Motion Highlights #11
24.7.2025
A fresh roundup of standout motion design and animation work from across the creative community
27 College Fonts for Creating Academic-Inspired Designs (2025)
24.7.2025
Ever wondered where that bold, slab-serif “college look” comes from? It goes way back to mid‑19th century Ivy League sportswear. Harvard’s baseball team embroidered an “H” on their flannel...
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A First Look at the Interest Invoker API (for Hover-Triggered Popovers)
23.7.2025
Chrome 139 is experimenting with Open UI’s proposed Interest Invoker API, which would be used to create tooltips, hover menus, hover cards, quick actions, and other types of UIs for showing more information with hover interactions.
A First Look at the Interest Invoker API (for Hover-Triggered...
Interactive Text Destruction with Three.js, WebGPU, and TSL
22.7.2025
Learn how to create an interactive 3D text effect where letters explode into dynamic shapes using Three.js, WebGPU, and Three Shader Language (TSL)
A Primer on Focus Trapping
21.7.2025
Focus trapping is about managing focus within an element, such that focus always stays within it. The whole process sounds simple in theory, but it can quite difficult to build in practice, mostly because of the numerous parts to you got to manage.
A Primer on Focus Trapping originally published...
Beyond the Corporate Mold: How 21 TSI Sets the Future of Sports in Motion
21.7.2025
Exploring how 21 TSI’s website breaks convention through motion and minimalism
Getting Creative With Versal Letters
18.7.2025
A versal letters is a typographic flourish found in illuminated manuscripts and traditional book design, where it adds visual interest and helps guide a reader’s eye to where they should begin.
Getting Creative With Versal Letters originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Getting Clarity on Apple’s Liquid Glass
17.7.2025
Gathered notes on Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language that was introduced at WWDC 2025. These links are a choice selection of posts and resources that I've found helpful for understanding the context of Liquid Glass, as well as techniques for recreating it in code.
Getting Clarity...
Designing Momentum: The Story Behind Meet Your Legend
17.7.2025
An inside look at how movement in design, storytelling and technology shaped a platform to inspire the next generation of creatives
30 Mood Board Templates for Visualizing Your Ideas
17.7.2025
Before the logo, the website, or the color palette gets approved, there’s the mood board. It’s where early ideas start to take form. They’re not fully designed and not...
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What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey
16.7.2025
State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! Sunkanmi Fafowora highlights a few key results about diversity, health, and salaries.
What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
22 Comic Book Illustrations to Give Your Designs Superpowers (2025)
15.7.2025
Comic books aren’t just for collectors and cosplay. They’re a valuable design resource. With bold lines, dramatic poses, and larger-than-life characters, comic-inspired visuals instantly grab attention and bring high-energy...
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