Collective #179
Inspirational Website of the Week: Quant Agency
A clean and fresh site with some interesting design details and interactions. Our pick this week.
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What The FlexBox?!
A simple, free 20 video course that will help you master CSS Flexbox by Wes Bos.
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Stop pushing the web forward
A reasonable call for not moving the web forward for a while so that we can learn and understand the current features for a more meaningful vision of the web.
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Pageload Perf Audits with DevTools Filmstrip in Chrome
Paul Irish shows how to use the Chrome DevTools and Filmstrip to diagnose slow page loading of several big websites.
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Tookapic: 365 project
With tookapic's 365 project you can capture your life by taking one photo a day for 365 days. Tookapic is also a great resource for high quality stock photos.
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minigrid
A minimal grid layout with no dependencies by Henrique Alves.
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How To Create a Text Portrait Effect in Photoshop
A master class by Chris Spooner on how to create an awesome text portrait effect in Photoshop.
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Spatial Interfaces
An excellent article on spatial interfaces by Pasquale D’Silva.
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CSS vs. SVG: Graphical Text Effects
The first article of a series of posts exploring techniques for creating graphical effects using CSS and SVG by Sara Soueidan.
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Designing Flexible, Maintainable Pie Charts With CSS and SVG
An excerpt form Lea Verou's latest book, CSS Secrets, where she explains several methods for generating pie charts.
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Free Font: Vibrey
A very creative font design that is based on vibration, made by Sasha B. Perelman.
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Advanced CSS filters
Vincent De Oliveira explores some advanced CSS filter techniques.
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Constructing CSS Quantity Queries On The Fly
Drew Minns shows how to use quantityqueries.com for constructing custom quantity queries in CSS.
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Free Font: Ikra Slab
A beautiful slab serif font designed by Sergey Godovalov.
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The Web We Have to Save
A must-read article by author and blogger Hossein Derakhshan on how we have to save the web from becoming a linear and passive TV-internet.
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Monobrand iOS UI Kit (Free Sample)
A free sample from the beautifully designed Monobrand UI for creating iOS app designs.
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How The Next Web Redesign Puts Content First
The team at ZURB analyzed The New Web's latest redesign with their design team to figure out the thinking behind their design decisions.
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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
An excellent visual introduction to Machine Learning by R2D3.
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