Weekly News for Designers (N.238)

This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week.

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New Resources & Tools

FlappySwift →
Days after the introduction of Swift (see below), FullStack.io created a Flappy Bird clone using the new programming language.

CodeSnip.it →
CodeSnip is a free web-based tool for safely storing all of your precious code snippets.

Gitbanner →
Gitbanner is a small tool that generates a Git repo to allow you to show a personalized banner on your Github profile.

Zoomerang.js →
Inspired by Medium's avatar zoom effect, Zoomerang.js is a drop-in library that will allows your users to zoom in on any element on your page.

Card.js →
Card is a drop in addition to your current credit card form that creates a pure-CSS credit card (for Mastercard, Visa, Discover, and American Express), and fills in the details on the card as the user types.

Swift Programming Language →
Last week Apple introduced Swift, an innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Have you tried it yet?

Simple Sharing Buttons Generator →
This useful generator will help create basic HTML sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social networks.

50 CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools from 2014 →
In this post we have collected 50 of our favorite CSS libraries, frameworks and tools that been released this year.

43 Essential Controls for Web Applications →

Free UI Resources

Stack, a FREE Mac OS X Yosemite UI Template →

Sally Blocks GUI Kit (PSD) →

Free UI Mockup Icons (63 Icons, PSD & PNG) →

Free Behance Presentation Builder Template (PSD & Photoshop Action) →

Free Mobile Icon Set (10,000 Icons!) →

Free Apple Product Mockups (PSD) →

Uni Sans Free Font (Thin, Thin Italic, Heavy & Heavy Italic) →

Dotted World Cup Soccer Template Pack (AI & EPS) →

FREE Brazil 2014 Calendar →
Just print the wall-chart in A3, note down the scores and the points all the way to the final.

50 Web Designer Freebies from May 2014 →

Also Worth Reading

• A More Compatible, Smoother Touch →
• CSS: The Good Parts →
• Introduction To Developing Fireworks Extensions →
• Inspiration for Inline Anchor Styles →
• Keyboard Shortcuts for Pagination →
• Ditch Bootstrap →

And Finally…

Speckyboy iOS App Updated, and Android App Has Arrived →
Recently, our iOS app received a major facelift. The new, improved and revamped design of the app features a cleaner and niftier user interface as well as many new additions. Oh, and we have also just launched our Android app.