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3 Essential Design Trends, September 2021
Do you ever get bored with design projects? Feel like you keep designing the same things on repeat?
This collection of trends – from fun angles to illustrations where you wouldn’t expect them to cool three-dimensional concepts – is sure to help you think a little more out of the box. It might be ju..
Exploring the CSS Paint API: Blob Animation
After the fragmentation effect, I am going to tackle another interesting animation: the blob! We all agree that such effect is hard to achieve with CSS, so we generally reach for SVG to make those gooey shapes. But now that the powerful Paint API is available, using CSS is not only possible, but may..
How to Help Your Clients Choose the Right eCommerce Payment Gateway
Depending on who you are, building an eCommerce website usually involves different priorities. If you’re a shopkeeper, you will probably think about the big picture stuff. You’ll want your products to look perfect and your content to drive sales.
For web designers, the priorities are more likely to..
Popular Design News of the Week: August 23 2021 – August 29, 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..
My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software...
That’s a heartwrenching title from Michael Williamson. I believe it though. It’s kinda like a maximized version of the blogging phenomenon where if you work on a post for weeks it’ll flop compared to a post that’s some dumb 20-minute thought. Or how your off-handed remark to some developer at the pe..
The Mind-Bendingly Difficult Material Design Quiz
Material Design is Google’s design language for creating digital experiences.
Initially developed in 2014, Material Design is a subset of flat design, or minimal UI design, while also flirting with skeuomorphism with its rules for surfaces and interaction. The latest iteration of Material Design, M..
The Fixed Background Attachment Hack
What options do you have if you want the body background in a fixed position where it stays put on scroll? background-attachment: fixed in CSS, at best, does not work well in mobile browsers, and at worst is not even supported by the most widely used mobile browsers. You can ditch this idea complete..
Weekly News for Designers № 607
Tabs in HTML? – Check out this demo of HTML tabs that work differently, depending on viewport size. Could this be the future of HTML?
Manim – Create precise animations programmatically with this engine for explanatory math videos.
New Boilerplate Speeds Up Building “Nearly Headless” WordPress Them..
Designing for the Unexpected
When I think about what front-end development really is and feels like, this is at the heart of it: designing around a huge set of unknowns, and really embracing that notion as a strength of the web rather than a weakness or unfortunate truth we have to work around.
Cathy Dutton digs into this wit..
Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently III
The perfect link — Rian Rietveld defines them: “When you click on them, they take you somewhere else.” Not much code in here (we’ve got that), just a lot of practical accessibility advice. For example, the alt text for a linked image can allude to the fact that it is a link. Just an image: “A cherry..
