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Apple Event Roundup, Responsive Upscaling: Large-Screen E-Commerce Design, Making the switch from graphic to UX/UI design, Using Graph Theory to Build a Simple Recommendation Engine in JavaScript, CSS vs SVG: Styling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons, SVG ON THE WEB – A Practical Guide, 5 Smart Rules for Designing Wearables That Make Sense, An In-Depth Overview Of Living Style Guide Tools, CSS vs. SVG: Graphical Text Effects, Press Me! The buttons that lie
Google’s look, evolved, UX Design for Passwords and Registration Forms, Product List Usability: Avoid ‘Quick View’ Overlays, Identity Sketches for U.S. Soccer, Designing Photostories, 12 Little-known CSS Facts – The Sequel, Do as I say, not as I do, This Product Prioritization System Nabbed Pandora 70 Million Monthly Users with Just 40 Engineers, UX And Culture: Bridging The Gap In Six Strides, Masking Passwords: Help or Hindrance?, In Other Words: Using the blockquote, cite and q elements, PURECSSAPPLE
MailChimp Content Style Guide, 16 Free Photorealistic Apple Watch mockups, Animated SVG Hero Slider, Super-Functional Jacket Designed for Air Travel Breaks Crowdfunding Records, The importance of good UX design , A Product Manager’s Job, UX Is a Philosophy, Optimizing Google Fonts for Fast Load Times, Stumbbble, Benton Modern, A Case Study On Art-Directed Responsive Web Typography
G is for Google – Alphabet, The Web We Have to Save, 5 Things UX And UI Designers Could Learn From Wes Anderson, The Future of UI and the Dream of the ‘90s, HowDNSWorks.com, The Beginners Guide to WooCommerce, PhotoSwipe, How to choose names for your products, The Perfect UX/UI design tool. 13 things designers needs most., Image Blur Plugin
A Future-Friendly Approach to Experience Design, The Rise of the Almost-Flat Design Web, Trend,UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer’s Guide To The Tech Industry, Is User Experience Worth the Investment?, Coda for iOS, WordPress Developers: How to Create a Productive Working Environment, 10 Responsive Design Problems and Fixes, Designing for Performance, Native CSS Scroll Snap Points, Understanding Critical CSS
The rise of the “Full Stack” Designer and the tools they use, A 3D Atlas of the Universe, How Designers are Profiting from Ecommerce, Contextual Styling: UI Components, Nesting, and Implementation Detail, The Complete Social Media Image Size Guide: With Awesome Design Tips [Infographic], Pure UI, Facebook’s first full-scale internet drone – video, How a Flawless Animation Was Built, From Idea To Creation, Guidelines for Animation Timing, Mark Jaquith: Next Generation WordPress Hosting Stack – Summary and highlights
The New Generation of Prototyping Tools (Part 1/2), How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer, Discover.Typography, The Roots of Minimalism in Web Design, Drop Downs Should be the UI of Last Resort, How to Better Manage WordPress Pages with Nested Pages, The Developers Guide to the WordPress Database (and Writing Better Code), Windows 10 is on 14 million machines already, Importing CSS Breakpoints Into Javascript, Subtle Click Feedback Effects
The State of UX Design — thoughts on designing digital products in the year 2015, Perfecting a CSS 3D animation, Comprehensive Guide: When to Use Em vs. Rem, Epic Form & Input Field Design Trends, 9 GIFs That Explain Responsive Design Brilliantly, Mobile Checker by W3C, Challenges with Retrofitting Responsive Design, Fitting After Effects Into A UX Workflow, 10 Lessons We Learned Designing Todoist for Apple Watch, The Grid.io
The 2016 U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Logos, Ranked, DRUNK USER TESTING, Apple: UI Design Do’s and Don’ts, How to Integrate SEO Elements to Move Beyond Responsive, Creating Realistic Text with CSS, An Inside Look at Facebook’s Approach to Automation and Human Work, A designers guide to creating logo files, Material Design: Why the Floating Action Button is bad UX design, When Less is More – Why Minimalism STILL Rules the Web, Pure.css
Safari is the new IE, What’s Different About User Experience Design for the Internet of Things?, Stop Sprinkling Emotion, Start Creating Magic and Meaning, Market – Best Tools for Everyone, Style Guides Every Startup Should See, in the future – LinkedIn Redesigned, Is Google’s Mobilegeddon Scaring Website Owners Into Bad Design Decisions?, Checkbox Trickery with CSS, Detecting CSS Animation and Transition End with JavaScript, Dynamics.js
Discover the power of SVG, BrandColors, How to Design for Multiple Languages, The 10 Commandments of Good Form Design on the Web, Buffer’s loading animation, How mobile impacts local government communications, The Debate Around “Do We Even Need CSS Anymore?”, Mobile App Marketing Insights:, SVG Filters, How to Increase the Maximum Upload and PHP Memory Limit in WordPress
Chevy put out a press release entirely in emoji — and now we know what it means, The Five Uncommon Habits Of Highly Productive People, Autopsy, The New: Google Design, Automating Performance Testing with Gulp, Dribble + Invision, Typography Cheatsheet, 10 New Frontend Web Frameworks Worth Considering, Hacking the Web Design Business, Adobe Illustrator CC is now 10 times faster
UX: a Process or a Task?, Designing for Disappearing Interfaces, Can You Fix a Bad Design? Here’s Where to Start, How to Go from Freelancer to Professional Designer, The Psychology Behind a Great CTA, Why Mobile First May Already Be Outdated, Design user research explained for everyone, SVG ON THE WEB A Practical Guide, How to Code A Live Dynamic Twitter Feed in HTML Email, Pattern Language: Responsive Style Guides
12 Gurus Got 5 Questions About How They Set Their Rate, Why Web Design is Dead, How To Export SVG Patterns, Sticky Positioning with Nothing but CSS, Copy & Paste & The Web, How To Center In CSS, Page Scroll Effects, How To Design Social Media Buttons That Work, User experience design is not what you think, Elevator.js
There Is No Fold, BDConf Coming to ALT in September, Why White Space Is Crucial To UX Design, How Typography is Shaping the Course of Web Design: A Primer, Exploring the Hero Image Trend in Web Design, A Designer’s Checklist For Designing Awesome Multi-Page Layouts: 15 Must Know Tips, Responsive and Infinitely Scalable JS Animations, Bone.io, Configurable star rating without JS, The Ultimate Guide to Web Animation, Ex-Microsoft Windows Phone app designer explains why apps have the hamburger menu
The State of Design Tools: An Unscientific Survey, BizCraft Episode 50: The one where we look back over the top 10 episodes, Bourbon, Bitters, and Neat, HOW TO DESIGN A TYPEFACE, 1 hour of research saves 10 hours of development time, Creating Google Maps Sample App with AngularJS and Onsen UI, 15 FREE RESOURCES TO HELP YOU BECOME A SMARTER WORDPRESS DEVELOPER, Exploring the Hero Image Trend in Web Design, Why I don’t use Helvetica, Simple Slider Buttons
The Future of Web Design is Hidden in the History of Architecture, BizCraft Episode 49: Interview Dan Mall, Apple Watch Human Interface Guidelines, Becoming a More Thoughtful User Experience Designer, Faster Font Loading with Font Events, How to Use the Best UI Design Patterns, The best UI typeface goes unnoticed, Responsive Tables in Pure CSS, Animation Principles for the Web, 4 Industries That Get Real-Life User Experience Right But Fail in the Digital World, Loaders.css
How (and Why) to Write a Great Game Design Document, Episode Zero – The Father’s Dilemma, 28% of WordPress Websites Could Be Affected By Google’s Mobile Search Update and What to Do About It, Don’t Make Your Members Feel Small #wtfux, More Weight Doesn’t Mean More Wait, NASA’S Developer Resources, Your website should stop doing this right now, PourOver, tint ui, How To Create a Web Design Style Guide, Why Choose WordPress to Power (part of) Your SaaS, Matter.js, CSS Supply and Demand, Top 5 Javascript Frameworks
Look and Feel and Feel, Grok Schedule is Out, Consistency and discipline over motivation, UI Animation Reviews – Web Navigation – Val Head, Pilot Testing: Getting It Right (Before) the First Time, Dear web designer, let’s stop breaking the affordance of scrolling, Designing in Browser: A Real Workflow, Designing Wunderlist for Apple Watch, A Primer To Background Positioning In CSS, Textures.js, SVG Sprites and Icon Systems Are Super, Why Design Students Should Freelance, Thoughts About Responsive Navigation On Mobile Devices, Native Modal Windows in HTML5: Using the dialog Element, How to Not Freak Out About Material Design
I don’t like our company’s process. How do I tell my boss?, Erin Godbey: The Heartbeat of Greenville Grok, 5 Ways to Bridge the Designer Developer Gap on Responsive Web Projects, Reviewing UX Designs While Drunk Makes Way More Sense Than You Think, Why a Good User Experience Is the Most Overlooked SEO Strategy, It’s Only Color, Hampton Catlin – The Future of SASS, Dropdown Menus with More Forgiving Mouse Movement Paths, StaticGen, Microsoft Is Phasing Out Internet Explorer, Testing Accordion Menu Designs & Iconography, Git for Beginners: An Overview and Basic Workflow, 7 Skills Every Web Designer Must Master, How to Make Your WordPress Site Blazing Fast, How Cognito Forms Manages Feature Requests
Design advice for developers, Radar #88 – ConvergeSE 2015 Special Edition – KEYNOTES, 5 Web Development Solutions to Common Marketing Problems, Draplin Shares the 1 Action Designers Must Take, But Most Often Forget, Goodbye to 8 Design Elements Whose Time has Come, Die PNG. Die! How to use vector icons in your apps., Tips for Structuring an Organized Stylesheet, How to Sell Content Strategy to Management, What is the Best WordPress Theme?, Rob Harr – Web Businesses That Last, Pluralization for JavaScript, Blogging and Personal Branding Workshop for New Software Developers, SVG Masking Experiment, USING SHADES for eye-catching emphasis, 100 Awesome CSS/Javascript Plugins and Coding Techniques, Piazza Redesign
ConvergeSE, 2015 edition. This issue of the UMS Radar is all about the keynote speakers that are coming out to ConvergeSE in Columbia, SC – so you can get to know them a bit better.
Flexbox Madness, Have you seen the ConvergeSE schedule yet?, Developing a Thirst for UX, Hiring Friends: Disastrous, or Smartest Decision You’ll Ever Make?, How to get the most out of a design critique, 9 Rare and Underused Game Genres Ready to Explore, Colorable, CSS3 Border-Image Explained, Responsive Images Are Here. Now What?, Is it time to embrace Responsive Branding?, Acquisition Funnel Optimization with Anna Stout, Mozilla Introduces the First Browser Built For Developers: Firefox Developer Edition, Super-handy jQuery code snippet to run JavaScipt after a complete page has loaded, HTML5 – Canvas Examples, Practical tips for Web and mobile usability tests, Google Map Driving Simulator, (Even More) Responsive Answers, Canned Emails, Collection of Free Preloaders and Loading Animated Spinners, Creating A Mobile App For Your WordPress Site: A DIY Guide, How to Test Responsive Designs
Guardians of the Galaxy – 8 Bit Cinema, Carl Smith – Bureau of Digital Affairs, Do These Landing Page Design Trends Help or Hurt Conversions?, Design Contribution / Guidelines (DESIGN.md) Open Discussion #194, When There’s Nothing Left to Take Away, The Knowledge That Will Double Your Hourly Rate As A Web Designer, How to deliver a good design critique, Progressive Enhancement is not about Javascript Availability, How To Make a Simple and Responsive Flat Slideshow (HTML/CSS), How To Use Balanced Symmetry in Web Design, The Psychological Trigger That’s Confusing Your Customers (and What to Do about It), What Is And How To Do Web Design After Sales Service – #EspressoMonday Nr. 11, How I, a designer, learned to code and released an app in 4 months, FRONTEND.MD, Transitioning to SCSS at Scale, Custom campaigns and why you should use them, How to Create a Flat Grayscale Cityscape in Adobe Illustrator, Deconstructing Fidelity, Augmented Reality Calendar, Code Guide by @mdo
Aaron Draplin has a few things to say about ConvergeSE!, ModevUX – March 23-24 in DC, 50 Designers You Should Know About, Creative Gooey Effects, The Web Is Dead: Long Live the Mobile Web, How To Use GitHub and the Terminal: A Guide, Why UX Designers Need to Think like Architects, HOW EYE SCANNING IMPACTS VISUAL HIERARCHY IN UX DESIGN, Mobile user experience design key to app success, Responsive Web Design Testing Tool, Tools for Mobile UX Design: Task Flows, Pricing 101 – How To Price Yourself As A Freelancer, Responsive Design Is Not Enough: 4 Steps to Make a Mobile Website Successful, Responsive Navigation Solutions and Resources, Inspiration for Text Input Effects, How To Create Flat Style Breadcrumb Links with CSS, Using CSS Shapes to Enhance Visual Storytelling, Understanding Bootstrap’s Grid System, Typography in Action: Design Simple & Effective Type Logos, Parallax Hero Image