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Real-time chat apps are taking the business world by storm. But does faster communication really mean better communication? Illustration by @Chiachichao Three…

styled-components/primitives Announcing styled-components/primitives, an experimental entry point combining styled-components and react-primitives Creating…

#!/bin/sh## Example of a broken script.for f in $(ls *.m3u)do grep -qi hq.*mp3 $f \ && echo -e 'Playlist $f contains a HQ file in mp3 format' done ➯ ShellCheck…

June 26, 2013 Drop caps and initials are an effective way of grabbing readers attention because they add personality and visual strength to the page. Though,…

Advertisement Many companies try to create a great experience for customers. But few are willing to make the changes required to deliver on that promise. In…

June 14, 2017 The Road to Burnout is Paved With Context Switching Since becoming a manager about a year ago, I’ve found that in any given week, I cycle through…

Modern DevTools A video based course to develop, debug & performance audit your websites. Level-up your web development skills and create blazing fast…

The text-decoration-skip property specifies where a text underline, overline, or strike-through should break. This improves legibility of decorated text and…

In the survey, 50% respondents admitted passing their sewing needs on to their mothers.Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto I t appears needlework is an art…

Guy Ligertwood UX Designer. Writer. Ex-Entrepreneur. Dad to Inty & Luna. Husband to Sandrita. Scotsman with an English accent. Living in Australia 😜 Jun 4 Notes…

Toby Melville/TPX/Reuters British Prime Minister Theresa May on her way to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen’s permission to form a minority government,…

We’re starting to hit a problem with the new CSS methods (Flexbox and Grid), and how people using a keyboard (or equivalent) interact with a page. I’m not the…

Martin Fowler Yagni originally is an acronym that stands for "You Aren't Gonna Need It". It is a mantra from ExtremeProgramming that's often used generally in…

Illustrations: Lucas Varela If you live in a big city, you may have thought about cycling to work. You will have weighed up the pros and cons: the health…

I had a little situation the other I needed to make one of those aspect-ratio friendly boxes . This isn't particularly new stuff. I think the original credit…

API design is a spicy topic! Many a wise word 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 has been written about the best way to structure and version an API. Within this article we'll take…

Roy Fielding on Versioning, Hypermedia, and REST Designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs for the Web is more than a challenge; for many companies, it is…

Translating the World’s Content to be Understood by Search Engines Automate. Scale. Leverage. Learn More Free 14 Day Trial Deploy Schema Markup To any Platform…

Have you ever wondered who in the world is doing schema markup and what are the challenges they face day to day? We were curious, and so this past February and…

WebAssembly was just released this past March but has already generated a lot of excitement in the web community. It’s a new binary format for machine code that…

It’s been four years since I wrote about Responsive Deliverables . Since then I’ve been working steadily with companies to build out their own “tiny…

NEW MWF Validator A powerful tool that quickly scans, evaluates and reports any potentially breaking issues on your MWF website. TRY THE VALIDATOR NEW Persona…

This is the prose version of a talk I gave in May 2017 at Pixel Up! in Capetown and at An Event Apart in Boston. It riffs on ideas I first explored in my…

History of QR Code How was the QR Code created? | How has it come to be used so widely? | And what is its future? Section 1 : Untold story of QR Code…

‘ The best design is invisible ‘ is the interaction design phrase of the moment. The images above are from my ever-expanding collection of quotes about how…

March 23, 2016 Building and growing a database of subscribers is one of the primary objectives of email marketers. And while marketing technology has allowed…

Motherboard: a Biaoqing Field Guide Performing Foreignness (Art by Wendy Xu) Zhuang B - To Be a Poser Zine: The Zhuang B Issue Slang Cards Lucky Peach: I Eat,…

Did you know? Add content ratings to your videos so your grandma doesn’t encounter your Mature work by mistake. TM + © 2017 Vimeo, Inc. All rights reserved.…

Let's talk about state . Communicating state to the user that is, not application stores state in JavaScript objects, or localStorage. We're going to be talking…

Jeremy Keith 16th December 2016 Andrew Travers wrote about designing design principles at Co-op Digital. I’m somewhat obsessed with design principles—hence my…

Or, how we went from this… …to this and what we learned along the way. A bit of background H ere at Lost My Name , we don’t have the biggest frontend team, and…

Accessibility Fundamentals: Semantics and Navigating Content https://goo.gl/KgU3v3 One of the key goals in building an accessible experience is to make sure…

Second story of mine and again dealing with Sketch … So there is the new Sketch format since the release of 43.1 and now it is as if the Sketch file is a .ZIP…

Arrived home during bedtime and was told, "Go away and bother someone else". Thanks, goodreads.com/book/show/2841…

When I tell coworkers of my unabated love for CSS they look at me like I’ve made an unfortunate life decision. “Let’s sit down TJ, and talk about the poor…

A browser extension for displaying responsive web-pages in a side-by-side views to quickly test how it looks at different resolutions and devices. Install…

WebKit now supports the prefers-reduced-motion media feature , part of CSS Media Queries Level 5, User Preferences . The feature can be used in a CSS @media…

May 29, 2017 ; I keep seeing overly-complex controls with additional elements as style hooks, scripting to make up for non-semantic replacements, images that…

webpack2, create-react-native-app, snapshot testing++, & more! Welcome to Storybook 3.0 , a huge step forward for the world’s favorite UI component development…

From UI development startup to open collective With over 10,000 Github stars and 290k monthly npm downloads , Storybook is the most popular open source tool for…

Good afternoon, If you’re a digital designer like us, this probably sounds familiar: Disorganized assets in several places Conflicted copies of files creating…

Go to Today may, 2017 Sort By: date Market: All All alternative market Antique Market Art Fair Baby and Children Boutique Market Brocante Carboot Sale Christmas…

The Red Turtle: ‘eloquent, profound, moving’.Photograph: Allstar/Sony Pictures Classics I n the wake of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises , Isao Takahata’s The…

Floating labels are problematic After writing Placeholders are Problematic some people suggested the floating label. We are often seduced by novel patterns that…

A YEAR OF GOOGLE & APPLE MAPS Google Maps’s Quiet Transformation, Apple Maps‘s ______? ⚠️ Tap or click any image to enlarge Shortly after I published my…

Style A List Apart Style Guide Clarity first Voice & tone Adobe editorial voice Focus on real-world value rather than technical features Voice & tone BBC News…

As we all know, media queries are responsive design’s secret sauce. Here are some considerations for crafting high-quality media queries: Let content determine…

We are in the process of making a giant mistake on behalf of our children. With all the right intentions, American parents are depriving their kids of the time…