Collective #111

Inspirational Website of the Week: Active Theory

A truly inspirational digital experience. The website of Active Theory makes use of some unusual shapes and interesting scrolling and hover effects. Our pick this week.

Post Flat Design

Wells Riley points out the over-simplification in UI design that happened due to the flat design trend and suggests a less strict approach that embraces the reintroduction of skeuomorphic styles and depth where sensible.

Advanced animation path

A great tutorial by Oleg Solomka on how to animate SVG paths and animate along them.

The Z-Axis: Designing for the Future

Wren Lanier explains how exploring a new dimension, the z-axis, in layout thinking can solve design problems in this A List Apart article.

GitHub Cheat Sheet

A compilation of all the hidden and not hidden features of Git and GitHub by Tim Green.

How to Use steps() in CSS Animations

An excellent article by Joni Trythall on understanding and using steps() in CSS Animations with some great demos.

CSS and SVG Masks

See which masking technique has most browser support in this great overview by yoksel.

280 Vector Line Icons Pack (EPS)

An absolutely stunning free icon pack with lots of fresh vector line icons designed by Jonas Nullens for PixelBuddha.

Picker

An easy-to-use and customizable color picker by suffick.

Really Good Emails

An inspiring collection of really good email designs by Matthew Smith.

Treed

Treed is an extensible tree editor with VIM inspired keyboard navigation and drag and drop functionality. Made by Jared Forsyth.

Building The Web App For Unicef's Tap Campaign: A Case Study

A great case study on how the challenging web app, Tap, Unicef's latest campaign, was made. By Nick Jonas and Francis Villanueva.

Creating Style Guides

A very insightful article on how to build and maintain style guides by Susan Robertson on A List Apart.

Awesome kit

A free set of 26 AI wireframe templates for iOS with two custom brushes designed by George Vasyagin.

Cognitive Lode

Understand the latest behavioral economics & consumer psychology research in a easy-to-understand and simple manner.

Colorful Ficons Icons 42+ (PSD)

A set of delicious flat-style icons by Alexander Kutuzov.

Chicks & Types

"It's all love" - Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini celebrates his favorite typefaces with the versatile beauty of ladies.

Defining the Pinterest Illustrated Style

Torpedo

Torpedo is a useful, new file sharing app that let's you share files, passwords, and more with self-destructing private links.

Raising The Bar

Raising the Bar is a non-profit initiative aimed at turning educational content into a part of the pop-culture.

Papercraft

Papercraft by Brent Jackson is a creative, hand-coded experimental type made with SVG and inspired by folded paper.

Responsive Email Patterns

Published already some time ago, this is a really useful resource of patterns and modules for responsive emails.