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Creative / Development Inspiration 40

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Just as much for the web designer as the developer this week. Some brilliant UX inspiration and how to get users hooked on your interface. On top of that two new beautiful web frameworks to bootstrap your newest project, and a life changing chart library. This and more in this weeks web design and development inspiration rundown.

 

Website Inspiration

 

Big Little City

This is not your standard website. I usually post more commercial / business based websites, but this really caught my eye. It takes a section of the world (using real world maps) and creates a 3D rendered globe, with roads and all!

https://pissang.github.io/little-big-city/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

 

How to get users hooked on your interface

Micro interactions happen through the functional, interactive details of a product, and details…aren’t just the details; they are the design.

http://www.webdesignernews.com/redirect/id/2187168

 

The myth of human-centred design

The conventional interpretation of human-centered design wildly oversimplifies the relationship between people and technology. It’s time for a more nuanced approach, writes argodesign’s Mark Rolston.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90208681/the-myth-of-human-centered-design

 

Colour scale generator

Simple, easy to use colour gradient scale generator. Love it.

https://hihayk.github.io/scale/

 

UX Design Interactions

A libary of design interactions to gleem inspiration from. New apps added weekly. Get this on your bookmark list!

https://www.uisources.com/interactions

 

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

 

BuddyCSS

A easy to use framework to quickly build fast, attractive websites!

https://buddycss.com/

 

Slide out box menu – Code snippet

A details menu with boxes that slide out in an irregular grid. The grid items get revealed individually with delays from the top right corner of the page.

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2018/08/01/slide-box-menu

 

Apex Charts

I love a good chart. I have featured other great ones on the first blog of the series, and the 20th. This one is the cream of the crop. This is not a one size fits all solution, but rather charts for the modern web. Easier zooming and panning, event triggering, truly responsive, and speedy!

https://github.com/apexcharts/apexcharts.js

 

Argon Design System

A yet another beautiful framework to jump start your project. over 100 individual components, built with SASS and Bootstrap 4.

https://demos.creative-tim.com/argon-design-system/

 

A bit of everything

 

Not every article needs a picture

If a picture is worth a thousand words, it’s hard for me to imagine there’ll be much value in the text of an article illustrated by a generic stock image.

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/not-every-article-needs-a-picture/

 

The Bullshit Web

A great article on how the internet has turned into a place of uselessness, and how that can easily be changed. Loading numerous tracking scripts, images and adverts, that may or may not be of use.

https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/

 

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Creative / Development Inspiration 39

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How Dropbox was redesigned for mobile, AirBNB has a top quality landing page, and how to hack user perceptions. This weeks design development inspiration covers this, as well as lots more. I also got a bit over excited about using WordPress with React, and making WordPress that little bit faster. Also, AirBNB changed their business strategy. Well worth the read!

 

Website Inspiration

This week I tried to focus on high quality landing pages. Not just from a design perspective, but from a “do the job” perspective as well. It turns out that “pretty” landing pages, aren’t necessarily the best…

 

WebProfits

Simple. To the point. Easy to understand. It doesn’t shout “pretty”, but it does do the thing it says it does. Gets you SEO analysis. An immediate call to action, and a visual showing an increase in users.

https://www.webprofits.com.au/lp/seo-analysis/

 

AirBNB

We all know this company. AirBNB are known for their constant data analysis, always pushing to improve user experience. The page for signing up to host your home does it well. A simple form showing how much you could make from your home. Thats why you’re there, right?

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/host/homes

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

 

A Step by Step Guide to Designing a Pet Diet App

A well broken down approach from user data to design of making an app. It covers the lessons learnt, and how each element needs thinking about as its own thing!

https://uxdesign.cc/ui-ux-case-study-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process-of-designing-a-pet-diet-app-d635b911b648

 

How Dropbox was redesigned for Mobile

The designer behind the new Dropbox mobile interface breaks down how they changed the design of the app. A great insight into the business decisions and internal workings of Dropbox, and how it is a constant process.

https://medium.com/dropbox-design/fostering-focus-for-small-screens-34a9f338668c

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

 

Carl.JS

A Conditional Asset Resource Loader in about 500 bytes of JavaScript. A lazy but efficient way of managing your resources. I covered Critters on Design and Dev Inspiration 33, if you require a more built in Webpack approach.

https://github.com/Paul-Browne/carl.js

 

Hacking user perception to make your websites and apps feel faster

When planes at Houston Airport landed close to the terminal, passengers complained about baggage delays. So they moved the planes away so passengers had to walk further. No more complaints. How can this be applied to apps and websites?

https://medium.com/dev-channel/hacking-user-perception-to-make-your-websites-and-apps-feel-faster-922636b620e3

 

ReactPress – WordPress Starter-Kit

Bringing ReactJS to WordPress. Using Next.js and WordPress this starter-kit is a fast way to get off the ground running. Definitly worth a look for clients used to using WordPress.

https://github.com/nyl-auster/reactpress

 

WP-Rig

A progressive WordPress theme rig. Built with fast development and lightening speed websites in mind, this starter theme is definetly worth a look. Modern processes bundled into one package.

https://wprig.io

 

React-Vis – Charting Library

This ReactJS based charting library has all the graphs you could possibly need, as well as all the options. Some great examples, use cases and with almost 4000 stars on Github, who can miss out on it?

https://uber.github.io/react-vis/

 

A bit of everything

 

Zeplin IO

I am surprised I hadn’t come across Zeplin before. A brilliant website to help teams work together to build products. For both designer, developer and the whole business site of the team. Think Basecamp, but tailored for design. Includes XD and Sketch integration to save time messing about with exports.

https://zeplin.io/

 

Design Thinking and Storyboarding Changed AirBNBs Entire Business Strategy

An incredibility insightful interview by Forbes, with the Rebecca Sinclair, founder of Honest Design. She helped AirBNB disrupt itself, and change the business strategy by changing how the business saw itself.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyjoffrion/2018/07/09/the-designer-who-changed-airbnbs-entire-strategy

 

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Creative / Development Inspiration 38

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Two great website inspiration examples, several website generators, and why the open-plan office is rubbish! This plus a lot more in this weeks website design development inspiration rundown.

 

Website Inspiration

Freetrade

I found this site whilst doing research into investment apps. The thing that struck me was its simplicity, and ease at which is gets its message across. The whole site is well thought out, and easy to digest. It could look into user accessibility a little more, but as a piece of inspiration, perfect.

https://freetrade.io/

 

Iconwerk

Although simple, my god its quick! The way the blog title and images are swapped from the standard card layout is interesting, and works well in this case. Once again, accessibility is an issue (why is this such a standard problem, its not hard to fix!).

https://iconwerk.com/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

10 Beautiful Examples of Wireframes

Wireframing helps designers map out the structure of a website before anything is set in stone. 1st Designer has pulled together 10 examples of different wireframes.

https://1stwebdesigner.com/wireframes-web-design/

 

Dark UX Patterns in Advertising

According to Hubspot research, 85% of people have a negative opinion towards websites with obnoxious or intrusive ads. What’s wrong with the remaining 15%? This article points out the ad creators, and how they tried to trick you. Interesting read.

https://icons8.com/articles/dark-ux-patterns-advertising/

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Storybook

I am surprised it has taken me this long to find out about this. But now I have I am definitely sharing it. Storybook is a development environment for UI components. You can browser a component library, view different states, and interactively develop them!

https://storybook.js.org/

 

Stitches

Build plain html templates from this JS template generator. A great idea for rolling out fast concepts, and the ability to add your own templates! Drag and drop and all that.

https://github.com/amiechen/stitches-template-generator

 

Docusaurus

A great project for easily building, deploying and maintaining open source projects. The “Simple to Start” guide walks you through the whole process in a very short amount of time.

https://docusaurus.io/

 

Does the Perfect Email Template Exist? We Used Data to Find Out.

Mailchimp put the numbers together, and came out with this article. They should know, they are the email people! There are no set rules, but they have found some helpful guidelines from this.

https://blog.mailchimp.com/does-the-perfect-email-template-exist-we-used-data-to-find-out/

 

Aria Examples

I have been banging on about accessibility for the past few weeks. Here is a link that can help you with that. Some great examples of common elements, and how they should be built to include/improve accessibility.

http://heydonworks.com/practical_aria_examples/

 

 

A bit of everything

These two articles go against what is being shouted about on Linkedin and those life inspiration blogs. They are also both very good reads.

 

Don’t listen to those productivity gurus: why waking up at 6am won’t make you successful

There is a list of things that “experts” say you must do to be successful, before you begin the working day. This article is of the opinion that they are wrong. I am inclined to agree.

https://medium.com/swlh/dont-listen-to-those-productivity-gurus-why-waking-up-at-6am-won-t-make-you-successful-b3c77921d9fd

 

The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea

Articles like this one have been circling for the last few weeks, and I finally decided to add it to the rundown. I have always been of the belief that open plan offices are counter-intuitive. Especially for individuals who need to concentrate on their work. As much as a support Dave hyping up his client on the phone and getting that sale, I also now can’t concentrate on this awkward function.

https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3

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Creative / Development Inspiration 37

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Brilliant website inspiration, as well great articles on disrupting the normal design process. Plus web design style guides, and stupid design mistakes. Some great CSS techniques if you are a front end developer, as well as an exciting new virtual whiteboard.

It was great getting the articles together for this week. Some top writers, thoughts and concepts, as well as inspiration. Enjoy this website design and development inspiration rundown!

 

Website Inspiration

The past few weeks I have featured several agency websites to show how good design and layout can be simple and elegant. These two sites build on top of this even more!

 

April Zero

April Zero is a demo site for showing the information Gyroscope collects on you. The way it displays data, and quite honestly how pretty it is really appealed to me!

http://aprilzero.com/

 

Vizue

A creative studio based in Slovakia. This is one of the most creative sites I have seen in a while. Great use of animated SVGs to tie each section together. A great piece of work.

http://vizua.sk/en

 

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

 

Priority Guides: A Content-First Alternative to Wireframes

Finding a better process for designing websites is a big priority for me. A lot of “Digital Agencies” throw a design together, then add the content into pre-existing boxes. Quite frankly that makes no sense. Why add content that isn’t required? The internet already has enough meaningless drivel. Every message should be considered and have a point.

A List Apart takes us back to designing wireframes, and discusses how there may be a better alternative.

https://alistapart.com/article/priority-guides-a-content-first-alternative-to-wireframes

 

How To Create a Web Design Style Guide

If you are designed a site for a client that is likely to be around for a while, or you are redesigning your own site a style guide is a must. Not only does it allow you to go back to a central place to remind yourself, it stops you redesigning an element that already exists! It also allows third parties and future development teams follow brands guidelines.

https://designmodo.com/create-style-guides

 

10 Small Design Mistakes We Still Make

We will always want the principle “dont make me think” to apply to everything. The goal to each page should be self-evident. The average user should know exactly what is going on.

This article covers 10 mistakes that regularly occur, that stop the user from progressing easily.

https://uxplanet.org/10-small-design-mistakes-we-still-make-1cd5f60bc708

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

 

Text editing techniques every Front-End developer should know

This almost didn’t make it onto the list, until I realised it was one of the most helpful articles I have read in a while regarding writing code.

Any Front-end developer is going to spend a lot of time typing and manipulating code. It pays to know how to ‘drive’ your editor to get the best performance. This comes just in time after my post on my new editor setup.

https://benfrain.com/text-editing-techniques-every-front-end-developer-should-know

 

Combining the Powers of SEM and BIO for Improving CSS

SASS and LESS can take your loverly code, and turn it into a mess once complied. It can also make file sizes larger than needed.

SEM and BIO are coding techniques that allow your code to be scale-able, maintainable, and with a simple structure. A great read, and something to really consider.

https://css-tricks.com/combining-the-powers-of-sem-and-bio-for-improving-css

 

 

A bit of everything

RyeBoard

Still in development. But god damn this is going to be useful! Think Trello, now think whiteboard. But on the cloud!  Currently only on desktop, but so so interesting!

http://www.ryeboard.com

 

700 Screenshots of Developers’ Websites

Something nice and simple. 700 screenshots of developers websites. Maybe you can get some inspiration? Maybe you are just intrigued?

https://alexbezhan.github.io/devwebsites/

 

 

 

 

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Creative / Development Inspiration 36

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Website design and development inspiration can be tricky to find. This week we have the good stuff. 2 design agency websites for inspiration, several design articles on design mindset as well as bad UX/UI patterns. On top of that there are 2 new JS libraries, a CSS framework, and a great new React JS test website.

 

Website Inspiration

Grain and Mortar

A brand strategy and design agency website, Grain and Mortar have created something that is fast loading, slick, and gets the information across well.

https://grainandmortar.com/

 

45royale

This is another agency site. 45royale are a web design / development studio and their site shows it. Everything is laid out simply and easily digestible. My only issue with it, is after running Google Lighthouse, it falls down hard on Accessibility. If you are designing for the web, make it accessible…

https://45royale.com/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

You Can’t Design Without a Growth Mindset

Since failure is such an inevitable and essential part of design, it’s important to be surrounded by people who can not only accept, but embrace failure. One way to do this is to cultivate a growth mindset, both among team members as well as the organisation as a whole.

https://zurb.com/blog/you-can-t-design-without-a-growth-mindset

 

The Most Hated UI & UX Pattern of 2018

This article takes a deep look into some of the worst UI/US patterns about, asks why, and breaks them down. For example, why did infinite scroll fail Etsy? (as well as many other sites). How preloaders are just a smokescreen for poor performance. A very interesting read.

https://icons8.com/articles/most-hated-ui-ux-design-pattern

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Shepard

Guide your users through your website with this JavaScript libary.

https://shipshapecode.github.io/shepherd/docs/welcome/

 

Snack.Expo

This site was such a great find! Run React JS code right in the browser, include third party scripts, and push tests to your mobile. A brilliant tool, and free!

https://snack.expo.io/

 

Vivify

Another animation library, that you can just plug in. Its new, and its free!

http://vivify.mkcreative.cz/

 

Stream – Ui Kit

Stream UI Kit is beautiful Open Source Bootstrap 4 UI Kit. It has 5 complete pages and includes over 20 reusable and customizable UI Blocks. It’s lightweight and only ~17kb when minified.

https://htmlstream.com/templates/stream-ui-kit

 

A bit of everything

Better Research, Better Design, Better Results

When content isn’t considered until the end, or previous data hasn’t been looked at to make solid design decisions problems occur. When the client is not forewarned about content strategy (because there isn’t one) or the site is not built with SEO in mind, problems occur. Smashing Magazine looks at how and why this must be re-considered.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/better-research-design-results/

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Why you need to care about UX design, some brilliant tips on improving mobile interaction and how to create single element patterns. This weeks creative website design and development inspiration also looks at how to create HTML5 sprites and a beginners guide to A/B testing.

As well as going over keeping up with what is new on “that there interwebs” I also use this blog for a place to keep all the best bits that I want to remember.

Its easier to find here!

 

Website Inspiration

Overflow

“User flows done right” is this sites tagline. No wonder the site is perfectly designed. Perfect landing page with large header, and understandable call to action (I think I might use them).

https://overflow.io/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Why you need to care about UX design

Understand what your customers want, keep your customers attention, and give them a well written story. Why brands really cannot afford to ignore UI or UX.

https://www.retailtechnews.com/2018/06/26/why-you-need-to-care-about-ux-design/

 

7 Effective Tips to Improve Mobile Interactions

The quality of mobile design can be measured simply. When the process of usage is so smooth and effortless that people don’t even think about it, it is the sign of the professional design work. On the other hand, if there are some problems in the interaction system, users will definitely notice them and won’t be pleased about it. This article breaks down 7 places that could be improved.

https://design4users.com/2018/06/22/7-effective-tips-to-improve-mobile-interactions

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Introducing the Single Element Patterns

This is something I have been pushing for, and manoeuvring my workflow to get to this point. A project based on lots of small elements that can be reused over and over again. This article breaks down a few essential rules you should follow to make sure you can work faster.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/introducing-the-single-element-pattern-dfbd2c295c5d

 

Animating Sprite Sheets With JavaScript

Martin Himmel walks you through how to animate a sprite in HTML5 Canvas. Easy to follow, and a hell of a lot of uses!

https://dev.to/martyhimmel/animating-sprite-sheets-with-javascript-ag3

 

Building a chat app with React.js and Chatkit

I had never heard of Scrimba before finding this tutorial, but I’m so glad I have. This tutorial walks you through building a chat app with React.js and Chatkit. Each step has a video, and you can take your own pace.

https://scrimba.com/g/greactchatkit

 

Glide JS

A dependency-free JavaScript ES6 slider and carousel. It’s lightweight, flexible and fast. Designed to slide. No less, no more. Looks like something I will definitely be using moving forwards!

https://glidejs.com/

 

A bit of everything

A Beginners Guide to to A/B and Multivariate Testing

If you want to improve site conversion, A/B and Multivariate Testing are invaluable tools. This article run through the different services available, and how to get moving in the right direction.

https://boagworld.com/design/split-testing

 

User Journey: Design Flows Instead of Screens

Most designers are obsessed with screens. They have features and screens piled up, but rarely see their apps with their users’ eyes. Familiar? Well, it’s time to start thinking in flows instead of screens. A user journey shows how your people reach their goals in your app. This article introduces the basics of creating a user journey with some tips and specific examples.

https://uxstudioteam.com/ux-blog/user-journey-design-flows/

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Website inspiration in the form of a Tech Venture, sexy background animations, use the Bitmoji API, and why you should go and get that money! This weeks Creative and Development Inspiration is slightly shorter than usual. Mainly because of my crippling 2 day hangover. However, I believe that the articles and links I have pulled together this week are still that top quality information 😉

 

Website Inspiration

Rocka

This tech venture builder has put together a really interesting website, using parallax in a really enjoyable way. The use of vibrant colours and subtle animations add to the effect.

https://rocka.co/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Cool Backgrounds

From the creator of https://cssgradient.io/, Cool Backgrounds is their answer to customised background images. Whether you need something for a social media background image, or hero image on a website, you might find something that works for you.

https://coolbackgrounds.io/

 

Interface Exploration: Depth and Color

An experiment in using depth and Colour to create a new UI style. An interesting article, worth a read.

https://blog.marvelapp.com/interface-exploration-depth-color/

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Bokeh Effect

A great background animation. The Bokeh Effect is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”. This codepen takes that style, and makes it live.

https://codepen.io/Mamboleoo/full/BxMQYQ/

 

Optic

AI Pair programming that automates those tasks you don’t want to do. Saves you time and helps with your workflow. From what I can see it is only build for JavaScript, but this isn’t a massive issue. ReactJS is getting so large this tool is a definite help.

https://useoptic.com/

 

Libmojo

Use the Bitmoji API with this tiny library to add customised Bitmoji avatars to your newest web project. Libmoji makes it easy for you to integrate Bitmoji avatars into your project without the need for having a Bitmoji or Snapchat account

https://github.com/matthewnau/libmoji

 

Don’t Use The Placeholder Attribute

The placeholder attribute contains a surprising amount of issues that prevent it from delivering on what it promises. This has been my believe for a while now, but here is someone smarter than me putting it into words.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/06/placeholder-attribute/

 

A bit of everything

Fathom

Web analytics, that is simple, trustworthy and open source. With the introduction of GDPR it is a perfect, non-bloated way to track your website usage.

https://usefathom.com/

 

Take that money

This isn’t my normal post, but it sits well within the design/dev world. It is something that really confuses me. How so many people don’t understand it all comes down to money ( “but Rob, I do it for love”. That’s brilliant, but love doesn’t put a roof over your head, not if you don’t live with your parents ).

http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/take-the-money/

SVGator

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This week has a very diverse range of links and articles. Some brilliant websites for inspiration, ranging from clean portfolios to more modern app landing pages. Some tit-bits to tickle the taste buds of web designs, and finishing it off with some development snippets. I hope you find something new in this weeks Creative and Development Inspiration.

 

Website Inspiration

I have been scouring the web for examples of websites to help get your brain moving in the right direction. This week I have found several great portfolio sites, as well as some nice, clean sales sites.

 

Dejan Markovic

Simple, clean website. But for some reason really stood out to me.

http://dejan.works/

 

Matt Farley

Simple and clean once again, but with a nice flow to it.

http://mattfarley.ca/

 

Cronhub

Cronhub is a CRON monitoring service. The website is clean, well broken down, and easy to find information. This can be very difficult to achieve.

https://cronhub.io/

 

Monetha

A deal maker based on Block chain. Monetha’s website is modern, and a great landing page for the app.

https://www.monetha.io/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

 

7 Web Design Trends for 2018 – Don’t Fall Behind

Orana Creative have pulled together a must read guide for web design trends in 2018.  I wouldn’t say I fully agree, but they highlight some good points and it is always interesting to see what other people are pushing.

https://www.oranacreative.com/dont-fall-behind-follow-2018-trends-web-design

 

SVGator

Animate SVG easily. As simple as import, animate, export. There is no coding required. A very simple Adobe like interface for animating your SVGs.

https://www.svgator.com/

 

Payment Checkout Flow Animation

A beautifully designed checkout flow concept. The journey the user takes from selecting the item, to finally paying for it. An interesting use of micro-interactions and transitions between pages.

https://dribbble.com/shots/4689263-Payment-Checkout-Flow-Animation

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

 

Guzzle

I am probably a bit behind the times here, but I thought Id share as I have only just found it. A PHP HTTP client and framework for building RESTful web services. Now I know that more and more people are moving towards Node.js for this sort of thing, but I have a soft spot for PHP.

http://guzzle3.readthedocs.io/

 

Atomic CSS

Atomizer is a tool for creating Atomic CSS. Generate an Atomic stylesheet dynamically from the Atomic classes you’re actually using in your project (no unused styles!), or predeclare styles in configuration – it’s up to you. Atomizer is not opinionated, brings no CSS of its own, and integrates nicely with your favorite task runner.

https://acss.io/

 

tingle.js

aA minimalist and easy-to-use modal plugin written in pure JavaScript (We like modals here, also features RModal in Creative and Development Inspiration 30).

https://robinparisi.github.io/tingle/

 

The State of Changing Gradients with CSS Transitions and Animations

A well written article by CSS Tricks about CSS transitions and animations. The pitfalls and issues for working with these properties across many browsers (cough, IE, cough). Well worth the read.

https://css-tricks.com/the-state-of-changing-gradients-with-css-transitions-and-animations/

 

A bit of everything

How to Plan Website Design

Web design can generally be seen as what engages the users eye. What is pretty enough to keep them there. This is not true. What you really want to do, is engage the user and then convert them.

https://anartfulscience.com/How-To-Plan-Website-Design.php

 

CSS Watch Animation

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Website Inspiration, pure CSS animations, know your ARIA, and the time for container queries. This weeks Creative and Website Development Inspiration covers some incredible example of the direction web is going. We also touch on some brilliant ReactJS packages, as well as show what exactly is needed in a web style guide.

 

Website Inspiration

Five by Five

A startup consultant agency that have gone the whole way with their website. Built on WordPress, it loads quickly, and is very very well designed.

http://www.fivebyfive.io/

 

The Shift

Although not as fast to load, this website can maybe be let off. It is not a sales site, but more of a creative/art piece. The way the user can control the perceptive is very clever and navigating around the site is quite unique.

https://kentatoshikura.com/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

How To Create a Web Design Style Guide

Creating websites is getting more and more complex and is usually not a one person job. It is important to ensure that design is consistent and optimised to meet business objectives and create enjoyable experiences for users.

One of the ways to ensure that team is on the same page when designing separate parts of the website or saving designs from developers is to create design documentation or a web design style guide.

https://designmodo.com/create-style-guides/

 

Company Landing Page

Fluid, modern landing page, where sections flow into each other. Great example of a landing page.

https://dribbble.com/shots/4661919-Company-Landing-Page

 

29 Inspiring UI and Web Design Examples

Well worth the look. inspiredesign.me add an article like this weekly. It highlights some of the best websites and designs out there.

http://inspiredesign.me/collection/n-49/

 

What to consider when choosing colours for data visualisation

Data Visualisation can be defined as representing numbers with shapes – and no matter what these shapes look like (areas, lines, dots), they need to have a color. Sometimes colors just make the shapes visible, sometimes they encode data or categories themselves

https://blog.datawrapper.de/colors/

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

I have found more articles than usual this week, and that is not meant in a negative way. There is serious potential for all of the below links, maybe they will help inspire you.

Pure CSS Watch Animation

Starting this section of with a really really nice example of what can be done with CSS.

https://codepen.io/Wujek_Greg/full/KRXYpg

 

Know your ARIA: ‘Hidden’ vs ‘None’

A primer on appropriately using aria-hidden=’true’ and role=’none/presentation’. They each do very different things to elements, but their purposes are sometimes confused by developers.

http://www.scottohara.me/blog/2018/05/05/hidden-vs-none.html

 

Proppy

ProppyJS is a tiny 1.5kB JavaScript library for composing props (object that components receive to render themselves).

The primary purpose of this library is to lift the state one level above your UI components. So that your components are always stateless themselves, while you compose your props separately.

https://proppyjs.com/

 

eqio

Although container queries are not yet built into browsers. eqio allows you to attain the holy grail of responsive web development/design systems: components that can adapt their styling based on their width, not the browser‘s.

https://github.com/stowball/eqio

 

Grommet

I have recently started learning ReactJS. Something that I should have done a long time ago. In doing so I have come across loads of great resources (heres a list of learning resources – my Beginners Guide to ReactJS). I recently found Grommet.

A beautiful React UI component which focus on essential experience. At over 3k stars, these components take pride in their simple yet beautiful design.

http://grommet.io

 

 

A bit of everything

Building a responsive image

Nils walks you through the process of building a logo that responds to its own aspect ratio.

https://medium.com/9elements/building-a-responsive-image-e4c6229fa1f6