Collective #257
Inspirational Website of the Week: Aftershock
A very bold design with some humorous details and some interesting interactions. Our pick this week.
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Coding Challenge #41: Clappy Bird!
A marvelous video by Daniel Shiffman where he shows how to employ audio-responsiveness in a game.
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11 Interesting Web Browsers (That Aren't Chrome)
Chris Brandrick presents a collection of 11 great browser alternatives to Chrome.
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Pulp
With Pulp you can easily create (or download ready-made) responsive email templates quickly.
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Designing Grids
Zell Liew's explores grids and shows what goes into creating custom grids for your designs.
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Free Font: Rixel
A unique rounded pixel typeface designed by by Emīl Blūm
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How the Web Became Unreadable
An interesting article by Kevin Marks where he identifies the problematic of contrast-lacking designs and pleas "designers to ignore the fads and go back to the typographic principles of print".
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Howdy HTML Template
A beautifully designed HTML template by Erwin Aligam for Pixel Buddha.
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Progressive Web Apps with React.js: Part 3 - Offline support and network resilience
Addy Osmani's tips for shipping mobile web apps optimized using Lighthouse. The third part of a great series on PWAs.
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WordPress Without Shame
Gina Trapani's experiences and thoughts on using WordPress as a CMS.
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Uber Visual Identity Redesign
Uber's visual identity redesign flow summarized.
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Dotted Globe
An awesome Three.js experiment where a 3D globe can be switched to a 2D version.
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tdo - Hackable Todo List
A compelling, keyboard-controlled todo list build by Marko Stijak.
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A Little Thing About Blends
Some very interesting insight on CSS Blend Modes by Ruth John.
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Lightning Storm with Rain
An awesome demo of a lightning storm and some rain by lightning storm with rain Nvagelis.
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On Style Maintenance
An insightful article with good advice on future-proof code maintenance by Sarah Drasner.
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The End of the Black Turtleneck
A great read by Bryan Zmijewski on how impactful design leaders are actually great collaborators and not isolated geniuses.
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Smashicons: 170 Retro Business Icons (AI, Sketch)
A huge set of 170 business icons by Smashicons in vector format.
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Angry Birds in Pure CSS
Rachel Bull's recreation of Angry Birds just with CSS and the power of box-shadows.
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Free Font: Setta Script
A lovely free script font designed by Ian Mikraz.
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Offline strategies come to the Service Worker Cookbook
Some solid examples of offline strategies that are added to the Service Worker Cookbook recipes.
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