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Creative / Development Inspiration 30

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This is my first version of Creative and Development Inspiration (See the first ever Creative and Development Inspiration, we have come a long way), organised in a more understandable way. Rather than the blog being thrown together with no structure like in the past, I will be breaking each section up so you can go straight to what interests you. This also helps me go back and find that interesting link I found, for when I need it some point in the near future!

 

Website Inspiration

This weeks selection of websites that inspired me. I will always try to keep them relevant to design and development, but sometimes its just a nice website!

 

Audi is beta testing a new site

This new website for Audi simply and efficiently shows the models of each car. Granted, I haven’t tested it on mobile, but it looks great on desktop!

https://beta.audi.co.uk/models.html

 

Nike React

Nikes website for their React brand. Cleverly put together, a bit of fun as you build your own show.

https://www.nike-react.com

 

 

Designer Resources, examples and inspiration

Articles on the newest design concepts, why things should be done in a certain way, or just plain old sexy images. Always related to web, always meant to inspire.

 

WTF! (Whats the Flow)

If you don’t read anything else on this weeks Creative and Development Inspiration, read this! A great article on why User Flows are so important, and how they should be laid out. Too many people don’t follow this, and it leads to problems further down the line.

https://uxdesign.cc/the-biggest-wtf-in-design-right-now-87139f367d66

 

Why You Shouldn’t Use Bright, Saturated Colours for Backgrounds

If you’re using a bright and saturated colour for your background, you’re making it hard for users to keep their eyes on your page. Bright, saturated colours attract the most user attention. Too much of it in a large area overstimulates the retinas which can strain the eyes.

http://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-shouldnt-use-bright-saturated-colors-for-backgrounds/

 

 

Development Snippets and Samples

This weeks selection of libraries, code snippets and development inspiration. I will always try to include this section, and hopefully help you grow your projects.

 

RModal JS

A 1.2kb modal dialog box with no dependencies. All browsers seem to be supported, up from IE9, and it is Bootstamp and Animate.css friendly. Worth a look.

https://rmodal.js.org/

 

Keyframe App

Keyframes gives you a visual timeline to help you create, view, and run animations without having to go back and forth between your browser and editor. And it gives you the CSS when you’re done.

https://keyframes.app/

 

Nano JS

nanoJS is around 100 lines of code (0.6 Kb compressed) JavaScript library for basic DOM manipulation. It has jQuery like syntax and supports chaining.

https://vladocar.github.io/nanoJS/

 

Hybrids

A brilliant UI library for creating Web Components with simple and functional API

https://github.com/hybridsjs/hybrids

 

 

A bit of everything

You try so hard to categorise everything, and then you find an article that doesn’t quite fit, but is worth linking!

 

How not to write an error message

Discover all the ways the internet’s most well-meaning messages can go horribly, horribly wrong.

https://webflow.com/blog/how-not-to-write-an-error-message

 

Neomedia Pokemon

Creative / Development Inspiration 23

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This weeks creative & development inspiration covers some great articles, all the way from bad user onboarding and UX to using IBM Watson to analyse your social media. The most eclectic post so far.

 

4 Examples of Bad User Onboarding That Will Ruin Your UX

Starting off with this great article on bad user onboarding, Ty Magnin breaks down a few issues that are causing bottlenecks in getting users onto your service. It doesn’t just stop there either, if the user can sign up easily, they may hang around longer.

https://www.appcues.com/blog/bad-user-onboarding

 

Gender pay gap: women in graphic design earn £4,000 less than men

Gender equality is something that is being spoken about in all industries. This article discusses the issues behind the gender pay gap for woman in design, and how woman in design get paid 6% less than their male counterparts.

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/3-8-april-2018/women-graphic-designers-earn-4000-less-year-men-gender-pay-gap-shows/

 

NEA Media

Whilst researching different portfolio websites for styles and how the page load is managed I stumbled across NEA Media. The way the site loads and then animates up is really enjoyable, as well as the design across the whole site. Definitely worth a look.

http://www.neamedia.fr/en

 

“Let’s not be elitist about what we do”: should designers give away their secrets?

Pentagram partner Natasha Jen recently lambasted the term “design thinking” as “bullshit”, “jargon” and “extremely dangerous”. Designers share their thoughts on the concept and discuss whether teaching design skills to businesses is helpful or irresponsible.

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/26-march-1-april-2018/lets-not-be-elitist-design-thinking-designers-share-secrets-natasha-jen/

 

Analyzing Your Company’s Social Media Presence With IBM Watson And Node.js

Jamie Munro demonstrates how to perform a search with Twitter’s API to retrieve content that will be inputted into the ML algorithm to be analysed. This way, you’ll be provided with characteristics about the users who wrote that specific content so that you can get a better understanding of your audience. The example application will be written using Node.js as the server.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/04/analyzing-social-media-presence-ibm-watson-nodejs/

 

Modern PHP Without a Framework

This article discusses the reasoning behind not using a PHP framework for your next project. A fairly technical read, but definitely worth it if you work with PHP.

https://kevinsmith.io/modern-php-without-a-framework

 

Mitsulift Elevators by Base Design

The last link is a beautiful new identity by Base Design. The new identity manages to work across all mediums, whilst easily portraying the brand and what they do. Big fan.

http://bpando.org/2018/04/03/branding-mitsulift-elevators/

Rough.js graphic creator

Creative and Development Inspiration 20

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This week creative and development rundown is more development orientated. I have found some great packages to help enhance the user experience, as well as some alternatives to already well used solutions. Although a shorter list than usual, these items are far more usable, both in terms of using within a project and for learning more!

 

Driver.js

Driver is a powerful yet light-weight, vanilla JavaScript engine to drive the user’s focus across the page. This would be great for when a user signs up to a new website, or service., as well as providing interactive overlays. It is easy to implement and has great documentation.

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/driver.js

 

React Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide to learning React.js in 2018

As the title says, this tutorial is a ground up guide to learning ReactJS. It is well broken down, and incredibly easy to understand. ReactJs is definitely a must for most front end developers. The majority of tech companies use it as a quick route to sale.

https://tylermcginnis.com/reactjs-tutorial-a-comprehensive-guide-to-building-apps-with-react/

 

Toast UI Chart

No one like having to make code work on legacy browsers. But sometimes it matters.  The developers of Toast US couldn’t find a project which supported legacy browsers, maintained reliably, and was free for commercial use, so they decided to make one. It is well documented, and quite pretty! I will most probably be giving this a trial run on the next web development project that requires charts!

https://github.com/nhnent/tui.chart

 

Animating Elements Along SVG Paths: Introducing PathSlider

This tutorial by Scotch is a really simple to follow SVG path animation guide. It used the PathFinder plugin, and anime.js, both very user friendly packages. Although not a groundbreaking example, it is a great gateway drug into SVG animations.

https://scotch.io/tutorials/animating-elements-along-svg-paths-introducing-pathslider

 

Rough.js

Rough.js allows you to create roughly drawn graphics within the browser. It is a light weight (~8k), Canvas based library that lets you draw in a sketchy, hand-drawn-like, style. The library defines primitives to draw lines, curves, arcs, polygons, circles, and ellipses. It also supports drawing SVG paths.

https://github.com/pshihn/rough

 

Creating User-friendly forms

Forms are of pivotal importance to individuals & businesses alike. When it comes to collecting data, forms most often than not is the direction we all take (perhaps due to it’s long-time presence around us offline before the internet boom). Therefore, creating user-friendly forms is a major key to increasing the completion rate of your forms.

https://blog.prototypr.io/creating-user-friendly-forms-46e3f7f4eef2

Spotify releases development API

Creative and Development Inspiration 12

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A mixed bag this week. Some great new additions to the code snippets bookmark list, as well a new design inspiration website. Also, Spotify likes developers!

 

9 Custom Open Source File Upload Field Snippets

Upload fields are one of the toughest inputs to restyle. If you’re hoping to customize your upload inputs, this gallery will help. Speckyboy has collected 9 handmade upload fields from CodePen that prove you can restyle the field to look however you want.

https://speckyboy.com/custom-file-upload-fields/

 

Why do People Hate Papyrus and Comic Sans?

The world we live in is a mix of opinions and it’s hard to definitively agree on anything. But one thing’s for sure—Comic Sans and Papyrus are the worst. Why do we feel this is the case?

https://onextrapixel.com/people-hate-papyrus-comic-sans/

 

Instagram CSS

Want to bring Instagram filters to your site? Wait no more, this Github resposity has your back.

https://picturepan2.github.io/instagram.css/

 

Company Tricks People into Swiping Instagram Ad with Fake Strand of Hair

A cunning Chinese company has received both props and scoffs for a devious Instagram Stories advertisement featuring a fake strand of hair over some heavily discounted sneakers. Not such a development article, but a comment on advertising design.

https://medium.com/shanghaiist/chinese-shoe-company-tricks-people-into-swiping-instagram-ad-with-fake-strand-of-hair-54d8a2d8ec1d

 

Spotify for Developers

Spotify have opened up an API for us developers. So. Many. Ideas.

https://beta.developer.spotify.com

 

A New Inspiration Feed – Designspiration

A selection, concoction, amaligmation of great, interesting and creative designs. All those descriptive words show how I feel about this site. It’s good.

https://www.designspiration.net