Links from 2017

‘ 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…

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…

I was asked to do a little session on this the other day. I'd say I'm underqualified to answer the question, as is any single person. If you really needed hard…

Limited company contractors travelling on behalf of their clients by air face the twin challenges of navigating HMRC’s opaque expenses rules and IR35 tax…

I’ve read a lot of comparison articles about the two, but I don’t think they really do Figma justice. Some of them briefly mention the team features, the…

What We’ve Learned About 508 Compliance That All Technologists Can Use By Nick Heiner As government technology improves and accelerates, the U.S. Digital…

Translations for common UI phrases.

Who owns England? Land ownership map Who Owns England? Who owns land is one of England's most closely-guarded secrets. This map is a first attempt to display…

Write Once, Render Anywhere by @peggyrayzis - ReactNYC

We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to…

In the past few years we’ve seen the rise of CSS-in-JS , emerging primarily from within the React community. This, of course, hasn’t been without its…

In 2013, Ian Duncan-Smith said "looking for work should be a full-time job" . This was to be policed through the 'claimant commitment' a document that would…

Unfortunately, I didn’t discover BluTrack until after I had already spent time, effort, and money collecting classic Hot Wheels orange track. Had I come across…

Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language. And some spoilers. The goal was for the aggression to stay on the blacktop at Baltimore’s…

Presentation: Accessibility in a Responsive World, A11Y Days 2017 Posted by Scott on 05/16/2017 This April, I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to…

Overview The default JavaScript tracking snippet for Google Analytics runs when a web page is first loaded and sends a pageview hit to Google Analytics. If you…

The modern web design world is an innovative one. Table-based lists with offset pagination are rapidly falling out of favor, whereas Masonry layouts with…

Pinterest has inspired many to do a masonry-based layout on their sites. We have some solid JavaScript alternatives out there to create masonry layouts, but how…

Hypernova A service for server-side rendering your JavaScript views Why? First and foremost, server-side rendering is a better user experience compared to just…

Rearchitecting Airbnb’s Frontend Overview: We recently rethought the architecture for the JavaScript side of our codebase at Airbnb. This post will look at (1)…

The :focus-within pseudo-class is a CSS Level 4 selector that has recently picked up a bit of steam with FireFox, Safari, and (at the time of writing this)…

The hanging-punctuation property aims at giving web designers a finer grained control over typography on the web. The idea behind hanging punctuation is to put…

API Blueprint. A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs. API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the APIlifecycle.…

About this talk It's been a dream to support multiple platforms from one codebase, and to abstract their differences in UX to unify development. Taz has…

If you’ve used the internet at any point in the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard of Juicero. Juicero is a San Francisco-based company that sells a $400…

Visibility trends for Monster.com on Google US (top) and Monster.co.uk on Google UK (bottom) About two months ago, Monster changed quite a bit of their internal…

Brand Custom Branding With BluTrack Shop Amazon Store Save on shipping Free 3 Pack of BluTrack Racers With Product Purchase Over $40 ($10 Value) Teach Using…