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7 UX Principles to Apply to Your SEO
User experience is one of the most important aspects of web design, but many experts overlook that UX doesn’t just apply to web pages. User experience as a concept encompasses all aspects of end-user interaction with a company.
That means you need to discover the right UX strategies for everything ..
“Yes or No?”
Sara Soueidan digs into this HTML/UX situation. “Yes” or “no” is a boolean situation. A checkbox represents this: it’s either on or off (uh, mostly). But is a checkbox always the best UX? It depends, of course:
Use radio buttons if you expect the answer to be equally distributed. If I expect the an..
Edge Everything
The series is a wrap, my friends! Thanks for reading and a big special thanks to all the authors this year who shared something they have learned. Many authors really swung wide with thoughts about how we can be better and do better, which, of course, I really love.
Adam showed us logical properti..
Our 50 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools from 2020
With all of the changes and rapid advancements CSS has gone through over the last few years, we should not be surprised at the vast volume of open-source resources and tools that are continually being released.
These time-saving CSS libraries, frameworks, and tools have been built to make our lives..
Recognizing Constraints
There’s a “C” word in web development that we don’t give enough attention to. No, I’m not talking about “continuous integration”, or even “CSS”. The “C” word I’m talking about is “constraints”. Understanding constraints is a vital part of building software that works the best it can in its targeted ..
WooCommerce on Mobile
Whether you use the eCommerce features on WordPress.com or use WooCommerce on your self-hosted WordPress site (like we do), you can use the WooCommerce mobile app. That’s right WooCommerce has native apps for iOS and Android. They’ve just released some nice upgrades to both, making them extra useful..
Deploying a Serverless Jamstack Site with RedwoodJS, Fauna, and Vercel
This article is for anyone interested in the emerging ecosystem of tools and technologies related to Jamstack and serverless. We’re going to use Fauna’s GraphQL API as a serverless back-end for a Jamstack front-end built with the Redwood framework and deployed with a one-click deploy on Vercel.
In ..
What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. You tell yourself you’re going to turn over a new leaf and start a new habit that will help you elevate your career as a designer somehow. Maybe you want to start doing more interesting personal projects, or refining your marketing tactics to reach out to more and b..
6 Important Aspects of Well-Performing Mobile Product Page Breadcrumbs
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During our large-scale usability testing, breadcrumbs performed a lot of heavy lifting on mobile sites, for two reasons in particular:
Mobile users’ current location in the site hierarchy is much less evident due to the main navigation typically being hidden
Navigating via the main navigation menu on mobile often requires more effort compared to desktop, where the main navigation is permanently visible, and users can typically access categories — and even subcategories if hover navigation is offered — with a single click.
Yet our newest mobile benchmark reveals that, of mobile sites that even have breadcrumbs, 36% fail to include the full category hierarchy in the breadcrumbs on mobile product pages. This is important because our large-scale mobile usability testing reveals that this omission results ..
Top New CMS Plugins, December 2020
Looking for the best new CMS plugins to take your website to the next level? Well look no further.
In this post, we’ll cover a list of the best new CMS plugins for December 2020. This article will include useful plugins for WordPress, Shopify, Craft, and Joomla. Let’s get started…
WordPress
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