Photoshop Etiquette
They say a good designer is a meticulous one. “Sweat the details” and all of that. But how well does that ethos check out when we’re passing along PSDs?
Radar #149
A weekly collection of industry stuff that looks cool. If you have something you'd like to get on the radar submit it here.
Complexion Reduction: A New Trend In Mobile Design
You’ve never heard of ‘Complexion Reduction’ you say? Well yea, that’s because I just made the term up. Recently I’ve noticed a new trend that is beyond flat design, beyond minimal design and independent of progressive reduction. Some may claim that this is just the next step of minimal design being implemented into the mobile […]
A Single Div
A CSS drawing project by Lynn Fisher
12 Complex Concepts Made Easier Through Great Data Visualization
Perhaps today was a rough day. Maybe you woke up late. You missed your workout, then your bus, then closing elevator doors at work. Maybe that project of yours is getting you down and if one more person tells you tomorrow is another day you’re going to scream.
Google is working to make every website viewable in VR
WebVR support is a work in progress for the Chromium project, which could one day change how we browse the Internet.
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
A mental model is just a concept you can use to help try to explain things (e.g. Hanlon’s Razor — “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by carelessness.”). There are tens of thousands of mental models, and every discipline has their own set that you can learn through coursework, mentorship, or first-hand experience.
Structuring CSS in large projects
Writing CSS is easy. Writing maintainable CSS is hard. You’ve probably heard this a 100 times before. The reason is that in CSS everything is global by default. If you’re a C programmer you know that global variables are bad. If you’re any kind of programmer you know that isolation and composable modules are key […]
What’s a Progressive Web App, and Should I Build One?
As web technology advances and web experiences begin to mirror those of native apps, a new term for HTML5 web apps, the Progressive Web App (PWA), has been coined. What is a PWA? Simply put, it is an enhanced experience of your existing website design that allows for greater functionality on modern devices to give […]
anime.js
Anime (/ˈæn.ə.meɪ/) is a flexible yet lightweight JavaScript animation library. It works with CSS, Individual Transforms, SVG, DOM attributes and JS Objects.
Motion Detection with JavaScript
I wanted to see what my pets do when I’m away. But I didn’t want a continuous live stream, since that would be pretty boring (they sleep a lot). Instead, I decided to build something that would watch for motion, take a snapshot of anything that happens, then upload the snapshot to Twitter for remote […]
What Do I Need to Know to Ace a JavaScript Interview?
Often there are threads posted around the internet about how to answer the top 10 gotcha JavaScript developer interview questions. Studying these the day before an interview is pointless like pulling an all-nighter studying for the SATs in 10th grade. We know what we know and these tests measure the culmination over the years of […]
React Modal Box
React Modal Box, is a simple dependency free and customizable React Component to display Modals on your application. Its simple event system allows you to place the modal in the root component of your application, and calling it with the simple mixins, allows you to be flexible. It also includes event handling mixins, so you […]