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The Web Animations API lets us construct animations and control their playback with JavaScript. The API opens the browser’s animation engine to developers and was designed to underlie implementations of both CSS animations and transitions, leaving the door open to future animation effects. It is one..

Several years ago, I worked as an in-house copywriter and designer for a prominent marketing firm. When I first applied for the job I didn’t have any of the credentials my employers were looking for, and yet I got the job anyway, out of a pool of more qualified competitors. Why did I get chosen? The..

Usually, when “unused” comes up in conversation regarding CSS, it’s about removing chunks of CSS that are not used in your site or, at least, the styles not currently in use on a specific page. The minimal amount of CSS is best! I’ve written about how this is a hard problem in the past. In JavaScrip..

Max Böck took me up on my challenge to look through a codebase and see how many of the @media queries could ultimately become @container queries. I took the bait and had a look at some of my projects – and yes, most of what I use @media for today can probably be accomplished by @container at some p..

(Note: Unfortunately, e-mail and RSS don’t support advanced layouts and features. If the graphics in this article look strange, you may want to read the article in your web browser.) Key Takeaways Our extensive native mobile app usability testing verified that 98% of product-finding guidelines for mobile websites also apply to native mobile apps 342 native mobile app guidelines were identified that inform the UX design of mobile apps Quantitative data on native mobile app and mobile site usage rates indicate that users are more likely to use a mobile site than the corresponding mobile app for purchasing While there are differences between mobile sites and mobile apps, these are minimal and largely confined to specific, minor UI variations At Baymard our research team has spent over 800 hours usability testing and researching native mobile apps for e-commerce. This Mobile Apps UX research is based on more than 200 qualitative user/app usability test sessions following the “Think..

I wonder where headless WordPress will land. And by “headless” I mean only using the WordPress admin and building out the user-facing site through the WordPress REST API rather than the traditional WordPress theme structure. Is it… big? The future of WordPress? Or relatively niche? Where’s the dem..

Navigation in website design typically only includes the same basic menu items, modestly sit in the header, and always greets the viewer from the outset. Since the popularization of the hamburger button, nothing earth-shattering has happened in navigation design. But some web designers have dared t..

It wasn’t long ago when I looked at sticky headers and footers in HTML s in the blog post A table with both a sticky header and a sticky first column. In it, I never used position: sticky on any , , or element, because even though Safari and Firefox could do that, Chrome co..