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

Create Minified Tooltips in Pure CSS with Wenk

With such a strange name, you wouldn’t expect much from Wenk, a free CSS tooltip library. Yet it’s one of the smallest libraries you can get measu…

Create 3D Web Apps & Graphics with Whitestorm.js

Web games have come a long way thanks to WebGL and related HTML5 APIs. The most prominent open source library for 3D is Three.js. While Three.js is po…

Search for Tech Jobs Anywhere With This Real-Time Web App

Massive growth in the job market applies to the tech sector more than anywhere else. This includes big data, DBAs, DevOps teams, and coders specializi…

Pokéapi: Free RESTful Pokémon API for Developers

The popularity of Pokémon shows no signs of slowing and now spans generations of kids from the 90s into today. Many developers love these games and o…

Discover the Best JavaScript Audio Library: Howler.js

Outdated audio players are a thing of the past thanks to modern HTML5 audio and the rapid adoption of browser support. But web designers can go one st…

Find Awesome User-curated Color Palettes with Color Hunt

The free web app Color Hunt is a user-curated resource, offering the best color palettes voted on by users. These palettes are also created by users a…

Create Material Design Progress Bar Easily with Mprogress.js

There’s no denying that Google’s material design has radically changed the web. It offers a common design language that UI designers can apply to …

Blend Your Own CSS Gradients with This Free Web App

Every web designer should know about CSS3 gradients. They’ve been around for years and they’re widely supported by all major browsers. And now, fr…

Store and Share Files Online The Geeky Way with Transfer.sh

The prevalence of free file sharing platforms such as Dropbox means you can share files from any computer with anyone in the world. New sharing platfo…

Smooth Full-Page Scrolling with ViewScroller.js

JavaScript scroll effects have been around for years with dozens of great libraries to pick from. But a new contender in the field is viewScroller.js.…

Embed Responsive Videos Easily with SuperEmbed.js

The modern web is fully responsive and more designers are realizing this every day. But there’s one pesky challenge when it comes to responsive desi…

Free SVG Background Patterns For Designers By Hero Patterns

All modern web browsers support SVG and it’s the most flexible image format you can use. But designing custom SVGs from scratch is no easy task. Tha…