Creative Exploration
The creative media resources on this site are continually growing and expanding, just like the tools, technologies, and best practices used by industry professionals, so please feel free to mark this page as your base camp.
Intro to Front-end Build Tools
Intro to Design Patterns
The Web Design and Development Process
Git-based Workflows using Github
Intro to Frontend Web Development
Web Layout Techniques & Strategies
How to Begin Planning
Intro to Web Animation Techniques
Typography for the Web
Iterative Design
HTML Basics: Elements and Syntax
Intro to SASS via PrePros
Web Design Terminology: A Primer
Quality Assurance Checklist
JS Basics: Functions and Syntax
Intro to Node.js and npm
The Box Model
What Project Should I Choose?
Inspiration
Intro to Web Hosting
Intro to CMS via WordPress
CSS Basics: Selectors and Syntax
Design Systems
Code a Simple HTML Web Page
Project Brief
Draft a Conceptual Plan
Set Summer Goals
Create a Course Web Site
Code a Simple Web Page with CSS
Typography Specimen Tests
Positioning and Layout Tests
Markup Text with HTML
Create a Featured Projects Portfolio Site
Design Your Resume
Create a Simple Image Grid Portfolio Site
Nielsen Norman Group
Usability.gov
Interaction Design Foundation
StatCounter Global Stats
U.S. Web Design Standards
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Animation at Work
Swiss Graphic Design
The Elements of Typographic Style
Designing with Web Standards
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
The Design of Everyday Things
Javascript & JQuery
HTML & CSS
Big list of web design related people:
- Donald Norman – https://jnd.org/
- Jakob Nielson – https://www.nngroup.com/people/jakob-nielsen/
- Jeffrey Zeldman – http://www.zeldman.com/
- Jeremy Keith – https://adactio.com/
- Eric Meyer – https://meyerweb.com/
- Ethan Marcotte – https://ethanmarcotte.com/
- Chris Coyier – https://chriscoyier.net/
- Dave Rupert – https://daverupert.com/
- Jen Simmons – https://jensimmons.com/
- Rachel Andrew – https://rachelandrew.co.uk/
- Andy Bell
- Adam Argyle
- Andy Clarke – https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/
- Val Head – https://valhead.com/
- Sarah Drasner – https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/
- Brad Frost – https://bradfrost.com/
- Michael Beirut – https://www.pentagram.com/about/michael-bierut
- Jason Pamental – https://ethanmarcotte.com/
- Jason Santa Maria – https://jasonsantamaria.com/
- Zach Leatherman – https://www.zachleat.com/
- Elliot Jay Stocks – https://elliotjaystocks.com/
- Scott Jehl – https://scottjehl.com/
- Remy Sharp – https://remysharp.com/
- Richard Rutter – http://clagnut.com/
- Nicolas Gallagher – http://nicolasgallagher.com/
- Una Kravetts – https://una.im/
- Chen Hui Jing – https://chenhuijing.com/
- Chris Ferdinandi – https://gomakethings.com/, https://vanillajsguides.com/, https://vanillajsacademy.com/, https://vanillajstoolkit.com, https://vanillajspodcast.com/
List of Online Learning Sites
- Jen Simmon’s HTML Essential Training course on LinkedIn Learning (FREE)
- Wes Bos’s Courses
- JavaScript 30 (FREE)
- What the Flexbox? (FREE)
- CSS Grid (FREE)
- Ethan Marcotte’ Designing Accessible and Responsive Websites course via The Gymnasium (FREE)
- Frontend Masters Courses
List of Online Surveys (for usage stats)
- Design Tools Surveys – 2022
- State of CSS
- State of JS
- Browser Stats – GS Stat Counter
- CSS Tricks
- Can I Use
- CSS Dev Conf
- WordPress.org
- WordPress.com
- Display Posts Shortcode
- Insert Pages
- SiteOrigin Page Builder
- Responsive Screenshots
- Am I Responsive
- Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
- PSD Covers
- 12 Principles of Animation
- Fonts In Use
- Cody House
- Little Snippets
- Animated Flexbox
- Codrops
- Font Pairing Suggestions
- Daily UI Design Challenge
- Mockup Templates
- Premium Pixels
- Graphic Pear
- Adobe Color
- Site Inspire
- MarkSheet
- Jeffrey Zeldman 20 years of Web Design
- The Grid System
- Coursera
- Student Work
Videos & YouTube Channels
- Youtube Channels
- Layout Land by Jen Simmons (coded layout lessons)
- Keyframers (coded web animation)
- Chris Coyier (CSS-Tricks screencasts)
- A List Apart (conference talk videos)
- JamStack Conf (conference talk videos)
- The Futur (design lessons)
- Level Up Tutorials by Scott Telinski (Javascript lessons)
- Wes Bos (Javascript lessons)
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Art of the Menu
Typography Specimen Tests
Swiss Graphic Design
Typewolf
Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
I Love Typography
Typography for the Web
The Elements of Typographic Style
JS Basics: Functions and Syntax
Github
Designing with Web Standards
ScrollOut
HTML Basics: Elements and Syntax
The Box Model
Smashing Magazine Podcast
Create a Course Web Site
Code a Simple HTML Web Page
Shop Talk
Quality Assurance Checklist
CSS Podcast
CSS Basics: Selectors and Syntax
Create a Simple Image Grid Portfolio Site
Create a Featured Projects Portfolio Site
Javascript & JQuery
Positioning and Layout Tests
Intro to Web Hosting
Typography Specimen Tests
Intro to Web Animation Techniques
Smashing Magazine Email Newsletter
Smashing Magazine
Netlify
Figma
HTML & CSS
Code a Simple Web Page with CSS
The Web Design and Development Process
