10 Best Free Avatar and Character Creator Apps
26.11.2019
Illustrations of various kinds and sizes have been dominating website design for a while. From abstract (almost absurd) drawings to genuine artworks featuring people in offices and other workplaces,...
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An Introduction to the Picture-in-Picture Web API
26.11.2019
Picture-in-Picture made its first appearance on the web in the Safari browser with the release of macOS Sierra in 2016. It made it possible for a user to pop a video out into a small floating window that stays above all others, so that they can keep watching while doing other things. It’s an idea...
Product Search and Filters Are a Snap With WooCommerce
26.11.2019
Let's say you visit an e-commerce site because you want to buy the latest banana peeler model. Bananas are hard enough to peel, right? Only a tool will do!
What's the first thing you're going to do on the site? Chances are, it's entering something into the (hopefully) prominent search field....
WDRL — Edition 277: Request with Intent, Small Differences, Self Organisation and Accessible Cards
26.11.2019
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what makes a good product? Well, it’s more than a great idea. It’s all the little details, from how you do product management, who much you care about accessibility, usability, good performance, caching to typographic details. It all makes the difference. We can choose where to put...
Creating a Distorted Mask Effect on an Image with Babylon.js and GLSL
26.11.2019
Learn the basics of GLSL while creating a distorted mask effect on images using Babylon.js.
Creating a Distorted Mask Effect on an Image with Babylon.js and GLSL was written by Francesco Michelini and published on Codrops
Mirror Android Device to Computer
26.11.2019
As I continue my adventure into Android development, pair programming has been a huge help in learning this new platform. When it’s time to build and run the app, relying on the emulator is a fools’ game — the emulator is slow and it’s hard to reliably simulate gestures....
The Popeye Moment
25.11.2019
Frank Chimero is redesigning "in the open" and we should pay attention to it because (1) we should listen to anything Frank has to say because he's a great designer and writer and (2) working in public is awesome.
But the gut punch for me in this opening article is the way Frank pulls zero punches...
Playing Sounds with CSS
25.11.2019
CSS is the domain of styling, layout, and presentation. It is full of colors, sizes, and animations. But did you know that it could also control when a sound plays on a web page?
This article is about a little trick to pull that off. It’s actually a strict implementation of the HTML and CSS,...
Collective #568
25.11.2019
Global Design Survey 2019 * HexaBeat * Creepyface * Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems * Print To CSS
Collective #568 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Image Lazy Loading
25.11.2019
Lazy loading images is a practice that’s been popular for a decade and for good reason: images are usually the heaviest downloads on a given webpage and avoiding unloading images that are never seen saves the user bandwidth. There are plugins for lazy loading images in every JavaScript...
We are Programmers
22.11.2019
Building websites is programming. Writing HTML and CSS is programming. I am a programmer, and if you're here, reading CSS-Tricks, chances are you're a programmer, too.
The thing is, the details in programming layout with CSS are different, for example, than the details in programming API endpoints...
The New Good Ol’ Days
22.11.2019
Eighteen years into this game, I love to reminisce back to the good ol’ days of the early to mid-2000s when there was an explosion of creativity on the web. It felt fresh and unbridled, with boundaries expected to be pushed at every turn, and they were. This was mainly down to one thing, the thing...