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An innovative indie film site design The website for Matt Porterfield's short film Take What You Can Carry is an interesting case of parallax scrolling done right. Users are instructed to scroll, listen, watch, write, and otherwise interact with the site as they scroll. The overall aesthetic of the site is clean and miminal, while the functionality is what really sets it apart.

Making a smarter office Truth Labs ran an experiment about how their office space is actually utilized over the course of a week and then put together this Data Spaces website to share the results. The site is broken down into five sections to give insight into the traffice patterns and usage of different areas, even overlaying the data on an office floorplan.

The world needs more compliments Compliments are Good is a simple yet effective website that shows you random compliments that you can then share with others. Some are very straightforward ("I like your face," for example) while other are a little more creative (like "In a fight, you could beat two sharks, a bear, and five ducks.")

Need a good excuse? If you need a good excuse, then you need the Cop Out Generator. There are hundreds of possible excuses for everything from why you're late to why something didn't get done. Of course it includes the old standby "It's not a bug, it's a feature" as well as some much more innovative excuses.

A pictographic language for NYC The City of New York has received a pictographic rebrand with 250 new standardized icons for use across government agencies and departments. The pictograms, designed by marketing organization NYC & Company, are based on the same grid used for the city's logo, designed by Wolff Ollins in 2007.

Consider code as your primary design tool How to use code as your primary design tool covers the process that Chris Gannon uses when crafting user interfaces. Chris starts out a new design with some elements in Illustrator, but very quickly moves over into coding in SublimeText and CodePen, while animating everything with GreenSock.

What if you're a talentless hack? What if you have no talent? Have you ever considered what your options are if you are, in fact, a talentless hack at whatever it is you want to do? If, despite how much you want something, you're just not any good at it, what next? The good news is that you do have options, even though some may be less palatable than others.

Sass mixin for generating color palettes Palette Town is a Sass mixin created just for generating color palettes. It can generate a variety of traditional color schemes: complementary, splti complementary, triad, tetrad, and shades, as well as viewing all at once. It's great if you're sick of putting in a bunch of variables just to prototype something.

Behind the new Google Fonts redesign Over on the Google Design blog, Reimagining Google Fonts showcases all of the recent changes to the beautiful and more usable new Google Fonts website. It talks about the features of the new site design, including adaptive UI containers, ever-evolving design, the site's grid, and more.