JavaScript has come a very long way. If you’re a “dev-signer” like me, you’ve probably fallen in love with jQuery by now. You probably salivate about what you can manipulate after the page loads. Suddenly, the web is becoming a whole lot more interactive, and we’re already starting to see web applications begin to merge with old-school desktop apps. User-interaction and JavaScript is making a lot of this happen. So I’ve been playing around with jQuery’s design-side benefits.
Two projects in particular, one born from the other, have been sort of a proving ground for this idea I’ve been working on. The idea is that you can use the power of jQuery (my JS framework of choice, btw—you can substitute the word JavaScript wherever you see jQuery) as a design tool to (a.) streamline the web design process and (b.) have some fun and actually make art and design on the web.
Let me introduce jPalette and jPixels
These are two budding jQuery “apps” and/or plugins—properly geeked out in their naming conventions, I might add—that allow you to design and make (very rudimentary) art on the web.
Now you can’t do much yet, but I’m hoping these will evolve into something more powerful soon. I realize there may be better and more advanced projects out there to achieve some of the same goals. This is just me tinkering so take them with a couple grains of salt.
- jPalette, a simple JavaScript color picker (and an example of what you can do with it)
- jPixels, a VERY basic JavaScript Paint program
There you have it. Not much more to say now. Play around with them and give me some feedback. @mccambridge on Twitter
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