Collective #593 | The Blog Pros

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Tailwind UI

Fully responsive, beautiful UI components, designed and developed by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger, the creators of Tailwind CSS.

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Open Peeps

A mix-and-match hand-drawn illustration library by Pablo Stanley.

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How does the Virtual DOM work?

An animated explainer by Sarah Drasner on how the Virtual DOM works.

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Inconsistent user-experiences with native lazy-loading images

Daniel Aleksandersen highlights the differences of implementation of native lazy loading in browsers.

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Revealing Hero Effect in CSS and JavaScript

Learn how to create a section that reveals its content when the previous element scrolls away. A tutorial by Claudia Romano.

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Heroicons

A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.

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What Does A Foldable Web Actually Mean?

A very interesting read on foldable devices and the ideas around a “foldable web”. By Frederick O’Brien.

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Drag–and–Drop: How to Design for Ease of Use

Learn how clear signifiers and feedback at all stages of the interaction make drag–and–drop discoverable and easy to use.

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Iconset

Iconset is a free SVG icon organizer and manager app for designers, developers and teams for both, macOS and Windows.

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Booklets.io

A place that collects hundreds of booklets on design, business, freelancing and more.

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Why write vanilla JS when you can just use [insert library or framework here]?

Some good points on why writing your own vanilla JS instead of using a framework can be a better option.

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Mosquito JS

A fun creation by Tim Holman: an annoying mosquito noise, generated with JavaScript.

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Buttono

A flexible Sass mixin for creating BEM-style buttons. By Hasan Aydo?du.

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Your website probably has a memory leak

Memory leaks are common in Single Page Apps and this article will show you how to find and fix them.

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The Tuner

Eric Karjaluoto has a very distinct view on the role of the designer. He writes: “It’s hard to produce suitable work when you think about design as a form of expression.”

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