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In the tenth issue of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will explain how Giovanni Pintori — the Italian graphic designer best known for his work with Olivetti — can inspire design for the web with his distinctive use of color and shape. Andy will teach you how to use color to attract attention and then to lead someone’s eye around a design. He’ll discuss how a minimal color palette can act as
I just can't stop opening excellent typography-related articles, which means I need to subject you to blog posts that round them up so I can clean up my open
This was always my favorite thing in Mad magazine. One page (the inside of the back cover, I think) was covered in a zany illustration. You folded that page
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.21 is now available with updates to simplify collaboration, increase reliability and improve security.
GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, from continuous integration and delivery to issue triage and more. Whether you want to build a container, deploy a…
Front-end developers and designers create amazing static assets for web applications. Today, Philip Kiely will be focusing on what happens after the style hotfix or beautiful graphic you just finished is pushed to master. He’ll also investigate handling files that users upload, called media files. Together, you’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving t
A framework for project managing, testing, and choosing a design tool, based on what we’ve heard from our users.
Student developers are the future of software. Their taste in tools, habits around code, what they are learning–all of these drivers will shape tech, and culture in general, for years…
I want to talk about one contribution that has takeaways for any Ruby developer. Here are 4 reasons for why we adopted Sorbet for static type checking.
Batten down the hatches! The app sandbox is now enabled for all web content. This is a fancy way of saying we’ve dialed up the security of the app. It wasn’t unsafe before, but it’s double safe now. What is the “app sandbox,” what is it protecting against, and why does it matter? This post…
Building a well-functioning application requires good testing; otherwise, knowing whether your application works as expected would be a matter of guesswork and luck. Jest is one of the best tools available for testing React applications. In this article, Adeneye David Abiodun will show you everything you need to create a solid test for your React components and application.
In this blog post, I want to explain the details of the full-stack take home exercise that we sent out to our 2020 internship applicants.
Apple announced a ton of new updates at yesterday's WWDC20 keynote address, from new hardware to updated applications. There's lots to gawk at and enough
HTML has an <input type="range">, which is, you could argue, the simplest type of proportion slider. Wherever the thumb of that slider ends up could
We’re at a point now where restaurants can no longer be reluctant or stingy about improving their digital presence. And, as a web designer, this should get you excited. The restaurant industry has begun to undergo a major digital transformation. Those that want to survive will need a website that can handle the new way of operating, which means they can no longer afford to hold onto that cheap web
Configure custom DNS Records for your Domains and apply presets. Right in the Web UI.
Scroll-related animations have been used on the web for years. In recent years, they’ve started to become more common, perhaps in part due to devices being
Since the inception of CSS in 1994, the cascade and inheritance have defined how we design on the web. Both are powerful features but, as authors, we've had
This is a neat little library. It uses SVG to insert hand-drawn looking annotations to elements (probably text), like underlines and box highlights (there are
New developer guides! Come check out two new Dropbox API developer guides and learn about error handling and detecting changes.
Now you can create custom workflow templates to promote best practices and consistency across your organization.
The dangers of DRY, the web of WET, the awesomeness of AHA.
My process for making high value-to-minute content.
In this article, we’ll be looking at a new way of retrieving data in React Apps named SWR. This is a set of hooks for remote data fetching that makes things easier, such as caching, pagination, and so on.
