Understanding your fuel consumption and vehicle's actual costs can help you save big money.

Even the most confident of us experience self-doubt in our work and life, some more so than others. But with some careful planning, your critical eye can be used to your advantage to sharpen your work. This post originally appeared on the Crew Blog. via Pocket

Animation can be a very effective mechanism to convey information in visualization and user interface settings. However, integrating animated presentations into user interfaces has typically been a difficult task since, to date, there has been little or no explicit support for animation in window systems or user interface toolkits. This paper describes how the Artkit user interface toolkit has been extended with new animation support abstractions designed to overcome this problem.

Web Fundamentals is a comprehensive resource for multi-device web development.

SVG files, especially exported from various editors, usually contains a lot of redundant and useless information such as editor metadata, comments, hidden elements, default or non-optimal values and other stuff that can be safely removed or converted without affecting SVG rendering result. SVGO to the help. + https://github.com/svg/svgo-gui

Webtype provides high-end fonts for online typography. We offer web designers the resources they need to bring professional branding and style to their websites.

Code School teaches web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video lessons, coding challenges, and screencasts.

The Brains, Behavior and Design toolkit draws from academic research in behavioral economics and cognitive psychology to help designers and business leaders understand and influence consumer decisions.

We believe that better products, services and outcomes result from a richer understanding of the people they serve.

The toolkit is designed to be both informative and actionable - helping you integrate the latest research in human behavior and decision making into your practice.

Stamplay let developers build web applications saving up to 90% of cost and time of backend development.

bounce.js lets you create tasty CSS3 powered animations in no time.

A series of extraordinary and independently made short films [about] some of the amazing, true-life stories behind the stories.

The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments, the web, mobile devices, wearables, or Internet-connected smart devices. This is a huge revision. I expect I have made mistakes. via Pocket

We've all been there: the task you're trying to finish gets too hard and you want to quit. Weblog Pick the Brain has three questions to ask yourself that can restore your drive. As things bear down on you, the negativity creeps in. via Pocket

Light Flow allows you to take control of your notification LED colors and makes them successively flash one color after another.

The Los Angeles Times just redesigned their site with a focus on mobile and a goal of increasing reader engagement through pre-written tweets or “sharelines,” infinite scrolling, and a handful of other design specs. via Pocket

Once upon a time, I treated web accessibility as something of an extra. Sure, my images had alt attributes. Yes, my anchors contained titles. I honored 508 compliance, too, but it was usually the last thing I did. via Pocket

Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. We deliver big-picture science by reporting on a single monthly topic from multiple perspectives. Read a new chapter in the story every Thursday.

Digital news design is an awkward phase. Particularly on the Web, which feels transitory. While there is incredible momentum around responsive design and bright spots of bold storytelling, the foundations of most sites feel fragmented and chaotic. While many sites seem on the cusp of something big and revolutionary, most have not fully transitioned to feel “of the Web” in 2014. Many publications, particularly international sites, felt stale and stagnant. The innovation seen in South American and European sites in past years has almost vanished.

At first glance, InDesign might not seem like a natural choice for UX design. But the interactive and animation tools that make InDesign great for designing ebooks and apps also happen to be ideal for designing wireframes and prototypes. In this installment of UX Design Tools, Justin Putney shows how to use InDesign's grid and guides to align wireframe objects, create shapes, save and reuse text and object styles, and add interactivity and motion to your designs. Plus, learn how to create alternative layouts and liquid layouts that automatically scale when displayed on different devices, and build a library of reusable artwork.