user-experience
Creating an SVG Icon Typeface
November 29, 2018
Icons are used in applications, websites, marketing materials, you name it. They communicate complex topics, create visual interest, punctuate topics, and draw user focus. One of the easiest things...
Best Practices for Working with SVGs
July 17, 2018
For the past several years I've been working with SVGs - a lot. Not surprising to myself, I quickly fell in love with them for all the reasons I love vector art. I have come up with several tricks to...
Finding Ideas Through Sketching
November 6, 2017
The most difficult part of any design process can be finding the correct, best, or most successful idea out of all possible ideas out there. In User Experience (UX) we start by finding empathy with...
Using CSS Grid to Build a Page Layout with a Sticky Header and Footer
October 2, 2017
I’m super excited about CSS grid, because finally there’s a way to layout pages and achieve more interesting and dynamic results, without a ton of code! So since I fell in love with Atom IDE recently...
Tutorial Part 3: Documenting a Stylesheet in a Living Style Guide
August 10, 2017
The heart of creating a LSG is the ability to put your documentation right where it belongs: in the source code. Chances are that you are already documenting your code, which is a great opportunity...
Tutorial Part 2: Creating Pages in a Living Style Guide
August 10, 2017
While the bulk of your LSG documentation will come from special comments that you add to the source code, you can also create standalone pages where you can host other types of content that are not...
Tutorial Part 1: Planning Your Living Style Guide
August 10, 2017
Using a living style guide (LSG) to drive development is a practice that is gaining a lot of popularity because its many advantages, including code efficiency and UI consistency. But, how can you...
The Designer's Checklist for Reviewing Pull Requests
July 25, 2017
Imagine this: you’re a designer who has been tagged on a pull request as a reviewer. It’s up to you to look at the changes made and decide if you are going to approve them and let them frolic with...
Designing and Testing a Mobile eCommerce Navigation
June 19, 2017
User testing is a great way to validate assumptions and gain new insights about how people interact with our websites and apps. When it comes to eCommerce (and in particular mobile commerce or...
What is UX Design?
May 2, 2017
Think of the app on your phone that you love using: the one that just makes sense when you use it, the one that feels like it was built with you in mind. This is good UX or User Experience. Good UX...
8 Best Practices for Perfect CSS Documentation
In the world of CSS, documentation is underused. Since documentation is not visible to the end user, its value is often overlooked by clients. Also, if it’s your first time documenting code, it can be difficult...
Envato Tuts + Article
The Key to Building Large JavaScript Apps: The Modlet Workflow
You're a developer working on a "large JavaScript application" and you've noticed some issues on your project. New team members struggle to find where everything is located...
CSS-Tricks Article
Streaming Data with Fetch() and NDJSON
Streams are trickling into the scene as we search for ways to improve performance. What if instead of waiting for our entire ajax response to complete, we could start showing...
David Walsh Blog Article
Free Web App Checklist
We use a set of checklists to keep us on track and ensure reproducible quality on every project.
