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Reduce Your Website’s Environmental Impact With a Carbon Budget
As I write this, world leaders are gathering in Glasgow for COP26, the international climate change conference, in the attempt to halt (or at least slow down) catastrophic climate change by pledging to end their countries’ dependence on fossil fuels. Only time will tell whether they will succeed (sp..
15 Best New Fonts, December 2021
Are you tired of using the same old Google fonts from website to website? You’re in luck!
In this month’s roundup of the best new fonts, we’re showcasing the latest and greatest fonts from independent type foundries and designers worldwide.
Astronef Super
Astronef Super is a retro-futuristic font ..
8 Outstanding eCommerce Microinteraction CSS & JavaScript Snippets
Microinteractions, those tiny details revealed when someone hovers or clicks on an item, is key to a successful user experience. They provide a hint as to what a specific design element does, thus making it more intuitive.
These little gems are especially important on eCommerce websites. We can use..
Popular Design News of the Week: November 29, 2021 – December 5, 2021
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..
Low framerate in Safari on M1 Mac
John James Jacoby:
I recently noticed that animations in Safari were stuttering pretty badly on my M1 powered 2020 MacBook Air, and dove in to figure out why.
The why:
This wasn’t a bug. This was a feature.
By default, macOS Monterey enables “Low power mode” on Battery power and disables it when ..
Bartosz Ciechanowski’s Interactive Blog Posts
I saw Bartosz Ciechanowski’s “Curves and Surfaces” going around the other day and was like, oh hey, this is the same fella that did that other amazingly interactive blog post on the Internal Combustion Engine the other day. I feel like I pretty much get how engines work now because of that blog post..
Square Rebrands As Block
A few days ago, the big tech news was that Jack Dorsey was stepping down from his role as Twitter CEO to focus on Square, the payment processor he founded in 2009.
Two days later, it was announced that Square will now rebrand under the umbrella of Block. Like Meta and Alphabet, Block is a parent co..
Weekly News for Designers № 621
MDEditorsy – This GUI-based tool enables you to build a Markdown/GitHub README profile.
A Handy Little System for Animated Entrances in CSS – Check out this set of CSS utilities for animating elements as they enter into view.
50 Free Christmas Templates & Resources for Designers – A fantastic coll..
Test Your Site With Real Users
A few years ago, there was this French book publisher. They specialize in technical books and published an author who wrote a book about CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery. The final version, however, a glaring typo on the cover where “HTML5” was displayed as “HTLM5.” Read that twice. Yes. “HTLM5.” (Note that i..
Embrace your code’s transience
Websites change. Healthy codebases are constantly being updated. Legacy code dies when it eventually goes down with the ship. Recognizing that my code is transient allows me to be more practical about my code and what guides my decision-making as I author it.
Your code is transient.
I like to thi..
