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This quick field guide aims to help you protect your website, improve your marketing or simply discover why so many people troll the comments section with strange links.
Persuasion is all around us, in our everyday lives. As designers, we can use ethical persuasive design methods to get users to take some action. With plenty of persuasive methods available, we have to be selective about what we use.
This article looks at augmenting HTML with components that have built-in functionality and styles. We’ll also learn how to make these custom elements reusable across projects using NPM.
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Explore features → Already have an account? Sign in!Staying up to date with the latest techniques, browser updates, and hot topics can be quite a challenge. Every month, Anselm summarizes what’s been going on in the web industry, so you can easily catch up on everything new and important.
As of today, July 11, Affinity Designer is also available for the iPad. This tutorial introduces some of its very user-friendly main tools and features and shows you how you can create a nice flat vector illustration of a Volkswagen Beetle.
Learning to code can be tough. In this article, Murat shares his advice on how writing code differently and poetically has helped him overcome his initial struggles and insecurities.
The hunt for shiny front-end & UX treasures has begun! Performance, PWA, Vue.js, Webpack to Design Workflow, DesignOps and Variable Fonts. With Monica Dinculescu, Dan Mall, Jason Grigsby, Sara Soueidan and many others.
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Marc Edwards cares about every single pixel, and how it’s displayed on screens. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Marc has been tirelessly publishing articles on color management, displays, text rendering, gradients and design workflow. Marc has been very active in sharing practical tips and techniques on Twitter, along with source code for little design goodies in Processing. Thanks for sharing your learnings over more than a decade, dear Marc. Your contribution matters!
Custom Elements should be able to work in any application, but things don’t always work seemlessly. To help you identify and fix interoperability issues, Rob Dodson came up with a little tool that runs a suite of tests against each framework.
A collection of the key maxims that designers can consider when building user interfaces. From Hick’s Law to the Law of Proximity, Jon has you covered with posters dedicated to each one along with further reading sources to keep you busy.
Weekly packs of beautiful illustrations for unrestricted use! From navigation and reporting to GDPR, events and even electric cars — these artworks are perfect for landing pages, mobile apps, books, posters, t-shirts, or anything really.
Looking for a way to take the pain away from working with forms? Well, what if we told you that there is a little HTML and CSS boilerplate that is designed to be straightforward to implement. That’s right. Meet Boilerform.
As much as Heydon likes JavaScript, he doesn’t think it’s very well designed when it comes to styling tasks. We waste far too much time writing and maintaining styles with JavaScript, and it’s time for a change.
Accessibility is hard: It comes across as a set of complex rules that are hard to follow. Maya shares guidelines to help teams create accessible products and services, so that we can all have a part to play in building accessible products.
Is your pattern library up to date today? Alla Kholmatova has just finished a fully fledged book on Design Systems and how to get them right. With common traps, gotchas and the lessons she learned. Hardcover, eBook. Just sayin'.
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Imagine you wrote a beautiful song and nobody discovered it.
That would make any cat sad. Don't let that happen!
