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Found Friday Vol 91

July 6, 2012

It’s Found Friday, back from the dead (or a few-week hiatus, anyway)! It feels like we should have a zombie theme this week or something. But we don’t. Instead, we have the following goodies: a new, beautiful, free responsive jQuery slider; a great article on the cost of responsive web design; a beautiful floating mug; a dual digital/Polaroid camera; and a iPhone weather app inspired by Dieter Rams. Share away!

RefineSlide

There’s no shortage of sliders out there. I don’t know what it is about them: whenever a newer, seemingly better one comes out, I have to try it. Next up to bat: RefineSlide. There’s some awesome animations happening here.

How Much Does a Responsive Web Design Cost?

How much does a responsive web design cost? It’s an unanswerable question – you need to dig in more to figure that out. Read this article to learn how to do that very thing.

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Found Friday Vol 90

May 18, 2012

It’s Friday! That means a) the weekend is near, and b) you can look forward to another volume of Found Friday – the week’s best designy finds on the web. This week we have: a Photoshop extension that purports to save your layer styles out to CSS3; a cool laser-pointer attachment for your iPhone; a collection of beautiful typography based around extinct English words; an infographic showing the most common birth dates; and a website that has a huge collection of awesomely useful stuff for web designers/freelancers. Read on!

CSSHat

This isn’t out yet, but if it works like it claims, it will be amazing. Essentially, it’s a Photoshop extension that takes your layer styles (drop shadows, gradients etc) and exports them to working CSS3 on save. That, as the kids say, would be “dope”. (via @bryanarchy)

Smart Dot

Presentations are something every designer goes through on a consistent basis. Blow ‘em away with this combo iPhone attachement/app laser pointer. Nerdy? Yes? Cool? Double yes.

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Found Friday Vol 89

May 11, 2012

We’re back this week with Found Friday Volume 89: the best designy finds o’ the week. This week we have: a new WordPress code reference site; a handy online calculator for responsive web design; a great read on the principles of user interface (UI) design; a tool for bookmarking all those cool design elements out there; and a fun panic-button light switch. Read on & share away!

QueryPosts

The WordPress Codex is awesome, but QueryPosts looks to aid WordPress developers even more with a different way to reference all the code & functions that WordPress has to offer. Worth a bookmark for sure.

RWD Calculator

Math sucks and I’m bad at it. Responsive web design requires basic math, so hopefully this calculator will help prevent us from going out of business because I can’t do basic division. Seriously though, it looks handy!

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Found Friday Vol 88

April 27, 2012

Welcome to Found Friday 88, where we share with you the best design-related finds o’ the week. This week we have: the world’s longest running invoice; a great WordPress plugin for WordPress developers; Pantone toothbrushes; the new Creative Suite CS6 branding; and a great CSS animations typography tutorial. Get to reading, and share away!

The World’s Longest Invoice

This site is mind-blowing – a running tally of unpaid invoices from creatives & freelancers all over the globe. At the time of this writing, it’s currently over $5M (via @swissmiss).

WordPress Admin Menu Editor

I’m all about using WordPress as a CMS, and making the experience enjoyable for your clients who are using the software. This plugin fits right into that area, helping you organize, hide, rename and delete the menu items in the WordPress admin.

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Found Friday Vol 87

April 20, 2012

Found Friday 87 is here, and it’s chock-full of resources and other cool stuff. We have: a bunch of limited-time free design resources; some code snippets for your WordPress functions file; how to fix Photoshop’s banding issue with gradients; a sweet modular workspace; and an article detailing the improvements to Photoshop CS6. Read on!