Popular Design News of the Week: December 7, 2020 – December 13, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site..

2 Smartest Ways to Structure Sass

Sass – the extended arm of CSS; the power factor that brings elegance to your code. With Sass, it is all about variables, nesting, mixins, functions, partials, imports, inheritance, and control directives. Sass makes your code more maintainable and reusable. And now, I will show you how to make yo..

Pantone Color of the Year 2021

It’s that time again: the self-fulfilling prophecy that is the Pantone Color of the Year has been announced for 2021. For 2021, we’re getting two colors of the year. The colors selected to grace museum gift shops, and end-of-year blog posts are Ultimate Gray (a mid-range gray somewhere around #9395..

The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What’s New In CSS?

The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What’s New In CSS?The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What’s New In CSS? Rachel Andrew 2018-10-26T22:30:30+02:002018-10-30T14:13:13+00:00Last week, I attended W3C TPAC as well as the CSS Working Group meeting there. Various changes were made to specifications, and discu..

Video Playback On The Web: Video Delivery Best Practices (Part 2)

Video Playback On The Web: Video Delivery Best Practices (Part 2)Video Playback On The Web: Video Delivery Best Practices (Part 2) Doug Sillars 2018-10-25T14:40:24+02:002018-10-30T14:13:13+00:00In my previous post, I examined video trends on the web today, using data from the HTTP Archive. I fou..

Splicing HTML’s DNA With CSS Attribute Selectors

Splicing HTML’s DNA With CSS Attribute SelectorsSplicing HTML’s DNA With CSS Attribute Selectors John Rhea 2018-10-23T14:00:11+02:002018-10-30T14:13:13+00:00For most of my career, attribute selectors have been more magic than science. I’d stare, gobsmacked, at the CSS for outputting a link in a ..

Measuring Performance With Server Timing

Measuring Performance With Server TimingMeasuring Performance With Server Timing Drew McLellan 2018-10-30T03:40:14+02:002018-10-30T14:13:13+00:00When undertaking any sort of performance optimisation work, one of the very first things we learn is that before you can improve performance you must f..

Monthly Web Development Update 10/2018: The Hurricane Web, End-To-End-Integrity, And RAIL

Monthly Web Development Update 10/2018: The Hurricane Web, End-To-End-Integrity, And RAILMonthly Web Development Update 10/2018: The Hurricane Web, End-To-End-Integrity, And RAIL Anselm Hannemann 2018-10-19T15:19:58+02:002018-10-30T14:13:13+00:00With the latest studies and official reports out t..

Video Playback On The Web: The Current State Of Video (Part 1)

Video Playback On The Web: The Current State Of Video (Part 1)Video Playback On The Web: The Current State Of Video (Part 1) Doug Sillars 2018-10-24T13:30:24+02:002018-10-30T14:13:13+00:00Usage of video on the web is increasing as devices and networks become faster and more capable of handling v..

A Beginner’s Guide to Voice UX Prototyping

You're reading A Beginner’s Guide to Voice UX Prototyping, originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! As voice technology becomes more and more prominent, we’ll need to design more and more …