The best in digital design techniques, explained
Beginner 5:07
Sometimes it'd be nice to have an app instead of a browser tab for a web service, but that site may not have a native Mac or Windows app. Using Nativefier command line tool, we can make our own app in just a few minutes!
Beginner 2:58
On the Friends With Benefits site, there's a great effect where each section sticks to the top of the page and other sections overlap it in a parallax style. In this tutorial, we talk about how it was achieved.
Intermediate 17:39
When we're working with CSS and Javascript, sometimes we want to be able to add smooth movements that feel more natural. In this tutorial, we talk about how to rethink your Javascript code to create a weighted speed so any moving object feels a lot more natural and real
Intermediate 18:34
In the ideology.press site, there's a floating 3d book that rotates and follows your mouse around the page. Using six flat images, we talk about how to turn those images into a digital interactive cube.
Beginner 11:06
On the Ways Of Knowing Cities site, there's a clever cut out style effect where the background shows through text. We talk how about to make your own similar effect, firstly using a normal design program, then by using CSS's screen blend mode.
Beginner 14:50
Kanye's new album Ye was announced recently alongside a site that let you to make your own version of the album cover. In the past, my friend Simon and I made two unofficial album art generators that received several million views and mainstream press coverage. They took us 30 minutes to make each. I'll show you how we made The Life of Pablol, If You're Typing This It's Too Late and how to make your own Yenerator.
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Intermediate 17:05
On the new showcase for Airbnb's new typeface, Cereal, there's a great way that they show off the different sizes and weights of the face by making individual letters respond to mouse movements. We talk about how to achieve this effect (and more) using a few lines of Javascript and a little math.
Intermediate 25:39
In this tutorial, I talk about how to build a Twitter bot, based on the @newsycombinator bot, that scrapes content from the web and posts on Twitter hourly. We write a Ruby script which we get on to hosting service Heroku and set up to run automatically once an hour.
Beginner 15:24
On the Bao London site, there's a lovely design effect of the screen split in two as you scroll with one side staying in place. Today, we build a whole site from scratch using a similar technique.
Beginner 20:55
One popular digital design technique at the moment is the ability to click on a site to add a new image – in this tutorial we talk about how to let users click to reveal a new image wherever the mouse is
Beginner 8:24
On the beautiful concreterep.com site, there's lots of clever design techniques that they use through the site. We take apart two: a floating logo and captions that sticky to photo overlays. Both effects use CSS only and are both positioning tricks.
One of the most requested tutorials we've had is about page transitions. There's plenty of Javascript libraries that do them but how can you roll your own? We show you!
Intermediate 12:44
In this tutorial, we talk about how to work Javascript's date and time features to make the hands of an analog clock.
Intermediate 14:30
In this tutorial, we talk about how to make your own SVG images from scratch using HTML and CSS and then use Javascript to animate the contents of your image
Beginner 8:19
In this tutorial we look at how to build the image lazy loading effect used on the Teenage Engineering site. We'll start with a lo-res pixelated image before replacing it with the full-res version.
Beginner 5:19
On webpages like the Animade portfolio, they're using an effect where, instead of using an animated GIF, they're using a video that plays when your mouse goes over it, and pauses when your mouse moves away. This play and pause effect is pretty simple to add into any site.
Beginner 7:23
Today, we talk about how to add the graphic design technique of having text around the edges of your page. Using a quick rotation and setting the origin for the rotation, we can place text as we want it quickly and easily.
Intermediate 12:43
In the final part of our mini-series, we talk about how we edit a post using Rails's edit and update actions and then add a way to delete the posts if needed.
Intermediate 14:15
In part 4 of 5 of our series, we talk about how to get your Rails code from just being on your computer to being hosted by Heroku where everyone in the world can view your work. We talk about how to use Git to deploy our code and making your code's configuration safe with secrets.
Intermediate 9:24
In part 3 of our five part series, we add styling to our Venue site using Sass (think CSS but upgraded!) and talk about Rails's application layouts.
Intermediate 13:49
For part 2 of our five-part series, we add image uploads with resizing to our site using Carrierwave (a Ruby 'gem', a.k.a. a library for adding functionality) and a place to store the images, Amazon S3
Intermediate 25:58
In this 5-part series, we talk about how to make an image bookmarking web application using Ruby on Rails, Sass, Git, Amazon S3 and Heroku. If you've ever wanted to make your own custom web software, this is the series for you.
Beginner 19:41
A few sites let you draw all over them but how? We talk about how to use the <canvas> tag and Javascript together to let your visitors draw all over your site!
Beginner 12:12
On the On The Rocks Magazine site, there's a great slideshow effect which changes slide depending on how far across the slideshow your mouse is. We talk about how it's done with a tiny bit of CSS and Javascript
Intermediate 7:10
In this follow up video, we talk about how to use a little bit of mathematics to temper your visual effects to make them more smooth.
Beginner 9:11
The new site by Lionel Durimel has a great visual effect where if you scroll up and down the page, the content will slightly skew to add a new motion to it. We talk about how to achieve this effect.
Beginner 5:59
In this follow-up video, we talk about how to add a card flip on hover to see the 'back-side' of a tag – it's in fact two layers with one rotated away from our users!
Beginner 11:20
Using CSS's transform and perspective rules, we can make a moving card effect that follows the cursor around the page. When we move left and right, twist around the y-axis and when we move up and down, twist around the x-axis!
Beginner 10:53
In our series of videos on the new CSS Grid layout, we talk about how to make a grid with overlapping images in a modern fashion portfolio.
Beginner 8:01
A brand new CSS layout system called CSS Grid is slowly being introduced to the web. It's a two-directional layout system, unlike most other layouts like flexbox and floats. In the first part of a series, we explore the power of CSS Grid.
Beginner 13:27
In a previous video, we talked about how to make arrows point at your mouse cursor. This time, we flip it around and make your cursor an arrow that points to a particular spot on the page!
Beginner 4:28
Today, Lawrence talks about how to make a spotlight effect using CSS based on the Victorian Opera new website.
In this video, we add a simple loader to a site using a full-screen fixed-positioned tag, CSS animation and a splash of Javascript
Beginner 10:25
We explain how to make design elements fade in and out based on the current scroll position of the page, as seen on the Sweet Studio website
Beginner 15:05
In this video, we talk about how to make arrows rotate to point at the mouse cursor
Beginner 4:38
On Rik's website, the background of the whole page rotates very subtly. We can't do this with Javascript as gradients are background images so we show you how to fake it with Javascript.
Beginner 17:29
This week, we look at how to make other parts of the page change on hover. With CSS we can only change the tag or inside the tag on hover, but with a bit of Javascript, we can change completely different parts of the page.
Beginner 7:46
The new site from Playground Paris has a really nice hover effect on its text. We wanted to show how it was done.
Beginner 11:08
The revealing footer effect is seen on quite a few websites, such as Pitchfork. It's an easy technique to add to your own site using CSS's fixed positioning.
Beginner 16:09
A few people have heard of Git and Github but don't really know how they work and what they do. Lawrence and Rik go over an introduction to both of them.
Beginner 8:02
On the Firewatch website, there's a lot of layers that scroll at different speeds to make a beautiful effect – this process is called the parallax effect and we wanted to go into some details about it.
Beginner 6:54
Our friends at creative agency HAWRAF launched their new site recently. We wanted to show how the side scrolling effect they're using works.
Beginner 9:42
A few people have asked how do we make the logo move on our site. It's not a special Javascript thing but instead using CSS and one long image strip.
Beginner 7:04
This week, freelance copywriter Joe Coleman launched his new site called Get Coleman. We talk about how it was made and how to make your own
New Zealand font foundry Klim Type Foundry released a site for their new fonts, Untitled Sans and Untitled Serif. We show you how to make the launch site.
Beginner 9:56
On the last video, we spoke about how to make the Barron Webster site, this time we show you how to make it not with images, but with text.
Beginner 12:47
Today, we talk about how to use "mousemove" in Javascript to make the effect as seen on Barron Webster's site
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