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Most mobile experiences suffer from poor UX because their creators failed to observe mobile UX design principles and best practices. These fundamental tenets of mobile usability have been developed over time through meticulous research and user testing. Applying them with rigor will enable designers..

ProtoPie is an interaction design tool that affords advanced capabilities enabling designers to create bigger more realistic experiences… Continue reading on UX Collective »

An interesting conversation came up at work the other day: Should we use the CSS float property now that we have CSS Grid and Flexbox? The short answer No! Well, mostly. I’d only use it today for wrapping text around images, though and I’d avoid using float entirely for layouts. The longer, more..

Maximiliano Firtman has a look at PWAs this year, including trying to get a bead on how widespread they are: At the end of 2020, approximately 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% had an installable Web App Manifest file. Remember that some platforms -such as Safari on iOS or Chrome o..

Designers often like to critique other designers. It’s just a natural side effect of being creative. We see a website or app and immediately start looking at how it all fits together. What challenges might have our brethren faced along the way? Would we have done anything differently? Of course, no..

WordPress core is making the jump from jQuery 1.12.4 to jQuery 3.5.1! This is a big deal for lots of reasons — like modern features, better DX, and security improvements to name a few. Right now, the plan is to release the update in WordPress 5.7, which is slated to release on March 9. 🤞 WordPress ..

GraphQL is a query language and server-side runtime environment for building APIs. It can also be considered as the syntax that you write in order to describe the kind of data you want from APIs. What this means for you as a backend developer is that with GraphQL, you are able to expose a single end..

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What if an had within it another of the exact same source? Inception, as they say. Baptise Crespy does this all-important research in the name of art and science. Turns out browsers are smart enough to not allow this infinite looping to occur (and likely crash your browser/compute..

The article was originally published at fraktio.fi in Finnish. The COVID-19 pandemic emptied offices worldwide and forced many of us to work remotely from their homes last spring. Consequently, designers — including myself — and teams in general have had to adjust their ways of working. Nurturing us..