Yet more inspirational links and findings from Carbon’s amazing web team. Enjoy…
1) Bottled Walkman – Getting to your target market
2) Beautiful personal project by a designer on Behance. Creative use of animations, colours and illustration.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/The-End-(Is-only-the-beginning)/13626843
3) The science behind fonts (and how they make you feel). An interesting insight into how fonts (as well as layout and composition) can change how you feel about a design/website.
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/12/23/science-behind-fonts-make-feel/#!umTfF
4) A really simple plugin for styling select. Falls back to native selects (although still styled) on mobiles and is really easy to set up.
http://code.octopuscreative.com/fancyselect
5) An interesting jquery plugin which creates relationships between elements on a page which could be useful for scrolling sites or creative layouts.
http://github.hubspot.com/tether/
7) A simple browser-based app which aims to make writing easier and clearer by analysing your content and providing recommendations on how it can be improved.
http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
8) CSS3 animations:
http://www.creativebloq.com/css3/animation-with-css3-712437
8) Starting point for projects using Sass and Compass:
https://github.com/grayghostvisuals/lemanz
9) Site usability – Get a peek into your site’s usability:
http://peek.usertesting.com/
10) Get screenshots of the websites in different resolutions:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/pageres
11) Control Google Chrome on OS X from the command line:
https://github.com/prasmussen/chrome-cli
12) Mozilla Firefox doing some great work on their dev tools:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/02/css-source-map-support-network-performance-analysis-more-firefox-developer-tools-episode-29/
13) Interesting idea for some Star Wars illustrations as 80’s High School characters:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/STAR-WARS-80s-High-School/9671051
14) Cool gif animation
http://www.awwwards.com/design-inspiration/subtle-animated-gif.html
15) Macbook Pro as a bin?
http://instagram.com/p/kXnf6OKKnR/
16) Amazing UI and photo album creation
https://exposure.so/
17) 80s Instagram – What Instagram would be like if it was invented in the 80s
http://www.papermag.com/2014/02/morning_funnies_instagram_eighties.php
18) Yeoman – Addy Osmani Google engineer
http://youtu.be/1OAfGm_cI6Y
19) Website performance – Lara Swanson – Etsy
https://speakerdeck.com/lara/designing-for-performance
20) UX Myths – You don’t need the content to design a website
http://uxmyths.com/post/718187422/myth-you-dont-need-the-content-to-design-a-website
