Weekly News for Designers (N.239)

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

ScrollMe is a lightweight jQuery plugin that will allow you to add simple scrolling effects to web pages. It can scale, rotate and change the opacity of elements.

Dimensions Toolkit Chrome Extension is a useful and feature-rich Chrome extension that allows you easily test responsive sites.

Boba.js, with support for the old ga.js library as well as the new analytics.js library, is a small JavaScript library that makes working with Google Analytics very easy.

Response-for-Brackets, as the name suggests, is a useful, although tricky to install, responsive design tool extension for Adobe's open source editor Brackets.

Covervid is a simple jQuery plugin that will allow you to make your HTML5 video behave like a background image.

Outdated Browser is a time-saving tool for developers that detects outdated browsers and recommends users to upgrade to a new version.

Type Sample is a Chrome Extension/bookmarklet for identifying and sampling webfonts.

btns.css is a lightweight CSS library for building a variey of beautiful and responsive buttons.

LearnSwift.tips is a curated list of tutorials, code samples and references to help you learn Apple's new programming language.

Bootsketch is a Bootstrap 3 theme built specifically for wireframing. It provides a 'sketch' render to remove all "design feel".

Filament is a collection of free social apps you can easily install on your site.

Web Design Learning & Tutorials

Building a Responsive SVG Map by Tian Yuan.

Sassy Z-Index Management For Complex Layouts by Jackie Balzer.

Create a Masked Background Effect With CSS by Kezz Bracey.

Minimalist Newsletter Subscription Form Tutorial by Osvaldas Valutis.

How to Create a Tiled Background Slideshow by Mary Lou.

Free UI Resources

100 free icons in PSD, AI and Webfont formats by Piotr Makarewicz.

Some Inspiration

Over the last couple of years Peter Stults has contributed an alternative time and place movie poster to the print magazine SoFilm, here are his posters.

The History of Apple.com's Nav Bar in CSS.

Also Worth Reading

• Design Decision Guidelines: Trendability vs. Usability
• Improving the Hamburger Button
• Share: The Icon No One Agrees On
• Apple and Responsive Design
• Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property