The Disappearing Computer

Why tech will soon be almost invisible.

Design with a growth mindset

“Talent without hard work and practice won’t amount too much.”

The mistakes we make in making the case for design

How to convince your company to invest in design.

Google launches animation tool so you can turn boring data into cool GIFs

Say hello to Data Gif Maker.

If You Want to Be Creative, Don’t Be Data Driven

Information doesn’t tell you what to do.

Your Camera Wants to Kill the Keyboard

The march toward more visual forms of communication.

Visual Interface of Voice UI

Cases in which visual feedbacks are important.

v5.0.0

npm 5 takes npm a pretty big step forward.

Node v8.0.0

Significant changes and additions.

Notifications: A Tragedy Of the Digital Commons

Smart notifications would make our life and work better.

Announcing Storybook 3.0

What’s new in the UI component development environment.

Time to Interactive

Why the metric is important and how it is calculated.

Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report

All the slides, plus analysis.

Pinboard Acquires Delicious

What you need to know if you’re a Delicious user.

A Love Letter to CSS

Let’s defend CSS against the CSS haters.

The rise of the QR code and how it has forever changed China’s social habits

China’s rapid shift towards a ‘codeconomy’.

Improving advertising on the web

“We plan to have Chrome stop showing ads not compliant with the Better Ads Standards.”

HTTP/2 push is tougher than I thought

It’s powerful but there are drawbacks.

Webpack for Everyone

How to bundle and optimize your assets for production.

LiveSlides

Embed any website in a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.

“The web would be a better place if more developers considered accessibility as an interesting challenge rather than a painful burden.”

HTML Cheat Sheet

All HTML elements with descriptions, examples and previews.

Fontjoy

Generate font combinations with deep learning.

Find great Google Fonts

Select font families by visual similarity.

Fuck Facebook

“Facebook is designed from the ground up as an all-out attack on the open web.”

Fuck Productivity

“Productivity will take away time you could be spending on becoming who you are.”

“If your ego has grown too big to accept and learn from mistakes, it has grown too big.”

Deletability

“Writing deletable code is writing good code.”

Tad

A desktop application for viewing and analyzing tabular data.

New Skype

Enhanced features for free calls and chat.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention

What WebKit’s new feature means for web developers.

Announcing WebVR on Mac via Firefox Nightly

WebVR on Firefox goes cross-platform.

Safari 11.0

WebRTC, WebAssembly, variable fonts, camera/microphone access, and more.

Web Design Museum

Trends in web design between 1996 and 2005.

Getting Systematic About Design Systems

How to lay the groundwork for good design decisions.

Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly!

Chromium’s better fit for high-performance web apps.

Assembling WebAssembly

WebKit’s browser solution to high performance code.

Stripe Sigma

Business insights from your Stripe data.

“I’ve been a web developer for 20 years. When things frustrate me I try to make the platform better, rather than sneering and whining.”

Startup Growth

A comprehensive growth marketing handbook.

The Future of MDN: A Focus on Web Docs

What to expect, and why it’s important.

An intro to web components with otters

What web components are and how to use them.

Design in the Era of the Algorithm

Design principles for AI and data-driven products.

Adopting Flow & TypeScript

The on-boarding process of two type checkers in comparison.

The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques

Results of a survey with hundreds of participants.

Google says 20 percent of mobile queries are voice searches

Voice search growing as virtual assistant market heats up.

A day without Javascript

What happens if you turn off JavaScript in your browser for one day.

Locally Scoped CSS Variables: What, How, and Why

Building clean, modular design systems.

The State Of Advanced Website Builders

“Self-serve website-builder platforms are quietly becoming very powerful.”

Shape Detection API: Detecting barcodes, faces and text inside an image

Amazing features are coming to the web.

2017 Logo Trends

LogoLounge’s 15th annual trend report.

Mirr.io

Turn your Sketch designs into working, shareable prototypes.

Thoughts on Self-Documenting CSS

Are comments in CSS good or bad?

How (Not) to Control Your CDN

“We need to think more carefully about how we use CDN control panels.”

The State of CSS

Let’s say goodbye to some old-fashioned things.

Are Float Labels Really That Problematic After All?

A response to Adam Silver’s piece.

Stop All Social Media Activity (Organic)

Solve for a profitable reality.

What is React?

React terms in plain English and doodles.

flubber

Tools for smoother shape animations.

The Psychology Principles Every UI/UX Designer Needs to Know

User perception explained.

Web Typography

A handbook for designing beautiful and effective responsive typography.

How to Make Your Website Accessible to People Who Use a Screen Magnifier

Do’s and don’ts.

Web Launch Checklist

Performance, SEO, security, accessibility, content, and functionality.

A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development

Everything you wanted to know.

Chrome 60 Beta: Paint Timing API, CSS font-display, and Credential Management API improvements

What’s new for web developers.

Results of the Ultimate CSS Survey 2017

Developer’s practices, habits, knowledge, and understanding of CSS.

The Best Firefox Ever

“The new version of Firefox nails the ‘just right’ balance between memory and speed.”

Voice, Tone & Content Guides

Guidelines from some of the web’s most respected content teams.

The changing culture of web design

How designing for the web has changed over the past 20 years.

SEMrush Ranking Factors Study 2017

What really impacts Google search results.

The Most Efficient Way to Use Icons If You’re A Designer or Developer

The how and the why.

Check out our new look!

Twitter has been redesigned to be more simple, modern, and live.

A Complete Guide To Switching From HTTP To HTTPS

Configurations for shared hosting and web servers.

Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs

Insights from the Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey.

Looper 2.0 sketch plugin

A new way to build beautiful patterns and illustrations.

How To Give Helpful Product Design Feedback

What we owe our colleagues.

“Deploying changes frequently, no matter how small, sends an important heartbeat to your audience. It’s pleasing to watch something evolve.”

Accessibility according to actual people with disabilities

The hardest things about browsing the web.

Responsive Design in Sketch - Part 1

What you can do with the group resizing feature.

“One of the most useful rules I’ve learned in life is to never read anything into someone’s lack of response. People are busy (and lazy).”

coolHue

Handpicked gradient hues and swatches.

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals

”The hard choices are very often exactly what we need to do.”

webpack 3: Official Release

What’s new and what’s next in the JavaScript module bundler.

HTML imports are the best web component

Why they are a compelling way to structure modern web apps.

Roadmap

An easy way to plan projects and manage resources.

Google Introduces Spectral, a New Web Font

A good choice for long, distraction free reads on screens.

Simplifying Reporting Actions in Google Analytics

What’s changing.

Video: Mobile in The Future

“Natural user interfaces are the new bar.”

People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves

Features vs. benefits.

Before You Hit 'Submit,' This Company Has Already Logged Your Personal Data

Companies can monitor the things you don’t send.

sonar

A linting tool for the web, with a strong focus on the developer experience.

7 Questions About User-Research Panels

What to consider for a database of potential research participants.

Powerful New Additions to the CSS Grid Inspector in Firefox Nightly

What’s new in the Firefox Developer Tools Layout panel.

Reimagining the browser as a network OS

How a peer-to-peer protocol can impact the web’s design.

Using CSS variables correctly

“CSS variables will challenge some techniques and thinking we’ve developed over many years.”

Aspect Ratios in CSS are a Hack

Let’s find a proper way to implement them on the web.

Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

The company will show ads that rely on other signals.

12 Super Creative QR Code Designs

Chinese businesses jazz up their WeChat QR codes.

“Just because people make fancy websites now doesn’t mean you can’t make plain old websites anymore. Plain old websites are pretty great.”

Tilt.js

A lightweight parallax tilt effect for jQuery.