Web Design: Mock Tools

Friday, August 18, 2017

Mock Tools

Party Animate

Front-end

First up, “SVG can do THAT?!” [slides] will show you things that SVG can do, including “that?!”

A guide to performant web animations [blog.algolia].

React animations in depth [medium/react-native-training].

Vim and Vigor

Back-end/programming

FaceNet [github/zixia] is a TensorFlow-backed FaceNet implementation for Node.

A new V8 is coming, so Node performance is changing [medium/the-node-js-collection].

Why Vim is still great [medium.freecodecamp].

How to master your API workflow using Postman [sitepoint].

Mock Tools

Design/UX/product

Five tools for generating great product mock-ups [sitepoint].

How to copywrite right [uxplanet].

An intro to Figma [viget].

Sketch for Designers [sketch.fordesignrs] has all the Sketch resources you’ll ever need.

The Itchy and Scratch Show

News/business

Surprise! The Uber lawsuit is getting messy, as Travis Kalanick files court docs that suggest he was ambushed by Benchmark [buzzfeed].

Android users are getting a new version of the Google app, and it looks very Material [arstechnica].

Scienticians have explained what causes itching [motherboard.vice]. Trigger warming: discussion of eczema and poison oak in this one.

Working from home doesn’t work [wired]. “Says you,” I retort, still wearing pajamas at 3pm.

Future-proofing

Everything else

Superhuman [producthunt] looks like a nice email platform, if email is something you receive (a long-shot!).

A timeline of the far future [kottke]. Lots of good things on the horizon, including the Andromeda Galaxy colliding with the Milky Way, and the Universe’s expansion causing “all galaxies beyond the Milky Way’s Local Group to disappear beyond the cosmic light horizon, removing them from the observable universe.” Looking forward to it!

This mod makes Goldeneye different every time you play [motherboard.vice]. I played Goldeneye again last week (it was my bachelor party) (I know, I’m awesome/a nerd) and it wasn’t that different - I was still very, very good at it.

Finally, PENGUIN CAMS [motherboard.vice]. No further description necessary.

There's Versioning for Friday, and the week. I'll be back next week. I don't know about you, but I'll be spending the weekend both contemplating the futility of life in a universe that will ultimately decay without me, and marvelling at how amazing penguins are. In a way, the two activities are closely related. Back in your inbox Monday!