Homepages Rarely Convert Because These Elements Are Ignored

Critical homepage elements that are often overlooked.

Now in Canary

Capture screenshots of specific HTML nodes.

Headless mode

Say hello to headless Firefox for automated testing.

Vanity Metrics Need to Die

Why it makes no sense to hide certain truths in data.

Concurrent JavaScript: It can work!

What would it take to extend concurrency to the entire JavaScript heap?

Libraries (Beta)

Sketch now lets designers share symbols across documents.

bling.js

Because you want the $ of jQuery without the jQuery.

Facebook Engagement for Brands and Publishers Falls 20% In 2017

Results of an analysis of over 880 million Facebook posts.

How to Launch a Product With No Money and No Customers

Do’s and don’ts.

Offline-Friendly Forms

How to make forms that don’t lose input when submitted offline.

The State of the Web

“Web performance is a crucial pillar of user experience, yet it’s still the underdog.”

Doing Research with People Who Are Not Users: Consultation

User research vs. consultation.

Yes, That Web Project Should Be a PWA

“Progressive Web Apps are a shorthand for quality web experiences.”

Wrangling the Wild, Wild West of Content

How to get inconsistent content under control.

AMPersand

The cost of Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages for the web.

“At the risk of sounding like an old codger, I remember the days where we wouldn’t dare call ourselves senior without a good five years…”

Things I’ve learnt so far from speaking at conferences

What works and what doesn’t.

18 Top A/B Testing Tools Reviewed by CRO Experts

Get the right solution for your business and specific situation.

Finding a Voice for Design in Voice UIs

Talk about Sayspring, a tool to create interactive voice prototypes.

6 Months of Working Remotely Taught Me a Thing or Ten

“Working remotely isn’t always ideal, but it can be incredibly rewarding.”

“My favorite design tool is sleep.”

“If you don’t care about words, you’re a decorator, not a designer.”

Last-click attribution is so much easier to explain in a cartoon

Web analytics in 5 images.

Every. Single. Day.

I’m trying to work!!

Mathcha

An online editor to write and share mathematics formula.

Friction Isn't Always the Bad Guy in User Experience

Positive friction yields positive results, if handled with care.

Interview This

A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers.

Design Principles: a guide to less shitty feedback

What to do about ‘too many cooks spoil the soup’.

“I have never once regretted taking the time to learn the underlying fundamentals of how something works. It’s helpful, every single time.”

Sketch Libraries

How they work, and the crazy stuff you can do with them.

HowTo: Components

A collection of web components that implement common web UI patterns.

Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget

“Front-end developers need to prioritize SSL support more than ever.”

Announcing TypeScript 2.5

What’s new in the typed superset of JavaScript.

Is Success Down To The Quality Of Your Work?

Your reputation is about more than your work.

The Surprising Power of Online Experiments

How tiny changes can have a big impact.

Content Marketing 2017: Top 200 Global Influencers

Results of an analysis of countless social and blog conversations.

Pixelmator Pro

“The world’s most innovative image editing app.”

Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty

“Flat designs with weak clickability signifiers waste users’ time.”

Fonts don’t matter

What matters with fonts and accessibility.

Compilers are the New Frameworks

Why it’s time time to learn how compilers work.

Breaking the Grid

Two ways to break CSS Grid and how to fix it.

Why Facebook Like buttons account for a full 16% of the size of an average site’s code

Should you include it?

Beware of Disqus!

“It looks like Disqus is selling garbage ad impressions.”

The Rise of Micro-Influencers

How to run a micro-influencer campaign.

Mozilla and the Washington Post Are Reinventing Online Comments

What makes the new commenting platform different.

The zen of Just Writing CSS

“The biggest problems with CSS can be solved without CSS-in-JS.”

A Guide To Virtual Reality For Web Developers

The state of VR on the web and the WebVR APIs.

Introducing visualViewport

Did you already know that there’s more than one viewport?

Alembic

A Sketch plugin that extracts color palettes from your images.

“Nothing will remind you of the importance of web performance more quickly than traveling internationally.”

Building Skeleton Screens with CSS Custom Properties

How you can design loading or offline states on the web.

gmaster

Visually rich Git client with diff and merge tools.

NGINX Unit

Lightweight, open source application server.

Why you should ‘read’ a product like a book

Great ‘readers’ are also great ‘writers’.

Betting on the Web

Why it’s worth to invest in the web platform.

Find your next tech conference

Upcoming and past technology conferences worldwide.

What Happens When You Want to Retire from GitHub

“It seems like there’s no good way to admit bankruptcy on GitHub.”

Words and the design process

The power of sketching and wireframing with words.

Roundups

Curated collection of newsletters and roundups for designers.

Modern Modules

Re-thinking the Node.js ecosystem for modern JavaScript.

A Unified Theory for Designing Just About Anything

CAMP: Context, Architecture, Mechanics, Poetics.

“I’m still flabbergasted at how many organisations require you to be in an office every day and then you sit there with headphones on not speaking.”

“Getting good user experience isn’t as much a design problem, as it is a power struggle.”

Announcing the 1Password command-line tool public beta

A new way to interact with the popular password manager.

“Your type of design is just one of many. Your way to design is just one of many.”

Don’t 'Validate' Designs; Test Them

Why UX research must drive design change.

Smartphones are driving all growth in web traffic

Just not through apps.

The difference between good and great engineers

Traits and skills of exceptional engineers.

Ottifox

Design app for creating virtual reality UIs and prototypes.

Introducing Atom-IDE

Optional packages to bring IDE-like functionality to the code editor.

Angular vs. React vs. Vue: A 2017 comparison

Picking the right JavaScript framework.

This Font Makes Graphics Out Of Numbers In Seconds

Sparklines made easy.

Basic grid layout with fallbacks using feature queries

Ways to deal with older browsers.

Spoke

One place to manage internal requests for all of your teams.

Sublime Text 3.0

Highlights of the latest release of the popular code editor.

Bring Designs To Life With The InVision Power-Up

Trello integrates with the popular prototyping platform for design teams.

The YouTube Video Trigger In Google Tag Manager

Now with native support for YouTube video tracking.

Removing the White Bars in Safari on iPhone X

How to expand your website to fill the entire edge-to-edge screen.

Google AMP is Winning or My History with AMP

“Frustrated AMP users are pretty hard to find.”

CSS in JS is like replacing a broken screwdriver with your favorite hammer

Why it’s all about better CSS practices.

On React and WordPress

Wordpress drops Facebook’s JavaScript library.

Every Major Advertising Group Is Blasting Apple for Blocking Cookies in the Safari Browser

An open letter to Apple.

Windows for Linux Nerds

Some basics around Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Chrome will no longer autoplay content with sound in January 2018

What’s part of the browser’s roadmap.

What does the iPhone X’s AR engine mean for UX Designers?

Challenges and opportunities.

Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security

Which is the right authentication model for you?

Oh my! A bug!

Oh god! What I have done?

Put your multiple online personalities in Firefox Multi-Account Containers

A new extension makes it possible.

Developer Tools visual refresh coming to Nightly

Preview of the new syntax highlighting.

src2png

Turn your source code into syntax-highlighted images for presentations.

“There’s an awful lot of JavaScript that exists solely because the developer didn’t know CSS well enough.”

Apple responds to ad group’s criticism of Safari cookie blocking

Apple believes that people have a right to privacy.

“Your biggest risk isn’t occasional failure, it’s sustained mediocrity.”

Creating an Accessibility Engineering Practice

“Accessibility is not a feature, it’s a requirement.”

Introducing new features that make teamwork easier

Dropbox lets you preview more file types, including Sketch.

Material Design Awards 2017

Best-in-class designs from around the community.

How to move from m-dot URLs to responsive site

The Googlebot-friendly way.

The password needs to die and better UX will kill it

Candidates to replace passwords in the near future.

Announcing CoffeeScript 2

Highlights of the latest release of the JavaScript transpiler.

“Few things in life compare to the pleasure of fixing a bug by removing code.”