Collective #261
Inspirational Website of the Week: Jenny Johannesson
A great design with smooth effects and lovely typography. Our pick this week.
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Welcome.js
James Bridle made an awesome little script to show a friendly welcome message in the developer console, promoting the facility of viewing the source of a website.
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Northwestern University's MS in Information Design and Strategy
Earn your MS in Information Design and Strategy online from Northwestern University and learn how to blend digital skills like information architecture and experience design with branding and messaging, translate data into compelling visual forms and narratives, and understand how research and analytics can drive communication strategies and tactics.
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Blynker
A really awesome site and idea that will help you keep your eyes healthy. Definitely a great addition to your daily tools. Made by Chris Weston and Jon Lockley.
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Sodaphonic
Sodaphonic is an online audio editor for humans.
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Introducing FlyWeb
Learn all about FlyWeb by Mozilla, a new API for web pages to host local web servers for exposing content and services to nearby browsers.
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10 principles for smooth web animations
Anand Sharma's fantastic guide on creating super-smooth animations.
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Tools for Developing Accessible Websites
Ire Aderinokun shares some very useful tools that help with developing accessible websites.
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ES6 Cheatsheet
An awesome interactive ES6 cheatsheet that uses a series of small examples to show you the important parts of new JavaScript syntax. By Swizec Teller.
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Aquaflow Toolkit Free Version
A great free kit with various vector brushes, symbols and patterns for creating watercolor designs. Made by Tatiana Lapina.
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Just Junior Jobs
A new job board for finding your first tech or design job.
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Things I've Learned About CSS Grid Layout
Oliver Williams explains the CSS grid layout and shares what he learned while diving into it.
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Conditions for CSS Variables
Roman Komarov has some interesting thoughts on the necessity of conditions for CSS variables.
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Free Font: Rising Star Monoline Script
A fantastic modern monoline script font designed by Hindia Studio for Pixel Buddha.
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Responsive Images Are Here. Now What?
An Event Apart video where Jason Grigsby shows us how to use the new responsive image specifications.
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Free Font: Westfalia
A lovely hand painted brush font by Pixel Surplus. You can get it for an email subscription.
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Variable Fonts on the Web
Myles Maxfield walks you through some amazing aspects of Variable Fonts.
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How to build a responsive grid system
Zell Liew shows how to create a responsive grid system in this great, step-by-step tutorial.
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Mirror, mirror
A mesmerizing WebGL and Cinemagraph mashup demo by Szenia Zadvornykh.
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Codevember By Makio64
It's #codevember folks, and David Ronai created this awesome demo.
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Portier
If you haven't stumbled upon it yet: Portier is an email-based, passwordless authentication service that you can host yourself.
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StockJo
A site that collects all kinds of different free stock resources for design and web projects.
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