The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/07/04

kreativfont.com

Kreativ Font - 500 fonts on one page

We have a passion for typography and here you can find, download and buy professional, lettering, cursive, tattoo, graffiti, geometric and original fonts.

drawsta.com

AR Animated T-shirts

Drawsta is an augmented reality wearables line mixing up fashion, technology & new media.

availo.io

Availo - Meet and book the best freelancers immediately

Availo is the only way to hire the best local freelance designers and developers in London, San Francisco and New York. There's no middle man, no need to post job descriptions and definitely no long waits for email replies. It's pretty awesome.

youtube.com

JavaScript Air Episode 029: Web Animations

It's totally mind blowing what can be done to enhance the user's experience with animations on the web these days. Let's talk about how some of this is done and what tools are out there to help you with this.

plyr.io

Plyr - A simple HTML5 media player

A simple HTML5 media player with custom controls and WebVTT captions.

blog.prototypr.io

Ethnosemantics in UX Design

I was inspired by the holistic approach of ethnosemantics to researching the use of language among cultural groups. I have adapted some of its methods for modern user research and wanted to share my ideas about it. Why do we care about Ethnosemantics? Ethnosemantics is the study of how people relate concepts to each other.

optimizerwp.com

The Enormous List of Web Typography Resources

Typeface selection plays a critical role in the readability of your content. Although it may be one of the overlooked aspects when it comes to designing websites. One of the main finding of Nielsen Norman Group Eye-tracking Study of Web Readers was "Text Attracts Attention Before Graphics".

community.algolia.com

Algolia Places - Turn any <input> into an address autocomplete

Algolia Places provides a fast, distributed and easy way to use an address search autocomplete JavaScript library on your website. It has been designed to improve the user experience of your HTML forms.

brightec.co.uk

Design War - Spotify v Apple Music

Good green or bad green? We're fast approaching the first anniversary of Apple Music - it was launched at WWDC in June last year. It was a bold move for Apple, as they tried to regain their leading position in the music market that they'd lost since the early age of the iPod.

insideasiatours.com

Step Inside Asia with Interactive, Animated Maps

Explore inspiring locations in Burma using animated map and groundbreaking panoramic view mode

medium.com

We need more artists than designers

There has been a lot of confusion amongst a few self-learnt "designers" and why they do or do not want to follow certain design protocols. Grids are good/bad for design, More images because they convey emotions well or More text because its easier and natural to grasp as a form of storytelling.

uidsgn.co

UiDSGN - Daily Ui Design Inspiration and Freebies

UiDSGN is an online showcase of inspiration and freebies for ui designers. Here are presented the best works of the designers involved in the daily ui challenges.

uxdesign.cc

The Right Tool For The Job: Picking The Best Prototyping Software For Your Project - uxdesign.cc - User Experience Design

Companies that pay attention to this trend have started to build prototyping tools to address this need; and today we're seeing a plethora of tools emerge on a regular basis. But which should you pick? More importantly, what questions should you ask yourself and your team to make sure you choose the right one?

a.singlediv.com

A Single Div

A CSS drawing experiment to see what's possible with a single div.

blog.prototypr.io

Anatomy of the Type

Part 2 : Know Your Type To learn about typography better, we must be able to distinguish between different typefaces. Just like humans, each typeface has some physical attribute that distinguishes it from the other typeface. As discussed in my earlier post, I am attempting to document and share whatever that I have learned about typography.

medium.com

The Process of Hobeaux Rococeaux

An Adventure in Display Type and Ornamentation During my year in TypeMedia program, my classmate Mark DeWinne was exploring display styles for his soon-to-be-released Morris family. I was enamored with the callipygous stencil, and thought some ornamented forms would be a valuable drawing excercise.

medium.com

Hillary's running mate: Obama's fonts?

The General Election has begun in full. In the two weeks since Hillary Clinton accepted the title of presumptive nominee of the Democratic party, her campaign has debuted a new tagline at their rallies: Stronger Together. This new campaign slogan has been used exclusively by the campaign in rally materials, specifically lectern placards and site signage.

canopy.co

Canopy: Find the best products on Amazon, curated by people with great tasteSponsored

Products Trending Now on Canopy - Canopy is Amazon, curated. Use Canopy to discover the most useful, beautiful, and well-designed products on Amazon.

medium.com

Introducing Sidebar 2.0

T he first thing you'll notice is probably the images. Science has progressed a lot since 2012, and we now have the technology to display pictures on websites! Each image is pulled from the linked site via Embedly, and displayed in full bitmap glory.