Collective #138
Inspirational Website of the Week: Impossible Bureau
Wonderfully smooth animations with excellent typography make this agency's website our pick of the week.
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Hotjar Insights
Hotjar Insights is a new and easy way to understand your web and mobile site visitors. You can request free early access for the platform.
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Palettab
Palletab is a Chrome extension which uses Google fonts and ColourLovers palettes to create inspirational combinations whenever you open a new tab. Made by Tim Holman and Claudio Guglieri.
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A Guide to SVG Animations (SMIL)
A fantastic compendium of everything you need to know about SVG animations in SMIL. By Sara Soueidan.
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ProgressBar.js
Beautiful and responsive progress bars with animated SVG paths. You can use built-in shapes or create your own paths. Made by Kimmo Brunfeldt.
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Lazysizes
Lazysizes is a fast and jank-free lazy loader for images (including responsive images), iframes and scripts/widgets without any dependency. Made by Alexander Farkas.
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Free Font: Curely
Konstantine Studio's cute and playful handmade decorative typeface.
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Tools Tools Tools
Designer tools on acid? An epic audio-visual instrument of animated loops for designer tool actions.
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Touristic Icons (100 Icons, PNG, SVG)
A beautiful icon set related to tourism by Freepik on Smashing Magazine.
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Aerial Bold: Kickstart the Planetary Search for Letterforms!
A very creative project on Kickstarter by Benedikt Groß and Joey Lee: Aerial Bold is the first map and typeface of the earth which will be composed of the earth's alphabet shapes.
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CSS-Only Solution For UI Tracking
Krasimir Tsonev's incredibly clever and interesting CSS technique for collecting statistics on a website.
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Some Gotchas That Got Me
Paul Lewis' collection of issues and problematic behavior he encountered while working on his latest project.
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DevTools Tips
DevTools Tips by Jeferson Koslowski is a curated collection of Chrome Developer Tools tips and tricks, updated at least once a week.
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Material Design Icons
Material Design Icons are the official open-source icons featured in the Google Material Design specification.
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CSS Only iPhone 6
Fabrizio Bianchi's CSS-only iPhone 6 creation.
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PerfMap: front-end performance heatmap
A bookmarklet and Chrome extension by Mark Zeman to create a front-end performance heatmap of resources loaded in the browser using the Resource Timing API.
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The Art of Creating Simple but Flexible APIs
Jos de Jong dives into simplicity and flexibility of an API and gives some great advice on how to create a good API.
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Google News Redesign Concept
George Kvasnikov demonstrates his vision of a new UX and UI for the Google News platform.
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Introducing the HTML5 “Menu” and “Menuitem” Elements
Thoriq Firdaus introduces the new HTML5 menu and menuitem elements and shows their future potential.
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Free Font: Lulo Clean Outline Bold
Lulo Clean is an interesting uppercase display font family by Yellow Design Studio. The bold outline style is for free.
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TweenMax / GSAP Cheat codes list
Some useful tips and snippets for TweenMax/GSAP by Florian Morel to enhance your animation code.
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