Website Inspiration
Design Agency
The landing page goes straight for the kill. They know what the user wants, so provide it straight immediately. Combined with great design and visuals this site is a perfect example of a great sales funnel.
Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration
Misrepresenting the truth to make travelling easier
Transforming maps into diagrams can help speed up travelers’ comprehension, but requires removing many factual details. How do we know what hurts and what helps?
https://uxdesign.cc/misrepresenting-the-truth-to-make-traveling-easier-9a02874cb9b
Building Brand Loyalty and Reducing Anxiety with UI Animation
Turn moments of anxiety into opportunities to delight users and build emotional bonds through animation.
How Web Designers Can Contribute To Mobile-First Marketing
You’ve proven your expertise in designing mobile-first websites for clients. It might be time you made a move into designing mobile-first marketing campaigns for them as well.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/01/mobile-first-marketing-tips/
Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles
Sweet Alert 2
A clean, simple, easy to implement popup box. Accessible, and with zero dependencies. Add it to your list.
https://github.com/sweetalert2/sweetalert2
Shards Dashboard React
A free React admin dashboard template pack featuring a modern design system and lots of custom templates and components.
https://github.com/DesignRevision/shards-dashboard-react
The Mistakes Developers make when Coding a Hamburger Menu
Browser inconsistencies, and constantly changing goal posts can making developing tough at the best of times. Now focus it on one tiny button, with massive UX considerations.
CSS Lego Minifigure
A brilliant CSS Lego person, fully customizable. A great example of what can be achived in CSS.
https://codepen.io/joshbader/pen/MZMzjr
CSS Dinosaur
Just a dino on a walk
https://codepen.io/RobertMarshall/pen/NeOPPv
A bit of everything
We are not our users: we should not tell them how to feel
To create respectful and inclusive services we must put our feelings aside, be humble and focus persistently on the experience of our users. Get rid of that personal bias.
https://digitalblog.coop.co.uk/2019/01/17/we-are-not-our-users-we-should-not-tell-them-how-to-feel
TruePush
Free forever push notifications for everyone
Will 2019 be the death of the agency model?
Not so sure on the clickbaity headline, but the article has some interesting thoughts. For example:
progressive agencies will begin to reinvent themselves as a flexible, agile team of specialists that are built around their client’s exact needs
https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/features/2019/01/will-2019-be-death-agency-model
