Links from 2017

As someone who has led UX teams at tech companies large and small, I’ve found working with design technologists to be highly impactful. However, there’s often…

I wrote two posts on the topic of WebKit font smoothing before, but unfortunately the situation has grown worse since then. In allowing the designer to pick…

With the growing ubiquity of digital devices, moving interfaces and adapting technology, motion design has become an important part of a designers creative…

Here is one of form validation error messages that made me laugh aloud : “invalid last name. Please enter a valid last name”. The form (or the souls that coded…

Why I got pissed and decided to write this A couple of weeks ago I got this comment at an event: I really have to go now, but add me on Facebook and we can…

GitHub - siddharthkp/bundlesize: Keep your bundle size in check Code Issues 9 Pull requests 1 Pulse Keep your bundle size in check Latest commit by Sedighian 33…

Tooltips — affectionately misnomered as "tootlips" by my friend Steve — are a precariously longstanding interface pattern. Literally "tips for tools", they are…

The amount of video on the internet is growing exponentially and will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. And the growth is across multiple industries,…

Screens were different a decade ago; thicker, wider, tethered to walls. There were screens in our pockets back then as well, though they weren't yet as hungry…

Earlier this year, support for CSS grid layout landed in most major desktop browsers. Naturally, the specification is one of the hot topics at meet-ups and…

When assessing how accessible your website or app is, auditors will likely want to look at whole pages. But perhaps most of what you are working on is…

Cornelius, the solo project by Keigo Oyamada, released his new studio album Mellow Waves on July 21. In recent years, the innovative Japanese musician and…

July 12, 2017 Accessibility is (thankfully) receiving a fair amount of attention in web development circles these days. As designers and developers we should…

Whether you’re cooking whole cuts or burgers and bangers, there are a few simple rules to barbecuing that will take the results of your labours to the next…

You open your laptop in an airport, at a coffee shop, or perhaps in your hotel or conference room. You sit down to work, select the correct Wi-Fi network, and ……

Recently, I attended Baidu’s annual search conference for agency partners in Beijing. One of the premier search events in China for SEO professionals, the…

A completely complete guide to the comics of Marvel NOW! and All-New Marvel NOW!, leading up to 2015’s Marvel Universe shattering Secret Wars . This is the…

Pandas are not necessarily Agile. The Agile Manifesto was written in mid-February of 2001 , and it made the tech industry a better place. But it was written by…

Predix UI components give product teams the building blocks they need to create a modern web applications. Illustrations by Tali Marcus , Design Technologist,…

Using dropdown menus in forms might seem a no-brainer : they don’t take much space on the UI, they automatically validate the input, all browsers and platforms…

Features Pricing Enterprise Blog Run Gemnasium Enterprise on-premise and find security issues in your dependencies as soon as they appear. Do you think security…

No thorough conversation about the front end today can end without mention of pattern libraries . Sometimes a pattern library appears in the form of a living…

Sold on help to buy? A reader needs advice on buying a new-build home using the government scheme.Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters Q My little family are…

Inspect is a web browser for iPhone and iPad that provides desktop-class web developmenttools and features. JavaScript Console Inspect provides a JavaScript…

We’re huge fans of design sprints, as popularised by Google Ventures. Andy Budd Today We’ve been running our own variation of design sprints—dubbed Springboard…

Building a highly consumable UI component library is no easy feat and this article will focus on one particular tricky aspect of it: outer component spacing .…

Photo: Francis Clarke for Wikimedia The tweet that started it all In this article I’ll summarize and group the main topics that people bring up in the thread.…

Those of you upgrading npm to its latest version, npm@5.2.0 , might notice that it installs a new binary alongside the usual npm : npx . npx is a tool intended…

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What could be so difficult about designing a decent date picker ? Basically, we just need an input field and an icon that represents a calendar clearly enough,…

$ npm i -g html-to-react-components $ html2react index.html -c es5 -m es6 -e js -o ./components <!DOCTYPE html> < html lang = "en" > < head > < meta charset =…

As geek dad to two sons, Philip (4) and Noah (2), I get many questions from other parents about the best iPad apps for their kids. This happens so frequently, I…

Welcome to camelcamelcamel, a free Amazon price tracker! Our free Amazon price tracker monitors millions of products and alerts you when prices drop, helping…

St Martins, looking towards Tresco, Isles of Scilly.Photograph: Alamy Cornwall New heliport in Penzance will restore service that last flew between islands and…

We want to be the most accessible news website in the world. You can help us achieve this by following a few simple steps. If you have any questions ask one of…

Blog “Your courses” or “My courses”? Making personal pronouns consistent in the FutureLearn user interface Posted by Alla Kholmatova 10 Dec 2015 If you’ve…

As I start handing over my responsibilities at Hypothesis before I leave at the end of the month, Andrew suggested I try and write about the role of a “tech…

The Transcript Transcribed by Alison Brad Hi everybody; welcome to another episode of The Style Guides Podcast. My name is Brad Frost. Anna I'm Anna Debenham.…

I’m building a pattern library in Jekyll. I like Jekyll for this because I can store all my reusable components in the _includes/ directory and use Jekyll’s {%…

Alternative formats Audio Video (coming soon) In an attempt to understand our work, digital designers may look towards architectural practice for inspiration.…

I have mixed feelings about sticky headers on web pages, but it annoys me more when the implementation causes scroll jank or contributes to it. The coding…

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Privacy The pub chain says it will stop sending newsletters via email – but why? 2 days ago Thursday 29 June 2017 Getty Pub chain J.D. Wetherspoons has deleted…

The New York Times website is changing , and the technology we use to run it is changing too. As the new site rolls out over the next several months, a look…

Arthur Lee & Allen Kleiner | Pinterest engineers, Core Experience At Pinterest, we care deeply about developer productivity. We want to empower engineers to…

Using CSS variables correctly June 18, 2017 CSS Variables (also known as Custom Properties) are now supported in all modern browsers and people are starting to…

A Playbook for Working with Product Teams & Managers Your systems pitch got a green light. You’ve started designing, building, and documenting your library.…

We sat down with Dan Mall of Superfriendly to explore his best practices from design systems projects with startups and corporations. Check out the full…

Google makes significant changes to its (structured data) developer guides Google has just updated its documentation related to structured data, as detailed…