Jake Rocheleau

Jake is a writer and designer with over 10 years experience working on the web. He writes about user experience design and cool resources for designers

Latest posts

Minify and Compress PNGs Fast With UPNG

If you frequently work with transparent PNGs then you know how difficult they can be. Editing, exporting, and publishing PNGs with transparency takes …

Accessible Modal Script: Micromodal.js – WAI-ARIA Compliant

The web is constantly advancing towards more support for average users. This means topics like accessibility are huge. If you want to take your UX acc…

Fontisto – Free Iconfont Pack and CSS Toolkit

With CSS3’s support for custom webfonts more designers are using icon fonts. These are typefaces where the glyphs don’t use alphanumeric character…

Auto-Generate Material Design Components in Sketcha

We all know the value of material design and how many great resources are out there for designers. Google’s design language has taken the world by s…

Design Mobile-Responsive Email Templates With HEML

If you search the web you’ll undoubtedly find free email templates to use for a newsletter. But for most websites it’s smarter to build your own. …

Draw Custom Patterns in CSS With CSS-Doodle Web Component

With a name like CSS Doodle you might not know what to expect. But this is a really cool web component that lets you build some pretty awesome stuff. …

Fontstorage: A Collection of Free Webfonts for Any Web Project

Google’s massive online webfont collection is the go-to choice for most web designers. But there’s a new competitor on the block named Fontstorage…

20 Holders & Organizers to Tame Your Cables

It can be such a hassle to maintain organized office space. This is especially true when there are many devices placed in close proximity to each othe…

How to Quickly Copy Special Characters to Your Clipboard

We’ve all seen special characters on websites and we’ve seen those confusing keyboard shortcut tables. But what if you could copy and paste specia…

Vivify: Coolest CSS Animation Library for Developers

It seems like every day there’s a new animation library and new tools for developers. With CSS3’s popularity, I can totally understand why devs ar…

30 Useful Regex Code Snippets for Web Developers

Regular expressions are a powerful tool that should be in every developer’s tool belt. They can match against a string of characters based on very c…