Collective #121

Inspirational Website of the Week: Icon PR

Clean design, bold colors and solid typography make Icon PR our website of the week.

Web Starter Kit

The ultimate boilerplate for responsive websites and multi-device experiences with a visual design system for documenting site components and many other features.

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Smallworld.js

A utility for quickly generating map overviews using GeoJSON and HTML Canvas. A project by Mike Fowler.

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Steady.js

A jank-free module to do logic on the onscroll event without performance regressions in @media-query like conditions. Made by Khalid Lafi.

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SideComments.js

SideComments.js is a UI component to give you Medium.com style comment management on the front-end. A project by Eric Anderson.

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Clothing Store eCommerce Theme (PSD)

An excellently designed PSD template collection for an online clothing store.

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Free Font: Simple Stamp

A creative and playful stamp font designed by Oleg Stepanov.

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Call to Idea

An amazing collection site with design component categories for getting inspired. Made by Alexis Hill.

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Wavepot

Wavepot is a digital audio workstation in the browser that let's you live code music.

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Particles in Canvas

A great tutorial by Donovan Hutchinson on how to get started with canvas for creating particles, bounce them around the screen and make them respond to gravity.

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The Future of WordPress

An insightful article by Natasha Postolovski on the future of WordPress. Read about the prospects and opportunities, the difficulties and hurdles of the most popular publishing platform on the web.

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Ballicons 2 Icon Set (PNG, PSD, SVG)

The second addition of the pixel perfect Ballicons with a free set exclusively published on Smashing Magazine.

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Homeless Fonts

A great project by the Arrels Foundation where you can purchase hand-written fonts to help their authors who are homeless people.

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Kick with Chrome

Pick one of three fun games and kick with Chrome on your mobile phone or tablet.

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collections.js

A Node.js package that provides JavaScript implementations of common collections, with many useful features.

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Are Hollow Icons Really Harder to Recognize Than Solid Icons? A Research Study

Are warnings against using hollow icons in UI design justified? There's nothing better than to do some actual research to find out. Read about the result and conclusions in this brilliant article by Curt Arledge from Viget.

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