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

Create Your Own URL Shortener with Polr

Mainstream URL shorteners like Bit.ly are great but hard to customize. Their APIs can be limiting, and while they are perfect for most smaller project…

UmbrellaJS is Your Alternative to jQuery

The open source jQuery library has dominated web development for years. It’s still one of the most trusted resources for JavaScript, but there’s a…

Mix Ajax Into HTML with Intercooler.js

It’s never been easier to add Ajax to any website. In fact it’s pretty common to build entire websites based around Ajax requests called Single-Pa…

React MDL Merges React with Material Design Lite

Google recently put out a library called Material Design Lite which is a frontend resource for developers. It automatically styles any website using t…

Lory Carousel Slider Features CSS Animation & Touch Support

Out of all the carousel plugins online I have to tip my hat to Lory. It’s such a simple concept but it’s easily one of the most powerful sliders o…

Create Fully Animated Widgets with Shift.css

Note: Shift.css is now unavailable. Web animation offers a way to grab people’s attention and draw them further into a website. There are lots of to…

Pause & Loop CSS Animations with WAIT! Animate

There’s a lot you can do with pure CSS animation, but pausing & looping an animation is not possible with the current W3 spec. But with a free tool …

Tuesday.css is The Hottest Animation Library Right Now

By now you should already be familiar with Animate.css as the primary animation library among web designers. But there’s a new kid on the block name…

Create Beautiful Gradient Transitions with Granim.js

Web design is full of beauty and pleasing interface design. Some features are functional while others are just for show. Gradient transitions are sole…

Web Design Trends for 2017

Another year has passed and designers are looking ahead towards the future. Many promising design trends are bound to erupt in 2017. Last year I cover…

GitHub Page With Non-JS Alternatives for Common UI Features

Discover how to build a website without JavaScript. Learn the benefits and limitations of going script-free. Improve your web development skills today…