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RoundUp No. 18

Tools & Resources
Foundry
Foundry is a new way of utilizing scalable vector graphics, giving designers the opportunity to contribute and collaborate on families of spot vector illustrations and icons and make them...
Hotjar
All-in-one Analytics and Feedback. Hotjar is a new and easy way to truly understand your web and mobile site visitors. Identify your hottest opportunities...
Color Extraction Effect
A little slideshow with a color palette creation effect using CSS Filters and Vibrant.js. We are using Vibrant.js by Jari Zwarts to extract the colors from the images, and CSS Filters...
An Introduction to Vagrant
One question I hear again and again from new and experienced developers alike is "What local development setup do you use?" As a WordPress...
Related Pens Plugin for Codepen
I found this pen by Fabrizio Bianchi and thought I'd share. It's a really cool .js plugin you can include in your codepen projects to...
Colors with Sass Maps
Sass maps are a nice way of creating lists, you can do multiple things with lists you can either loop through all of them or you pick a specific element from the list. If you've used other...
Libraries.io
Libraries.io monitors 818,151 open source libraries across 29 different package managers. You can discover new libraries to use in your software projects as well as be...
Building Flexbox Websites
In Flexbox, we control how items are placed within the container. A container is a box with X and Y axis. The Flexbox’s property name...
Sibbell
A notification platform for developers that provides GitHub project release notifications to your inbox for things you choose to watch. Sure, you should be able to do this on GitHub...
 

Articles
Modern Design Tools: Adaptive Layouts
As software designers, we have more tools available than ever before to help us design beautiful software and rich interactions. However, I believe we are still in the infancy of design tools, and would like to offer several ideas for how...
How Google Finally Got Design
Eight years ago Evelyn Kim was the first visual designer ever hired on a Google product team a graphic designer, full of Bauhaus ideals about beauty and function, which she’d learned at the famed Rhode Island School of Design...
Viewport Vs. Percentage Units
These units - vw, vh, vmin, and vmax - are based on the size of the browser viewport. Because their actual size changes depending on the viewport size, this makes them great units for responsive design. Although in my previous...
The Making Of “In Pieces”: Designing an Interactive Exhibition With CSS Clip Paths
Web-based interactive experiences are widely used in the modern age for a variety of reasons, predominantly for the advertising of premium high-street products and services. After discovering the little-known clip-path property of...
Scalable Design, Viewport engines & the Future of Web Design
At it’s heart, scalable design is an invitation for more people to get involved and make meaningful contributions no matter their technical aptitude. Scalable design (aka scalable web design, SwD) is a methodology that enables a web...
Does Anyone Use Social Sharing Buttons on Mobile?
Visit a lot of mobile websites and you’ll see precious screen space dedicated to social sharing buttons imploring users to share the content on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. At first this seems like a good design choice: social...

Premium Resources
Themesy
Themesy is a multipurpose responsive retina template designed for create advanced projects, without external resources. Each of his demos is designed and structured for a particular type of business or activity. Their functionalities has been defined to cover all your needs intuitively.
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Podcast
Happy Monday
A podcast by Josh Long & Sarah Parmenter. Each episode is a short-burst, industry podcast for web developers, designers and tech enthusiasts available every Monday from 7am GMT and online 24/7

Design Showcase
Uber Brand Guidelines
 
Jumo
 
Bubble
 
Rethink Digital Healthcare
 

Watch This
5 Minute Physics by David DeSandro
In five minutes David Desandro explores the importance of understanding physics in our digital work. The talk focuses on a few basic principles; force, acceleration, friction, velocity and position. Watch as David explains how...
 

Freebies
DO UI Kit by InvisionApp
The most versatile to-do app UI kit you've ever seen. Yours, for free.With 130 screens, 10 themes, and 250+ components, DO features everything you need to build a killer to-do app. Get it for Photoshop and Sketch — for free!
Thomsoon - Free Responsive Portfolio Theme
Free clean and simple template. Responsive and includes full page-fade animations and ajax content loading. 

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