Tagged “design”
Crafting Component API, Together (by Nathan Curtis, on Medium)
Nathan (of EightShapes) discusses how to unify anatomy and props across code and design tools.
Robb Owen - Independent Creative Developer
Definite “personal website goals” here in Robb’s beautiful online portfolio and blog.
From interaction design to scaleable design systems, single-page apps to something more experimental with WebGL. I help awesome people to build ambitious yet accessible web projects - the wilder, the better.
Super Turbo Logo Service™ (on SimpleBits)
I’m available for limited logo design projects. Just the logo. Limited back-and-forth. Reasonable price. With a particular focus on elevating small businesses that can’t or don’t want to hire a full-blown agency. Let’s keep this simple.
Joshua Hughes / Senior Product Designer
The lovely new portfolio website of my colleague, Josh, featuring some lovely articles and design touches.
Hero Patterns: Free repeatable SVG background patterns for your web projects
From Steve Schoger:
A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects.
Jack McDade’s personal website
I’m Jack McDade and I’m tired of boring websites.
Bustle
Here’s a beautiful, magazine style website design for digital publication Bustle. The typography, use of whitespace, responsive layout, menu pattern, colour palette and imagery are all on point!
Cassie Evans’s Blog
I love Cassie Evans’s new website design! It’s so full of personality while loaded with technical goodies too. Amazing work!
(via @stugoo)
Block Links: A tricky UI Problem
You have a “card” component which includes a heading, some text, an image, and a link to the full article, and it’s working great. Then along comes a UX requirement that the full card (not just the button or link) should be clickable. This is where things get complicated.
The Guardian Digital Design Style Guide
This is a nice whistle-stop tour of the the Guardian’s current digital design system. Apart from looking great, some of the terminology is interesting (fronts, kickers and thrashers) and I like the way they have different Card types for different types of article, “each having its own flavour and tone”.
Katherine Kato’s personal website
Some simple but inspiring work here from Seattle-based web developer Katherine Kato. I really like the use of space, the typography, the colour palette and the use of CSS grid for layout.
My Sketch Cheatsheet
Here’s a list of useful (Mac-based) Sketch tips for my reference and yours.
Bram Stein’s personal website
Bram Stein, a software architect at Adobe, wrote the book on Webfonts, so it’s no surprise that his own website showcases some pretty beautiful typography.
Image Color
A handy tool for identifying colours – provided in numerous different CSS-ready formats – and creating a complimentary colour palette from an image you upload or provide as a URL.
TunnelBear – VPN Software for Bears
I was introduced to this smile-inducing website by Val Head’s An Event Apart Talk “Building more expressive projects”.
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