Collective #249

Inspirational Website of the Week: Stripe
The new, impeccable website of Stripe shows some awesome Material Design goodness. Our pick this week.
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Redesigning Chrome Desktop
Sebastien Gabriel shares a fascinating, in-depth story behind the design process of Chrome desktop.
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Primitive Pictures
An algorithm implemented in Go that reproduces images with geometric primitives. By Michael Fogleman.
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Gallium
With Gallium you can write desktop applications in Go and HTML. Made by Alex Flint.
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Chatbots: Your Ultimate Prototyping Tool
Read how chatbots can teach us to learn what people need when designing products and services. An article by David Boardman and Sera Koo.
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Noteshrink
Convert scans of handwritten notes to beautiful, compact PDF. By Matt Zucker.
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Here's why you're overlooking how much VR actually matters
Jory MacKay shares his thoughts on VR and why he believes we're reaching the tipping point of startups in the virtual space.
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So you have an app idea, eh?
A great article that enlightens some aspects on whether your app idea is worth the effort. By Robleh Jama.
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Acme Logos
Acme logos are for the times you need a professional logo to work with but don't have the real thing yet. A project by Mackenzie Child.
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CSS Grid meets the real world - a login form
Learn how easily you can create complex layouts with CSS Grids. A tutorial by Rachel Andrew.
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Accessible SVGs in High Contrast Mode
A brilliant article on how to use High Contrast media queries for adapting SVGs. By Eric Bailey.
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Web development as a hack of hacks
Some interesting and important thoughts on web development by Peter-Paul Koch.
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Free Font: Deepo Handwriting
A wild and rough hand-written font perfect for expressive headlines. Made by Gatis Vilaks from Wild Type.
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WebGL Lessons — Fragment Shaders
The first tutorial in the awesome jam3-lesson-webgl series on WebGL.
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Free Font: Circuit
Atila Oliveira designed this amazing symbolic font that's great for artistic projects.
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Inky and Slinky
Learn all about Zurb's Inky and Slinky for HTML emails in this article by Chris Coyier.
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9 Underutilized Features in CSS
Some very useful CSS tricks and properties highlighted by Jordan Little.
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Tips for Using Icons in Your App
Nick Babich gives some advanced tips on using icons in apps.
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Tilegrams: More Human Maps
Read the story behind Tilegrams, an authoring tool for more human maps by Pitch Interactive.
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CSS Floats Explained By Riding An Escalator
A great article by Kevin Kononenko that explains the CSS float property with an interesting analogy.
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Ocean Emotion Free Photos
Some lovely, high-quality free ocean photography by Yernju for GraphicBurger.
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