Announcing Stencil One: Beta

What’s new in the toolchain for building design systems.

Found Color

Color schemes sourced from photos of everyday objects.

A Design Language for Touch, Gesture, and Motion

The importance of UX design specifications.

“English is the JavaScript of natural languages: easy to begin with, entirely bonkers, but used so widely you can’t really avoid it.”

Creative Commons Officially Launches a Search Engine

It indexes 300+ million public domain images.

Folding the DOM

How you can create nifty fold effects with CSS.

Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines Targeting E-A-T, Page Quality & Interstitials

Let’s go through all the changes.

How Google Search Ranking Works: Darwinism in Search

What new Google search engineers learn.

Introducing the first Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

Everything you need to know.

In Chrome 76 you can hide the Add to Home screen mini-infobar

More control over the PWA mini-infobar.

“Everybody wants to hire the best. Very few actually pay them like they’re the best.”

Firefox 67: Dark Mode CSS, WebRender, and more

Highlights of the latest Firefox version.

Animation Handbook

How you can put animation principles into practice.

Introducing Tornis

A tiny library to watch the browser’s viewport state.

Latest Firefox Release is Faster than Ever

Firefox is better at performing tasks at the optimal time.

Brotli vs Gzip Compression: How we improved our latency by 37%

A case study.

Google announces a new $999 Glass augmented reality headset

Now an official product instead of an experiment.

The State of Makers

No-code is about to take makers by storm.

The State of Fluid Web Typography

Is fluid web typography ready to be used?

End-user programming

Let’s imagine a computing future where everyone can program.

CSS can do that?

A list of amazing things that CSS can do.

Google rolling out mobile search redesign

With black ‘Ad’ label, favicons for organic results.

“A web developer’s worst nightmare: A friend or family member calling to ask if you can help them make a website.”

Google’s New Layout Predicts the Future of SEO

What’s changed over the last years.

CSS Grid subgrid lands in Firefox Nightly

Roundup of subgrid demos to play around with.

Build Tracker

Track your application’s performance budgets.

PHP in 2019

Do you still think of PHP as a crappy language?

The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation

Why well-formed HTML matters.

Speed at Scale: What's new in Web Performance?

New launches from Google I/O 2019.

Machine learning training for marketers

What you need to know about machine learning.

Night Mode with Mix Blend Mode: Difference

Another approach to implement dark mode.

W3C and WHATWG to work together to advance the open Web platform

What’s in the memorandum of understanding.

CSS Grid Generator

A tool to make dynamic layouts with ease.

Mobile-First Indexing by default for new domains

New default for new websites.

Zdog

Designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas and SVG.

Introducing Mercury OS

A new way of interfacing with our devices.

Compiling C to WebAssembly without Emscripten

What if we just use the compiler?

Google Search Penalizing Inappropriate Favicons

Define a favicon to show in search results.

“There are people who fix problems and people who complain about problems, and the two sets are remarkably disjoint.”

“Making great design is making bad design and revising and editing over and over until it’s great.”

Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

Expect less effective ad blockers.

Flotato

Instantly create light Mac apps for any web app.

Reducing motion with the picture element

A code snippet to make animated GIFs more accessible.

xstyled

Consistent theme based CSS, a new way to style components.

Characteristics of a Strong Performance Culture

A web performance budget is not enough.

Muzli Search

The web-wide search engine for design inspiration.

Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score

Never trust scores blindly.

The end of mobile

Let’s move to the next fundamental tech trends.

Uibot

What if we could automate the generation of visual designs?

Evolution of Webdesign

An imitation of web design trends from 1991 to 2015.

Apple Will Announce The End Of iTunes Next Week

The online media store will be replaced by apps.

Typography Terms Cheat Sheet

The meaning of common or often mistaken typography terms.

The Dark Side of Dark Mode

“Dark Mode can hurt your productivity.”

useAnimations

Animated icons in Lottie Framework and After Effects.

“You’ll learn more from one launch than a thousand blog posts.”

Why You Should Design an Ending for Your Experience

Designing closures and offboarding flows.

Email Marketing Mistakes & Solutions

27 experts share their insights.

iOS 13 Preview

New features in Apple’s mobile operating system.

Entropic

A package registry for anything, but mostly JavaScript.

shelf

Database for frontend developers.

Automation for Designers: An Introduction

Tools to automate our workflows.

The Truth about Web Components and Frameworks

It’s OK living in the gray.

Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

Plus updates to Facebook Container, Firefox Monitor and Lockwise.

Conversion Rate Optimization: The Definitive Guide

Get more leads, sales, and signups.

Detecting Select All on the Web

How to redirect a user’s ‘Select All’ to an editor.

GitHub Desktop 2.0 expands to support stashing and rebasing

What’s new and what’s next.

CSS Grid Level 2: Subgrid is coming to Firefox

What the feature is, and some examples.

Introducing Stencil One

Standard web components that work with any framework.

“To the people in an audience who smile and nod at the speaker while they’re talking, making them feel like they’re crushing it: You’re the best kind of person.”

The CSS Mindset

Why CSS can sometimes seem illogical or frustrating.

7 absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

What turned out not to be the full picture.

rooki.design

The young designer magazine to learn and get inspired.

Wrapping long words with CSS or HTML

Ways to handle long words within a narrow container.

Mozilla CEO: Premium version of Firefox coming this fall

Available as a monthly subscription.

Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes

Despite shared codebase.

The problem with web components

Hoping that web components get better in the future.

Remote Management Practices

Best practices for collaboration with remote workers.

Plugins are coming to Figma

Figma is opening up its popular design platform.

Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

New horizons for the breach notification service.

Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet

The slides, plus analysis.

Meet the new Dropbox

A workspace that brings content, tools, and teams together.

“Customers will tell you when your product doesn’t do enough, but will never ask for fewer features when they stop using your product because it’s too complex.”

Firefox: The Evolution Of A Brand

The new look of the entire family of products and services.

“A design is not an answer. It’s a hypothesis. Forgetting this leads to arrogance. Failing to communicate it leads to disappointed stakeholders.”

Ejecting Disqus

Let’s try out another commenting system.

Pika

A new kind of CDN for modern JavaScript packages.

The State of CSS 2019

CSS might be going through tumultuous teenage years.

Variable Fonts for Developers

Get started using variable fonts on the web.

Relearn CSS layout

Layout designs without @media breakpoints or hacks.

Chrome 76 Beta

Dark mode, payments, new PWA features and more.

When should you be using Web Workers?

Short answer: always.

The Toolbox Toolbox

Curation of analog and digital toolboxes and methods.

Internet Trends Archive

All internet trend reports of Mary Meeker in one place.

webgems

A curated list of resources for developers and designers.

“If your code isn’t working, try leaving it in rice overnight.”

What To Expect When You're Expecting To Drop IE11

A giant list of features you should use today.

Fontsmith creates the world’s first variable font logo

A logo which changes according to interaction and time.

Facebook confirms it will launch a cryptocurrency called Libra in 2020

Facebook’s blockchain plans.

84 cognitive biases you should exploit to design better products

Systematic errors in our thinking process.

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