Collective #185
Inspirational Website of the Week: Eginstill
A minimal design with smooth effects and lovely details. Our pick this week.
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A Guide To Building SVG Maps From Natural Earth Data
A fantastic tutorial by Chris Youderian on how to create interactive maps with SVG.
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iOS 9 GUI for Sketch
Amazing work: the vector-based iOS 9 GUI made by Meng To.
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The Tools Designers Are Using Today
The fantastic Subtraction.com design tools survey results are out and they give a priceless insight into what tools creatives all over the world are using.
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Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity
An excellent article by Val Head on the dangers of employing irresponsible animations on websites and how to avoid it.
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Use & Modify
A collection of exquisite typeface that are free to use and modify. A project by Raphaël Bastide.
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The Most Recognizable Thing on the Planet
An interesting eye-tracking study of the use of the hamburger menu on desktop websites and the implications.
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Chocolat.js: jQuery lightbox candy
An excellent responsive jQuery lightbox script made by Nicolas Turlais.
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Tinderesque — building a Tinder-like interface with CSS animations and vanilla JS #justcode
Chris Heilmann re-created the effect seen on Tinder using CSS animation and some JavaScript to control the voting process.
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Want to learn JavaScript in 2015?
A practical guide on the steps to take in order to learn JavaScript.
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Why You Hate Google’s New Logo
A very interesting read by Sarah Larson on the redesign of Google's logo.
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Jets.js: Native CSS search engine
Denis Lukov created this search engine that leverages a browser's native search speed.
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Free Font: Banthers Free
A beautiful vintage-style display font designed by Agga Swist'blnk with a free version.
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Gorgo HTML Template
Gorgo is a gorgeous Kirby CMS theme with a free HTML version. Made by AristoTheme.
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Defining Design
An excerpt from Chen Ye's workshop he gave at PennApps Fall 2015. A great read on defining design.
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Illustricons: 36 Free Icons
A set of 36 beautiful icons from the Illustricons set by the Sliceberry team for GraphicBurger.
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SVG animation with GreenSock
Allan Pope shows how to animate SVG with GreenSock Animation Platform in this practical tutorial.
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ContentTools: WYSIWYG editor for HTML content
ContentTools is a collection of open-source JavaScript libraries that can be used out-of-the-box as a standalone WYSIWYG editor or as a framework applicable to a wide array of content editing problems.
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Free Font: Barbaro
A lovely free font with western and roman style designed by Iván Núñez.
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