Weekly News for Designers № 503

Attack of the Blob-Based Animated Backgrounds in Web Design – Examples of fun, liquid-like animations that can spruce up any website.

Creating A Shopping Cart With HTML5 Web Storage – Techniques for storing user data in the browser – no server required.

Where did CSS named colours come from? – An interesting dive into the origins of CSS color names.

React Layouts – A collection of “grab-and-go” layouts you can use for your next React.js project.

Fun Ways to Help You Rediscover the Joys of Web Design – Just about every designer will go through periods where work just isn’t fun. Here are some ways to get it back.

CSS Guidelines – A detailed document to help you write more scalable and manageable CSS.

30 Free Photoshop Plugins for UI Designers – Don’t miss out on this great collection of time-saving tools to improve your Photoshop workflow.

The Browser Monopoly – The dangers associated with Google’s dominance of the browser market.

pagemap – Add a small “mini map” to your website that will provide users with navigational context.
pagemap

Are bad designers hiding behind the term “UX”? – A question of whether UX designers should pay more attention to visual quality.

30 Free Logo Mockup PSD Templates for Creatives – Use these free templates to create stunning logos.

SVG Artista – A browser-based drawing tool for creating SVG animations.

Code Line Daily – A simple line of code is featured and explained on, you guessed it, a daily basis.

css-fx-layout – A lightweight CSS Flexbox library that includes both classes and HTML data attributes.

CSS Can Do This… And It’s Terrifying! – Some interesting things that you can do with CSS, but probably shouldn’t.
CSS Can Do This... And It's Terrifying!

The problem with tooltips and what to do instead – Tooltip alternatives that are both more accessible and user-friendly.

Windows 95 UI Kit – A free Bootstrap-based UI kit because, who doesn’t want to it to look like 1995 again?

The 35 Best Free Presets for After Effects – Add some amazing effects to your videos with this free collection of presets.