Tag: Github

Decolonizing typography: creating a font for Afrikan writing systems

The driving force behind my relentless mission to create digital fonts for Afrikan writing systems, one letter at a time. In this case study I’ll walk you through the process of designing a font for the Bassa Vah Alphabet. The name ‘Bassa’ and a Bassa proverb. Background Bassa language is spoken by about 600 000 Bassa… Continue reading Decolonizing typography: creating a font for Afrikan writing systems

22 Exciting New Tools For Designers, June 2021

This month’s new tools and resources collection is a mixed bag of elements for designers and developers. From fun little divots to tools that can speed up development, you are sure to find something usable here. Here’s what new for designers this month: June’s Top Picks Codewell Codewell is a service to help you learn,… Continue reading 22 Exciting New Tools For Designers, June 2021

Unlock Your Team’s Potential With Teamstack

Teamstack is a password manager for your whole team. Running in the cloud it allows you to manage your tools and resources, and seamlessly scale your teams’ access, from a single, easy-to-use control panel. Teamstack is powerful, and secure with multi-factor authentication, single sign-in, SAML and form-based authentication. It works with desktop and mobile apps,… Continue reading Unlock Your Team’s Potential With Teamstack

10 ways to help Accessibility at Conferences as a speaker

November 26, 2019 Hey friends! Wedding planning is starting to heat up with five months left to go. I was pretty ambitious about my writing schedule when I started my second year of blogging. I figured I had so much more free time on my hands versus what I had six months ago. But I… Continue reading 10 ways to help Accessibility at Conferences as a speaker

9 Best Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency Plugins For WordPress

Cryptocurrency has changed the vertical of currencies with maximum impact. Specifically, Bitcoin has managed to garner all the attention and market favoritism in recent times. Providing a new edge to currency exchange, Cryptocurrency is no more a hit and miss for the experts. With a lot of people getting on board with the idea of… Continue reading 9 Best Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency Plugins For WordPress

How to Customize Bootstrap’s Sass Files With Grunt

Today, we’ll learn how to customize Bootstrap 4’s Sass files with Grunt.  Instead of Grunt, we could just as easily use another task runner like Gulp, webpack, or npm scripts. Regardless of the build tool the process of customizing Bootstrap’s source Sass files will be the same. Note: This tutorial assumes you have some familiarity with Bootstrap 4, Sass, and build tools.… Continue reading How to Customize Bootstrap’s Sass Files With Grunt

Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)

In this tutorial we’re going to take a bunch of ordinary thumbnail links and turn them into a responsive CSS grid gallery with a blurred hover effect. We’ll also use a great CSS trick to make sure touch screen users don’t miss out! Here’s what we’ll be creating: A Little Background Recently, Rachel McCollin wrote a… Continue reading Create a CSS Grid Image Gallery (With Blur Effect and Interaction Media Queries)

Creative Splash Transition with CSS and SVG ― Scotch

SVG path’s are really awesome! And its versatility is what makes them even more impressive and useful for creating engaging animations. In this tutorial we’ll be creating an eye catching animation, just using SVG paths and CSS transitions. To make things easier, we will also be using Pug and Sass, HTML and CSS preprocessors respectively.… Continue reading Creative Splash Transition with CSS and SVG ― Scotch

Element: A desktop component UI library

Element is a complete and minimal framework including many useful UI components to quickly build websites and apps. The toolkit is based on Vue.js and provides all the basic elements you may need when creating a complex product (grid system, forms, navigation, notices, dialogs and more). Project page   View on Github

Google’s Material Design UI Components

Some time after the release of Material Design as a prototyping tool for designers, Google has just launched a new project called Material Components, a set of modular and customizable UI components for creating iOS, Android, and Web apps. The Material Components set is now available for download on Github to allow developers of iOS and Web apps as well… Continue reading Google’s Material Design UI Components

Datedropper 3.0: A powerful jQuery UI datepicker

Thought we have already talked about datedropper JQuery plugin in a previous post, we can’t help but to do it again since version 3.0 has just been launched. The new version have been completely redesigned as well as it introduces new amazing features (e.g. translate and large modes) for creating beautiful date picker calendars. That’s definitely one of the… Continue reading Datedropper 3.0: A powerful jQuery UI datepicker

RichCSS – Beautiful, DRY, Clean and Reusable CSS

Posted · Category: Framework, MIT License RichCSS is an Object Oriented CSS framework providing default structures for reusable css elements. It’s built around an Architectural Style that organizes your code in a way that allows: reusability of your css, versioning, the use of css plugins and the ease of using it. RichCSS is bringing convention… Continue reading RichCSS – Beautiful, DRY, Clean and Reusable CSS

Weekly Inspiration: Discoverability and Feedback

Recently Vox, together with 99% Invisible, produced a brilliant short film about a door on the tenth floor of the Vox Media office. Besides many other doors, it featured Don Norman: design icon and celebrated author of The Design of Everyday Things. The purpose of the film was to highlight the usability of products and systems, whittling down… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Discoverability and Feedback