Pimp my Brain – June 2020 – Digital Resources for Designers & Makers

Creative minds, Designers & Makers, here are your monthly curated fresh resources, take your dose!

Here is a rich month of June for digital and analog inspiration.
Enough to boost your creativity and boil your pot of ideas!

Pick the categories that interest you, and feel free to share and comment 😊

Take care!

UI/UX Design

🇺🇸 A Comprehensive Guide to Notification Design

Peripheral messages in digital products, collectively known as notifications, should never harm the user experience. Instead, they must contribute to an experience that helps people accomplish a goal. Addressing notification design early in the product design process will produce better results.

🇺🇸 Simple Design Tips for Crafting Better UI Cards

A focus on this user interface element and some practical tips for designers, a useful article to keep.

🇺🇸 Selection controls — UI component series

Making choices never was more satisfying. A detailed look at checkboxes, radio buttons, and toggles design.

🇺🇸 SVG Custom Shape Dividers

Generate beautiful SVG shape dividers for your designs with this tool by True Style Design.

🇺🇸 patternico

An online tool to easily create and export patterns using font-awesome and line-icon.

🇺🇸 Hero Patterns

A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects.

🇺🇸 Font In Logo

Find fonts used by well-known brands, useful !

🇺🇸 10 excellent font pairing tools for designers

If you’re on the hunt for the perfect font combination for your next design project, look no further. Pairing typefaces can be tricky, but with the help of some handy resources, you’ll get the hang of mixing and matching the right fonts in no time.

🇺🇸 Rostype : Free fonts with personality

Typography is a powerful communication tool, a way to express ideas, and a trigger for creativity. Based on this understanding, the Argentinian-based type foundry Rostype creates fonts that are free to use for anyone, in personal and commercial projects.

🇺🇸 Keyframes.app

A visual editor to create CSS Keyframe animations, box-shadows, colors, and more !

WordPress

🇫🇷 Faites connaissance avec les meilleurs plugins de migration sur WordPress

Sueurs froides, tremblements, envie de vous jeter par la fenêtre : mais que vous arrive-t-il ?
Après consultation, le diagnostic tombe, tel un couperet : vous avez tous les symptômes de la personne qui souhaite migrer son site.
C’est grave, docteur ? Absolument pas si vous utilisez un remède miracle : un plugin de migration pour votre site WordPress.

🇫🇷 La documentation de WordPress est maintenant disponible en français

Depuis peu, la documentation de WordPress est disponible et regroupe des guides complets et informations à travers 11 rubriques. Si vous voulez faire un peu de lecture, une centaine de pages vous attendent.

🇫🇷 Quels sont les principaux indicateurs de Google Analytics ?

Google Analytics est un outil indispensable en marketing digital pour assurer la mesure de son trafic et de son audience. Voyons ses principaux indicateurs.

Physical Computing

🇺🇸 Carbon

Create and share beautiful images of your source code.

🇺🇸 PULSE: Changing habits for the better

A 3D-printed wearable device that pulses, or vibrates, when a person’s hand is nearing their faceThis. A simple and affordable technology that can easily be reproduced and is available as open source on Github. Demo here.

🇫🇷 Folioscope motorisé en impression 3D

Voici un projet très sympa à fabriquer, qui mêle impression 3D et électronique Arduino. Découvrez au passage la jeune chaîne d’Abrège qui propose des tutoriels originaux et de qualité !

3D Printing

🇺🇸 Really clever use of filament by 3D Winnipeg

A brilliant idea to stop throwing away your filament scraps and embellish your prints.

🇺🇸 3D Printing Support Structures – The Ultimate Guide

Learn everything you need to know about 3D printing support structures before you start printing overhangs and bridges in your models.

🇫🇷 La CR10 V2 vaut elle le coup ? Est-elle mieux que Alfawise ?

Une belle imprimante qualitative et silencieuse, testée en détail par Heliox.

Selected Sites

👁 Beans Digital Marketing Agency

Big business means taking the risk. But, not all businesses are ready for this. Beans are here to start the journey of decisions or brands up to the world through a completely new road.

👁 Moon Safari

Moon Safari is an architecture and urbanism company.

👁 LM Chabot

The montreal photographers’ duo LM Chabot is a rare fusional formation that performs on all fronts.

👁 Reed

A digital agency in Belgium to improve your digital strategy, website, mobile applications and content strategies.

👁 The A-Z of AI

An A-Z guide offering a series of simple, bite-sized explainers to help anyone understand what AI is, how it works and how it’s changing the world around us.

👁 The Badass Project

We document your day, your people, friends and family. Just as they are. No rules established.

👁 Everyday Experiments

A series of digital experiments by SPACE10 and IKEA exploring new ways of interacting with the spaces we live in. The platform facilitates an array of clever ideas, friendly digital proposals and prototypes which challenge the role of technology in the home.

👁 Masters 1987

We’ve created a notable website for those who are usually out of sight. “1987 Masters” can make your event extraordinary.

👁 Chiara Luzzana – Sound Designer

Chiara Luzzana is an award-winning Sound Designer focused on Sound Design, Music Composition, Sound Branding and Soundtrack collaborating with companies and agencies all over the world.