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.”

HTML5 DRM finally makes it as an official W3C Recommendation

30.8% of W3C members disapproved of the decision.

An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership

EFF is resigning from the W3C over DRM.

Writing CSS with Accessibility in Mind

Let’s put a little more accessibility consideration in our websites.

Figma’s reimagined Team Library

The digital design tool is now also an asset management solution.

Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today

“It’s time we start publishing our modules as ES2015.”

Announcing GitHub Desktop 1.0

The final release of the redesigned GitHub Desktop on Electron.

Exciting New Things for iOS 11

What’s new in the popular task manager.

What is UX Writing?

What it is, how it works, and how to get into it.

New Google link study shows links are as important as ever for ranking well in search

Results of a link study done three years in a row.

Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions

New ways to work with the project management tool.

A Historical Look at FOUT and FOIT

The history of default web font loading behaviors.

One Million robots.txt Files

There is more to know about robots.txt than you thought.

How Github became the web's largest font piracy site (and how to fix it)

What people often forget to do.

Chrome breaks visual viewport, again

What happened and what it means for web developers.

When the big links aren’t on the table this is the link building advice you need to read

What to do.

Chrome 62 Beta

Network Quality Estimator API, OpenType variable fonts, and media capture from DOM elements.

Tracking Protection for Firefox for iOS Plus Multi-Tasking in Focus for Android New Today

The latest mobile versions of Firefox.

UI Design for iPhone X: Bottom Elements

The impact of the curved screen on iOS UI design.

Modern JavaScript Cheatsheet

JavaScript concepts and terminology explained.

Designing Websites for iPhone X

How to use the whole edge-to-edge screen for your website.

Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js

Facebook relicenses the projects under the MIT license.

Limbo

An anonymous job platform for candidates and companies.

Fun with Mo.js

Playful demos of motion graphics for the web.

The Difference Between Open-Minded and Close-Minded People

“The ability to change your mind is a superpower.”

Marvin Visions

A typeface with character, made to stand out.

How I got to 200 productive hours a month

Introducing a robust framework to change ineffective habits.

Web Font Optimization at NerdWallet

Choosing a font loading strategy.

Netflix, Microsoft, and Google just quietly changed how the web works

The moment the users fought back and lost.

Exploring Adaptive Interfaces

How they smartly morph to meet their users’ needs.

Good Web Design

A landing page pattern library for marketers and designers.

Duplicate Content SEO Advice From Google

How to identify and deal with problematic website content.

But sometimes links look like buttons (and buttons look like links)

Why small gains can make a big difference.

Why Does Great Content Not Get Seen?

How to improve your chances of building a bigger audience.

Spotify for typographers font library launches

Letrs’ cloud and subscription-based font catalogue.