PaperTab: Paper tablets are real
Revolutionary paper tablet reveals future tablets to be thin and flexible as paper. Looks pretty crazy!
Radar #7
A weekly collection of industry stuff that looks cool. If you have something you'd like to get on the radar submit it here.
10 Responsive WordPress Plugins
What does the WordPress community bring to the RWD table? Let’s look at 10 of the top responsive WordPress plugins that will help us in our quest for responsive, cross-device perfection.
Photoshop Shortcut to Copy Color Hex Value
A very handy tip that you can set a keyboard shortcut to copy a colors hex value in Photoshop.
10 typography tricks every designer should know
In this article, we’re going to reveal some typography tips and tricks that you can use to boost your design skills and impress friends and colleagues.
Beautiful Web Type from Google WebFonts
A showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory. There are over 400 typefaces in the Google web fonts directory. Many of them are awful. But there are also high-quality typefaces that deserve a closer look. Below are examples of these typefaces in action. Click the examples to get the typeface from [...]
Scrolling Performance
Scrolling doesn’t immediately seem like something you’d think about from a performance perspective. After all, your content is styled and all your assets are loading or loaded, so why all of a sudden might we care about what happens when you scroll? The simple reason is that whenever you scroll the browser needs to draw [...]
Google WebFonts Stats
Neat to check out the total stats for loads and views on Google’s webfont service.
Google finds its design voice on iOS
Google’s design sensibilities on the web and Android have been unique. Whether you were a fan of the spare, utilitarian feel of products like Search or not, you knew when you were looking at something built by Google.
UX Is Not UI
When something has “good UX” it is an implied meaning of having the core components of UX (research, maybe a persona, IA, interaction, interface, etc etc…). It’s not really necessary or desirable to tack the word design onto the end anymore. It’s a distraction and leads people down a parallel but misguided path… the path [...]
Flexible Foundations
Responsive or not, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t all be designing and building sites on flexible foundations.
The Flat Sink
Just like the flat sink, this new flat aesthetic looks great and feels refreshing after the unnecessary flourishes of recent years. But it can also be taken too far.
iOS Icon Template
Free iOS icon design template. Get it right the first time.
6 Ways SEO Will Change in 2013
Considering the shifts in SEO survival, 2012 has been quite an eventful year. There have been several important updates that have changed the search scene altogether.
Live RWD Rebuild of the Sparkbox Site
Join us, real-time, as the site evolves. It will be ugly at times. Sometimes it will be downright broken. But it will always be transparent and real. You can even check under the hood of the public repo on Github and share your ideas.
Sesame’s Best Practices Guide for Children’s App Development
Sesame Workshop, whose mission is to help children reach their highest potential, is learning as much as we can about these media platforms so that we can use them to best meet children’s educational and developmental needs.
Framer
Framer is a modern prototyping tool. It can help you to quickly build and test complex interactions and rich animations for both desktop and mobile.
Design Reading List and Cheatsheets for Developers
Some pretty nifty design resources from ThoughtBot. I know they’re for developers, but all of us can use a refresher now and then.
CSS Masks
Masks offer the ability to control the opacity/transparency of elements on a per-pixel basis, similar to how the alpha/transparency-channel of “24-bit”-PNGs or 32-bit-TIFFs work.
Onboarding
Get your users to complete tasks and fill in information by using good design.
Performance Calendar
Great site with articles on performance and making your website faster.
Rotating Menu in CSS
Pretty slick looking CSS rotating menu on Codepen. Also someone get neoberg a Dribbble invite.
Dive into Flexbox
lexbox is a new layout mode in CSS3 that is designed for the more sophisticated needs of the modern web. This article will describe the newly-stablized Flexbox syntax in technical detail.
Best of 2012: UI Animations
Apps can have stunning UIs & great functionality, but having unique animations and transitions in them make you coming back to them and make the apps worthy of showing off the platform.
The Future of Email Products
The last significant innovation in email came 8 years ago with Gmail which introduced conversation threading, gigabyte storage, speed, powerful search, and lots more. Not much arrived since, but it looks like 2013 has a lot in store.
Sass and Media Queries
Since the @media directive was introduced in Sass, there’s been a small debate when reviewing the CSS output. Many realized that the media query is repeated with each use as seen in this example. To some, this is a big deal and to others, not so much. This post is really for those who think [...]