Upcoming Regular Expression Features

Making regular expressions even more powerful.

Adopting Design Systems

A playbook for working with product teams and managers.

Analysis of Link Building Outreach: What Signals Success?

A look at some examples.

Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS

The rapid march towards a ‘secure by default’ web.

20 Lesser-Known Tools for Smart Content Creators

Headline analyzers, research resources, meme-makers, and more.

“I see ‘Agile’ being used as an excuse for no strategy, no plan. Just do lots of crap quickly. ‘Fail fast! It’s Agile!’ Uh, no thank you.”

Ubuntu now available from the Windows Store!

SUSE and Fedora will also be ready soon.

Designing Adaptive Icons

Android’s new app icon format explained.

URLs are UI

Why you should also care about your URLs.

Introducing npx: an npm package runner

The new tool is part of the npm 5.2.0 release.

Abstract

Collaboration platform for designers, a version-controlled 
hub for design files.

Security updates for all active release lines, July 2017

Node.js users should upgrade as soon as possible.

Cargo

Web publishing tools to service the design and creative communities.

Design for offline

The next evolutionary step in good UX design.

Does my site need HTTPS?

Short answer: yes, your site needs HTTPS.

Abstract is Git for Designers we’ve all been waiting for!

How your typical workflow will look like.

“So often when people thank me for helping, the truth is I listened and they did everything themselves.”

Let’s Talk About Speech CSS

CSS speech’s history, limitations, and potential.

GTM Bot

Automated Google Tag Manager setups.

Design Resources

Curated resources for working in and learning about design.

PSD to Sketch file converter

Convert your Photoshop design to a Sketch file.

The Design Sprint hammer

What design sprints are good for, and where they fall down.

Making Good Decisions as a Product Manager

Why your goal shouldn’t be to always make the right decision.

reproCSS

A CSS reprocessor using ‘style’ tags.

Stop Using Resets

“CSS resets, as well as normalizers, are quite practically useless.”

Sass 3.5 is Released

Lots of CSS compatibility stuff, and a few new goodies.

PWA Directory: Loading content faster in the Application Shell

How it works.

Methods to Organize CSS

Approaches to writing scalable and maintainable CSS.

Who moved my cheese, 1Password?

“1Password is aggressively pushing a software as a service model.”

Designing interactive experiences

The ‘what, when and how’ of interactive prototyping.

“They say a good craftsman never blames their tools, but a good toolmaker never blames their user.”

“2005: I’m a web designer. 2009: I’m a UI designer. 2011: I’m a UX designer. 2014: I’m a product designer. 2021: I’m an experience sommelier.”

“There’s a special place in hell for services that require log in to unsubscribe from their newsletter.”

“Downside of a successful launch: You quickly forget how much work went into it.”

JavaScript really is overtaking the world

Let’s recap what the three front end technologies are.

Implementing Webmentions

The web standard for mentions and conversations across the web.

Updated Empathy Map Canvas

What’s new in the tool for design teams to understand other people better.

Content isn't king

Music and books, even TV, don’t matter much to tech anymore.

“My favorite part of programming is when you sit completely still, in total silence, with your head in your hands, trying to remember math.”

Contrast

A Mac app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios.

Apple previews new emoji coming later this year

More ways for users to express themselves.

Sketch Material

A sketch plugin to generate complex material components.

What To Do If Your Product Isn’t Growing

How ‘Critical User Journeys’ can help a product take off.

Google beta testing brand-new Google Search Console design

Screen shots of the new user interface.

Preview Storage API in Firefox Nightly

The feature is now ready for testing.

Human-Centered Machine Learning

Google’s way to design Machine Learning-driven products.

Disabled buttons suck

“Disabled buttons are gruesome things that will ruin your users’ day.”

Google Glass 2.0 Is a Startling Second Act

Factories and warehouses will be Glass’s path to redemption.

Transmit 5

The popular FTP client is now faster, sleeker, and connects to more cloud services.

Unlocking true collaboration around design

Meet Kactus, an open source version control tool for designers.

Facets: An Open Source Visualization Tool for Machine Learning Training Data

What it is and how it works.

Flow

A typeface built for wireframing to create abstracted placeholder content.

Gifmock

Easily create high-quality GIFs from your mockups.

CSS

“Using CSS at scale has a learning curve, just like any powerful technology.”

Service Worker gotchas

Everything you need to know about implementing Service Worker.

Bash-Snippets

A collection of small bash scripts for heavy terminal users.

Binary AST proposal for ECMAScript

A new over-the-wire format for JavaScript to speed up code parsing.

What the Internet’s Best ‘About Us’ Pages Can Teach Brands

Brands that may have the blueprint for success.

“Idea: reality show titled ‘Keeping up with the JavaScripts’. Featuring lots of developers having identity crisis, flipping tables, etc.”

Firefox marketshare revisited

“Google is aggressively using its monopoly position to advertise Chrome.”

OnPage.org becomes Ryte.com

Monitoring, analysis and optimization of digital assets.

Google Analytics rolling out ‘ask a question’ to get answers instantaneously

Say hello to Analytics Intelligence.

How To Persuade Landing Page Visitors To Convert

Turn incoming visitors into leads and customers.

10 things they didn’t tell you about design management

The reality is often very different to the perception.

To Grow Faster, Hit Pause - and Ask These Questions from Stripe’s COO

Guidelines about how to approach phases of growth.

Experimenting with the background fetch API

It’s going to be useful for VR, video and audio applications.

Container queries

“I’d love to see some movement on container queries.”

Ten Things A Serious JavaScript Developer Should Learn

What you need to know and understand.

On Password Managers

Do we really want a subscription-based solution?

“I find writing to be one of the most physically exhausting forms of creativity.”

“As a content strategist, all I want is for companies to put their customer in the center of everything. Better business will follow.”

savee

Moodboards and image collections for your inspiration.

So you want to decentralize your website

How a Dat website works.

You're Offline

Ways to improve the user experience of your website when viewed offline.

Why display: contents is not CSS Grid Layout subgrid

A look at the different use cases.

Pure UI Control

The design of the control states.

The Curious Comeback of the Dreaded QR Code

“QR codes aren’t a failure from the past. They’re the future.”

Forget going viral. Here’s how to create work that lasts forever

The money isn’t in hits.

The Future of Design (and how to prepare for it)

What to expect next in the design world.

Enhancing CSS Layout: From Floats To Flexbox To Grid

Let’s get the best out of CSS Grid as soon as possible.

pik

A new lossy image format for the internet.

The vital role of user research in design

“Investing in user research is going to be paramount to your success.”

Feedback for Teams

How to give and receive feedback.

So long, and thanks for all the Flash

“We strongly encourage sites that still rely on Flash to make the move to HTML.”

The End of an Era - Next Steps for Adobe Flash

“We will phase out Flash from Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer.”

We now have a community-approved Progressive Web Apps logo!

How the unofficial PWA logo looks like.

Critical CSS and Webpack: Automatically Minimize Render-Blocking CSS

How to delegate critical CSS to your Webpack pipeline.

(Now More Than Ever) You Might Not Need jQuery

Some new vanilla alternatives to jQuery methods.

Information Architecture Lenses

How different perspectives can help your IA practice.

A Rather Comprehensive Collection of Design Podcasts

Discover the right podcast for you.

Figma Wants Designers to Collaborate Google-Docs Style

What the startup makes better than its competitors.

Firefox’s blazing speed with huge numbers of tabs leaves Chrome in the dust

New beta of Mozilla’s browser is a power user’s dream.

Google has dropped Google Instant Search

The company makes search more inline with mobile devices.

Grabient

Gradient generator with CSS and Sketch exports.

Animating with CSS Variables

How CSS variables can enhance your CSS animations.

Detect if your Native app is installed from your web site

Chrome comes with a new API.

Is your site as mobile friendly as you think?

Where things can go wrong with a responsive website.

Announcing Ghost 1.0

The open source blogging platform comes with a new editor and more.

Chromeless Playground

Headless Chrome right from your browser.

Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to future of the web

The problem with PWAs.