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

Discover WordPress Plugins & Tools Sites Use with This Tool

Have you ever landed on a blog and thought “I wonder what WordPress theme they’re using”? Well now, you can find the answer quickly using the ap…

Wing – Minimalist CSS Framework Web Designers Want

The frontend ecosystem is full of open-source frameworks made to improve your development process. Usually, everyone wants something different from th…

Free Open Source Reddit User Analysing Tool

The Reddit community is absolutely massive with so much to do and so much content to browse through. But, subreddits aren’t the only interesting par…

Propeller Framework Joins Bootstrap & Google Material Design

The immense popularity of Google’s material design should come as no surprise. It’s part of a modern UI style focusing more on flat design with an…

Visualize Your Color Palettes Online with Speculo

The typical mockup design process can feel like a chore. You have to flip between Photoshop (or Sketch) to change colors, typefaces, styles, and compa…

Manage Local Server .dev Environments with “Hotel”

Every web developer needs their own local server environment for testing projects. These servers can range from PHP/MySQL to complex setups with Rails…

Design CSS with This Adobe-Style Web App Editor

Adobe’s software is world renowned by designers of all ages, but none more so than Photoshop. PhotoShop editing panels are the whole shebang with ev…

Build Responsive Tabbed Widgets with GridTab

It’s always easier to build websites using open source tools rather than reinventing the wheel. These tools range from libraries to smaller plugins …

FormBucket – Build Web Forms with No Programming

It’s easy enough to create HTML forms but handling user input is a much greater task. If you don’t like coding on the backend this can be solved w…

Embed CanIUse Tables Into Your Website with This Tool

Every developer should know about CanIUse. It’s an amazing resource that catalogs all the latest HTML, CSS, and JavaScript specs as they’re adopte…

An Introduction to Progressive Web Apps

Most developers have at least heard some buzz around Progressive Web Apps. These are widely supported by tech companies such as Google and are quickly…

Discover Best Design Agencies Worldwide with TheDirectory.io

Update: TheDirectory.io is no longer in service. Designers often need to outsource work for their projects or recommend other agencies to clients. Thi…