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5 lucky winners will have access for life to all of Adobe’s popular design tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premier Pro, Flash Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash Builder, Prelude, Story, Media Encoder and tools such as Muse and Edge.
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Spot.IM is the creator of the first “everywhere†social network, empowering website owners and publishers to turn their websites into a social network driven by their own content. Spot.IM’s technology enables publishers to take back ownership of the conversation going on around their content, freeing them from having to rely on larger, external social networks to provide the social space for community content engagement.
Typing users and submitted comments are seen in real-time. Hot content and trending conversations are presented in a cross-site Newsfeed. Readers are instantly notified about new comments and hot conversations. Site visitors can talk privately and share common passions and interests.
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Demo: https://www.spot.im/
License: License Free
ExpandJS is a modular library with 80+ custom elements and 350+ utility functions to kickstart your Web Applications. The elements are built upon Polymer and follow Google’s Material Design guidelines, allowing for beautiful and responsive interfaces. The utility library is an extension of lodash, adding more functions and introducing checks for unexpected arguments. It is released under BSD-3-Clause License.
Requirements: javaScript Framework
Demo: http://expandjs.com/
License: BSD License
Outline is a simple CSS starter responsive boilerplate for any new web project, created by Matt Harris. It’s a modular, mobile-first framework which includes todays best practices for responsive design and core components I use on every project. Outline is designed to be a starting point. A solid foundation for your project, leaving the creativity up to you.
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Demo: http://www.outlinecss.co.uk/
License: MIT License
This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week. If you have spotted or want to share something that you’d like to be listed in the next issue, please feel free to let us know. You can also check out Webdesigner News for more great content from around the web that can be interest to web designers.
Dropbox’s New Android App Invisible Design
Rethink The New York Times
Prototype Sound Pack
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Squid.ink Solid Icon Pack offers 2000 handcrafted, consistent and pixel-perfect icons ready to use. The icons have been specially built to match the current design trends and to help you expand on your projects. This beautiful icons are perfect to create a unique design experience.
Here you can download 50 of their best icons from Free Solid Icons Pack. It includes PSD files for 32px & 64px Icons, PNG files for 32px & 64px Icons, SVG files for 32px & 64px Icons, AI & EPS vector files.
Free Download: http://thesquid.ink/free-solid-icons/
Startup Launch List is contains all a​rticles you need to read before launching a startup. They are written by​ ​founders, designers, investors and thought leaders.
“Make sure you read all of Paul Graham’s essays.” This little app sort of follows that thought. It’s a place where you can read essential articles from respected folks like Jason Fried, Derek Sivers, Brad Feld, Mark Suster, Sam Altman, Fred Wilson etc.
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Demo: http://startuplaunchlist.com/
License: License Free
Bounce is a script that allows you to publish beautiful banner bars on your site with no coding required. Target bars to users based on where they came from, what page they’re on and whether they’re blocking your ads.
You can show a bar to users who have an AdBlocker installed. Ask users to turn off AdBlock or promote alternative ways to support your site. These bars won’t be shown to users who don’t have an active AdBlocker. You can also display different bars based on which site a user was referred from. These bars display your custom message by checking the referrer that visitor came from to help convert users.
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Demo: http://bounce.bar/
License: License Free
For many years, I worked in sales and marketing. I was employed by major corporations and part of my work included helping clients create websites, presentations, and advertising. I was able to retire early, but my love for this type of work has opened many doors for me to work on a volunteer basis for businesses like our local Chamber of Commerce, Animal Shelter and as a volunteer with programs through the library. I also help small business owners with their websites and advertising.
My experience has taught me, it matters not how well written something is, if no one reads it. Graphics, pictures and art work are what grab the eye. It is the beauty of the page, website, brochure or church bulletin that causes one to read on. This was a major stumbling block for me. My talent was words – not graphics. Then I found GraphicStock.com and it has changed my life! I wish I had known about this incredible resource when I was in corporate America.
The selections are endless. I have never had a problem finding exactly what I need to make my page jump out and grab a reader. This is saying a lot. You see, I do not just write about the local bake sale. I actually provide a volunteer service to small businesses and community services that are in need of professional, higher quality material but do not have the budget for a marketing team to design it. Read the rest of this entry »
Codrops has created a experimental grid layout with “Card Expansion Effect” where they have animated the card expansion with a morphing effect on the cover image and follow its motion with a delightful animation of a low-poly pattern used as the background of the page.
They are using Trianglify by Quinn Rohlf to generate the background pattern, SVG’s clipPath to morph the card image, and GSAP to animate and control the whole sequence. They could have used the CSS clip-path property to clip and morph the image but since the support is currently quite limited and inconsistent across browsers, they are using SVG clipPath instead. This way they can make the demo work across all browsers, including IE9.
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Demo: http://tympanus.net/Development/CardExpansion/
License: License Free
