Cumulative Layout Shift is one of the hardest core web vital to debug. In this article, we go through different tools to investigate CLS, when to use them(and when not), and solutions to some of the CLS issues we faced in our Next.js-based e-commerce website.
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Maintaining optimal mental health is critical for programmers because most of our work is more mentally demanding than it is physically. However, building and maintaining a reliable and rewarding strategy to maintain a healthy balance in our work demands can be a challenge. In this article, we’ll look at why taking care of our work-life balance is important, how to develop a simple and effective mental health routine, and the most common and efficient techniques you can use to make your custom routine.
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Customers may start using your app because you offer a unique product, but user experience is what makes them stay. For that, you need excellent UX designers, and the know-how to spot them when hiring.
This article is about the essentials of evaluating potential designers and design agencies you wish to hire. Getting this right is more important than ever.
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Writing CSS has probably never been more fun and exciting than it is today. In this post we’ll take a look at common problems and use cases we all have to face in our work and how to solve them with modern CSS. If you’re interested, we’ve also just recently covered CSS auditing tools, CSS generators, front-end boilerplates and VS code extensions — you might find them useful, too.
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Do you like a good interface design challenge? What about accessibility testing and design systems? Or maybe Next.js and advanced CSS? With our new online workshops on front-end & design, we cover all of it. Below you’ll find a schedule of what’s coming up next. Ah, and here’s what our workshops are like.
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React with JSX is a fantastic tool for making easy-to-use components. Typescript components make it an absolute pleasure for developers to integrate your components into their apps and explore your APIs. Learn about three lesser-known React APIs that can take your components to the next level, and help you build even better React Components in this article.
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UXPin has recently launched a new feature called “Merge”. This tool aims to break through the chasms of design and development, all while improving the agility and quality our teams expect. This new technology may cause some rethink on how the whole design team and engineering team collaborates.
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A “dark pattern” is a deceptive UX pattern that tricks users into doing things they may not really want to do. Autofill is a widespread feature either by choice or by accident: who hasn’t accepted to let the browser save/use web form information, either on purpose or by mistake? In this article, Alvaro Montoro does a little experiment to find out how much privacy is taken away from users across three different browsers.
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Most animation libraries like GSAP and Framer Motion are built purely with JavaScript or TypeScript, unlike AnimXYZ, which is labelled “the first composable CSS animation toolkit”, built mainly with SCSS. While a simple library, it can be used to achieve a lot of awesome animation on the web in a short amount of time and little code. In this article, Ejiro Asiuwhu will show you how to use the AnimXYZ toolkit to create unique, interactive, and visually engaging animations in Vue.js and plain HTML.
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Creating an interactive experience with fiction can be a chore with traditional content management tools. Let’s make it the domain of just one content creator in which the user will fill out a form before reading the story. In this article, Bryan Robinson will be building an interactive fiction experience in which a user can insert words that match parts of speech given by the content creator. Let’s go!
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