Posts tagged design

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Tufte CSS

Magic css library to make your stuff look as good as Tufte

Everything I know about good system design

I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are…

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Simple.css is a classless CSS template that allows you to make a good looking website really quickly. - kevquirk/simple.css

Visual design rules you can safely follow every time

I love rules of thumb. Here are a set of them for graphic or visual design. I am not a designer but I fancy myself being to tell better design from worse. Anyway, this is a good tool for those of us who are wannabee designers

The Case for Models | Concerning Quality

An interesting idea, model based testing. The aurhor says: “Again, I’m writing about models because I have a deep desire to keep software minimal. While I don’t think it’s wrong to simply buckle up and deal with the complexity and raw magnitude of implementations as many of us do, that’s just not the path that I find appealing intuitively.”

palette.fm

A new AI colorizer. Colorize anything from old black and white photos 📸, style your artworks 🎨, or give modern images a fresh look 🌶. It's as simple as instagram, free, and no sign-up required!

Tree views in CSS

This is really useful! Its amazing what you csn create and do with CSS - “How to create a tree view (collapsible list) using only HTML and CSS.”

CodeSee – Bring visibility to your codebase

CodeSee is the world’s first solution for Continuous Code Understanding. CodeSee helps development teams visually understand how your large-scale codebase works, document it, and collaborate continuously.

Randall Degges - Heroku and SOA

Heroku's platform was designed with services in mind. If you're building a service oriented web app, you might find this interesting.

CSS Reference

SitePoint.com - With a vast variety of web design tutorials and articles coupled with a vibrant and well informed community, SitePoint the natural place to go to grow your online business

NounProject

Noun Project features the most diverse collection of icons and stock photos ever. Download SVG and PNG. Browse over 3 million art-quality icons and photos.

Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model | Catalogue

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Bauhaus Manifesto

Small business web hosting offering additional business services such as: domain name registrations, email accounts, web services, FrontPage help, online community resources and various small business solutions.

Color Scheme Designer 3

In love with colors, since 2002. A designer tool for creating color combinations that work together well. Formerly known as Color Scheme Designer. Use the color wheel to create great color palettes.

Balsamiq

Balsamiq is the company behind Balsamiq Wireframes, the industry standard low-fidelity wireframing tool.

UI-Patterns.com

User Interface Design Pattern Library. UI patterns for web designers. See screenshot examples and learn how to do great design like the pros.

CSS doesn’t suck - Andy Bell

See previous post. I admit I haven’t built super complicated sites, but I always seem to avoid extra languages or preprocessing if at all possible.

Charts.css

From the looks of it this is a super handy library doing charts without needing JavaScript. Does it work? Don’t know yet.