Collective #550
Inspirational Website of the Week: Déplacé Maison
A refreshing design with lots of character and perfect details. Our pick this week.
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Where to put buttons on forms
Button placement can make or break a form. Find out the best place to put them in this article by Adam Silver.
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Art of Symbols
Emotive Brand's creative exploration on how ancient symbols inform contemporary brand design.
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The Ultimate WordPress Page Builder
You've never built a WordPress website like this before. Divi is more than just a WordPress theme, it's a completely new website building platform that replaces the standard WordPress post editor with a vastly superior visual editor.
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CopyPalette
Create consistent monochromatic color palettes and export them to Figma or Sketch.
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wAve
A wonderful wavy letter demo by Adam Kuhn.
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My Design Process Of The Cover Design For Smashing Magazine Print Issue #1
In this article, Veerle Pieters, sheds some light into her design process of Smashing Magazine's cover.
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Thinking in React Hooks
Amelia Wattenberger's draft for a guide to the fundamental mindset change when switching from React class components to functional components + hooks.
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Generated Photos
100,000 AI-generated faces free to use in any project.
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Monocle
A wonderful magnifying list experiment by Hakim El Hattab.
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Keeping it simple with CSS that scales
A written version of Andy Bell's talk he first delivered at "State of the Browser 2019".
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Thoughts on the State of the Web
Michelle Barker reflects on "State of the Browser" conference and shares some thoughts on the current state of the web.
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Using Custom Properties to Wrangle Variations in Keyframe Animations
Read how Sandrina Pereira found a way to account for variations within a keyframe animation using custom properties.
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Dark Mode — Working with Color Systems
Søren Clausen writes how with the introduction of Dark Modes, colors now also need to be put into systems.
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Upside down
A hypnotizing demo made by K-T.
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Raindrop
A rain effect that realistically interacts with elements on a page. By Neal Agarwal.
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Nullish coalescing
Learn about the nullish coalescing proposal that adds a new short-circuiting operator meant to handle default values in JavaScript.
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Typing Animation.. with Puns!
A fun typing animation made by Dave Quah.
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Testing Accessibility on Windows with VirtualBox
The Accessibility DIY Kit for VirtualBox lets you test the accessibility of your website on Windows when working on a Mac.
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Free Font: Krisha
A bold and beautiful display typeface by Daler Mukhiddinov.
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How to Build a Color Customizer App for a 3D Model with Three.js
Learn how to create a complete color customizer app for a 3d model of a chair using Three.js in this in-depth tutorial.
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