Weekly News for Designers (N.288)

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New Resources & Tools

A useful app to help you visualize the box-model.

Hammer.JS, a Javascript library for multi-touch gestures.

Glyph, a semantic and versatile SVG icon set designed for customization.

Color Extraction Effect, a slideshow with a color palette creation effect using CSS Filters and Vibrant.js.

Product Tour, a responsive tour snippet, with a step-by-step guide.

Woofmark, a modular, progressive, and beautiful Markdown and HTML editor.

New Learning Resources

In Responsive Web Design Screen Size Is Not All.

Material Design: Why the Floating Action Button is bad UX design by Teo Yu Siang.

Material Design for Dummies by Kyle Sanders.

Creating a Future-Proof Responsive Email Without Media Queries by Nicole Merlin.

The Making Of "In Pieces" by Bryan James.

Recently Updated

50 Free Books for Web Designers & Developers.

20 Responsive Navigation jQuery Plugins.

Top 50 Free Social Media Icon Sets.

Top 50 Free Icon Fonts for Web Design.

Free GUI Resources

Freebie: 100 Lineal Sport Icons Pack (SVG and PNG).

Freebie: Nucleo – 40 Social Icons in Three Styles (AI & Sketch).

Freebie: Flat Long Shadow Multimedia Icons (AI).

The Complete Social Media Image Size Guide by Janie Kliever.

50 Free Resources for Web Designers from May 2015.

…and finally…

Making Material Design: A behind-the-scenes look at building Google's visual framework.

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