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Thanks everybody!

We’ve been thrilled with the response to the new One Design site. It’s been tweeted and shared, picked up by siteInspire and as a French Design Index Site du Jour. At last count it had been viewed in 145 countries. (We’re coming for you, Papua New Guinea.) 

If you like what you see, there’s still time to give us some love over at Awwwards. And thanks again.

Inspiration & Food for Thought

Believing the best

As a design and development studio built on collaboration, we love this popular piece by Jason James on believing the best of your colleagues.

Live painting show

South Korean illustrator and comic artist Stone house takes viewers on a captivating 4-minute live painting journey through a woman’s life.

Hide your Mac’s desktop icons in one click

Want an unobstructed way to admire that pic of your pup on your desktop? Use Desktop Pirate to easily hide icons without having to write your own script.

An offline, ambient noise app

Chrome users can now create their own white noise using Elmnts. Layer coffee shop with soft rain or set the volume for your bird song with this app.

Design

Lorem Icon

Looking for icon placeholders for your website? Lorem Icon is here, and it’s free. Designers, there’s a way to share your icon sets, too.

X to close

X marking the spot wasn’t a given in the world of UI. This Medium piece traces the [x] first spotted in Windows 95 to its current use, well, everywhere.

The best of the worst in UX

Designer Katerina Kamprani takes taken-for-granted useful objects and makes them wildly useless in her fun series The Uncomfortable.

Development

One Design site pushes limits of SVG

In addition to showing off our latest and greatest work, building a new website was a chance for us to play with the latest web tech. The freshly-launched site pushes the limits of SVG through CSS animations and an introduction built with GSAP.

Scrolling animation on Layer Tennis

We’ve had a few people ask us how we built the nifty scrolling animation for the header on the new Layer Tennis site. Turns out, it’s just a simple, well-choreographed CSS key frame animation. Check out the details in this Codepen.

Jobs

We’re looking for the best

Did you read that piece above about believing the best? (Take a second, really, it’s worth it). If it resonated with you, check out our open positions.