Anna’s business story is as insightful as her conference takeaways. She finished school, worked as a front end developer with the GS&F communications agency, resigned from that position to stay home with her almost 2 year-old son, and has now owned her own company for a little over a year.
Prototyping Style – by Ben Callahan @ Beyond the Desktop Conference
Design deliverables can be challenging in a multi-device world. Front-end developers have had their day playing with fluid grids, flexible content, and media queries. Ben Callahan explains how to let the rest of the team in on the job.
Front-End Conf Lives!
Dan Denney and UnmatchedStyle have teamed up to continue to bring you the one and only Front-End Design Conference!
Interview with Shopify Designer Alex MacDonnell Talking all things E-Commerce
Clark talks with Shopify designer Alex MacDonell about what makes them tick and some insight into his design process there.
A to Z CSS: Justify
In this episode, we’ll look at the 12 possible values for text-align, one of which is justify, next we’ll look at using justified text with CSS columns and finally look at how justify can be used to create a floatless responsive grid system with just a few lines of code.
The WordPress Vulnerability Database That Will Help You Secure Your Site
WordPress is a highly-exploitable platform, but you can secure your install by taking a closer look at the WPScan WordPress Vulnerability Database which will help you find potential security exploits on your website.
BizCraft Episode 43: Let’s talk about time…
In this episode of BizCraft Carl and Gene talk about managing your time on a life level, saying no to things and how to get things going.
Wren Lanier – Designing on the z-axis
UMS Video Podcast: Giovanni talks with talks with Wrenn Lanier about her ideas for using visual depth and layering to communicate context and content to mobile web users.
Kickdrop Code Sample: Bootstrap Sliders
Simple and beautiful form sliders for any bootstrap-based project. We love these sliders because the jQuery is very easy to work with and the overall code quality is fantastic.
A to Z CSS: ID
ID is a CSS selector that allows the styling of a single unique element. Their use in CSS is common and often a little controversial. In this video, I will outline some of the reasons why I prefer the `class` selector over `ID`, how CSS specificity works.
Atomic Design – by Brad Frost @ Beyond the Desktop Conference
Atomic design by Brad Frost is a methodology used to construct web design systems. He has given this talk all over the place, but one that helped kick it off was at Breaking Development (BDConf) in 2013, here is the video and some notes about it.
Jenn Lukas – Interactions & Mobile Devices
UMS Video Podcast: Giovanni talks with talks with Jenn Lukas about one of the most fundamental and often troublesome quirks: The lack of a hover state.
Kickdrop Code Sample: Form Pickers
This drop features a set of javascript-driven form components that will come in useful for a variety of web applications.
A to Z CSS: Hover
Hover is a pseudo class and can be used to style state. The hover state is active when a users mouse enters the bounding box of an element and is inactive when the users mouse leaves it. In this episode, we’ll look at the :hover pseudo class on text links and create a CSS dropdown menu triggered by hover and enhanced with jQuery for touch devices.
CSSOff Update
Update on CSSOff progress and some explanation on its status.
James White @signalnoise Interview – Ep.83
UMS Video Podcast: Gene talks with James White about what it takes to be a professional illustrator and that path he’s taken in his career. Also, there’s talk about wrestling.
BizCraft Episode 41: Core values for you and your business
In this episode of BizCraft Carl and Gene get into personal core values that drive their personal, professional and business goals.
Krit: Easy Project Management for Designers and Devs
During their startup, Askins learned an important lesson: you must often remove yourself from your work in order to discover core issues. For example, his team desired to quickly solve their own developer problems and build systems to solve those issues.