Weekly News for Designers (N.248)

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

Tumblr-Style Loading Cogs animated with CSS and SVG icons.

Responsive Transactional HTML Email Templates from MailGun.

PowerToCSS is a versatile and lightweight CSS Framework.

jquery.matchHeight is a more robust equal heights plugin.

Shrthnd is a handy tool that converts CSS properties into shorthand.

Learning Resources & Tutorials

The WordPress Database Demystified by Shaumik Daityari.

A Complete Guide to Grid by Chris Coyier.

10 Xcode Plugins for iOS Development by Bart Jacobs.

Making a Case for Animations and Interactivity by Sara Sundqvist.

Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools by Andi Smith.

HTML5 Prefetch by Luis Vieira.

Designer's Guide to DPI by Sebastien Gabriel.

9 Nightmare Clients and How You Can Avoid Them by Martin Gittins.

CSS Guidelines – High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS by Harry Roberts.

Free UI Resources

Freebie: iOS 7 Illustrator Vector UI Kit (AI).

Freebie: Eye Candy UI Kit XL (PSD).

Freebie: Mobile UI Blueprint (PSD).

Freebie: 8 Photorealistic Stationery Mockups (PSD).

Some Inspiration

20 Examples of Fullscreen Responsive Menus.

…and finally…

Microsoft has Relaunched Its Original 1994 Site On The Web.