Weekly News for Designers № 494
A Chat with Chris Coyier, Web Design Influencer & Entrepreneur – The founder of CSS-Tricks and CodePen talks about his success and the state of the web.
Adding Warmth and Personality to Websites with Human Illustrations – Examples of how the human element can improve the user experience.
Startup idea checklist – A handy resource for fleshing out your business ideas.
Optimizing Google Fonts Performance – Tips for getting the best performance from your fonts.
uFlow for Sketch – A symbol library to help you build flowcharts and IA diagrams.
Share Your Story with These Terrific Timelines – Examples of how timelines can provide a highly-visual way to display information.
A complete guide to iconography – Learn how to create beautiful and effective icons.
Stubborn – A free scene generator for Adobe Illustrator, Figma and Sketch.
Freezeframe.js – A library that pauses animated .gifs and enables them on hover, click or touch.
darkmode.js – Add a dark mode to your website with minimal effort.
How to Section Your HTML – A look at how to properly utilize HTML sectioning elements for a more semantic and accessible site.
How to Build an Animated CSS Thermometer Chart – Learn the techniques behind this animated element that provides a visual way to track achievement.
RecordScreen.io – A browser-based screen recording app.
Screenzy – Beautify your screen shots with this web application.
The Power of Serverless for Front-end Developers – Learn what a serverless site is and how you can leverage it to build something awesome.
Converting divs into accessible pseudo-buttons – It takes a bit of work, but you can indeed make a standard div look and work like a button.
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