Collective #145
Inspirational Website of the Week: NEVERBLAND
A clean design with excellent typography, smooth animations and beautiful details; that's the new website of Neverbland, our pick this week.
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Are you a robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”
A great new API that radically simplifies the reCAPTCHA experience by Google.
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Christmas Experiments
Every year this website delights with amazing web experiments by talented digital artists. This year's edition started out with some amazing gems.
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Enhancing User Experience With The Web Speech API
Ruth John writes about the newly proposed Web Speech API, the technology behind and how it could be used in the future.
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Everybody Scrolls
Huge's first piece of ongoing research into usability best practices tackles scrolling.
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Google Santa Tracker
Unlock a new project or game each day in preparation for Santa's annual journey around the world.
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Tweene: JavaScript Animation Proxy
Tweene can be used as a wrapper for existing animation libraries for better control and easier switching. Currently it works with GSAP, Velocity.js, Transit (CSS transitions) or jQuery. Made by Federico Orrù.
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UXmas
Don't miss this year's edition of the advent calendar for UX folk.
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Free Font: Sunday Font
An absolutely lovely vintage hand-lettering font by Anastasia Dimitriadi.
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SVG Loaders
Loading icons and small animations built purely in SVG, no CSS or JS, by Sam Herbert.
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Github-Todos
Github-Todos is a super-useful git hook to convert your TODOs into GitHub issues.
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MarkdownLive
Markdown preview with live update by Marcin Dziewulski.
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Introduction to Service Worker
Learn about the exciting new Service Workers and how they will aid creating rich offline experiences, periodic background syncs and push notifications. By Matt Gaunt.
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A brief history of web design for designers
The milestones of web design with some lovely illustrative animations. By Sandijs Ruluks.
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Foundation for Apps
Zurb's Foundation has been used as preferred backbone for many websites. Now Zurb has created the first front-end framework for developing fully responsive web apps.
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Performance Calendar
Another advent calendar for speed geeks with interesting articles on web performance.
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UI Tiles: Website Flowcharts (PSD, AI, SKETCH)
UI Tiles is a set of 72 fantastic website flowcharts that will help you wireframe in minutes. A great resource
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Building Pinalytics: Pinterest’s data analytics engine
A look behind the scenes of Pinalytics, Pinterest's own customizable platform for big data analytics.
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Flexbox Cross-Browser Inconsistencies
If you've had trouble creating flexbox layouts that look the same in every browser, you might find this article interesting.
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Animal Advent
Based on Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals, Kirk Isreal creates delightful animal puppets from letters using Processing.
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Free Font: Stereotesque Regular
A new high-quality font by Stereotypes. The regular style is for free.
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