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Weekly News for Designers № 604
A framework for building Open Graph images – A look at GitHub’s new Open Graph image generator.
There Is No Such Thing As A CSS Absolute Unit – Learn why CSS units aren’t so absolute after all.
UI patterns & design inspiration from real products – Browse this curated library of screenshots & inter..
Three Buggy React Code Examples and How to Fix Them
There’s usually more than one way to code a thing in React. And while it’s possible to create the same thing different ways, there may be one or two approaches that technically work “better” than others. I actually run into plenty of examples where the code used to build a React component is technic..
How to Build a Full-Stack Mobile Application With Flutter, Fauna, and GraphQL
(This is a sponsored post.)
Flutter is Google’s UI framework used to create flexible, expressive cross-platform mobile applications. It is one of the fastest-growing frameworks for mobile app development. On the other hand, Fauna is a transactional, developer-friendly serverless database that suppo..
8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Creating Onboarding Carousels
Everyone that creates a professional product and cares about their users, takes onboarding seriously. It plays a vital role in bridging the gap between the user and application. It is the foundation of a great user experience. It simply cannot be overlooked.
As there are many onboarding solutions a..
The State Of Web Workers In 2021
You gotta appreciate the tenacity of Surma. He’s been advocating for Web Workers as a path forward to better-feeling websites for a lot of years now. He’s at it again making sure we all understand the landscape:
[…] regardless of where you look, multithreading is used everywhere. iOS empowers devel..
Cultivating Customer Confidence with UX
Businesses rely on designers to help them build the perfect relationship with visitors.
After all, as much as companies may wish it wasn’t true, many consumers still judge a book by its cover. A website that fails to prioritize concepts like trust and transparency could instantly lose the confidenc..
Using CSS Shapes for Interesting User Controls and Navigation
Straight across or down, that’s the proverbial order for user controls on a screen. Like a list of menu items. But what if we change that to a more fluid layout with bends, curves, and nooks? We can pull it off with just a few lines of code. In the age of modern minimalistic designs, curved layouts ..
How to Provide Great Support to Your Web Design Clients
Building beautiful and functional things is only part of a web designer’s job. Providing maintenance and support for our creations is also a key part of the equation.
This is often the more difficult task. After all, support can be a years-long commitment. Plus, it requires both technical knowledge..
Serverless Functions as Proxies
The first time cloud functions / serverless functions clicked for me was when I saw and tried Auth0’s (now defunct) Webtask. It was a little CodePen-like IDE but you didn’t really see anything aside from code and logs. The point was to write little bits of Node when you hit the functions URL (that’s..
Automatic Daily GitHub Backups, Restored in Seconds
Any company that uses GitHub for critical applications needs a backup that can be restored quickly when needed. Cyberattacks, human errors, or a forced push are just some of the scenarios that can result in the loss of GitHub data. In the event of an emergency, you can’t be wasting time asking which..
