How To Work With Developers

A guide for non-developers.

Login Critter

An animated avatar that responds to text field interactions.

Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming

It’s time for that to change.

Ghost Buttons and Hollow Objects: Line Art is Thriving

Why this trend is still very much alive.

Twist

A calm, organized, and productive way to work together.

Duotones

Create beautiful duotone color pairings and effects.

Google Sending Mobile First Indexing Enabled Notices via Google Search Console

The emails have begun…

What’s new in Microsoft Edge in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update

Service Workers, Push, Screen Capture, and more.

MDX

A fully-featured MDX parser, loader and JSX renderer.

How to Design Better Social Media

Let’s make social platforms better for society and humanity.

Opera Touch

Seamless web browsing across your devices, made to be used on the go.

The Present Future of User Interface Development

Why React is the winning ticket (for now).

Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS

Another step towards making the web more secure.

Square to buy Weebly for $365 million

The deal enables small businesses to build websites and online stores.

Web Payments update: new payment apps on their way

Samsung Pay news.

“‘Should designer’s code?’ To which I respond: Define ‘design’. Then define ‘designer’. Then define ‘code’.”

Top 10 Design Mistakes in the Unsubscribe Experience

“Canceling email subscriptions should be a one-click process.”

A Guide To The State Of Print Stylesheets In 2018

How we can best create that second experience.

Google and HTTP

The web is an open platform, not a corporate platform.

A new Twitter experience on Windows

Better, faster and with a more consistent look and feel.

Introducing Dojo 2.0!

“An incredibly ergonomic and efficient way to build modern web apps.”

“I don’t want to work with a ‘Code Ninja’, they leave a bloody mess. I want to work with a ‘Code Janitor’, you only know they were there because everything is organized and tidy.”

“Beautiful prototyping tools are distracting designers into creating beautiful interactions over beautiful products.”

Display: Contents Is Not a CSS Reset

Why the quick and dirty CSS reset is troublesome.

cssgr.id

An interactive CSS Grid code tool and generator.

Stories are about to surpass feed sharing. Now what?

The phenomenal rise of the Stories format in social media.

Lobe

Build deep learning models using a simple visual interface.

Keeping your account secure

Twitter has found a bug that stored passwords unmasked.

Priority Guides: A Content-First Alternative to Wireframes

Make sure you always stay focused on what’s important.

Stack Overflow for Teams

Private questions and answers in a searchable archive.

Your Google Analytics Advanced Segments Are Going Away This Month

Unless you do this.

Emojityper

Find emojis, just type some words.

GitHub Contributions Chart Generator

All your contributions in one image for use in social media.

The Ultimate Guide to Font Sizes in UI Design

Platforms, principles, and resources.

New Data Retention Policies in Google Analytics

What it means and why it’s important.

Feelings Wheel

How do you feel today? The emotional vocabulary at a glance.

New Thinking: Brain Traffic’s Content Strategy Quad

Let’s take a closer look.

Microsoft launches new audience network, ‘Audience Ads’ at Bing Partner Summit

What it means for marketers.

The Surprising Science Behind Colour Codes

A look behind 5 commonly used color codes in Design.

Unique

Easily design your own custom fonts in a few steps.

Sublime Text 3.1 Released

What’s new in the popular code editor.

Are you really Facebook’s product?

We have the power to demand change.

Introducing Visual Studio IntelliCode

AI-assisted development.

“Being A Programmer basically requires you to deal with extended periods of feeling like a moron punctuated by brief periods of feeling like a goddamn genius.”

GDPR made searchable

Chapters, articles and recitals of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Android P

A first look at Google’s most ambitious update in years.

Google Duplex

An AI system for accomplishing real world tasks over the phone.

A guide to JavaScript Regular Expressions

Important concepts illustrated with examples.

Envify

Firefox add-on to change tab colors for different development environments.

“We seem to have a surplus of people with ideas for tearing things down and a deficit of people with ideas for making things more resilient.”

Write emails faster with Smart Compose in Gmail

Faster email drafts, assisted by artificial intelligence.

Making More with Material

Google’s design language continues to evolve.

The GDPR Checklist

Achieving GDPR Compliance shouldn’t feel like a struggle.

The Front-End Tooling Survey 2018

What tools frontend developers are using.

Fieldtrip

Design, UX, tech, innovation and marketing conferences.

New CSS Features That Are Changing Web Design

The design landscape has changed completely.

Firefox 60: Modules and More

What’s new for web developers.

Introducing Hadron

A tool for designing through code that makes it visual.

Lighthouse

An automated tool for improving the quality of web pages.

I Used The Web For A Day With JavaScript Turned Off

Why ‘noscript’ matters.

Sunsetting Klout

The once popular measures for social influence are soon gone.

Alternative analytics

Who said that there are no other web analytics tools?

Material Theme Editor

Create and customize your Material theme in Sketch.

Introducing the Microsoft Edge DevTools Protocol

A set of APIs to diagnose and debug Microsoft Edge tabs.

Segmented type appreciation corner

The fascination of segmented typography: not quite vectors, not quite pixels.

The Tarot Cards Of Tech

Unintended consequences of technology: ask the right questions.

“Your resumé shouldn’t be a listing of everything you’ve done. It should tell a story about your passions and experience.”

Favstar says it will shut down June 19 as a result of Twitter’s API changes

A pioneer in Twitter analytics is calling it quits.

The 10 SEO ranking factors we know to be true

How important each factor is and the evidence we have for it.

Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now

Why you should disable PGP/GPG and S/MIME for now.

How to Earn Google Featured Snippets for Mobile

Findings of a large-scale study.

CSS Doodle

A web component for drawing patterns with CSS.

Web Performance Budgets are more than mere thresholds

They can help us to prioritize features.

May 2018 Update of Adobe XD

Adobe’s UX design application is now available for free.

Tweetbot for Mac

The popular Twitter app with a lot of new features, including a dark theme.

Get a Font Pack for your next project

Adobe/TypeKit now offers ready to use font collections.

A Strategy Guide To CSS Custom Properties

The huge potential of CSS variables.

LayoutIt

Visual interface builder for CSS Grid.

Google Search Console: The Definitive Guide

Tips, tactics, and strategies to get higher rankings.

What is GDPR, and why should designers care?

Europe’s regulation will make privacy a mandatory design principle.

The Slow Death of Internet Explorer and the Future of Progressive Enhancement

How to be future-friendly and backward compatible.

Evolution of Android Homescreen and Navigation

How key features have changed over the last ten years.

Responsive tables, revisited

Pros and cons of two new ways for doing responsive tables.

BundlePhobia

Find the cost of adding a npm package to your bundle.

New in Firefox 61: Developer Edition

Better developer tools, accessibility inspector, improved dark theme.

CSS Grid: Responsive layouts and components

Let’s make a photo gallery responsive quickly.

The headers we don't want

Unnecessary http headers, and what we can do about it.

The backdrop-filter CSS property

Create a faded background effect with a single line of CSS.

CSS !important and What We Can Use for It

Do’s and don’ts.

Houdini's CSS Paint Polyfill

A polyfill for the CSS Paint API.

How to display a ‘new version available’ for a Progressive Web App

Tutorial and demo.

CSS abuse

Why would they do that in pure CSS? Because they can.

curtains.js

A WebGL JavaScript library to animate images and videos.

How not to write an error message

Even the most well-meaning messages can go wrong.

The evolution of typography with variable fonts: an introduction

The promise for web design is ground-breaking.

VS Notepad

How to quickly turn Visual Studio Code into a notepad.

“Design like you’re right, test like you’re wrong.”

How to preload Google Fonts using resource hints

You can, but perhaps you shouldn’t.

howdoesitlookonsocial?

Check how your web page looks like when it is posted on social media.

User Deletion API

An overview of the Google Analytics User Deletion API.