A new way to reduce font loading impact: CSS font descriptors

Upcoming font options can help improve web performance.

Introducing Stark for Chrome

A suite of accessibility tools for developers and QA testers.

New research study on small catalog, direct-to-consumer UX

What to consider when selling products directly to your end customers.

CSS container queries for designers

A long-requested CSS feature will change the way web designers work.

Stripe Payment Links

Sell stuff online without a website, with 0 lines of code.

The state of serverless

Serverless has gained traction among organizations of all sizes.

What’s new for Microsoft Edge at Microsoft Build 2021

Better performance, PWAs in the Microsoft Store, and more.

One startup’s quest to reinvent the web browser

What the browser of the future might look like.

Behind the design: Firefox’s new look

Redesigned to bring you a modern and calm web experience.

Twitter tests new ‘Super Followers’ display ahead of program launch

Get ready for a new way to monetize your content.

25 Years of CSS

At the time when CSS was still largely vaporware.

What’s new with Web Stories in 2021?

New features of Google’s immersive storytelling format.

Why user-centred design struggles with ethics

It’s time for an opinionated but flexible model of design.

Email marketing: The definitive guide

The digital marketing practice of communicating with customers by email.

Sparkplug

A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler will be released with V8 v9.1.

“We really can’t say ‘that’s a great UX’ or ‘this is intuitive’ without asking first who it’s for and what problem it is supposed to solve.”

WCAG 2.2 nears completion with further Draft updates

Summary of the recent changes to the draft.

Boring Avatars

Playground to generate random avatars based on user names.

Twitter’s coming ‘Twitter Blue’ subscription offering is slowly taking shape

What to expect from the paid subscription service.

QUIC is now RFC 9000

A big deal, both for the IETF and for the internet ecosystem.

Community Hub: JavaScript at Microsoft

Everything from Microsoft for JavaScript developers.

Hello Halftones

An online tool to create and download halftone patterns from images.

Dinamo Font Gauntlet

An online tool to proof, generate, and animate (Variable) Fonts.

Disabling a link

An easy way to disable a link that will not result in a quirky user experience.

A practical guide to inclusive research

The why and how to make your UX research practice more inclusive.

The future of ads and privacy

A balance between commercial profit and public benefit is critical.

Are you infringing a patent if you publish a PWA?

An “inventor” claims you need to pay a license to publish a PWA.

AVPress

An in-browser video compressor for MP4, WEBM, GIF.

2021 logo trend report

This year is about drama: comedy, tragedy and satire.

9 ways to get more email survey responses

How to send surveys email your subscribers want to fill out.

“The most satisfying thing in design is eyeballing the placement of the object, and later discovering it was perfectly placed.”

“A personal website is really the perfect side project: try out new ideas, learn new things playground.”

Responsive design and container queries? Oh my!

The practice of responsive design continues to evolve.

Modern, clean new Firefox clears the way to all you need online

A new Firefox experience across your devices.

The evolution and redefinition of the Jamstack

What Jamstack once was and what it is today.

Screenshots made easy with the Firefox screenshot feature

An easy way to capture screenshots of web pages.

Always provide a submit button adjacent to the search field on mobile

21% of mobile e-commerce websites failed to provide one.

JavaScript Notes & Reference

A quick reference for all the different parts of JavaScript.

The hidden world of aria-hidden

Be careful when you hide stuff from screen reader users.

Cognitive bias and the design process

Let’s avoid that our own bias creep into the design process.

Early status of the FLoC origin trials

A first look at the new advertising proposal from Google.

Automatic HTTPS helps keep your browsing more secure

What to expect from Microsoft Edge’s Automatic HTTPS.

Building multiple Progressive Web Apps on the same domain

Pros and cons of different approaches.

Kinda a big announcement

Stack Overflow is joining Prosus, an investment and holding company.

The perfect link

How to write, design, and code links that works for everyone on every device.

The ultimate guide to giving virtual presentations on Zoom

How to communicate to invisible audiences through a laptop screen.

Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly

A new wave of JavaScript peformance optimization is coming.

Introducing Twitter Blue

Twitter’s first-ever subscription offering.

CSS for Web Vitals

The many ways to improve performance and Web Vitals with CSS.

What's new in DevTools (Chrome 92)

CSS grid editor, network panel updates, and more.

Open Source Insights

A tool to gain insight into package dependencies.

I helped pioneer UX design. What I see today horrifies me

Where did we go wrong?

Dark patterns that mislead consumers are all over the internet

Take a quiz to see if you can spot the dark patterns.

NocoDB

An open source platform that turns a database into a smart spreadsheet.

CSS Layout Generator

A tool to create layout components with CSS Grid and Flexbox.

Moz acquired by iContact Marketing Corp

iContact, the email marketing company, expands into the SEO space.

What’s new in PHP 8.1

New features, performance improvements, changes and deprecations.

Lighthouse Treemap

See what’s in the JavaScript you ship and find where you can trim.

yare.io

A real-time strategy game where you control your units via JavaScript.

Forming the WebExtensions Community Group

Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla initiate group to standardize browser plug-ins.

CSS morphing

Word morphing with pure CSS is great!

“Reminder not to compare yourself to others. We all have a different starting point, different needs, different wants, different perceptions of what constitutes as success along different vectors.”

“Remote work enables disabled folks. Remote work enables caregivers. Remote work enables folks from poverty.”

The right tag for the job

Why you should use semantic HTML.

Want a killer product? Become more opinionated

How you can compete against a successful product.

Does fixing old broken links still matter to SEO?

Why it might not work and what you can do about it.

An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding

Important non-coding traits of senior engineers.

The web we choose to build

Principles for user-centred front-end development.

Learn SEO in 2021: The beginner’s guide to SEO

Your first steps into becoming an SEO enthusiast or professional.

Safari 15 beta release notes

WebGL 2, Grid Inspector, CSS aspect-ratio, tab colors, and more.

CSS ‘inset’ property

A shorthand for ‘position’ to combine all directions.

What’s new in Lighthouse 8.0?

New highlights in Google’s tool to improve the quality of web pages.

Fastest growing remote work hubs of 2021

The trending places to live and work remotely right now.

Generating ‘font-size’ CSS rules and creating a fluid type scale

Let’s take the mystery out of sizing type.

“‘The Cloud’ is in fact just spicy shared hosting.”

WordPress 5.8 adds WebP support

The CMS now supports a modern alternative to JPG and PNG.

What can the HTTP Archive tell us about Largest Contentful Paint?

Performance optimization of a page’s most significant content matters.

The Plan for React 18

What’s coming next for the popular JavaScript UI library.

New styling tools in Adobe XD

More ways to shape, color, and shade your designs in Adobe’s UI/UX tool.

Fix Contrast

A browser extension that automatically increases contrast on sites.

The 4 biggest UI trends shaping Apple’s future

What Apple’s recent product announcements have revealed.

Introducing Astro: Ship less JavaScript

An innovative static site builder with a modern developer experience.

New CSS functional pseudo-class selectors :is() and :where()

Small additions to CSS selector syntax are going to have a big impact.

Keywords in Sheets

Google Sheets scripts for SEO with templates and instructions.

Real-world CSS vs CSS-in-JS performance comparison

Runtime CSS-in-JS can have a noticeable impact on your webpage.

Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?

How Mail Protection Privacy will force the email economy to adapt.

“I love when someone cancels a meeting same day. If you do this, don’t apologize, you are my favorite person for a few minutes.”

“Hope” wakes

What if UX was a movement instead of a profession?

How to build better digital experiences with UX writing principles

Key principles of UX writing illustrated by examples.

Stripe Tax

One less worry when you want to sell your products in more countries.

“It’s important to download small viruses to your computer to help it build immunity.”

Let’s learn about aspect ratio in CSS

The new way of making consistent ratios for responsive elements.

CMS market share analysis

The main winners in the current market: WordPress and Shopify.

Reasons why bugs might feel “impossible”

What if the debugger stops the bug from happening?

Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome

Chrome continues to display the full URLs in the address bar.

Media Queries in times of @container

Can we soon drop media queries for responsive designs?

Serving sharp images to high density screens

The ‘lazy’ vs the ‘proper’ way of serving sharp images.

target=blank

The astonishing difference between target=“_blank” and target=“blank”.

Remote Repositories

Access to GitHub repositories directly from within Visual Studio Code.

DevTools Tips

Productivity tips and tricks in DevTools, for all browsers.