Framer is a modern prototyping tool. It can help you to quickly build and test complex interactions and rich animations for both desktop and mobile. The basic idea is that you only need a few simple building blocks like images, animation and events to build and test complex interactions.
It is made for designers. It is simple but powerful. A good alternative to Flash, Quartz Composer or Keynote. It works great in desktop and mobile Safari or Chrome, and Offline too. It uses webkit css transforms to render on the GPU for smooth performance. Built in easy spring physics for iOS like animations.
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Demo: http://www.framerjs.com/
License: License Free
Gemicon is handcrafted icon set by Turqois, which there 3 different sizes (16, 32, 64). Each icon created with pixel-perfect shape layer on Photoshop. Download and get PNGs and PSDs file. There are over 600 icons for you to download. They are all Free and suitable to implement here and there for your next awesome project.
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Demo: http://gemicon.net/
License: License Free
In essence responsive design is about adapting a website to best fit the device viewport. We use CSS media queries to build fluid grids and flexible media. Therefore, we can create a canonical web location without fragmentation of content or users. It’s a single codebase to develop and deploy. In theory, it is easy to navigate on any device.
David Bushell has created a responsive off-canvas menu demo using CSS transforms and transitions. You can give it a try on your mobile device. This was purely a technical demo to see the performance of CSS transforms & transitions. Unfortunately, as many have fed back, there are rendering issues that cause flickering in some browsers.
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Demo: http://dbushell.com/demos/viewport/menu1/
License: License Free
Google Maps Santa Tracker is created and developed by Google, with a little help from Santa’s elves. On Christmas Eve Google will be proudly showcasing a preview of Santa’s dashboard, the technology that powers his sleigh during his around-the-world journey.
Santa’s dashboard is featuring the latest and greatest in Google Maps technology and sleigh engineering, which will allow you to follow his progress around the world, and also learn a little about some of his stops along the way. You can go ahead and explore his village, you might just find some fun activities and meet some interesting elves.
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Demo: http://www.google.com/santatracker/
License: License Free
After several months in private beta, the Modulus Node.js hosting platform is now open to everyone! Modulus provides developers scalable hosting, integrated database, and powerful statistics for their Node.js applications.
Modulus is a premier Node.js hosting platform that provides a complete technology stack for application developers. This includes custom SSL, WebSockets, MongoDB, statistics, and more. Modulus is currently in public beta. Signup is quick and free. If you’d like to see more, you can take a tour of the Modulus Project Dashboard.
Requirements: Node.js
Demo: https://modulus.io/
License: License Free
Rafal Tomal has shared with us his Free Photoshop Wireframe Kit. This wireframe kit includes Notes, Images & video, Form fields, Headings, paragraphs and bullet lists, Navigations, Ad banners and Common website elements like: search box, email sign up form, etc.
Simple open a blank Photoshop document in one of my screens and the wireframe kit PSD in the other one. Then, simply drag the elements you need from one document and drop them into the other one. As you can see, all elements are black in my wireframe kit. You can easily change the background by managing the opacity of the element.
Requirements: Photoshop
Demo: http://rafaltomal.com/free-photoshop-wireframe-kit/
License: License Free
Framote is a tool to share multiple websites without the need for the user to reload or even touch a thing. Your Framote URL will have an initial embed website wich you’ll be able to change anytime at your Control URL. The devices which have the Framote URL opened will be updated almost instantly.
This tool is pretty simple, at least over the basics. It uses an iframe to load the embed website, and makes AJAX requests every 1.2 seconds to check the actual URL. If it has been modified, the script simply changes the src attribute. You can also take a look at Remote Preview we have mentioned a week ago.
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Demo: http://framote.com/
License: License Free
For a given input field, it would be cool to indicate the current cursor position and how much text is occupying it. It would be awesome if it’s easy to implement in any website without modifying the DOM at all. Here we got Smart Input Field Position Indicator jQuery Plugin.
It needs no images, it’s pure CSS rendering. It is accurate and dynamic, which means you can add or remove text and it will adapt. It uses Event-Delegation so don’t worry about performance if you have a million input fields or dynamically-created ones.
Requirements: JavaScript Framework
Demo: http://dropthebit.com/325/smart-input-field-position-indicator/
License: License Free
amMap is a tool that you can use to easily add interactive map functionality to your web pages and JavaScript-based applications. You can use this tool to show locations of your offices, routes of your journeys, create your distributor map, etc. Photos or illustrations can be used as layers and backgrounds of maps, so you can make different presentations, e-learning tools and more.
It is supported by all modern browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer . It also runs on mobile devices powered by iOS and Android. You can download and use all amMap products for free. The only limitation of the free version is that a small link to this web site will be displayed in the top right corner of your maps.
Requirements: JavaScript Framework
Demo: http://www.ammap.com/javascript-maps/
License: License Free
Remote Preview allows you to preview any URL on large number of mobile devices simultaneously. Just enter a URL, hit Enter, and new URL gets automatically loaded on each device. It works on platforms like Android, Blackberry, iOS, Maemo, Meego, Symbian, Windows Phone and WebOS. It was built for the Helsinki Device Lab for fast site previewing.
Remote Preview works by making an ajax call every 1100ms to check if the url in the ‘url.txt’ file is changed. If it is, the script will then change the src attribute of the iframe and load a new page into it. If there’s no changes, the script will just keep polling the url.txt until something changes. Remote Preview allows very fast previewing of different URL’s to check for possible layout problems, which can then be debugged using various other tools depending on the platform where they occur.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://viljamis.com/blog/2012/remote-preview/
License: License Free
