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Better Form Inputs for Better Mobile User Experiences
17.4.2020
Here’s one simple, practical way to make apps perform better on mobile devices: always configure HTML input fields with the correct type, inputmode, and autocomplete attributes. While these three attributes are often discussed in isolation, they make the most sense in the context of mobile user...
Creating Color Themes With Custom Properties, HSL, and a Little calc()
16.4.2020
Before the advent of CSS custom properties (we might call them “variables” in this article as that’s the spirit of them), implementing multiple color schemes on the same website usually meant writing separate stylesheets. Definitely not the most maintainable thing in the world. Nowadays, though,...
Amid User Concerns, KuCoin Highlights That It Has Other Domains
16.4.2020
After users in its Telegram channel expressed concerns about the lock placed on KuCoin’s website, the exchange shared that it has three other backup domains
Create a Responsive CSS Motion Path? Sure We Can!
15.4.2020
There was a discussion recently on the Animation at Work Slack: how could you make a CSS motion path responsive? What techniques would be work? This got me thinking.
A CSS motion path allows us to animate elements along custom user-defined paths. Those paths follow the same structure as SVG paths....
ShapeShift Acquires Non-Custodial Wallet Provider to Expand User Access to DeFi
15.4.2020
Following the acquisition, ShapeShift users will have integrated access to multiple decentralized finance applications and services
Nym Blockchain Privacy Mixnet Opens for User Testing
10.4.2020
Nym testnet invites public to run mix-nodes and collectively solve internet privacy crisis
Facebook Sues User for Cloaking Ads for Fake COVID-19 News and Crypto Scams
9.4.2020
Facebook and Instagram sue user for cloaking ads for fake COVID-19 news and crypto scams, sneaking them past reviewers
Creating Scheduled Push Notifications
8.4.2020
Scheduled is the key word there — that’s a fairly new thing! When a push notification is scheduled (i.e. “Take your pill” or “You’ve got a flight in 3 hours”) that means it can be shown to the user even if they’ve gone offline. That’s an improvement from the past where push notification...
High Court Delivers Judgement on User Assets at Hacked Exchange Cryptopia
8.4.2020
Users at the now-defunct exchange Cryptopia are the co-beneficiaries of trusts that contained their assets prior to the platform’s hack
Blockchain Gaming, Messaging Apps See User Growth Amid Coronavirus Lockdowns
3.4.2020
Coronavirus lockdowns have led to a relative surge in a small corner of the cryptocurrency space: its more casual and entertaining end
Blockchainarmy Leader Erol User Declares Result of the First Poll Using Blockchain Expertise
3.4.2020
Serving the blockchain community with its unparalleled consulting and advisory services, the BlockchainArmy has added another feather to its credit. Erol User, the globally renowned Turkish businessmen and the honorable spearhead of BlockchainArmy, has announced the results of the very first...
Revolut Fast-Tracks User-Wide Crypto Support Due to Global Economic Upset
3.4.2020
As the Fed ramps up quantitative easing, fintech giant Revolut is moving fast to offer all users cryptocurrency services
Let a website be a worry stone
1.4.2020
Ethan Marcotte just redesigned his website and wrote about how the process was a distraction from the difficult things that are going on right now. Adding new features to your blog or your portfolio, tidying up performance issues, and improving things bit by bit can certainly relieve a lot...
Microsoft Patents New Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data
29.3.2020
Microsoft has patented a cryptocurrency mining system that leverages human activities, including brain waves and body heat, when performing online tasks such as using search engines, chatbots, and reading ads. “A user can solve the computationally difficult problem unconsciously,”...
Value Bubbles for Range Inputs
26.3.2020
HTML5 range inputs, in supported browsers and by design, don't show the user the actual value they are submitting. If you want to use the cool slider, but show the value, you'll have to do that yourself. Here we use the output element and jQuery to show the current value in a bubble that hovers...
Building a Real-Time Chat App with React and Firebase
23.3.2020
In this article, we’ll cover key concepts for authenticating a user with Firebase in a real-time chat application. We’ll integrate third-party auth providers (e.g. Google, Twitter and GitHub) and, once users are signed in, we’ll learn how to store user chat data in the Firebase Realtime Database...
Ethereum-Based Game to Enhance User Experience with Matic Scaling Solution
22.3.2020
Matic will allow the firm behind VR game The Sandbox to carry out faster transactions and create a better user experience
Neumorphism and CSS
20.3.2020
Neumorphism (aka neomorphism) is a relatively new design trend and a term that’s gotten a good amount of buzz lately. It’s aesthetic is marked by minimal and real-looking UI that’s sort of a new take on skeuomorphism — hence the name. It got its name in a UX Collective post from December 2019,...
Shadow of Steem: Crypto Exchanges Choose to Govern User Deposits Differently
19.3.2020
In view of the Steem fiasco, Cointelegraph examines how some of the most popular exchanges handle user deposits: Do they lend them out, stake them or leverage them?
Pantera-Backed DEX Sparkswap Shuts Down Due to Weak User Base
19.3.2020
In a blog post, the exchange states that it was unable to attract a large enough user base to sustain future operations