Knob is a jQuery plugin for creating an iPod-like interface element.
The knobs created with this plugin are easy to style. Although there isn’t a documentation, the plugin has few options and is easy to grasp from the example source.
Knob is a great way of spicing up an older design, and it’s especially useful when creating iOS apps, as iOS users are likely to be familiar with such UI elements.
Scroll Path is a plugin for creating scroll paths with a simpler markup than you’d expect.
The paths are marked on a canvas element, and the plugin supports rotation on some browsers.
Once the plugin is initialized, you can point to specific points in the path, and ease or animate to them.
Scroll Path is a very interesting plugin if you don’t mind taking the time to draw the actual scrolling paths.
PageScroller is a jQuery plugin for smooth and easy navigation.
By default the plugin provides you with four navigation types, all of which are useful in some circumstances.
For example, ‘next & prev’ navigation is quite handy for mobile phones, and so on.
PageScroller ships with several useful options and easing functions. The code and the wrapper are both dead simple; this is an excelling plugin, at least from a brief glimpse.
Tinycon is a neat little (3.6kb minified) plugin for changing the favicon of a website gracefully.
The plugin falls back to a number in title approach if the browser doesn’t support changing the favicon.
Tinycon is useful because it provides a more aesthetic way of showing application alerts–e.g., think the pretty Gmail favicon– in a non-intrusive way.
UIKit is an UI creation library created with decoupled jQuery elements.
The ready-made components are easy to use and pretty impressive.
The ‘flip element’ function is particularly hip, but other built-in elements like the ‘dialogue’ function, the color picker, and the notification system are solid foundations for any user interface.
The elements are completely styleable, and altogether UIkit looks great as a starting point for designing a splendid user interface for your applications.
youRhere is a jQuery plugin that allows users to mark their article progress with a single click.
youRhere is lightweight (6kb when not minified) and features an easy markup and even easier implementation.
The plugin uses HTML5′s local storage API to great effect–a fallback for older seems to be lacking, though– and altogether grants an efficient way of letting your users know that they can safely mark your longer articles and read them fully a bit later.
08 May, 2012
By Lauris Veips
