Weekly News for Designers № 475
Making a Statement: The Use of Stacked Text Blocks in Web Design – It may not seem like much, but this design technique can have a large impact.
Amino – A live CSS editor for Google Chrome.
Text Distortion Effects using Blotter.js – Examples of distorting text upon scrolling and mouse movement.
The end of the celebrity designer – How “open” design leads to more collaboration.
Using the WordPress Classic Editor on New Websites – A look at scenarios where sticking with the Classic Editor makes sense.
UX microcopy: finding a balance between empathy and humor – Striking the right tone for your brand.
Promo Image Resizer – A browser-based image tool with handy presets for social media.
Intro to Font Metrics – Take an inside look at how fonts work.
HTML slides without frameworks, just CSS – How to create a presentation that doesn’t require outside dependencies.
18 Free High-Resolution Adobe Illustrator Brush Packs – Spice up your vector graphics with this collection of brushes.
Stisla – A beautiful, free Bootstrap admin template.
Not Paid – Have a client who hasn’t paid? Send a message with this JavaScript that decreases the opacity of their website each day until it fades completely.
Uppy – A sleek, modular file uploader that integrates with any website or app.
Bidirectional Scrolling is here to save Responsive Design – Can scrolling content in two directions make for a better mobile UX?
10 Free Instagram Story Templates – Share your story in a beautiful, consistent manner with these templates.
10 Insights on the State of Visual Storytelling in 2019 – Thoughts on creating the best storytelling experience.
An Introduction to CSS Exclusions – Learn what CSS exclusions are and how they could solve some complex layout problems.
New JavaScript Features That Will Change How You Write Regex – How ES2018 improves the text processing capabilities of JS.
TypeIt – A JavaScript typing library that is billed as the “world’s most versatile”.
Carbonize – Create beautiful images from your own code snippets.
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