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Sites of the Week: Design Embraced, Linode, Hack_app and more

Long scrolling websites is what you’ll find on this post today. Take a special look at Nymi and SQBA. Also Linode has a new website that is simple and beautiful! Check out these sites and the whole selection, share with us what you think and stay tuned for the next week!

Take a look on all the other sites we’re featuring today. Also you can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe and include #abdz_sites in the message.

DESIGN / CSS

Nymi – getnymi.com

With every beat of your heart, the Nymi unlocks a world of possibilities.

Design Embraced – designembraced.com

Design Embraced is the portfolio of British designer Anthony Goodwin who’s had the privilege of doing what he loves for the past 9 years.

APP / WEB APP / SERVICE

SQBA – beta.sqba.mobi

Cool analytics and tool for changing your app on the fly.

Linode – linode.com

Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location.

COMMUNITY / PORTAL / STORE / EVENT

hack_app – hackapp.co

1 application. 23 code schools. Research and apply to code schools around the world.

Perspective 2014 – perspective2014.asu.edu

The Design School at Arizona State University presents: Perspective. A multidisciplinary exhibition featuring work from senior and graduate-level students graduating Spring 2014.

STUDIO / PORTFOLIO / BLOG

Paulo Gabriel – paulogabriel.me

Hi! I’m a Publicist by degree but I develop websites since 1999. What started as a hobbie became a passion and in 2006 I started working with web development professionally, when I got my first job in a agency.

C.ROWE – theycallmecrowe.com

I create digital experiences that promote interaction. I think bigger, move faster, blow minds, get shit done and innovate—plus any other cliché saying that comes to mind.

THEMES / KITS

Accio – themeforest.net

Accio is incredibly functional and modern WordPress Theme and we would like to highlight that it could be used in both ways: as one-page theme and the regular theme with separate pages as well.

Photex – themeskingdom.com

Every professional photographer wants to present his portfolio in the best possible way. Photex is a premium WordPress theme that have all required features one photographer needs.

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thumbnail Some icons are so commonplace that we’ve come to not think twice about them—until they’re changed. One such image undergoing a makeover is the ‘International Symbol of Access’, commonly known as the ‘Wheelchair Symbol’.

There’s no doubt that the existing icon is easily recognizable; the problem, especially for the people it is supposed to represent, is that it portraits wheelchair users as passive and inactive—the original variation even depicted wheelchair users as headless. Combatting the problem is the Accessible Icon Project, an initiative designed to help change perceptions of wheelchair users by redesigning the classic icon to focus on the individual, rather than the disability. The new design is as easily recognizable, and ADA compliant but also features a person in control of their own movement and navigating the world under their own power.

Each element of the icon has been carefully judged to ensure the new symbol carries none of the negative connotations of the previous icon. Certainly the new design is less in-keeping with the 1960s view of people with disabilities that produced the original.

The Project encourages grassroots efforts to replace old signs with the new forward-thinking symbol. Both stencils and stickers are available for those that wish to enact change.

The Accessible Icon Project is a great example of how design can change the world for the better.

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