Cool stuff / Sept 2016

An unconventional resume UI Jonathan Ravasz has created an innovative resume that challenges the way we normally interact with sites. On first glance, you'd think clicking on the various plus signs on the UI would be the thing to do. But instead, you have to shift the entire screen to line the plus icons up with the center cursor to reveal their content.

Boundary-pushing mobile stories Hardbound creates a new illustrated story about something fascinating in the world. Subscribe via mobile to get boundary-pushing content delivered straight to you every week. They have over 56,000 readers so far, with new stories published each Thursday.

A friendly and free contact widget Pepper is a friendly, free contact widget for your website. It offers a popup widget that allows visitors to contact you in a variety of ways: Facebook, Messenger, Skype, Slack, Whatsapp, Kik, Snapchat, and more. And of course it also offers an email link.

Ditch these usability testing myths Don't Listen to Users is lauded as some of the best UI testing advice out there. And yet, it's wrong. And so are the other three bits of conventional UI testing advice included in this article from Icons8, from getting a huge number of opinions to not talking to participants.

Create sites while you learn Thimble is an online code editor from Mozilla that makes it super easy to code and publish your own websites while you learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Learn to make a variety of projects by recreating existing sites, or use it to teach code to others.

The Met site gets a new look Here's a behind-the-scenes look at The Met Museum Redesign and the process of landing the redesign job against a number of larger and more established agencies. It also details the redesign itself, with hints into how they approached it, including the focus on mobile and adaptive content.

Not every Material Design feature is universal Cards have become a very commeon feature in modern website designs. But that doesn't mean they're the be-all, end-all solution to offering summaries of information on a website. When Card UI Design Doesn't Work discusses what to do when the ubiquitous card doesn't meet a user's needs and what to do instead.

How well do you know your fonts? Know Your Font is a challenging new game that lets you test just how well you know the nuances of different popular fonts. It presents you with three options for each typeface, and you have to choose which one is correct. Knowing general style won't be enough to get you through, though: you'll need to know subtle features of each font.

A new way to cowork Do you get sick of working in the same place every day? Croissant makes it easier to cowork from multiple spaces in your city with one monthly subscription. Just find your space, check in when you arrive, and get to work. They have locations in NYC, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Boston.

Who says you need a real product? We launched a company with a parody product details how Apple Plug, which "upgraded" your iPhone 6 to a 7 by removing the headphone connector, came to be, went viral, and how it gave the studio behind it an audience for launching their first real products.