Collective #452
Inspirational Website of the Week: Denys Loveiko
Denys Loveiko's portfolio combines innovative effects and a beautiful design. Our pick this week.
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A fast and visual way to better understanding your users
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✓ Get ‘in-the-moment’ visual feedback
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✓ Uncover insights to make the right changes
Idle Until Urgent
Philip Walton explains how he decreased his site's first input delay with a strategy he calls "idle until urgent".
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Flexbox: How Big Is That Flexible Box?
Rachel Andrew explores the often confusing issue of sizing in Flexbox and explains how Flexbox decides how big things should be.
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Vapid
Vapid is an intentionally simple content management system built on the idea that you can create a custom dashboard without ever leaving the HTML. Read more about it in this article.
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The Sketch Update We've All Been Waiting For
Learn about the Sketch update that offers a new way to apply overrides to symbols. An article by Jon Moore.
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Creating meaningful micro-interactions
Denislav Jeliazkov's tips for getting those delightful little moments right.
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Transform Tumbler
David Khourshid and Stephen Shaw tackle a tricky tumbling transform-origin animation using only CSS.
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Worker-plugin
Adds native Web Worker bundling support to Webpack with this plugin.
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The 12 Things You Need to Consider When Evaluating Any New JavaScript Library
Sasha Greif explains how to know if a new technology is worth investing time into.
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Refresh CSS Bookmarklet v2
Lea Verou makes Paul Irish's bookmarklet that refreshes CSS work with iframes.
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Yeti Hand Pagination
An adorable pagination animation by Darin Senneff.
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Array state will be cached in iOS 12 Safari
A Stackoverflow thread that points out a serious bug in iOS 12 Safari. Read more about it in this Reddit, too.
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Designing with real data
Read how Dropbox uses Framer X and real data to design. An article by Zach Johnston.
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JavaScript Equality Table Game
A game that demonstrates how the == rules are easy to get wrong.
Sublime Merge
A new Git client with a three-way merge tool from the makers of Sublime Text.
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Times Newer Roman
A font that kinda looks like Times New Roman, except that each character is 5-10% wider. In case you need to fill more pages 😂
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Firefox Reality
Firefox Reality is a new browser for Virtual Reality.
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The Wow'en Wilson Quiz
A fun Owen Wilson quiz made by Tim Holman and Tobias van Schneider.
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Dynamic filters
Jesper Lauridsen is playing with SVG filters using canvas.
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How to organize your git branches
Darío Kondratiuk shows some ways of organizing git branches for a better workflow.
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The Best Contemporary Free Fonts
Alex Slobzheninov put together a visual guide with download links of the best modern free fonts.
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RealtimeBoard
RealtimeBoard is a simple whiteboarding platform for cross-functional team collaboration.
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How I Built My Design Portfolio from Scratch
Jingyi Lai's experience of building her own portfolio site from scratch as a product designer.
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