April 2, 2021 — Quick, constant change is a given on the web. It is often one of its greatest strengths. As ever, though, there is a balance to find. Although longevity takes a different form online, its value is immeasurable. Read more…

April 1, 2021 — By systemizing the fundamentals of typography and space, and leaning into the inherent fluidity of the web, a free new CSS tool called Utopia offers an alternative to breakpoint-driven design. This shared language between design and development streamlines communication and encourages the creation of bespoke constraints for your projects to ensure consistent and harmonious designs. Read more…

March 31, 2021 — Let’s welcome the new month with some fresh wallpapers. Designed with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available with and without a calendar for April 2021. Read more…

March 30, 2021 — Choosing to use a new technology can often bring much desired productivity, security, and efficiency to a project. It is also fraught with risk and uncertainty. How and when to adopt a new technology for client projects is at the heart of leading a great agency. In this article, Michael Rispoli explains how he evaluated the decision of whether or not to adopt a serverless database for client projects. Read more…

March 29, 2021 — In a new series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Last weeks, we’ve covered CSS auditing tools, CSS generators and accessible front-end components. This time around, Iris Lješnjanin will take a look at SVG generators — for everything from shapes and backgrounds to SVG path visualizers and SVG → JSX generators. Read more…

March 26, 2021 — UX practitioners can play an important role in growing the UX maturity of the organizations and products they work with. This article, the second in a three-part series, presents two additional tactics that can be helpful for those working in organizations that have started engaging in UX, but are still at the lower to middle stages of maturity: knowledge sharing and mentorship. You can use these tactics stand alone, together, or in tandem with the ones covered previously. Read more…

March 25, 2021 — How do we get media performance right while staying within performance budgets? In this article, Akshay Ranganath will take a look at the recent stats and data around performance budgets, video playback performance issues and some techniques and tools to address these issues. Having a performance budget as a standalone metric might not be of much help. That’s why we must correlate performance to organizational goals. Read more…

March 25, 2021 — Reactivity is the ability for a variable (array, string, number, object, etc) to update when its value or any other variable that it makes reference to is changed after declaration. In this article, Timi Omoyeni is going to look at reactivity in Vue, how it works, and how you can create reactive variables using newly created methods and functions. Read more…

March 24, 2021 — Eleventy (aka 11ty) is rising in the ranks among static site generators. This Node-based builder is attractive due to its zero-config starting point, purely static output, and ease of achieving the coveted top Lighthouse performance score of four perfect 100s. Let’s dive into what else makes it unique, and learn about some essential concepts to help you successfully get started. Read more…

March 23, 2021 — One of the drivers of the popularity of headless options is that expectations for the quality of user experience are constantly going up. We have a wealth of tools to help developers build things fast so results are expected quickly. Going headless lets your team take full control of the user experience instead of wrestling with a large tool that doesn’t do quite what you wanted. In this article, Aaron Hans will explore what headless means, use cases for it, and how to decide if headless is a good fit for you. Read more…