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

Get Vast Collection of Design Tools on “Sans Francisco”

It may seem like a strange name but Sans Francisco is a great resource for designers. The site curates all the best tools (free+paid) for designers, i…

Convert GitHub Files into Raw CDN Assets with RawGit

There are thousands of new projects and features on GitHub to play with. However, developers like to move fast and it’s annoying to download all the…

Discover Design Freebies Daily With This Chrome Extension

Designers release tons of freebies online every month, including iconsets, UI kits, mockups, vector graphics, and so much more. Piktab is a free Chrom…

Panda 5 is The Smart News Reader Designers & Developers Will Love

Old-school RSS readers are still popular because they let people curate the stuff they like, all in one place. Panda Reader has the same idea but take…

Effortlessly Create CHMOD Commands With Our Calculator

Every web server has a form of CHMOD which stands for change mode. It lets you change the permissions of any given folder/file, based on each user in …

Parallax Scrolling Made Easy With StickyStack.js

Parallax effects grab attention fast. These effects keep certain backgrounds in view while scrolling down the page. You’ll find parallax scrolling o…

How to Test WordPress Plugins Without Installing It

Everyone using WordPress knows about the mountain of plugins available online for free. There are so many out there it can be tough knowing what to tr…

Create Device Mockups in Browser with DeviceMock

You can find tons of free device mockups online, ranging from PSDs to Sketch files. But, what if you could quickly build device mockups on-the-fly in …

Sketch App Sources: Your Final Stop for Sketch Freebies & Tutorials

There’s no denying that Sketch has caught on like wildfire. It’s a lot cheaper than all the Adobe software, plus it was made specifically for digi…

Create Single-Element Spinners and Loaders with CSSPIN

You can build some amazing things with CSS3, from custom input fields to dropdowns and even vector graphics. These techniques are quickly overtaking J…

Compare Websites Loading Speed (Side-by-Side) with This Tool

It’s no secret that a website’s load time is a huge factor in usability. This also affects your site’s Google rankings, so your page speed is de…

Create Beautiful Animated Particles with This Javascript Library

There are tons of free animation libraries all with different effects and specialties. But, the new Particles.js library goes a totally new direction …