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There is no denying that people are visual by nature. They love simplicity and familiarity. So it should come as no surprise that people will form an impression of your website within seconds of landing on it.
As a result, websites today are in high competition with one another, no matter the niche.
Storytelling through web design, one of the most compelling ways to grab a site visitor’s attention without overwhelming them, has recently emerged as one of the biggest design trends to hit the market.
It is not easy to master the art of storytelling using web design. It takes a keen eye, an understanding of your target audience, and a well thought-out storyline that will resonate with visitors. However, when done right, people will remember your brand, your website and your beautiful story.
In this article, we are going to share with you some of the best examples of storytelling in web design.
Analysing London 2012
With the 2018 Winter Olympic Games underway, it seems fitting to showcase this beautiful celebration of the 2012 London Games. Using smooth parallax scrolling, which makes following the timeline easy, fascinating facts to give the story continuity, and clear, simple imagery to complement the story, GoSquared Analytics does an incredible job of bringing the site visitor into this piece of history.
Patagonia
Patagonia’s marketing efforts are geared towards a very specific audience, and they do this well with their visual appeal. Their imagery focuses on everyday people, rather than high end fashion models, which makes their products more relatable.
Not to mention the visual story they tell on their site supports their core values and dedication to finding solutions to the current environmental crisis. It’s powerful enough to convince anyone to get involved.
Internet Live Stats
Internet Live Stats takes a unique approach to storytelling on their site. Using startling statistics, such as the fact that 7,927 Tweets go out every second, paired with just as startling imagery to complement their statistics, this is undeniably more effective than a simple sentence stating the facts.
And, to make matters even more interesting, there is a timer on the page adding up how many Tweets have been Tweeted since opening the page x seconds ago. Talk about putting things into perspective.
Twoodie
Twoodie draws on the heartstrings of parents from all over, while focusing on the fact that they, as a company, put families first and want health to take precedence. They show that imagination, creativity and minimalism lay at the heart of their brand.
And when it comes to imagery, Twoodie takes an effective approach. Using beautiful black and white photos of children playing with their toys (that are showcased in color) gives the reader a sense of nostalgia and warmth – which not many toy shops can say they do for their customers. In addition, this non-traditional approach of highlighting toys in such calming colors only adds to their brand message and solidifies their promise to simplify your life.
The Wild Unknown
When it comes to storytelling in web design, brand promotion is not limited to websites. In fact, visual platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram can have powerful effects on people’s desire to take action and buy or subscribe based on the images they see in their social media feed.
The Wild Unknown has a visually stunning Instagram feed that not only promotes their products, but relates images to the current time, how people feel, and what may drive people to want to do better things with their lives. This is much more effective than simply saying “Buy me because I’m great.” Instead, they make the visitor feel great – and that is enough to encourage them to take action.
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There's no shortage of paid-for and free fonts available for designers to choose from these days. But what if you want a typeface that's really special and stands out?
Whatever the project, these professional fonts are certain to give your designs an air of sophistication.
01. FF Din
FF Din is a popular choice among designers
Price: From $65/£51.99 per fontFormat: OTF
Added to MOMA's digital typefaces for its Architecture and Design collection back in 2011, FF Din is a popular choice among designers. Created by Dutch type designer Albert-Jan Pool between 1995 and 2009, this sans serif is ideally suited to advertising and packaging, logos and branding.
02. Oswald
We’re big fans of professional font Oswald here at Creative Bloq
Price: FreeFormat: Google web font
Oswald has become a popular choice of font for designers, especially for those working in the world of of the web. A reworking of the classic style historically represented by the 'Alternate Gothic' sans serif typefaces, this professional font has been re-drawn and reformed to better fit the pixel grid of standard digital screens.
03. Brandon Grotesque
Brandon Grotesque won the Type Directors Club Award in 2011
Price: $40/£27.99 per fontFormat: OTF
Designed by Hannes von Dohren in 2009, Brandon Grotesque was influenced by the popular geometric-style, sans serif typefaces of the 1920s and 30s. Equipped for complex, professional photography, Brandon Grotesque won the Type Directors Club Award in 2011.
04. Aviano
Aviano typeface is inspired by the power and timeless beauty of classic letterforms
Price: $24.99/£15.99 per fontFormat: OTF
Named after a small town at the base of the Alps in Northern Italy, Aviano typeface is inspired by the power and timeless beauty of classic letterforms. A gorgeous design, Aviano was created by type designer Jeremy Dooley, owner of one-man foundry Insigne.
05. Proxima Nova
Proxima Nova is used by over 25,000 websites, including Buzzfeed, Wired and Mashable
Price: $29/£19.99 per fontFormat: OTF/TTF
Used by over 25,000 websites, including Buzzfeed, Wired and Mashable, Mark Simonson's professional font Proxima Nova is an extremely popular choice amongst designers. The extensive family is available in seven weights (thin, light, regular, semi-bold, bold, extra-bold and black), with matching italics, small caps and condensed and extra-condensed widths.
06. Rockwell
An updated Rockwell was published in 1934 by Monotype
Price: $35/£22.99 per fontFormat: OTF/TTF
Geometric slab serif Rockwell was inspired by a 1910 font titled Litho Antique. Designer Morris Fuller Benton revived Rockwell in the 1920s before it was redesigned and published in 1934 by Monotype, in a project headed by Frank Hinman Pierpont.
07. Trojan
Trojan’s design is based on classic Roman structures
Price: $25.80/£20 for 1 fontFormat: OTF
Trojan is one of many stand-out designs by creative genius Alex Trochut. Created back in 2012, professional font Trojan was used extensively throughout Wallpaper after its initial release. Based on classic Roman structures, Trojan has a very sophisticated set of glyphs, which, in turn, gives this font a classic contemporary appearance.
08. Le Havre
Le Havre lends itself to all manner of creative projects
Price: $24.99/£15.99 per fontFormat: OTF
Art deco-inspired typeface Le Havre was named after the port where many a famous luxury cruise liner was launched in the 1930s. Compressed capitals, a low x-height and geometric construction give this beautiful typeface a retro look and feel, with the new contemporary update in 2009 lending itself to all manner of creative projects.
09. Mallory
Mallory is the work of s type designer and teacher Tobias Frere-Jones
Price: $50 per fontFormat: OTF
The product of type designer and teacher Tobias Frere-Jones, Mallory is a beautiful professional font, which began as an experiment in mixing typographic traditions, building a new design with British and American traits.
Frere-Jones has a number of best-selling type designs under his belt, but Mallory was the first font he created after splitting with long-time creative partner Jonathan Hoefler.
He comments on his website: "Mallory was built to be a reliable tool, readily pairing with other typefaces to organise complex data and fine-tune visual identities. Each style contains over 1250 glyphs, to anticipate a wide range of content: small caps and old-style figures for running text, lining figures and uppercase punctuation for headlines, tabular figures and over a dozen currency symbols for financial data."
10. FF Meta
FF Meta was designed by Erik Spiekermann
Price: $59/£45 per fontFormat: OTF
Created by outspoken type designer Erik Spiekermann, FF Meta was first called PT55, a typeface made for easy reading at small sizes for West German Post Office in 1985. Spiekermann continued work on his design to include more weights and styles, later releasing it as FF Meta, one of the first and truly foundational members of the early FontFont library.
With a clean, cheery and distinctive aesthetic, professional font FF Meta flourished in the early 1990s and has been a firm favourite ever since. In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in New York added FF Meta to its permanent collection, one of only 23 fonts selected to represent typography of the digital era.
11. Soho
Soho is a beefy slab-serif by Seb Lester
Price: $65 per fontFormat: OTF
Beefy slab serif Soho is the product of renowned type designer Seb Lester. The super-family has over 40,000 glyphs and represents three years' worth of work.
"As a type designer I'm preoccupied with finding ways in which I can address modern problems like good legibility in modern media, and create fonts that work precisely and efficiently in the most technically demanding of corporate and publishing environments," he comments on the Monotype website.
12. Davison Spencerian
Davison Spencerian is a remains a benchmark of the ornamental script genre
Price: $75Format: OTF/web font
American letter designer Meyer 'Dave' Davison was arguably one of the most distinguished lettering artists of the 20th century. With a library of Spencerian designs, Davison Spencerian typeface made its first appearance in Photo-Lettering’s 1946 catalogue and remains a benchmark of the ornamental script genre.
Tireless hours have been spent by Mitja Miklavčič and House Industries designers Ben Barber and Ken Kiel to preserve the poise and precision of Davison’s masterwork in this faithfully-rendered digital incarnation.
The House Industries website states: 'From automotive exhaust accessories and pirate-themed wedding invites to New Orleans sissy bounce hip-hop CD covers and upmarket bivalve ambrosia packaging, Davison Spencerian offers sober sophistication and unparalleled flexibility'.
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“It looks great, but can you make it ‘pop’ more?”
We’ve all been there, the dreaded subjective design feedback, no use to anyone; let’s stop a moment and look at what led to this subjective nonsense, what chain of events instigated this horror show of unusable feedback? Actually, how clients receive your work and how you frame the feedback request is often just as much to blame as the person asking you to make your designs ‘pop’.
Ask yourself how often have you simply sent over an email to a client with a .jpg attached and the seemingly innocent request “let me know what you think”.
recognising how your own process often invites completely unhelpful feedback can help you change
The truth is there’s never a 100% right answer when it comes to web design, so everyone is likely to have a different personal opinion. If you really think about it every design is the result of hundreds of tiny decisions that could have gone any one of a thousand different ways (light blue buttons instead of dark blue, 10px padding instead of 14px etc etc).
Design is, by its very nature, is perceived as a subjective exercise. So the truth is we don’t actually want to know if a client or stakeholder ‘likes’ our design or not, we want to know if it meets their business needs. We don’t want to know if the Legal Department gets a warm fuzzy feeling when they see our work, we want to know if they’re able to sign it off.
It’s also important to bare in mind that some subjectivity will always make it’s way through into the feedback you receive and that’s not always such a bad thing. Often at the heart of it is some really well meaning and useful insight but recognising how your own process often invites completely unhelpful feedback can help you change and weed it out.
1. Ask the Right Questions
The easiest way to start preventing subjective feedback on your project is to be clear on what you’re asking for. Instead of flinging over a completed design with a cheery “let me know what you think” email, try and steer the feedback conversation towards what you actually need.
Now this can take a little more effort and sometimes after finishing a super difficult project at 2AM the only thing you want to do it get a design sent off and never look at it again, but believe me in the long run it’s worth it.
if you’re sending your design to a client you should be pleased with it, so don’t be afraid to sound positive
Take some time to think about who you’re sending your designs to and why. Is it a business owner reviewing a design for their new website? If so, be positive, tell them that you’re really pleased with how the design represents their brand and you’re ready to move onto to the next phase of the project, do they agree? If not, which specific elements would they like you to focus on changing. Don’t forget if you’re sending your design to a client you should be pleased with it, so don’t be afraid to sound positive and ready to move on.
Essentially what you’re doing here is trying to frame what you want from people in an objective way. Think ‘yes or no’ questions rather than ‘what do you think’.
This approach can be especially useful if your intended recipient is reviewing your design for a very specific single reason, for example if you need the legal team to sign off you should be asking if there are: “Any reasons the design would not be acceptable from a legal perspective,” rather than: “What do you think? Is this ok for you?”
…you’re actually helping people when you ask for this simple yes or no type feedback.
A lot of the time you’re actually helping people when you ask for this simple yes or no type feedback. You are, for a lot of people, removing the subconscious pressure for them to contribute something if asked. When presented with a blank canvas request for ‘their feedback’ most people will force themselves to think of something even if it’s just a random point that in reality they don’t care about—simply because the alternative feels like they’re saying “nope sorry—I can’t think of anything I’d change—I’m not required—I don’t need to be involved—I’m useless really”. Inviting a simpler yes or no answer is often enough to lift the pressure and gain a positive response.
2. Let Less Cooks Near the Broth
Another great way to avoid subjective feedback hell is to work hard on limiting the number of people you invite to feedback. Design feedback has a nasty habit of snowballing as more and more people are CC’d into an ever growing email chain of contradicting opinions. Instead, don’t be afraid to limit your feedback loop, you can even separate stakeholders off into groups if needed. For example if two stakeholders are brand and two are legal, why not reach out to the legal sign off team separately for specific legal feedback and vice versa for brand (it can save you the legal person’s often unwelcome brand feedback).
Now it’s not always that easy and there is the risk you can create even more problems for yourself if you exclude people (especially in large organisations). What you can do to combat this is to share design output with a wider group but be specific that it’s purely for their awareness and that feedback is not need at this stage, thank you very much.
3. Position Your Design
Don’t just leave your design to stand on its own, this opens it up to misinterpretation—instead share it with context, easy to understand explanations around why certain decisions have been made. There’s plenty of ways you can do this, the simplest being to provide a version of the designs with easy to follow annotations, but ideally you want to actually talk people through it step by step in a design walk through.
A walk through of your designs moves away from the rather old school concept of sending designs over to clients or stakeholders for feedback like an exam paper being sent off to be marked. The actual best way to share designs and squash unwelcome subjective feedback is to present in person, walk your stakeholders through your design step by step answering any questions as you go. Obviously there’s a number of issues with this, logistically it can be difficult, it can be costly to find the time but not least of all… it can be quite frightening.
But if you’re up for the challenge there are definite rewards. Getting your clients or stakeholders together to walk them through your designs will give you the opportunity to remove even more subjectivity from feedback as you explain not only how the proposed design would work but also the reasoning behind your design decisions. Right off the bat this cuts out any questions in amongst your feedback about “How do you see component X working?” or “Why have you opted to use color Y here?”.
Getting everyone to attend a walk-through can feel like herding cats
Obviously design walk-throughs no longer need to be done face to face either, there are plenty of amazing tools out there to help you walk a client through design remotely. But the most useful tool in this scenario is you as the designer explaining your design decisions and answering questions—sharing your enthusiasm.
Getting everyone to attend a walk-through can feel like herding cats sometimes, getting all your stakeholders in one place at one time is certainly tricky but it’s worth persevering because it helps you out in another key area where subjective feedback often creeps in.
4. The Curse of Contradictory Feedback
This occurs when stakeholder no.1 loves the new header image but stakeholder no.2 hates it. Before you know it you’re playing stakeholder top trumps deciding who is more important and who you should to listen to. If you do find yourself in this situation is can be useful to ask your client or internal stakeholders for a single point of contact through whom any and all feedback is filtered (leaving it to them to have to battle to decide who’s top dog).
Another great way to keep people away from contradictory feedback is to be very upfront and honest around the number of amends that are available or the time impact of unnecessary feedback. This may feel uncomfortable to some but believe me its infinitely better in the long run to be honest and direct early on rather than let people down later after you’ve received 8 rounds of subjective feedback that’s delayed your project and pushed you way way over budget.
5. Too Late it’s Happened…
If after all this you still find yourself on the receiving end of some subjective feedback that you just don’t know how to proceed with with (maybe such classics as “Can you make it pop?”, “Can this page look more exciting please?”, “I’m just not sure about these colors”) don’t despair. A great way to bring your client back on track at this point is to politely ask them to send you some links to sites they’ve seen that do ‘pop’ or do look ‘exciting’. You’ll be surprised how often this works and a client will send you a couple of links to similar sites and you can decipher their meaning and implement something that… ‘pops’ 🙂
Some Key Things to Try
Be specific not general in what you ask for in feedback
Limit the number of people you ask for feedback
Walk through your design with stakeholders to give it context
Limit the number of rounds of feedback available
Ask for feedback to come through a single point of contact
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Hey everyone! It’s February, and you know what that means: Hallmark executives get bonuses! Also, people make a special effort to show love and affection to those they care about, which is cool too.
The theme this month is minimalism and motion designer portfolios, pretty much. Enjoy.
Note: I’m judging these sites by how good they look to me. If they’re creative and original, or classic but really well-done, it’s all good to me. Sometimes, UX and accessibility suffer. For example, many of these sites depend on JavaScript to display their content at all; this is a Bad Idea (TM), kids. If you find an idea you like and want to adapt to your own site, remember to implement it responsibly.
Christopher Kirk-Nielsen
Christopher Kirk-Nielsen is a WDD reader who sent in his own site for review, and oh my God I think he’s been listening! You see, he is a front-end dev / motion designer. Typically, sites built by motion designers tend to suffer in the usability and accessibility department.
In this case, however, the site looks good. It looks original. It appeals to the love of the ’80s aesthetic. And so far, I can’t get the thing to break without going back to much older browsers. Even without JavaScript, everything has a fallback.
Less+More
Next up, Less+More is perhaps the very embodiment of the “white space and thick heading type” school of design. It has big type. It has big images. It has… a lightly-animated Venn diagram? Okay, I like that.
No prizes for originality, but it looks good.
Marina Rachello
Every time I see a site so brazenly colorful as Marina Rachello’s portfolio, I always wonder if my tendency toward monochromatic palettes is wrong somehow. While some of the bolder tones don’t contrast too well with the black text, it must feel freeing to just go nuts with the colors and shapes.
The only change I’d make (besides fixing the potential contrast issue) would be to make the background an SVG rather than a PNG.
Antoni
Antoni brings us another videographer’s portfolio that goes all in on the motion design. It’s got a visually pleasing combination of background video, and simple, solid minimalism that would just scream “professional” if it weren’t so darned professional.
Nikos Pandazaras
Nikos Pandazaras’ portfolio is as artsy as his photography, which is par for photographers’ websites these days. You have the minimalism, the somewhat unconventional layout, and even rather artsy animation. The whole thing really fits the theme.
Dow Smith
Dow Smith adheres to the trend of ever-more-minimalist sites, with the big, thin text, and the love of literal white space. Tons of it.
There’s also a fair bit of distracting animation, but I actually rather like the way it’s been used. Each portfolio piece is presented as a short video (embedded with HTML5) that shows how a user is expected to interact with the site. It shows how they work, not just how they look.
Prollective
Prollective’s website is minimalist and professional, but isn’t afraid to preen a bit. Gradients and bright colors haven’t looked this good since people kept mistaking Web 2.0 for an aesthetic trend. Despite relying far more on type than it does on imagery, this site still feels vibrant.
Blue Productions
Blue Productions properly commits to their theme by, well, using a whole lot of blue. Video is what they’re all about, so expect a fair bit of background video, and stills from their work. I particularly appreciate the cinematic presentation for all of their work.
galgo.studio
galgo.studio’s style of minimalism is bound to remind you at least a little bit of Google. They’ve worked with Google on at least one project, so that sounds about right. It’s clean, it’s smooth, it has that thin text you see on pretty much every Google site now. Some small usability issues on the home page aside, it’s a pleasure to browse.
Julie Bonnemoy
Julie Bonnemoy’s portfolio hits you with some rather chaotic lava lamp effects before revealing a classy layout that revels in its asymmetry and imagery in equal measure. I feel like this is one of those sites that is perhaps a bit over-animated. Even so, when it calms down a bit, it’s just plain beautiful to look at.
Dinner for Five
Mitsugu Takahashi’s portfolio is elegant. I don’t mean that it uses fancy type (well, it does), or that it uses imagery to project a high-class brand (it does that, too). Those are just surface level indications of a deeper understanding of the way something elegant is supposed to feel.
Page loader aside, the site feels graceful, pleasant, and stylish as you could wish for. It’s almost a miracle that only one of the featured projects has anything to do with fancy weddings. It just hits all of the right notes.
Jermaine Craig
Jermaine Craig makes a bold and risky move by hitting users right in the eye-sockets with a wall of text. The site as a whole seems to be a bit of a work in progress, but it’s already eye-catching enough for this list.
Paper Tiger
Paper Tiger is your classic minimalism that’s had few paint-filled balloons thrown at it. The people at Paper Tiger are apparently good at throwing things, though, as the use of color doesn’t overwhelm the rest of the design at all. It just takes an already-solid design and makes it stand out a bit more.
James Merrell Architects
I’m not sure why architects love the PowerPoint-style site so much, but James Merrell Architects is a fine example of the form. Even their blog is part presentation, and part print publication. The cool thing is that CSS (and JS) has come far enough to make sites like this reasonably usable, and even pretty.
Even though building sites this way goes against my personal preferences — and even though there’s no point in hiding the navigation behind a hamburger menu on the desktop — I have to admit that it just looks good.
Kickpush
It’s one heck of a power move for a company that makes mobile apps (and occasionally websites) to state that they don’t even like the Internet. And yet, Kickpush has done just that. Of course, they also call London “sunny” which is exactly how you know they’re kidding. That brashness permeates the site’s entire aesthetic and experience.
MoreSleep
MoreSleep is not just a good idea, it’s also a design studio. This one has gone for that holy grail of alternative aesthetics: the horizontal layout. Well, on their home page anyway.
Nathan Young
Nathan Young has brought us a multiple-slideshow portfolio for our enjoyment. This sort of portfolio is actually growing on me a bit, though I’d personally try for pure CSS slideshows.
Jack Davidson
Jack Davidson’s portfolio makes absolutely sure that you will read the title of every project by replacing your cursor with said title. Don’t worry, it goes back to the regular pointer as soon as you mouse over the navigation, so it remains useful.
The site is interesting, but I want to dock it a few points for using a “screen saver”. I’m getting a bit annoyed with those. At least this one is a slideshow of his work, so it’s still kind of useful.
Amateur.rocks
Okay, a thousand websites have done the “it’s all text until you hover on a project name” thing. I’d just like to point at amateur.rocks to say, “They did it right.”
See how the images are kept from overlapping the title of the project you’re previewing? See how they don’t have to worry about text contrast like that? That’s the right way to do it.
Giovanna Silva
Giovanna Silva has taken the unconventional route of allowing people to make their own collages (sort of) with her portfolio. Click on a country/location, then start clicking away to see every picture in the project.
After you’ve exhausted the stack of photos, you can see them all again in a more conventional layout. The rest of the site is a bit more conventional, too, but looks good.
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Writing an easing function; a slightly interesting story
David Gilbertson shares his experience on creating a tiny library for smoothly moving elements.
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Free Font: Highlander
A beautiful marker script font by Kavoon.
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SVG Backgrounds
Some nice customizable SVG patterns and background designs for your websites
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Yo!
A new weekly YouTube show about design and development. By Rob Hope.
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Witeboard
A real-time, cross-platform drawing app for collaborating with others.
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Maybe don’t globally-install that Node.js package
Jake Wilson encourages everybody to consider the downsides of globally installing random Node.js packages and takes a look at some alternatives.
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Keep webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance
In case you missed it: Rowan Oulton’s guide for keeping webpack fast.
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Converting Shaders from Shadertoy to ThreeJS
Dirk Krause shows how to transfer Shaders from Shadertoy to ThreeJS.
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ESNext Proposal: The Pipeline Operator
A proposal for adding the simple-but-useful pipeline operator to JavaScript
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Free Font: Silent Scream
Andreas Leonidou designed this great display font.
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Only CSS: Infinite Steps
Yusuke Nakaya created this mesmerizing demo of an infinite staircase.
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Using Conic Gradients and CSS Variables to Create a Doughnut Chart Output for a Range Input
A great technique for creating doughnut shaped charts. By Ana Tudor.
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Web Programming with Python and JavaScript
Learn about the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Flask, Django, and Bootstrap.
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Basin
Basin takes the hassle out of creating form backends.
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Build a Download Button Full of Micro Interactions
A tutorial by Luis Manuel where you will learn how to pull off some interesting micro interactions on a button.
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This alter world
Gerard Ferrandez created this magical demo.
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Awesome Code Review
An “Awesome” list of code review resources including articles, papers, tools, and so on.
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Here’s how Google Chrome’s new ad blocker works
Learn about how Google Chrome will block every ad on websites that are not compliant with the Better Ads Standards by default. By Daniel Aleksandersen.
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An Intuitive Explanation of using Poisson Blending for Seamless Copy-and-Paste of Images
Learn about the image processing technique called “Poisson Blending” in this article. By Eric Arnebäck.
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Family fun with deepfakes. Or how I got my wife onto the Tonight Show
Sven Charleer explains how the deepfakes app algorithm works in a nutshell.
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Outdoors Template
An implementation of Gil Huybrecht’s “Outdoors” design project powered by layered CSS grids.
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