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Building Pixels – A Daily Source of Inspiration

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Re: Building Pixels – A Daily Source of Inspiration

#11

Post by darafsheh »

This is a great website! Mainly because the quality of the designs you picked are great. My only feedback is that it was hard for me to find the button that takes me to the website for each screenshot. It was very important for me to actually find the live site rather than a screenshot. Animation, loading, transitions are big part of the design that won't be shown through a screenshot.

I'm not sure if it helps but my team an I are working on a project that you might also like the design: servicebot.io (wait for the parachutes :)

Re: Building Pixels – A Daily Source of Inspiration

#12

Post by drikerf »

darafsheh wrote: post #11

This is a great website! Mainly because the quality of the designs you picked are great. My only feedback is that it was hard for me to find the button that takes me to the website for each screenshot. It was very important for me to actually find the live site rather than a screenshot. Animation, loading, transitions are big part of the design that won't be shown through a screenshot. I'm not sure if it helps but my…

Thanks! I'm going to make the source link more obvious in some way :). Love the parachutes :D!

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#13

Post by drikerf »

addedlovely wrote: post #10
drikerf wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks :)! The circle with an arrow links to the original source. Good point, they show their real color on hover but I guess that's not very helpful on mobile. They took a bit too much attention when in full color.

Would be great to have a search - saw a nice hero pattern site - but now can't find it as i'd shuffled! Might be worth having that link back to the site being more prominent on the modal overlay, but otherwise good stuff!

Thanks! Was it this one: heropatterns.com? I have search on Klart but haven't added it to Pixels yet :D. Yes, I will probably show the link text in the modal.

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#14

Post by urlbox »

Really nice site!

When flicking through the screenshots in the modal view - before the screenshot loads - how did you get the background gradient to be so close to the actual site's page background?

I know you already have the colour scheme in advance, but the gradient seems to match very closely most times. Seems really clever

EDIT: Just saw this https://drikerf.com/image-previews-on-klart/ which explains it! Really nice trick

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#15

Post by drikerf »

urlbox wrote: post #14

Really nice site! When flicking through the screenshots in the modal view - before the screenshot loads - how did you get the background gradient to be so close to the actual site's page background? I know you already have the colour scheme in advance, but the gradient seems to match very closely most times. Seems really clever EDIT: Just saw this https://drikerf.com/image-previews-on-klart/ which explains it! Really…

Thanks :D!

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#17

Post by drikerf »

shurcooL wrote: post #16

It said: - Color extraction is hard Color extraction? What does that refer to, exactly?

Extracting dominant colors from an image. In this case a screenshot. Since there may be loads of different colors (ie: gradients/photos). Knowing which colors are dominant is hard to determine.

Re: Building Pixels – A Daily Source of Inspiration

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Post by shurcooL »

drikerf wrote: post #17
shurcooL wrote: post #16

It said: - Color extraction is hard Color extraction? What does that refer to, exactly?

Extracting dominant colors from an image. In this case a screenshot. Since there may be loads of different colors (ie: gradients/photos). Knowing which colors are dominant is hard to determine.

Thanks.
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