Links from 2017
Google Analytics is a powerful yet quite complicated tool. And unfortunately, the truth is most people who use it don’t reap its full benefits. There’s a lot of…
- The Untold Story of Ableton Live—the Program That Transformed Electronic Music Performance Forever thump.vice.com
The history of Ableton usually starts in 2001, when the Berlin-based software company released their first product, Ableton Live—a digital audio workstation and…
Tinder recently swiped right on the web. Their new responsive Progressive Web App — Tinder Online — is available to 100% of users on desktop and mobile,…
- Frontend in 2017: The important parts – LogRocket blog.logrocket.com
A lot has happened in 2017, and it can be a bit overwhelming to think about. We all like to joke about how quickly things change in frontend engineering, and…
- PWA Stats pwastats.com
A community-driven list of stats and news related to Progressive Web Apps brought to you by Cloud Four Cloud Four, Inc. 208 SW 1st Ave, Suite 240 Portland,…
- Optimizing Images | Designing for Performance designingforperformance.com
Images make up the majority of most sites’ total page weight. The number of image bytes has grown by more than 30% on the average web page in the last year ,…
A guide to impactful performance improvements The Internet is growing exponentially, and so is the Web platform we create. Often though we fail to reflect on…
- Refactoring Your Way to a Design System 24ways.org
Mina Markham 23 Dec ember 2017 Published in Code I love refactoring code. Absolutely love it. There’s something about taking a piece of UI or a bit of code and…
- Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful (and What UX Professionals Can Do About It) blog.usejournal.com
In 2003, a marketing consultant named Fred Reichheld lit the business world on fire with the Harvard Business Review article The One Number You Need To Grow .…
- How the Rohingya Escaped nytimes.com
Start Myanmar says the story of these people is “fake news.” The military says they burned down their own villages, faked massacres, left their own children for…
Shopify’s design system, Polaris , helps us and everyone building for Shopify create apps that look and feel like they were designed by the same team. . In a…
Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility You are here: Home > Articles > Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility Article Contents Introduction…
At first glance, the WCAG 2.0 AA guideline for contrast minimums appears to be one of the easiest, most straightforward success criterion to achieve. Yet, it is…
Phil Hawksworth 21 Dec ember 2017 Published in Process You’ve chosen your frameworks and libraries. You’ve learned how to write code which satisfies the…
- How GitLab switched to Headless Chrome for testing about.gitlab.com
GitLab recently switched from PhantomJS to headless Chrome for both our frontend tests and our RSpec feature tests. In this post we will detail the reasons we…
How we created a spacing system that aligned our teams and related to our designs in a meaningful way. We’ve gone over how we tackle colors and typography in…
- visual-aria - Revision 12/15/2017 github.com
Visual ARIA allows engineers, testers, educators, and students to physically observe ARIA usage within web technologies, including ARIA 1.1 structural, live…
- Generation Screwed highline.huffingtonpost.com
WHOA! Show me the (slightly less cool) mobile version instead. Like everyone in my generation, I am finding it increasingly difficult not to be scared about the…
- Designing for Mobile Performance 24ways.org
Mustafa Kurtuldu 18 Dec ember 2017 Published in UX Last year, some colleagues at Google ran a research study titled “ The Need for Mobile Speed ” to find out…
As we worked on React 16 , we revamped the folder structure and much of the build tooling in the React repository. Among other things, we introduced projects…
Progressive Web Apps - My new book is available! I am super excited to announce that my latest book has been published and is available to purchase ! A few…
- Why Design Systems Fail 24ways.org
Una Kravets 14 Dec ember 2017 Published in Process Design systems are so hot right now, and for good reason. They promote a modular approach to building a…
- Server Side Mustard Cut | CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
The term "mustard cutting" in web design comes from developers at the BBC who wanted to serve different experiences of their site to different browsers on…
- Meeting Cards seethinkdo.it
Meeting Cards Designed by Stephen Walker at See Think Do because not everyone has a printer. Inspired by the original super cards from Collaboration Superpowers…
Google used to be the main source of referral traffic for web publishers. Then Facebook eclipsed it. And now, Google is back on top again. Over the course of…
- SpeedCurve | Rendering Metrics speedcurve.com
Rendering Metrics MONDAY 11TH OF DECEMBER 2017 At SpeedCurve, we're fond of the phrase "a joyous user experience". Creating this joy requires delivering what…
- Hoxton Street Monster Supplies monstersupplies.org
This page has been automatically translated for humans Casket ( 0 ) Casket ( 0 ) Edibles Pharmacy Lifestyle Clothing & accessories Gift ideas View all About us…
- Accessible Links Re:visited | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA filamentgroup.com
Accessible Links Re:visited Posted by Maggie 12/6/2017 We and our clients often tend toward simple and understated style, but sometimes that simplicity doesn't…
- http://normalize.email normalize.email
Streamlining the Checkout Experience. 3/4 Fluix by Readdle. Checkout Form. Summary: this article is the culmination or semantic conclusion, if you want, of my…
- Web accessibility guidelines and how to use them nomensa.com
There’s a bit of fuss at the moment because an update to the W3C’s accessibility guidelines is coming out soon, almost 10 years after the last update. I’ll come…
- Workbox | Google Developers developers.google.com
Welcome Welcome to the home of Workbox!Workbox is a set of libraries and Node modules that make it easy to cache assets of your sites offline and take full…
- Juno juno.legal
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- Tips for in-house teams in a free market software culture engineroom.ft.com
For the past 18 months I’ve been running a team at the Financial Times called the “Origami Team”. Our team mission is to: reduce the time the other development…
- How Not To Run an A/B Test – Evan Miller evanmiller.org
How Not To Run an A/B Test By Evan Miller April 18, 2010 If you run A/B tests on your website and regularly check ongoing experiments for significant results,…
23 Minutes of Work for Better Font Loading 21 November 2017 Read in about 4 minutes Last night I hopped on Twitter after my daughter went to sleep with a little…
- Float Labels 1 buff.ly
Pen Settings Add External Stylesheets/Pens Any URL's added here will be added as <link> s in order, and before the CSS in the editor. If you link to another…
- Srcset and sizes — ericportis.com ericportis.com
March 24, 2014 Part 1: What’s Wrong With Media Queries? So let’s say you’re making a web page sometime between February 23rd, 1993 and May 25th, 2010 . Images…
- reactopt npmjs.com
A CLI React performance optimization tool that identifies potential unnecessary re-rendering. About Reactopt identifies specific events that may be causing…
AEM isn’t particularly awful software. It does a few interesting things and in general does what it does relatively well. It’s just that it isn’t special, and…
Does the proliferation of Design Systems affect our creativity? I read a discussion recently on Designer News that discussed the impact of Design Systems on the…
- V6: Typography and Proportions | Rob Weychert v6.robweychert.com
V6: Typography and Proportions The logic behind the layout. 28 Nov 2017 This is the second post in a three-part series about my site’s recent redesign. The…
- "Anaconda", "Pacific State", "Sueño Latino", and the Story of a Sample That Keeps Coming Back | Pitchfork pitchfork.com
"Anaconda", "Pacific State", "Sueño Latino", and the Story of ... https://pitchfork.com › thepitch 8 Sep 2014 · 808 State were another case of Balearic…
So: me and bitcoin, you already knew I disliked it, right? (Let's discriminate between Blockchain and Bitcoin for a moment. Blockchain : a cryptographically…
- Debugging React performance with React 16 and Chrome Devtools. building.calibreapp.com
React was one of the first major front-end frameworks to not only name, but tout it’s rendering performance. React’s virtual dom is famous for efficiently…
- Network based image loading using the Network Information API in Service Worker | justmarkup justmarkup.com
Recently , Chromium improved their implementation of navigator.connection by adding three new attributes: effectiveType , downlink and rtt . Before that, the…
- Don’t Use ARIA Menu Roles for Site Nav adrianroselli.com
8 Comments In response to Matt King . Matt, when you say The point of the ARIA practices , I am assuming you are referencing WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 .…
- The Burden of Precision daneden.me
“ If the idea is there, the brush can spare itself the work” —Chinese painter’s proverb Design tools today confine us to an unrealistic and ill-advised goal:…
- A Meritocracy is a Trailing Indicator randsinrepose.com
When you are asked as a manager “What do I need to get to the next level?” I suggest the quality and completeness of your answer is directly correlated to your…
Updated: August 2016 Since 2012, things have changed quite a lot when it comes to recording your iPhone or iPad screens. The most known option at the time to…