Color Thief is a script for grabbing the dominant color or color palette from an image. Uses Javascript and the canvas tag to make it happen. This script could be useful for sites that sort and search by color.
With Color Thief you can also build a UI that adapts to the colors of an image. For example, you could add color accents to the UI by changing the font or border color depending on what image is currently being displayed in your portfolio.
A recent example of a color adapting UI is seen on Google Chrome’s new home tab. The dominant color of the favicon is used as the bottom border color on the screenshot.
Requirements: JavaScript and Canvas
Demo: http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/color-thief/
License: Creative Commons 2.5 License
The jQuery ContextMenu Plugin was designed for web applications in need of menus on a possibly large amount of objects. Unlike the other similar plugins, contextMenu doesn’t need to bind itself to triggering objects. This allows injecting and removing triggers without having to re-initialize or update contextMenu.
The contextMenu can provide a simple list of clickable commands, or offer an in-menu form. This makes very simple attribute modification possible. The contextMenu knows the two callbacks show and hide which can be used to update the state of commands within the menu. This allows en/disabling commands, changing icons or updating the values of contained <input> elements.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://medialize.github.com/jQuery-contextMenu/
License: MIT License
Ultrashock is a community based royalty-free stock marketplace. They offer a wide range of professional quality Flash, audio, vector art, and images at affordable prices for use in your creative projects.
Today, they have just released an Ultra Bundle, suitable for designers. This all new time-limited bundle contains vector icons, background images, audio, design elements and a lot of other goodies. The total combined value of all included items is worth well over $1300 and you’ll get them for only $49!
Every downloadable stock item in the bundle comes with a single use commercial license. This means that one individual or company can use this bundle on their personal, private, academic, non-profit, or even commercial project.
There are total 1,400 creative items, with over 3 gigabytes total file size. The offer will be expired in 2 weeks. What are you waiting for?
Social media integration has become an important part of modern web design. Web Icon Set has just released a set of free social media stamp collection to brand your work. All of them are highly recognizable by people.
Social Media Stamp Collection contains 100 most favorite social services and applications. It includes PNG and PSD source file, so that you can change the color easily. You are allowed to use these icons in any type of project. And please don’t forget to share them with your awesome friends.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.webiconset.com/social-media-stamp-collection/
License: License Free
BundleHunt has just begun its two weeklong software bundle sale with more great apps for Mac OS X and an awesome set of Design goodies. Featuring 11 popular Mac OS X applications and great quality design resources normally valued at over $450 for just $49.99 at a 89% discount.
There’re some great apps here that almost anyone should find tempting including: LaunchBar, ColorSchemer Studio 2, WriteRoom, Seamless Studio, Divvy, SmashingMagazine 4 new e-books, Tumult Hype, ThemeTrust 3 WordPress themes, Xslimmer, Geomicons Iconset and TN3 Gallery.
In all, there are 11 applications and products, all for an amazing price – $49.99. You can also join their new affiliate system in order to have a chance to win $500 in cash too.
Source: BundleHunt 5
Adding relevant images to static prototypes is a pain, that is why folks tend to fill them in with placeholders. If you really want to add an image, you have to search for it, download it, crop it to right size, and then add it to your prototype. That is until now.
flickrBomb is an easy way for you to fill your prototypes with relevant content, and not just those dull gray placeholder images. Hover over the images and click the wrench icon to see flickrBomb in action.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.zurb.com/playground/rapid-prototyping-with-flickrbomb
License: MIT License
BundleHunt 4 has begun its two weeklong software bundle sale of some of the hottest apps for Mac OS X and an awesome set of design goodies. In my opinion, this is the best ever bundle I have ever seen. I am sure it will be very useful for web designers.
BundleHunt 4 comes with a number of great premium applications included such as Layers, WPBundle – 3 WP Themes of your chioce, the full set of stylish and unique icons from Symbolicons, & Picans. Hanpicked collection of design resources from Tapptics & WeGraphics and SmashingMagazine’s newest 3 e-books. In all, there are 13 applications and products included in the bundle, all for an amazing price – $49.99.
Source: http://bundlehunt.com/
Though it’s not widely known, you can write native-feeling iOS apps for the iPhone and iPad in JavaScript (+ HTML and CSS). If you want to put it in the app store, you can even package your web app as a “native” Objective-C app.
In this article, Matt will explain HOWTO: Create native-looking iPhone/iPad applications from HTML, CSS and JavaScript, which includes how to strip away the browser chrome (the url bar and button bar); prevent viewport scrolling and scaling; respond to multi-touch and gesture events; use webkit CSS to get the iPhone OS look and feel; cache the app so it runs without internet access; get a custom icon on the home screen; and have a splash screen load at the start.
Source: http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-native-iphone-ipad-apps…
BundleHunt 3 Now on Sale with Unprecedented Value for Designers and Creatives, featuring 20 popular design resources and applications normally valued at over $1287 for just $49.
The bundle includes such interesting products as Pictos Icon Set, GoMedia Arsenal Ultimate Vector & Font Collections, Wordpess themes from Press75, the newest Smashing eBook and 3 month MultiSitePlan from WPEngine.
BundleHunt 3 is offering the pack for 14 days only. The sale ends at midnight, EST on Feb 21th. Information on each product and screenshots can be found there. What are you waiting for?
Webalys has created a Free User Interface Design Framework for Web Designers. It includes GUI library – Hundreds vector elements for interface design, Minimal UI icons set – 260 vector icons for Illustrator, Styles library – 200 styles to apply in Illustrator.
You can now design faster wireframes and create better mockup deliverables in Illustrator. You can customize easily the vectors GUI elements to your own needs : you can easily resize, color or tweak their appearance.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.webalys.com/design-interface…
License: License Free
