About The Author Paul is a leader in conversion rate optimisation and user experience design thinking. He has over 25 years experience working with clients such as Doctors … More about Paul ↬[1] Our lives as UI designers have never been easier with a host of amazing tools at our disposal. In this article, Paul Boag explores some of the useful tools that he keeps close at his work. When I started in web design 27 years ago, testing...
About The Author Arihant Verma is a Software Engineer based in India. He likes to read open source code and help others understand it. He’s a rich text editors fanatic. His … More about Arihant ↬[1] In this article, we’ll look at how to create an outside focus and click handler with React. You’ll learn how to recreate an open-source React component (react-foco[2]) from scratch in doing so. To get the most out of this article, you’ll need...
About The Author Kelvin is an independent software maker currently building Sailscasts — a platform to learn server-side JavaScript. He is also a technical writer and … More about Kelvin ↬[1][2] With mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic these days, leaving your mobile performance unoptimized isn’t really an option. In this article, we’ll discuss the complexity and challenges of mobile, and how mobile testing tools can help us with just that. Things have changed quite a...
As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google information, no one has escaped the rules that were introduced in 2018. Last week[1], I gave you an update on everything that’s happened with GDPR since 2018. (TL;DR: A lot has changed.) In this article, we’ll look at cookie consent: specifically, the paradox where marketers are heavily...
Our wallpapers post this month is a special one: There’s not only a new collection of wallpapers created by creative folks from across the globe waiting for you, but we’ll also award a smashing prize to the best design. More than ten years ago, we embarked on our monthly wallpapers adventure[1] to provide you with new and inspiring wallpaper calendars each month anew. This month, the challenge came with a little twist: As we announced in the...
About The Author Adam is a senior lead UX/UI designer with more than 8 years of experience. Adam’s passion for design steadily grew into establishing his own agency, that … More about Adam ↬[1] Trust is at the heart of a long-term strategy of any product. There are many ways to earn it, and even more ways to lose it. In this article, we’ll go through how you, as a product designer, can make sure your product nurtures...
About The Author Subha is a freelance web developer and a learner who is always passionate about learning and experimenting with new things. He loves to write about his new … More about Subha ↬[1] An introduction to building a Discord bot using the Discord.js module. The bot will share random jokes, assign or revoke user roles, and post tweets of a specific account to a Discord channel. Team communication platforms are getting popular day by day, as more...
About The Author Adam Silver is an interaction designer focused on design systems and inclusive design. He loves to help organizations deliver products and services so that … More about Adam ↬[1] Where to put the label in a web form? In the early days, we talked about left-aligned labels versus top-aligned labels. These days we talk about floating labels. Let’s explore why they aren’t a very good idea, and what to use instead. I’ve been designing forms for...
About The Author Stephanie Eckles is a front-end focused SWE at Microsoft. She’s also the author of ModernCSS.dev which provides modern solutions to old CSS problems as in-depth … More about Stephanie ↬[1] A classic problem in CSS is maintaining the aspect ratio of images across related components, such as cards. The newly supported aspect-ratio property in combination with object-fit provides a remedy to this headache of the past! Let’s learn to use these properties, in addition to...
As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google information, no one has escaped the rules that were introduced in 2018. The EU’s directives have impacted virtually every digital professional as products and services are designed with GDPR in mind, regardless of whether you’re a web design company in Wisconsin or a marketer in Malta. The...