Collective #208
Inspirational Website of the Week: Wonderland
Superb attention to detail and smooth effects made us choose Wonderland as the site of the week.
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FullStory - See what your users see
Solving your site's user experience woes takes more than charts and graphs. Don't you want to get the FullStory?
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Introducing Resizer
Resizer is a new interactive tool for viewing and testing how digital products respond to material design breakpoints across desktop, mobile, and tablet. Read more about it in this article by Zach Gibson.
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Draft.js
Draft.js is a JavaScript rich text editor framework, built for React and backed by an immutable model. By Facebook.
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Art and Math and Science, Oh My!
An amazing read on the intersection of art and science and how design makes technology usable.
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CSSCO
Photographic filters made with CSS, inspired by VSCO and CSSgram. Made by Lauren Waller.
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All Talk and No Buttons: The Conversational UI
A very interesting two-part article by Matty Mariansky on the creation of a very different type of UI.
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Delivering Octicons with SVG
Read about how and why GitHub changed all Octicon icon font occurrences with SVG icons.
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Reactions: Not everything in life is Likable
Geoff Teehan shares the interesting design process behind the new reactions on Facebook.
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Why Bother Making Beautiful Team Pages?
Two great examples of nicely designed team pages spotted by Khoi Vinh.
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Unflattening design
Not the "unflattening" you are thinking of, but a different approach to viewing design problems, that's what this article is about.
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If You Know Sass, You Know ES2015
Una Kravets highlights some similarities between ES2015 and Sass shows some practical examples.
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Learn HTML and CSS: An introduction to front-end design
An excellent course on getting started with front-end development by Sebastiano Guerriero from CodyHouse.
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Descartes
An experimental library for writing CSS in JavaScript. Made by Jon Chan.
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Free Font: Romina (Book & Bold)
A beautiful new font family with a neoclassical style designed by Rosario Nocera.
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Why we moved to React
An interesting article by Dominic Cocchiarella on Instacart's move to React.
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Announcing Unsplash 4.0
Unsplash, undoubtedly the best place to get free, high-quality photography for your projects, has some new features coming up. Read the great backstory of this fantastic site and its team.
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Create An Auto-Centered Responsive Google Map
Dudley Storey shows how to style an embedded Google map in order to be responsive and centered.
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The Flexbox Reading List: Techniques and Tools
Cosima Mielke collects many useful tips, tricks, and tools on flexbox that will come in handy for your projects.
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365cons
An icon dairy by Amy Devereux where she publishes one beautiful icon per day.
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Mixins Better for Performance
Harry Roberts shows why using mixins is better than using @extend.
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how2: Stackoverflow from the Terminal
how2 finds the simplest way to do something in a Unix shell. It's like man, but you can query it in natural language. Made by Claudio Santini.
