Jake Rocheleau

Jake is a writer and designer with over 10 years experience working on the web. He writes about user experience design and cool resources for designers

Latest posts

Mozilla Brick: Free UI Components Library for Web Apps

A new kind of frontend web framework, Mozilla Brick is a library of UI components that can be used like bricks to create amazing UI designs.

Create Baseline Grids on the Web Using Sassline

A major part of online content is text-based, but people wont be interested in reading the text on your site unless the typography is well designed. Y…

Auto-Generate Table of Contents Using Tocbot

Lengthier content is becoming the norm with a stronger reception from Google and as well as the users. But it can get a bit tiring to read the long-fo…

Feather Icons – A Beautiful, Minimalist and Free Icons Set

If you search around the web you’ll find tons of free icon sets tailor made for the web. These are incredibly useful for all types of websites becau…

View & Share Coding Screencasts with Scrimba

Free YouTube videos offer plenty of tutorials on web development for beginners. But screencasts have become even more popular since you can quickly re…

Boost Trust In Your Design: Tips For Adding Trustworthy Elements

This article was first published on: Jun 12, 2012. What if you could see who among your friends ‘Like’d which of the pages that come out on the re…

Style Your Own Checkbox Animation Effects with Checkbox.css

In a recent post, I covered a fun animation library for custom radio buttons, powered by CSS. That free library was released by 720kb and quickly saw …

ColorHexa is Your Ultimate Color Encyclopedia

Color is one of the most important features of any interface. Picking a great color scheme is tough but as you work with colors more you’ll pick up …

Test Your Command Line Knowledge with the CMD Challenge

We’ve discussed the importance of learning the command line and it’s more important now than ever before. But, it’s also a difficult subject to …

Free CSS Checkbox Styles: Choose From Dozens With Our Library

Looking for custom checkbox UI styles for your website? Take a peek at the CSS Checkbox Library hosted for free on GitHub. This massive library suppor…

Spy on Any Website’s Tech Stack with SiteStacks

Note: SiteStacks is no longer available. Ever wanted to learn which programming language or CMS powers your favorite website? Well, SiteStacks has you…