Creating Cel Animations With SVG
What if I told you there was an image format like GIF, but it worked with vectors? What if I said it was possible to reverse the direction of its animation? What if you could take one base image and animate different parts of it separately, at different speeds? Well, the image format, SVG, already exists. It just needs a little gentle encouragement.
Page Layers - Website Screenshots For Mac OS X
Page Layers is a website screenshot app for Mac OS X. It converts web pages to Photoshop files with separate layers for all page elements.
It enables you to open web pages in Photoshop and saves you lots of time when re-designing or improving existing web page designs.
Just open any page in the embedded browser and save the page as PSD with layers or as plain PNG image. In the HTML to PSD conversion every web page element (every image, link, block, ...) will be rendered as separate, named layer. Layer groups will be created according to the site structure.
Better Icon Design in 6 Easy Steps
When I review icons submitted to Iconfinder, I have a responsibility to our designers and to our customers to make sure all premium icons on the site are the highest possible quality. But the difference between “not quite good enough” and “premium quality” is often very small and usually involves minimal changes. In this article I have distilled my design guidelines into Six Easy Steps to Better Icon Design. The steps follow the basics of sound icon design and should be seen as a guide, not a dogmatic rule book. The savvy designer knows when he or she can break the rules for the greatest benefit.
Pocket Guide to CSS only Drawings and Animations
So I became a bit obsessed about how further we can push the limits of what we can draw with CSS only. Basically, I noticed that you can play around with basic shapes like circles, rectangles and triangles to draw virtually anything. You can even put some drop-shadows and CSS filters to get some pretty cool effects as well.
In this pocket guide I'll write some examples from really easy to more complex things you can do to create cool drawings and animations with CSS.
Raise your prices by thinking like a consultant, not a freelancer
- What does success look like for this project?
- How can failure be avoided with this project? What are you worried might go wrong?
- What will happen to your business if nothing changes?
- Where do you see your business a year from now? Three years from now? Ten years from now?
- What is the single hardest thing in your business right now?
How to Quit Asking Bad Questions and Start Asking Great Questions
Here are some ways people ask questions the wrong way -- and how you can ask the right way:
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Don't Lead the Witness
"What do you think we should do about that order?" -
Don't Stick to Either/Or Questions
"There are defects throughout the whole order. What do you think we should do?" -
Look for Clarification
"That sounds really good. Let me make sure I don't miss anything, though. Can you walk me through it one more time?"
Talk as little as possible. You already know what you know.
Does your solution solve the right problem?
The most productive engineers I’ve ever worked with aren’t the engineers who pull all-nighters or clock in 80 hour work weeks. Nor are they the engineers who can effortlessly craft an elegant five lines of x86 assembly to succinctly and efficiently solve a problem.
Focus on the problem – each and every time
The pen is mightier than the laptop – Design Voices – Medium
The pen is mightier than the laptop
Ditch the computer and break out the paper for more effective, interesting, and visually stimulating note-taking
78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
You Are My Sunshine
House of Rising Sun
Four Leaf Clover
Inter UI font family
Inter UI is a typeface specially designed for user interfaces with focus on high legibility of small-to-medium sized text on computer screens.
The family features a tall x-height to aid in readability of mixed-case and lower-case text. Several OpenType features are provided as well, like contextual alternates that adjusts punctuation depending on the shape of surrounding glyphs, slashed zero for when you need to disambiguate "0" from "o", tabular numbers, etc.
How To Create a Style Guide From Scratch. Tips and Tricks
A styleguide is a set of standards, principles and rules every developer or designer should follow in order to improve the digital presence of the product.
In this article we will walk through effective techniques used in designing a reliant style guide.
Designing Logos
Creating a logo is design distilled. You need to make this little piece of branding that forges a connection with the people who come into contact with it. I find that challenge immensely fun. You get to be the storyteller of a brand. You get to help shape many people’s perception of an entity. You get to make a difference for someone– all with the use of your creativity.
The Future of Lottie – Airbnb Design
When we released Lottie six months ago, we never imagined it would be embraced by the community as it has been. It is inspiring to hear from people in person, through emails, on Twitter, and on GitHub about how happy they are to have an animation solution for their apps. We’ve read articles written by designers and engineers whom we respect — such as Nick Butcher, Valentina Berois, Chris Basha, Christopher Deane, and many others — that tell us specifically how Lottie has allowed them to create animations more easily.
Magnific Popup: Responsive jQuery Lightbox Plugin
Magnific Popup is a responsive lightbox & dialog script with focus on performance and providing best experience for user with any device
(for jQuery or Zepto.js).
How to Control Your Emotions During a Difficult Conversation
- Breathe
- Focus on your body
- Try saying a mantra
- Acknowledge and label your feelings
- Take a break
Photoshop for designers who don't use Photoshop - Photoshop for designers who don't use Photoshop
Material Design Hierarchical Display by zavoloklom
The jQuery plugin for hierarchical display animation effect
Hierarchical Timing is a meaningful transition introduced in Google Material Design that focuses your users attention in an app or how an app element got from point A to point B.
How To Get Started With Sketchnotes — Smashing Magazine
Making your notes more interesting doesn’t have to be a huge undertaking. It’s not like learning to play the piano or taking up diving. If you think sketchnoting looks fun, I have some tips to get you started.