Collective #178
Inspirational Website of the Week: Jesper
Motion details and a great balanced color scheme made us pick this beauty as the website of the week.
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Screenings – Watch. Learn. Design.
A fantastic resource that collects design-related videos from around the web. Made by Sacha Greif.
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Stretchy: Form element autosizing, the way it should be
Lea Verou's script for form control autosizing which works on multiple types of form controls.
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Pixel Picker
Create cool pixel art with this tool made by and used on Designer News.
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Position sticky: scroll-to-top-then-fixed in pure CSS
Dudley Storey shows how to achieve the "scroll-to-top-then-fixed" behavior in pure CSS.
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Smarter Grids With Sass And Susy
Michelle Barker shows how to use Susy, a Sass-based grid framework, to create fast, responsive and fully customizable grids.
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Advancing the web without breaking it?
Christian Heilmann talks about ES6 and other technologies and how to use them without breaking the web as we know it.
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Using Graph Theory to Build a Simple Recommendation Engine in JavaScript
Keith Horwood shows how to create a simple recommendation engine in JavaScript.
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RISE Typeface
A great looking brush font designed by Pavel Korzhenko for PixelBuddha.
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A History of Typeface Styles & Type Classification
Chris Spooner gives us a great overview of typeface styles and type classification.
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Explaining graphic design to four-year-olds
Dean Vipond explains graphic design principles to four-year-olds in a brilliant way.
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Redesigning the Apple Watch UI
Luke Wroblewski proposes redesigning the Apple Watch UI for the sake of a simpler interaction model.
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Stop Gratuitous UI Animation
Sophie Paxton explores the overuse of animation in UI design and offers some suggestions for more effective GUI motion design.
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AquaWay Free Vector Pack (AI, EPS)
A pack of lovely hand-drawn vector elements by Oksana Golubets.
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Free Font: JEKYLL HYDE
Tano Veron designed this interesting upperace display font.
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26 digital typography rules for beginners
Some great tips on how to master digital typography for beginners by Tom Koszyk.
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Free Font: Aquatico
A beautiful, geometric and rounded typeface designed by Andrew Herndon.
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Bare Auth
Bare Auth is a ready-to-deploy stateless authentication server which supports all authentication strategies out of the box. Made by Lapwing Labs.
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ClickSpark.js
ClickSpark.js is a javascript utility that adds beautiful particle effects to your JavaScript events. Made by Thomas Zinnbauer.
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