Collective #156
Inspirational Website of the Week: Coulee Creative
A strong design with great typography and some nice effects make Coulee Creative our pick this week.
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Datedropper: jQuery Dates Plugin
Felice Gattuso created this novel kind of date picker with a unique and intuitive layout.
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Free Travel Icon Pack
A set of 6 beautiful and detailed vector icons with a travel theme. Icons include a plane, train, boat and bicycle among others. Free for personal and commercial use with attribution.
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Awesomplete
A lightweight autocomplete widget for modern browsers made by Lea Verou.
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SVG layout with Flexbox for simpler D3 charts
A very interesting technique that uses flexbox on SVG in order to simplify the task of constructing charts with D3. By Colin Eberhardt.
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Testing Accordion Menu Designs & Iconography
An insightful analysis of the accordion menu and how users interact with it. An article by Lance Gutin from Viget.
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77 Essential Icons
A great set of outlined icons by Bryn Taylor.
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Parallax Hero Image
An tutorial on how to create an interesting 3D effect by Claudia Romano from CodyHouse.
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Smartphone Remote Control with Node.js and Socket.io
Nick Anastasov shows you how to remotely control a website in this great tutorial.
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Free Font: Growl
An experimental hand-drawn typeface by Arron Croasdell.
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Space Icons (AI)
A lovely set of space icons by Beasty.
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How To Create a Realistic Chalk Lettering Effect
A master class by Chris Spooner on how to create a realistic chalk lettering effect.
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Design Last
Rik Schennink takes the methodology of designing first and flips it. An great article with an interesting discussion.
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Font Loading Revisited with Font Events
Scott Jehl revisits the efficient font loading approach used at the Filament Group.
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Introducing @counter-style
Read all about the new the CSS Counter Styles Level 3 and learn how you can create custom counters.
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Interaction Design Best Practices: Mastering the Intangibles
A new free ebook on interaction design by the folks from UXPin.
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User Icons (EPS, PSD)
Pavlo Tyshchuk created these cute user icons and offers them for free.
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Apparently Transparent
An impressive simulation of a room full of mirrors by Gerard Ferrandez.
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