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So here we are, in a brand spanking new year—time for looking forward with fresh ideas and renewed hope for the year ahead. We are kicking off 2022 with a mixed bag and, we hope, something for everyone. Whether you’re looking for inspiration to update your site or a fresh approach to work for a new..

60 design books you should be reading (from my 20 20 20 designer series). Continue reading on UX Planet »

Listen to this article as a podcast episode. What’s in a name? And would a rose by any other name really smell as sweet? Technically yes, but you’d never stop to smell it in the first place if it was called a shoehorn. Maybe names do matter. In this article, we’ll explore what, if any, are the diffe..

Identity design for crypto servicesatsback.comThis case illustrates how a brand is born and develops. We were contacted by a client who initially wanted a logo redesign. But in the process of collaborating, we decided to take it a step further and developed a visual identity that helped the company ..

“Process without good results is a huge waste of time.” is a phrase I hear quite often from designers. From the first glance, this is a bullet-proof statement. After all, we want to deliver solid results because other people hired us. But the more I started to think about this statement, the more I ..

Spaces are the horizontal and vertical distances between two components or the viewpoints of the screen. Continue reading on UX Planet »

And why I believe in the vision of low-code.I am writing this because there still seem to be misconceptions about what low-code is, what it solves, and what it doesn't solve. Low-code does some amazing things, and after working with low-code for about 5 years now, I thought I’d share my (as unb..

Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories..

There is a little legwork to do if you plan on using SVG in WordPress. For fair-enough reasons, WordPress doesn’t allow SVG out of the box. SVG is a markup syntax that has lots of power, including the ability to load other resources and run JavaScript. So, if WordPress were to blanket-ly allow SVG b..

Another aspect of web components that we haven’t talked about yet is that a JavaScript function is called whenever a web component is added or removed from a page. These lifecycle callbacks can be used for many things, including making an element aware of its context. Article series Web Components..

Clay.CSS – Use this library to add 3D claymorphism styles to your design. Wanda – Check out this open-source design system built for digital products and experiences. PHP in 2022 – What the popular language has in store for us this year. Announcing Parcel CSS – Get the details behind this CSS par..

(This is a sponsored post.) I remember vividly a period early in my coding career when I began to feel that things were changing away from what I knew, and headed towards a more complex set of tools and practices, anchored in the command line and something called npm. This is the first part of a b..

One of the things that makes this new, tooling-heavy era of front-end development so seemingly hard to understand at first is that, while we often call things by a singular name, they tend to be actually comprised of several different interconnected pieces. The same is true for npm and the ecosystem..

Now that we know what npm stands for and have a super general idea of what it does and how it fits into web development, we ought to spend a little bit of time looking at the command line, because it’s how we interact with npm. Guide chapters Who the Heck is This Guide For?What the Heck Does “npm”..

(This is a sponsored post.) Here’s what you need to know about Node.js (or simply Node) and how it relates to npm right off the bat: Node is JavaScript, but as a server-side language.This is possible because of V8, Chromium’s JavaScript engine, which can run on its own, outside the confines of the..