Monthly Web Development Update 6/2019: Rethinking Privacy And User Engagement Monthly Web Development Update 6/2019: Rethinking Privacy And User Engagement Anselm Hannemann 2019-06-14T14:30:00+02:00 2019-06-14T15:36:18+00:00 Last week I read about the web turning into a dark forest. This made me think, and I’m convinced that there’s hope in the dark forest. Let’s stay positive about how we can contribute to making the web a better place and stick to the principle that each one of us is able to make an … →

Inspirational Website of the Week: Kubikfoto³ A great design with wonderful details and smooth transitions. Our pick this week. Get inspired This content is sponsored via Syndicate Ads Website Builder Software With Your Branding This B2B platform fits designers, freelancers, agencies and anyone who wants to make beautiful websites for their clients or let them do it on their own. Find out more The Economics of Open Source CJ Silverio’s important presentation on the history of npm and the possible … →

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine Andrew Clarke 2019-06-13T12:30:16+02:00 2019-06-13T15:35:22+00:00 I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Of course, owning a business meant I had to keep working, but staying motivated and offering my best thinking to clients became a daily struggle. Looking at the web didn’t improve my motivation. Web design had stagnated, predictability had replaced creativity, and ideas seemed less important than … →

Bringing A Healthy Code Review Mindset To Your Team Bringing A Healthy Code Review Mindset To Your Team Sandrina Pereira 2019-06-12T13:30:59+02:00 2019-06-13T15:35:22+00:00 A ‘code review’ is a moment in the development process in which you (as a developer) and your colleagues work together and look for bugs within a recent piece of code before it gets released. In such a moment, you can be either the code author or one of the reviewers. When doing a code review, you might … →

UX Optimizations For Keyboard-Only And Assistive Technology Users UX Optimizations For Keyboard-Only And Assistive Technology Users Aaron Pearlman 2019-06-11T14:00:59+02:00 2019-06-11T15:06:13+00:00 (This is a sponsored article.) One of the cool things about accessibility is that it forces you to see and think about your application beyond the typical sighted, mouse-based user experience. Users who navigate via keyboard only (KO) and/or assistive technology (AT) are heavily dependent not only on your application’s information architecture being thoughtful, but the affordances your application makes … →

Styling In Modern Web Apps Styling In Modern Web Apps Ajay Ns 2019-06-10T14:00:59+02:00 2019-06-10T15:32:01+00:00 If you search for how to style apps for the web, you’ll come across many different approaches and libraries, some even changing day by day. Block Element Modifier (BEM); preprocessors such as Less and SCSS; CSS-in-JS libraries, including JSS and styled-components; and, lately, design systems. You come across all of these in articles and blogs, tutorials and talks, and — of course — debates on Twitter. … →

Web Accessibility In Context Web Accessibility In Context Be Birchall 2019-06-07T12:00:59+02:00 2019-06-08T15:35:03+00:00 Haben Girma, disability rights advocate and Harvard Law’s first deafblind graduate, made the following statement in her keynote address at the AccessU digital accessibility conference last month: “I define disability as an opportunity for innovation.” She charmed and impressed the audience, telling us about learning sign language by touch, learning to surf, and about the keyboard-to-braille communication system that she used to take questions after her talk. Contrast … →

Inspirational Website of the Week: Elena Iv-skaya A beautiful design with lush typography and unconventional interactive elements. Our pick this week. Get inspired This content is sponsored via Syndicate Ads Free automated visual testing with Percy ?Visually test your web app, component library, or static site across browsers and responsive widths to catch UI bugs and ship with complete confidence. Try it free Extract critical CSS Learn how to improve render times with the critical CSS technique in this article … →

Image Optimization In WordPress Image Optimization In WordPress Adelina Țucă 2019-06-06T14:00:34+02:00 2019-06-06T15:36:16+00:00 A slow website is everyone’s concern. Not only that it chases visitors away but it also affects your SEO. So trying to keep it ‘in shape’ is definitely one of the main items to tick when you run a business or even a personal site. There are many ways to speed up your WordPress site, each one complementing the other. There is not a universal method. Improving your … →