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RoundUp No. 17

Tools & Resources

Brackets Code Editor
Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor. We blend visual tools into the editor so you get the right amount of help when you want it. With new features and extensions...
Polymer 1.0
The Polymer library is designed to make it easier and faster for developers to create great, reusable components for the modern web. Polymer is built on...
Penguin
Penguin is a lightweight and extensible front-end framework built with Sass for kickstarting any web project. Customizable via sass and optimized for popular task runners...
Tollbar.js
Toolbar allows you to quickly create tooltip style toolbars for use in web applications and websites. The toolbar is easily customizable using Font Awesome icons and...
Add RWD Images to ACF
Advanced Custom Fields is one of the go to plugins when developing for Wordpress. It has been around for a long time, has earned it's reputation and...
Picturefill
The picture element and associated features are W3C standard HTML features that allow web developers to deliver an appropriate image to every user depending on a...
Predawn
Interface and syntax theme for Sublime Text and Atom. Installable via package control. I am very particular about my code editor's syntax style. Well, I've switched and I haven't...
jMosaic
A lightweight jQuery plugin that takes a list of page elements and arrange them in a beautiful tiled mosaic grid. The dimensions of the elements do don't change...
jsblocks - beta
jsblocks is a better MV-ish Framework. From simple user interfaces to complex single-page applications using faster, server-side rendered and easy to learn framework...

Articles

This Door is the Epitome of User Experience Design
You’re right. It is just a door. There is nothing special about this door whatsoever. It opens. It closes. It occupies a space between two disparate rooms, allowing people to pass from one side to the other, like most doors do...
How I Almost Killed My Most Successful App
It launched pretty much unnoticed, but I just kept on improving it little by little. Side projects are fun after all. Several months later, I decided to redesign the app and not wanting to force it onto existing users and branched the project...
We Need To Talk About User Needs
Start with user needs is the first of our design principles and it's the first thing we ask teams to demonstrate to meet the Digital by Default Service Assessment. Even Members of Parliament talk about user needs...
Response to an Inquiry for $500 Website
I would love to recommend someone to you to make a site for $500, but your budget is not going to produce anything satisfying to you. I am sorry. I really believe that the small actor should be able to make use of the web and I am...
Why White Space Is Crucial To UX Design
All good visual artists understand the importance of negative space, the empty area that draws attention to, and accentuates, the actual subject. Negative space (the artistic equivalent of a designer’s white space) is like the...
On Writing Real CSS (Again)
Many of us designers and front-end developers haven’t written a line of real CSS in years. Instead, we’ve been using pre-processors to write abstractions of CSS. This has gotten us into a lot of hot water. It’s time to ditch the pre...

Premium Resources

Grade UI Kit
A powerful user interface kit created by UI Chest. Includes more than 1000 carefully crafted elements in 10 different categories that will save your time and increase productivity. Not to mention this fantastic kit comes with both a light & dark version and is compatible with both Photoshop, & Sketch.

 
Asana - WordPress Theme
Asana is a clean, flat and modern WordPress theme suitable for any type of sport and dance studios, gyms, health clubs, event agencies – but it's not just limited to those! Asana is responsive WordPress theme created using HTML5 and CSS3.

Podcast

JavaScript Jabber
Weekly podcast discussion about Javascript on the front and back ends. Also discuss programming practices, coding environments, and the communities related to the technology...

Inspiration

Animated Page Transition
A CSS powered animation, that replaces the refresh of the page while the content is updated using Ajax. We’ve been playing around the idea of replacing the refresh of a web page with an animation, that takes place while the new page content is...


 
Morph Buttons
Playing with some gooey-style hover and active states on a button when I found this pen by Chris Kelley on CodePen. A really great starting point for customizing this animation and UI style on your own buttons. Check it out & share your forks...

 

Watch This

An Event Apart – Luke Wroblewski
When something new comes along, it’s common for us to react with what we already know. Radio programming on TV, print design on web pages, and now web page design on mobile devices. But every medium ultimately needs unique thinking and design to reach its true potential. Through an in-depth look at several common web interactions, Luke outlines how to adapt existing desktop design solutions for mobile devices...

Freebies

Norwester - Free Font
A beautiful condensed geometric sans serif with uppercase, small caps, numbers & an assortment of symbols. By
Jamie Wilson. Download includes WEB FONTS!
Slate: Responsive Email Templates
Templates that work—and look great—in any inbox. More than 50% of emails are opened on mobile. Optimize your emails for small screens with these 5 free responsive HTML email templates! They’ve been tested in Litmus and are completely bulletproof—they even work in Outlook!

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