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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.
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.
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Explore features → Already have an account? Sign in!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.
Involving other people early on — especially people from other disciplines — can feel scary. By taking inspiration from code reviews, we can improve collaboration both within our own fields as well as across disciplines, be it design, UX, …
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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Only a few people in our industry have been so generous with their code snippets and knowledge like Hugo Giraudel. Hugo is an accessibility and diversity advocate, author, speaker, and front-end developer. He’s been working on a number of open-source projects related to accessibility, JavaScript, and specifically Sass. Thanks for your remarkable work, dear Hugo, and for keeping the web accessible and diverse. The community wouldn’t be as strong without your efforts!
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.
Learning to code shouldn’t be hard. Authored and maintained by Oliver James, Interneting Is Hard is a comprehensive set of web development tutorials to help transform complete beginners into talented Interneting professionals.
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!
