Weekly News for Designers (N.244)

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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

Shoelace – A visual Bootstrap 3 grid builder.
Shoelace - A visual Bootstrap 3 grid builder

Papa Parse – A powerful CSV (delimited text) parser that gracefully handles large files and malformed input.
Papa Parse - A powerful CSV (delimited text) parser that gracefully handles large files and malformed input

Waves – A library of click effects inspired by Google Material Design.
Waves - A library of click effects inspired by Google Material Design

Brickapic – A cool app for turning your profile image into a LEGO brick mosaic.
Brickapic - A cool app for turning your profile image into a LEGO brick mosaic

Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0.
Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0

Learning Resources & Tutorials

Automating CSS animations with Sass by Hugo Giraudel.
Automating CSS animations with Sass by Hugo Giraudel

Creating a full width responsive tiled menu with CSS by Nick Salloum.
Creating a full width responsive tiled menu with CSS

An indepth CSS transitions, transforms and animation tutorial by Rich Bradshaw.
An indepth CSS transitions, transforms and animation tutorial

How David Walsh prevented WordPress comment spam.
prevented WordPress comment spam

Moving beyond the responsive web to the adaptive web by Aaron T. Grogg.
Moving beyond the responsive web to the adaptive web

Steven Bradley asks: Why Do So Many Responsive Sites Look The Same?
Why Do So Many Responsive Sites Look The Same

Using Github for project management by Chris Wallace.
Using Github for project management

An introduction to Apple's Swift language by Michael Musallam.
An introduction to Apple's Swift language

The 10 commandments of documentation by Jason Mark.
The 10 commandments of documentation

18 surprises from reading jQuery's source code by David Aragon.
18 surprises from reading jQuery's source code

Free UI Resources

iOS7 iPhone free mockup template (AI).
iOS7 iPhone free mockup template

iOS8 free GUI template (PSD)
iOS8 free GUI template

flat.icns – A flat icon set for OS X.
flat.icns - A flat icon set for OS X

The free web interface icon set (370 Icons, SVG & AI).
The free web interface icon set

Google's free Noto fonts, with the aim of supporting all the world’s languages.
Google's free Noto fonts, with the aim of supporting all the world’s languages

Some Inspiration

Memorable World Cup Moments Illustration Series by Dipanjan Biswas.
Memorable World Cup Moments Illustration Series

…and finally…

The first photoshopped image from 1987.
The first photoshopped image from 1987