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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…

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De Niro and Val Kilmer bringing the heat. Twentieth Century Fox Michael Mann’s 1995 masterpiece, Heat , comes out this week in a brand-new, fully loaded and…

With 35 years of game development behind him, Meier opens up about his inspirations, burnout and why his name is on the box J ohn Madden may be the only person…

Linear gradients are easy to create in CSS and are extremely useful. As we'll go through in this article, we can make them visually much smoother by creating…

Folio lets you create and share versions of your designs and automatically keep them in sync with your team Free trial Try all features for 15 days. Viewing is…

1. Just before Christmas 1953, the bosses of America’s leading tobacco companies met John Hill, the founder and chief executive of one of America’s leading…

“The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims.[…] The risks at stake are profound…

Mobile First, Desktop Worst An op-ed from the front lines of product design at MetaLab . First, a disclaimer: the subject of this article is Mobile First in the…

Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next…

Benefits of a connected design system Over the past year, I’ve been working collaboratively to build a design system at Lost My Name. We’ve worked to define new…

Our taste for vanity metrics starts early. Take schools, in which most students receive grades. Does an “A” reflect the promise of a student’s future…

Most people have the perception that children above 3 years old wouldn't need any more carrying. In a perfect world, it would be ideally so and good for all…

Design Systems: when and how much? by Diana Published April 27, 2017 in Design Design systems are an investment. It takes time and resources to build and…

A brilliant early summer Saturday in 1967, as I recall. A knock on the front door. A kid who had been in the same class as me at Parr Lane primary school in…

Last week, we learned that science fiction author William Gibson changed his next novel , Agency , after the outcome of last November’s election. We caught up…

Sketching a Design System with React-SketchApp Playing with this amazing tool made by Airbnb T he design field is moving forward, and it’s moving really fast.…

This is a comic about the backfire effect. , Inspiration This comic was inspired by this three-part series on the backfire effect from the You Are Not So Smart…

Discerning yet hilariously unprecious … Jonathan Meades.Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian I t is an iron law of food literature that the people who think…

I don’t think its hyperbole to say that there’s a revolution happening in the design of digital products. Designers have long had the idea of designing…

Posted 28 April 2017 I love the font Just Another Hand , I use it a lot in diagrams during my talks: Here it is! Yay! The thing is, I don't like the positioning…

Now that mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing, everyone in tech turns to thinking about what the Next Big Thing will be. It's easy to say that 'machine…

TL;DR Headless Chrome is a way to run the Chrome browser in a headless environment. Essentially, running Chrome without chrome! It brings all modern web…

Inspired by the recent work that Github and Medium have done to improve their fonts and thus the reading experience on their sites, we at Booking.com got to…

The easiest way to create a React app with server-side rendering thanks to Next.js — How to create an app User Guide — How to develop apps started with Create…

It was towards the end of August 1994 that burnt, tattered and waterlogged scraps of £50 notes began to wash up on the shores of Jura, the mountainous, sparsely…

The most advanced API tool for Mac Paw is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test and describe the APIs you build or consume. It has a beautiful native…

Hi, I’m Jeff Dunn. You may not know me in my new role as CEO of Juicero as I’ve only been here since November. But I’ve been involved with the company for the…

Tax-free childcare explained: The sevenneed-to-knows Tax-Free Childcare is a Government-backed scheme which helps parents with the cost of childcare. Launching…

Plan to slash the tax-free dividend allowance from £5,000 to £2,000 from April 2018 could still be introduced if the Conservatives win the election.Photograph:…

Will it be dark clouds over the City of London after Brexit?Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA B rexit has set a hungry cat among the financial pigeons of the City of…

Today, we’re excited to share a tool we built to help bridge the gap between designers and engineers working on design systems at scale. React-sketchapp is an…

T ime is such a precious commodity that it’s actually worth spending some of it learning techniques that’ll make you more efficient in the long run. And if you…

April 7, 2017 In “A Trick: Individual CSS Transform Functions” , I discussed how we could use CSS Variables (Custom Properties) to bring us close to independent…

This post is about the Web Application Framework in use by some teams at the BBC. It is not strictly a framework in that it specifies the contracts between…

Web performance is something I care deeply about both as a developer whose work affects millions of people around the world, and as a user who often accesses…

A trio of boys tramps along the length of a wooden fence, back and forth, shouting like carnival barkers. “The Land! It opens in half an hour.” Down a path and…

Newly retired households (aged 65-plus) spend £26,500 each year until they reach 75, according to a survey by financial planners Tilney.Photograph: Alamy Stock…