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 Dynamic Profile Photos In Mockups

When you’re designing a mockup, you want to focus on the interface first and less on the aesthetics. The same holds true for wireframing and coding …

Automate Your Grid Design Process with GridGuide

The first major step of any website design is picking a grid. This typically defines the maximum width of the page along with how many internal column…

How to Become an Interaction Designer

The growing field of interaction design encompasses everything from mobile apps to websites, and even video games. The skillset is in high demand but …

Add Drag & Drop to Website Easily with Dragula

Looking for a free library to handle drag & drop features? Then Dragula is the only resource you’ll need. This free script lets you add drag & drop …

Bring VR Experience in Your Browser with WebVR

The Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and other VR products have changed the future of technology. We may scoff at the idea of VR headsets but much like the Inte…

Flexdatalist – Autocomplete Plugin with <datalist> Support

The HTML5 <datalist> element is quite useful in modern frontend development. Yet, it’s one of those elements that not many developers know abo…

Milligram.css – Minimalist Frontend Library for Developers

From Bootstrap to Foundation there’s no shortage of custom CSS libraries. But what if you need a very simple lightweight option for new web projects…

Adding Magnifying Effect to Website

There are plenty of free zooming plugins that work incredibly well. However, most of these are built for images and they specify directions for image-…

Rellax.js – Free Parallax Features Using Vanilla JavaScript

Parallax scrolling looks incredible when done right. It’s not a feature you’ll want on every website but for creative sites and landing pages, par…

Predict Cursor Movements With Javascript

You can do some really cool things with JavaScript and open source code makes the work even easier. Premonish is one of the coolest libraries I’ve s…

Manage Your GitHub Notifications With Octobox

The default GitHub notification system is great, however, when you only have a few projects. It gets a lot more complex when you’re part of dozens o…

Record Your Command Line Sessions with Asciinema

A tool that allows you to automatically record all your terminal sessions and save the videos locally.