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These days, product companies seem more interested in refining interfaces and simplifying user experiences. In this ninth issue of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will explain how studying the work of Max Huber — one of the less well known but most distinguished Swiss designers — will teach you how to turn mundane subjects into exciting visual communication.
In this edition of GitHub Protips, Sarah Vessels shares how she expresses ideas in code and doesn’t stress about the nitty-gritty details of how to neatly organize branches.
Here are some of the approaches we use to help data workshop participants walk away equipped and excited to start using data to power their work.
In this article, Kelvin Omereshone introduces you to machines, an open standard for JavaScript functions. At the end of this article, you should be familiar with what machines are and how to implement them. There is no special prerequisite for this article. If you can write a JavaScript function, then you’ll be able to follow along. With all that said, let’s dive in.
I was reading Anna Kaley's "Listboxes vs. Dropdown Lists" post the other day. It's a fairly straightforward comparison between different UI implementations of
Check out what we learned from shipping our busiest Go service in production—we found 3 bugs in the Go MySQL driver.
Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. We can’t afford regularly spending time optimizing apps all over again. It’s costly, and complex. As a first step in coming up with a solution for any problem, we need to make the problem visible. In this article, Anton Nemtsev will help you with exactly that It’s not enough to optimize an application. You need to prevent
Cloudflare for Teams customers can customize the destination for any domain name queried by devices using Cloudflare Gateway.
BugHerd is about collecting visual feedback for websites.
I made a Chrome extension this weekend because I found I was doing the same task over and over and wanted to automate it. Plus, I’m a nerd living through a
This has been the year of Gutenberg for us here at CSS-Tricks. In fact, that's a goal we set at the end of last year. We're much further along that I thought
Jeremy beating the classic drum:
How to grant users access to a certain piece of data a limited number of times. What happens if two users access it concurrently?
Now, you can embed private Figma files into Notion, Dropbox Paper, Jira, and more.
In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or images and watch them twinkle! This neat trick is a perfect way to emphasize positive or exciting things.
This article is going to be a crash course in what Nix is, how to think about it, and why it's such a valuable and paradigm-shifting piece of technology.
Over the years at Slack — usually during periods of high growth — teams have defaulted to working in a waterfall where an idea is proposed and researched, then designed or spec’d, then built, in that order. It’s not the most efficient way to work and as a company grows — with more people involved…
Since more and more web traffic comes from mobile users, our websites need to be in the best position to serve them. The easiest thing to do would be to remove unnecessary content from the site. However, it may not always be the best solution. In this article, Suzanne Scacca proposes some ways to turn essential content into graphics to conserve space, create a more engaging UI and preserve the ove
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about shaping our physical spaces when working from home. What can you do to take a step up from working at your kitchen table? Drew McLellan talks to workspace geek Ben Frain to find out.
One of the interesting challenges with deep linking in the Cloudflare Dashboard is that most interesting resources are “locked” behind the context of an account and a zone/domain/website. To illustrate this, look at a tree of possible URL paths into Cloudflare’s Dashboard.
It's interesting how third-parties are sometimes super involved in pushing browser things forward. One big story there was how Bloomberg hired Igalia to
It's not at the level of demand as, say, container queries, but being able to make "masonry" layouts in CSS has been a big ask for CSS developers for a long
Authentication (logging in!) is a crucial part of many websites. Let’s look at how to go about it on a site using Vue, in the same way it can be done with any
