Collective #149

Inspirational Website of the Week: The First 50 Years of Bose
Capturing the last 50 years of an extraordinary company is done beautifully here. Our pick this week.
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Snabbt.js
Snabbt.js is a light-weight JavaScript animation library that aims to move around things fast and cheaply. Made by Daniel Lundin.
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deSVG
Ben Howdle's deSVG will replace SVG image references in your HTML with inline SVG.
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100 Stroke Icons (AI, EPS, PDF)
A nice icon set in several formats by Igor Petrov.
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TRIF
A very interesting Chrome-only experiment that displays GIFs in sync with music through WebAudio sound analysis.
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Designing With Your Clients
Paul Boag gives some great advice on how to work with clients for a smoother experience and better results.
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Drunken Parrot UI Kit (HTML, PSD)
A free version of the clean and beautiful Drunken Parrot UI Kit by Hoarrd.
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Expandable Project Presentation
A tutorial on how to create a beautiful layout with for a project presentation by Claudia Romano from CodyHouse.
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New Year's Eve Icons (AI)
If you haven't send out all your new year wishes yet you might want to use one of these beauties in your greeting cards. Designed by Eight Black Dots.
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UX und Tollerei
Kai Brueckers' weekly UX Reading List published every Friday and sent directly to your inbox.
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Rocketbin
Juan Olvera's Rocketbin is apractical and easy-to-use paste bin like project.
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Combokeys
Combokeys by Shahar Or is a JavaScript library for handling keyboard shortcuts in the browser.
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An Exhaustive Look At The Year In Web Design
A great review of 2014's web design happenings by Brian Krall.
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Cultural Appropriation: Using Museum Collections For Free Digital Work
In the need of a free image that will complement your design? Why not try one of the many free cultural digital works? Dudley Storey has put together a great collection of resources.
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JavaScript Application Architecture On The Road To 2015
Addy Osmani takes a detailed look at state of application architecture in the JavaScript community and its future.
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ECharts 2.0
Version 2.0 of Baidu's powerful Canvas charting library that helps create customized data visualizations.
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Microsoft to replace Internet Explorer with new, streamlined browser
Read about this exciting news about a potentially new Microsoft browser that will come with Windows 10.
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Dashboards by Keen IO
If you haven't heard about this one yet: Dashboards by Keen IO are responsive dashboard templates for Bootstrap.
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Booterator
A really useful Bootstrap theme generator by Matt Lambert. Read more about it here.
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2014 Retrospective
Luke Wroblewski's annual round-up of the most read articles he published in 2014.
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