Putting users first is not the answer to everything

“Moral needs and our collective needs are as important as user needs.”

Apple Proposes New Accessibility Emojis

Proposals for a future update to the Unicode Standard.

Lazy Loading JavaScript Modules With ConditionerJS

More flexible and user-oriented websites.

“Stop looking at what other companies are doing. Start spending more time with existing/potential customers.”

Check-in rounds

How the start of a meeting can be the beginning of so much more.

Rolling out mobile-first indexing

Google now prefers to index and rank the mobile website versions.

Introducing CodeSandbox Live

Real time code collaboration in the browser.

SVGR

The SVG to JSX transformer.

“Who cares, I have nothing to hide”

Why the popular response to online privacy is so flawed.

CSS Variables Are A Sometimes Food

“Sass and CSS variables should have completely different use-cases.”

Using Ethics In Web Design

A basis of an ethical framework for design decisions.

Facebook Container Extension

Take control of how you’re being tracked.

Update on Async Rendering

The future of asynchronous rendering in React.

“I’m starting to realize it’s best to assume that the average user will ignore everything actually written in your documentation, and instead blindly copy and paste code snippets until things magically work.”

Collection of CSS snippets

Favorite CSS snippets people use regularly.

Charles for iOS

The popular web debugging proxy is now also available on iOS.

It’s Time to Make Our Privacy Tools Easier to Find

Facebook introduces more intuitive privacy controls.

The Definitive Solopreneur Content Curation Guide

How to keep your brand visible, even if your resources are limited.

Progressive Web Apps on iOS are here

What you need to know if you already have a Progressive Web App.

Here’s everything I’ve learned from designing 10,000+ UI screens as a lead product designer

Do’s and don’ts.

New in Darkroom: Depth Editing, Extended-Range RAW Editing & App-Wide Refinements

Update of the iOS photo editing tool.

Introducing TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning in Javascript

Define, train, and run machine learning models in the browser.

feedBase

The top 100 ranked feeds in the feedBase database.

Overflow

Turn your designs into playable user flow diagrams that tell a story.

JavaScript in 14 minutes

An interactive crash course to learn the basics of JavaScript.

Mobbin

A hand-picked collection of latest design patterns from mobile apps.

How Dark Patterns Trick You Online

A short video with many examples of manipulative user interfaces.

“Most project management software is designed for how we wish projects ran. This is why we all end up in spreadsheets. Spreadsheets don’t even assume a project is actually happening.”

Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service

Cloudflare’s encrypted DNS service.

ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive

What support for ES modules in all major browsers means.

Storyboarder

Visualize your story idea without making a movie.

How to Present Your Design to Stakeholders

“Stakeholders don’t care about design principles.”

Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed

Jen Simmons’ talk about Intrinsic Web Design.

“You’ll always have the right to change your mind. It’s a byproduct of learning.”

Practical tips to bring your website to life

Breathing life into digital products.

In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible

What do we want design to be?

The Comprehensive Guide to JavaScript Design Patterns

Reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems.

“‘We should A/B test that’ is a really expensive way to disagree.”

Attack Of The Micro Brands

The long-tail impact of direct-to-consumer brands.

The death of the newsfeed

Why social apps can’t solve the problem of information overload.

Swipe Views with CSS Snap Points

Building a more efficient mobile web navigation

Transitioning Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links

Google is ending its URL Shortener.

Where Searches Happen on the Web (Google, Amazon, Facebook, & Beyond)

Is Google gaining or losing ground in search?

Bringing CSS smarts to Sketch

Introducing Stackswell, a plugin that streamlines repetitive tasks.

Lazy Loading Images and Video

How to reduce load times and payloads on your web site.

Calling all web developers: here’s why you should be using Firefox

“Firefox Quantum has a superior performance compared to other browsers.”

Beautiful and functional interfaces: Bridging the two worlds

Why beauty matters.

ColorBlindSim

Experience the world as color blinds do, right in your browser.

Stripe Billing

Billing and subscriptions for fast-growing businesses.

Creating Themeable Design Systems

Design systems + CSS Zen Garden = Awesome.

How to Efficiently Design Everything at the Last Minute

Twelve steps to procrastinate like a professional.

Pitfalls of Card UIs

An optimistic design choice that ends up compounding complexity.

Color Contrast Crash Course for Interface Design

How to achieve the accessibility standards outlined in the WCAG 2.0.

Twitter to developers: Please love us again… please?

Twitter is working to renew its relationship with developers.

Trunk

Collaborate on design files with your entire team.

“The Compromise”

A modern but compatible font loading strategy.

Are Mobile Pop-Ups Dying? Are They Even Worth Saving?

Why they can still play a vital role if you use them wisely.

“Other people’s success is not your failure. You’ll be so much happier if you learn to celebrate the achievements of other people as well as your own.”

Google Confirms Chrome Usage Data Used to Measure Site Speed

What this may mean for users.

Tomorrow’s ES Modules Today!

The ECMAScript module loader for Node 6+ is ready.

Design Systems Repo

A collection of design system resources: examples, articles, tools and talks.

Words That Convert: Test, Learn, Repeat

“Don’t assume which words convert.”

How Mobile-First Indexing Disrupts the Link Graph

Google’s shift may have some unexpected impacts.

What is my day rate?

Don’t sell yourselves under your market value for freelance work.

Seven principles of effective digital navigation

What to keep in mind when designing a navigation.

Publishers Haven't Realized Just How Big a Deal GDPR is

What the new EU General Data Protection Regulation really means.

Introducing the Accessibility Inspector in the Firefox Developer Tools

Inspect your site’s exposure to assistive technologies.

New WebKit Features in Safari 11.1

Service Worker API, Payment Request, Beacon API, and more.

GT Super

A typeface with text and display styles inspired from the 70′s and 80′s.

Firefox 11.0 for iOS arrives with tracking protection on by default

The feature improves privacy, but also performance.

Web apps are only getting better

Progressive Web Apps, WebAssembly, and Houdini.

780+ Free Vector Emoji

A collection of cute emoji.

How to Create High‑Quality GIFs

Two GIF creation tools with a workflow for each.

“It’s not about whether your organization values ‘design.’ It’s about whether your organization truly values humans.”

Designing very large (JavaScript) applications

What enables you to choose the right abstractions.

Front-End Developer Handbook 2018

The current practice of front-end engineering.

VuePress

Minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator.

Scroll to the future

A whirlwind tour of the latest CSS and JavaScript features.

Front-End Design Checklist

A tool to facilitate the collaboration of designers and developers.

URLs, Crawling, and PageRank; Fundamentals of SEO

It’s all about the URL.

Hyper 2

A new release of the HTML/JS/CSS terminal is out.

Fathom Analytics

What if website analytics software was simple and trustworthy?

Sayspring is now part of Adobe

Free creation of interactive prototypes for voice applications.

How browsers position floats

An interactive demo that goes through the algorithm.

Facebook Container for Firefox

Prevent Facebook from seeing what websites you visit.

Why it's finally time to give up on the name JavaScript

Trademark and other problems with the language’s nomenclature.

Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need

“UX is not an excuse for lack of visual identity.”

“A designer who doesn’t understand psychology is going to be no more successful than an architect who doesn’t understand physics.”

Open Standards for Data

How to create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

Editorial Design and CSS Grid: Inspiration and examples

“CSS Grid brings editorial design to web design.”

FoundationDB is Open Source

Apple’s distributed datastore starts its next chapter.

Svelte v2 is out!

Templates converted into framework-less vanilla JavaScript.

Track JavaScript errors in Google Analytics

How to shed light on what’s breaking and where.

Grasshopper

The coding app that teaches beginners to write real JavaScript in a fun way.

Xenographics

A collection of unusual visualizations, charts, and maps.

VS Code can do that?!

A growing collection of handy tips and tricks for the popular code editor.

Calibre CLI

Performance monitoring right from the command line.

What Do the New Twitter Rules Mean for Social Media Managers

Twitter might suspend your account if you fail to comply.

Layers and how to force them

What you should know about the CSS will-change property.

Introducing sonarwhal v1: The linting tool for the web

Microsoft releases its first major version.