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Snag Resources from An Event Apart Boston 2019 and Save on Washington D.C. Registration
6.6.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Hey, so we talked a little bit about An Event Apart Boston 2019 leading up to the event and now there are a ton of resources available from it. I stopped counting the number of links after 50 because there's way more than that. Seriously, there's stuff in there...
A Course About CSS Layout and Animations
6.6.2019
Christina Gorton just released a new course called CSS Layout and Animations as a part of Design+Code, which is a $9/month. That includes a ton of video training on everything from stuff like this to React to Sketch to iOS development... and beyond!
Christina approaches the course with my favorite...
Material Theming: Making Material Your Own!
3.6.2019
The web is a beautiful, expressive medium that’s evolved over time as trends and technology have changed. Moments of delight and flair are what set companies apart from one another. At the same time, today’s top products rely on scalable, component-based design systems to efficiently develop...
Collective #520
30.5.2019
Zdog * xstyled * How !important are we? * Daily Ethical Design * The future is dark * Reducing motion with the picture element
Collective #520 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
A Practical Use Case for Vue Render Functions: Building a Design System Typography Grid
30.5.2019
This post covers how I built a typography grid for a design system using Vue render functions. Here’s the demo and the code. I used render functions because they allow you to create HTML with a greater level of control than regular Vue templates, yet surprisingly I couldn’t find very much when...
A Quick Look at the First Public Working Draft for Color Adjust Module 1
29.5.2019
We've been talking a lot about Dark Mode around here ever since Apple released it as a system setting in MacOS 10.14 and subsequently as part of Safari. It's interesting because of both what it opens up as as far as design opportunities as well as tailoring user experience based on actual user...
Color contrast accessibility tools
29.5.2019
Accessibility is all the rage these days, specifically when it comes to color contrast. I’ve stumbled upon a couple of tools this week that I think are pretty nifty for helping make sure that all of the text on our websites is legible regardless of what background color they might have.
First...
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2018: Art Direction
28.5.2019
It is very important not to confuse design with art direction. Design is perfection in technique while art direction is about the important, yet sometimes intangible emotion that powers the design
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2019: Art Direction
28.5.2019
It is very important not to confuse design with art direction. Design is perfection in technique while art direction is about the important, yet sometimes intangible emotion that powers the design
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2018: Resolution Switching
26.5.2019
We need to learn that when it comes to responsive design, this doesn’t cut it for responsive images:
img {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
This is not a silver bulle
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2019: Resolution Switching
26.5.2019
We need to learn that when it comes to responsive design, this doesn’t cut it for responsive images:
img {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
This is not a silver bulle
Code as Documentation: New Strategies with CSS Grid
24.5.2019
I work for Supercool, a fast-moving design agency that makes custom built sites for arts clients, powered by the off-the-shelf system, Craft CMS; it's high-spec graphic design with relatively demanding typography and art direction. Over the past few months we’ve been moving to CSS grid. We’re...
7 Best Character Design Tips for Web Designers
24.5.2019
Being familiar with the best character design tips can help you use illustrations in web design in a smart way. Whatever solutions excite creative minds, the illustrative approach has...
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The Browser Can Remember Edited Content
22.5.2019
You can make the text inside any HTML element editable by adding the contenteditable attribute.
<div contenteditable>
Hey, I'm like a textarea kinda now!
</div>
I wouldn't say there are wheelbarrows full of use-cases for that, but it's neat. One possible use might be...
Elipay Celebrates the First of 100s of Crypto-Accepting Merchants in Croatia
21.5.2019
On May 20, Eligma showed off its Elipay service, a crypto payment processing system that allows people to pay for products and services with cryptocurrencies at over 300 retailers in the region. The grand opening of Elipay’s Croatian launch started with the first transaction made...
The “Inside” Problem
20.5.2019
So, you're working on a design. You need a full-width container element because the design has a background-color that goes from edge-to-edge horizontally. But the content inside doesn’t necessarily need to be edge-to-edge. You want to:
Limit the width (for large screens)
Pad the edges
Center...
Creating a Diversity Scholarship Program for Your Conference
20.5.2019
My partner and I ran a design and development conference company for eight years. During that time, we produced hundreds of hours of conferences, both on-site and online. Diversity scholarships were only becoming a typical conference offering around the time we decided to sunset our business....
Ontology Research Institute Releases Thesis on Multichain Design
17.5.2019
Ontology’s Network is a multi-blockchain protocol and systems Network, which supports all business types of application. The flexible design structure is modularized, plugged, and easily expandable to meet the requirements of different industries. Blockchain technology applies to all types...
Iterating a React Design with Styled Components
16.5.2019
In a perfect world, our projects would have unlimited resources and time. Our teams would begin coding with well thought out and highly refined UX designs. There would be consensus among developers about the best way to approach styling. There’d be one or more CSS gurus on the team who could ensure...
Boston Fed Announces Plans To Design a Blockchain ‘Supervisory Node’
10.5.2019
The Boston Federal Reserve is close to launching their own private supervisory node