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New Sep 18, 2024
SVG Coding Examples: Useful Recipes For Writing Vectors By Hand
Myriam Frisano explores the basics of hand-coding SVGs with practical examples to demystify the inner workings of common SVG elements. In this guide, you’ll learn about asking the right questions to...
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New Sep 17, 2024
Creating Custom Lottie Animations With SVGator
Creating ready-to-implement Lottie animations with a single tool is now possible thanks to SVGator’s latest feature updates. In this article, you will learn how to create and animate a Lottie using...
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New Sep 12, 2024
How To Build Custom Data Visualizations Using Luzmo Flex
Bringing data to life in your application can be done without the usual headaches. Paul Scanlon shows you how you can build beautiful data visualizations using the Google Analytics API, and you won’t...
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New Sep 10, 2024
Why Anticipatory Design Isn’t Working For Businesses
Anticipatory design, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine learning (ML), and Big Data (BD), promises to transform user experiences by predicting and fulfilling needs before users even...
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New Sep 6, 2024
How To Create A Weekly Google Analytics Report That Posts To Slack
Google Analytics is often on a “need to know” basis, but why not flip the script? Paul Scanlon shares how he wrote a GitHub Action that queries Google Analytics to automatically generate and post a...
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New Sep 5, 2024
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination
Sticky positioning is one of those CSS features that’s pretty delicate and can be negated by a lot of things, so here’s another one to add to your mental catalog: Sticky elements don’t play nicely if...
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New Sep 3, 2024
The Big Difference Between Digital Product And Web Design
Designing for digital products requires a different mindset than traditional websites. It’s all about continuous adaptation, refining, and iterating as user behavior and needs evolve. Paul Boag...
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New Aug 31, 2024
Goodbye Summer, Hello September (2024 Wallpapers Edition)
Let’s get ready for September with a fresh collection of desktop wallpapers! Created with love by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar....
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New Aug 30, 2024
Integrating Image-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Models (Part 2)
In the second part of this series, Joas Pambou aims to build a more advanced version of th...
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New Aug 26, 2024
Generating Unique Random Numbers In JavaScript Using Sets
Want to create more randomized effects in your JavaScript code? The `Math.random()` method alone, with its limitations, won’t cut it for generating unique random numbers. Amejimaobari Ollornwi...
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New Aug 22, 2024
Mastering Typography In Logo Design
Finding the right typeface for a logo is a challenge and can be a very time-consuming process that requires both creativity and a practical approach. Levi Honing provides the essential background and...
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New Aug 20, 2024
Regexes Got Good: The History And Future Of Regular Expressions In JavaScript
Although JavaScript regexes used to be underpowered compared to other modern flavors, numerous improvements in recent years mean that’s no longer true. Steven Levithan evaluates the history and...
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New Aug 16, 2024
Pricing Projects As A Freelancer Or Agency Owner
Discover effective pricing strategies for digital projects. Learn how to balance fixed pricing, time and materials, and value-based approaches while managing client expectations and scope...
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New Aug 15, 2024
How To Defend Your Design Process
Ever felt pressure to speed up your design process? Here’s how to address unrealistic expectations and foster a shared understanding with stakeholders, ensuring everyone is aligned on the path to a...
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New Aug 9, 2024
If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 2)
In this two-part series, Andrii Zhdan outlines common challenges faced at the start of a design career and offers advice to smooth your journey based on insights from his experience hiring designers....
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New Aug 8, 2024
Best Of Pro Scheduler Libraries
For teams working remotely across the globe or together in an office, as well as for any group of collaborating users, a scheduler can be a valuable tool indeed. In this post, you’ll find some of the...
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New Aug 5, 2024
It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5”
Have you ever wondered what happened after CSS3? It’s common knowledge that we never saw CSS4 come after it, yet we have a plethora of new features that have no similar way of defining when they were...
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New Aug 2, 2024
If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 1)
In this two-part series, Andrii Zhdan outlines common challenges faced at the start of a design career and offers advice to smooth your journey based on insights from his experience hiring designers....
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New Aug 1, 2024
How To Build A Multilingual Website With Nuxt.js
Handling translations for multilingual websites is famously difficult and, yet, crucial for many companies and organizations that serve a global audience. Thankfully, modern tooling abstracts away a...
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New Jul 31, 2024
Sweet Nostalgia In August (2024 Wallpapers Edition)
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers might be for you. Designed by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar...
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New Jul 29, 2024
Rethinking The Role Of Your UX Teams And Move Beyond Firefighting
Many UX professionals often find themselves working alone, and usually face more projects impacting user experience than they can handle. In this article, Paul Boag explains how UX teams can be...
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New Jul 24, 2024
Integrating Image-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Models (Part 1)
Joas Pambou built an app that integrates vision language models (VLMs) and text-to-speech (TTS) AI technologies to describe images audibly with speech. This audio description tool can be a big help...
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New Jul 19, 2024
Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size
WCAG provides guidance for making interactive elements more accessible by specifying minimum size requirements. In this article, Eric Bailey discusses the nuances of interactive element sizes and...
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New Jul 18, 2024
Build Design Systems With Penpot Components
In today’s turbulent landscape of design, Penpot stands out with its commitment to open-source, free unlimited access, and its unique, robust features. An example could be its new components system...
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New Jul 15, 2024
How To Design Effective Conversational AI Experiences: A Comprehensive Guide
This in-depth guide takes you through the three crucial phases of conversational search, revealing how users express their needs, explore results, and refine their queries. Learn how AI agents can...
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New Jul 10, 2024
When Friction Is A Good Thing: Designing Sustainable E-Commerce Experiences
Today, UX design contributes to the problem of excessive consumption through persuasive e-commerce practices and designing for companies with linear and exploitative business models. Anna Rátkai...
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New Jul 8, 2024
Useful Customer Journey Maps (+ Figma & Miro Templates)
Visualize the user experience with user journey maps. Here are some helpful templates, real-world applications, and insights on the importance of mapping both successful and unsuccessful touchpoints....
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New Jun 30, 2024
Tales Of An Eternal Summer (July 2024 Wallpapers Edition)
Let’s welcome the new month with some fresh desktop wallpapers! Created by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for July 2024....
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New Jun 28, 2024
How To Improve Your Microcopy: UX Writing Tips For Non-UX Writers
Interface copy plays a crucial role in the overall user experience, helping guide users smoothly, allowing them to navigate easily through the app, discover and start using product features, and more....
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New Jun 26, 2024
How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility
Gaining buy-in for accessibility can be challenging due to common myths and misunderstandings. For many, accessibility remains a big mystery. Here are some practical techniques for winning stakeholder...
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New Jun 24, 2024
So Your Website Or App Is Live… Now What?
The biggest mistake you can make in UX design is to launch a website or app and then walk away. Monitoring and improving after launch will benefit users and your metrics. Nothing will bring bigger...
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Jun 21, 2024
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Multimedia Writing
Balancing the age-old simplicity of words on paper with the myriad creative possibilities of the web is a tension as old as the web itself. Leaning into that overlap can bring new dimensions not just...
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Jun 20, 2024
Uniting Web And Native Apps With 4 Unknown JavaScript APIs
Have you heard of the Screen Orientation API? What about the Device Orientation API, Vibration API, or the Contact Picker API? Juan Diego Rodriguez is interested in these under-the-radar web features...
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Jun 19, 2024
T-Shaped vs. V-Shaped Designers
Job openings typically cast a very restrictive frame for candidates, with long lists of expectations and requirements. But what if this narrow focus can overlook the value of “V”-shaped designers who...
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Jun 17, 2024
Useful Email Newsletters For Designers
Whether you want to take your user research skills to the next level, get better at UX writing, or stay up-to-date on the latest design trends, a newsletter is the perfect opportunity to get the best...
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Jun 14, 2024
What Are CSS Container Style Queries Good For?
What are these CSS Container Style Queries, and why should you use them? Juan Diego Rodríguez delves deeply into style queries, and not at the syntax level, but at what exactly they are solving and...
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Jun 13, 2024
2-Page Login Pattern, And How To Fix It
The 2-page login pattern is becoming pervasive. Here are the reasons behind this design choice and alternative solutions to create a more efficient and user-friendly authentication...
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Jun 12, 2024
The Scent Of UX: The Unrealized Potential Of Olfactory Design
Kristian Mikhel covers various practical applications of scents in product experience, from immersive entertainment to healing spaces and medical appliances, and how designers can drive innovation...
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Jun 11, 2024
How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024
Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more...
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Jun 7, 2024
Useful CSS Tips And Techniques
The times for CSS have probably never been more exciting than today. In this quick read, we’ve got some useful CSS tips and techniques for you that you can apply to your work right away. Let’s dive...