providing accessible fallback for a SVG inforgraphic by Sara Soueidan.
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Deepdream.in
Generate your own inception images with this tools that uses Google's Deepdream.
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Free Font: COSMONAUT
Cosmonaut is a very creative and unique font designed by Cahya Sofyan.
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RetinaIcon: 200 Free Icons
200 colored free icons with an interesting style from the team of RetinaIcon over at GraphicBurger.
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Lærepenger Quiz
A fantastic way to make a quiz with some animated SVG goodness.
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hack.chat
A minimal, distraction-free chat application made by Andrew Belt.
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Does It Work On Edge?
Test if a website is working correctly under Edge, the new browser by Microsoft.
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Free Font: BEYNO
An interesting font designed by Fabian Korn.
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Optimising a canvas animation
Remy Sharp shares some tips on how to optimize a canvas animation.
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Relentless Persistence
A great comic by Curtis Lassam on the JavaScript-generated problems and "solutions".
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Free Happy Manje
A lovely icon set of happy little food icons made by buatoom.
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