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This weeks design development inspiration covers a range of tech/web based based articles. Do you need some hints and tips for designing UX for search? What about the benefits of designing a website without colour first? Well we have that, and more!

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

4 Reasons Why You Should Design Without Colour First

Creating your screens in grayscale before adding colour forces you think clearly and prioritise right when it comes to UX design.

https://medium.com/devsdesign/4-reasons-why-you-should-design-without-color-first-c0e38180f689

 

Best UX Practices for Search Inputs

Search is a powerful tool, and as one of the most common elements that we interact with on a daily basis, search input usability is an important consideration.

https://uxdesign.cc/best-ux-practices-for-search-inputs-c44dba565448

 

Best Free Tools for Adding Dynamic Animations to UI

Animations are not just entertaining pieces. They can perform rather serious tasks. Some are used to glue the overall user experience together, while others enhance the accessibility of the interface, making it approachable and understandable.

https://designmodo.com/dynamic-animations-ui/

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Performance with Gatsby: From Zero to Hero

Maze found a 70% increase when they moved their tech stack to use Gatsby instead of React.

https://blog.maze.design/performance-with-gatsby/

 

Creating a File Upload Component with React

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a working file upload component with react from scratch using no dependencies other than react itself.

https://malcoded.com/posts/react-file-upload

 

Apex – Up

Up deploys infinitely scalable serverless apps, APIs, and static websites in seconds, so you can get back to working on what makes your product unique.

https://github.com/apex/up

 

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The Failed Netflix Homepage Redesign Experiment That Nobody Even Noticed

Large tech companies always run tests. Here’s one that someone found.

https://goodui.org/blog/the-failed-netflix-homepage-redesign-experiment-that-nobody-even-noticed/

 

Mixed

Real-time whiteboard and collaboration tools for distributed teams

https://mixed.io

 

JamStack WTF

JAMstack is revolutionising the way we think about workflow by providing a simpler developer experience, better performance, lower cost and greater scalability.

https://jamstack.wtf/

 

The Thumb Zone

Joe talks about how apps should be “thumb-able”. As many tasks as possible should be able to be achieved with just the thumb.

https://joecieplinski.com/blog/2018/12/10/the-thumb-zone/

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This weeks design and developer inspiration rundown includes some of the best articles and examples from across the interwebs this week. Do you rely on UX research without thinking about the data you have? Are to completely sure on the UX microcopy you are writing? Maybe you just want some good old website inspiration.

 

All of that is here!

 

Enjoy.

 

Website Inspiration

Justine Win Canete

A very very simple freelancer website. But each section is easy to consume! This can often be overlooked, and is generally the main point of a website. Put down the artists paintbrush, and consider the end goal.

https://justinewin.com/

 

Nomadic Tribe

Not sure the reason for this website, but it is an incredible use of sound, engagement and animation to tell a story

https://2019.makemepulse.com/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Can’t Unsee

Think you know the best layout for components? Try this test to see if you know what is right, and what is wrong. I got silver!

https://cantunsee.space/

 

Errors in a Form

Help users recover from errors by clearly identifying the problems and allowing users to access and correct erroneous fields easily.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/errors-forms-design-guidelines/

 

Form Design – Optional Fields

A simple way to show optional fields is to put ‘(optional)’ within the question’s label. But this is not necessarily the best experience for users. This is where branching can help.

https://adamsilver.io/articles/form-design-handling-optional-fields

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

10 Steps How to Automate your API Testing Effectively

The main purpose of this post is to solve all the problems mentioned above by automating the API testing and integrate it with Jenkins CI. It’s easier than you think if you choose the right tools and techniques for that job.

https://medium.com/prismapp/10-steps-how-to-automate-your-api-testing-effectively-af866fba942f

 

Using Dotfiles for Managing Development and Many Other Magical Things

Instead of copying and pasting each command into the terminal individually, we can automate and run all things in one go

https://css-tricks.com/using-dotfiles-for-managing-development-and-many-other-magical-things

 

A bit of everything

The 7 Deadly Sins of User Research

It’s fashionable to blame poor usability on firms not doing enough customer research. On the face of it, this seems like the obvious cause of poor usability. If firms only did the research, they would realise their product was a dud. But, like all obvious reasons, it’s wrong.

https://blog.marvelapp.com/7-deadly-sins-user-research/

 

UX Microcopy

It is tough to find a balance between empathy and humour. Whether you’re in the writing/design field, or someone who deals with customers on an ongoing basis, the key to creating memorable experiences starts with putting yourself in your users’ shoes.

https://uxdesign.cc/ux-microcopy-finding-a-balance-between-empathy-and-humor-d0de32795154

 

IFTTT

IFTTT is the free way to get all your apps and devices talking to each other. Not everything on the internet plays nice, so here is a site with a mission to build a more connected world.

https://ifttt.com/

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Website Inspiration

Adult Swim – Singles

https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2018/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Inclusiveness in Web Design

Not a week goes by when I don’t hear “But this website doesn’t need to be accessible, thats not the target market”. So you are happy to lose a potential 19% of revenue for the client? That’s a big decision to make in 30 seconds.

https://thoughtsandstuff.com/the-inclusive-web-why-it-should-matter-to-businesses/

 

A comprehensive guide to designing UX buttons

How can a button do the best that it can do? What are the rules behind sizes, user flow, colour? Its all here.

https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/comprehensive-guide-designing-ux-buttons/

 

New VR sketching tool looks to make product design “quicker and more efficient”

Gravity Sketch enables designers to create 3D virtual models in mid-air using a virtual reality headset and handheld controllers, cutting out the need for 2D sketches.

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/31-july-6-august-2017/new-vr-sketching-tool-looks-make-product-design-quicker-efficient/

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Matter

Material components – Pure CSS

https://github.com/finnhvman/matter

 

Flexbox Ninja

Case studies for all those standard layouts you always wanted to do!

https://flexbox.ninja/

 

A bit of everything

Gamifying one of America’s “touchier” subjects — a UX case study

Less than half of U.S. states require sex education in some form. How could this gap be filled? (pun intended)

https://uxdesign.cc/gamifying-one-of-americas-touchier-subjects-a-ux-case-study-8102017185d7

 

Why we should give up adding pictures to personas — the case, when empathising goes wrong

User personas help massively in telling the user story. They help get buy in from the team and client, as well as understanding the user. But what happens when you add too much information?

https://uxdesign.cc/why-we-should-give-up-adding-pictures-to-personas-the-case-when-empathising-goes-wrong-6c0c8c50fce0

 

What Parralax Lacks

Parallax-scrolling effects add visual interest, but they often create usability issues, such as content that is slow to load or hard to read. Consider if the benefits are worth the cost.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/parallax-usability/

Mapping a User Story

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New year happened. and then Christmas happened. And then I went away for jolly. Enough time to break a habit.

 

Not a chance.

 

This weeks design and developer inspiration rundown has even more of the good stuff. Want to know more about accessibility? Check. How about the newest CMSs on the scene? I got you. Enjoy!

 

Website Inspiration

Beauregard

Beautiful beautiful website. Smooth movement, great imagery and subtle copy. Only one issue… it auto-plays music you cannot turn off. Are they being serious?!

https://www.beauregard.ch/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Designing for Accessibility is not that hard

Seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web

https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/designing-accessibility-not-hard/

 

Merge

Build one component, apply everywhere. Keep an eye on this. It could be big. Making web dev smoother and faster.

https://www.uxpin.com/merge

 

The dilemma of designers’ empathy delusions

Taking a bit of a reality check on how empathetic you really are and for whom can help make you a more effective designer, not just an idealistic one.

https://medium.com/shapingdesign/the-dilemma-of-designers-empathy-delusions-a61f0663deaf

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Remove Image Background

Using AI and come clever code, this website (it has an API) removes an images background in 5 seconds. So much potential for apps…

https://www.remove.bg/

 

Destyle

Think normalise.css. Think reset.css. But think better.

https://github.com/nicolas-cusan/destyle.css

 

Twill

Slim, sleek and sexy new CMS built on Laravel. Open Source and flexible. Will be trying this one out for size.

https://twill.io/

 

Jigsaw

Another static site. This one seems cleaner and easier to set up though? Ill let you be the judge.

https://jigsaw.tighten.co/

 

A bit of everything

The Rise of the Content Mesh

Use best-of-breed solutions tailored to specific use-cases like e-commerce or blogging; it provides a modern framework for rapid iteration and it generates lightning fast websites out of the box. Enter the content mesh!

https://thoughtsandstuff.com/the-rise-of-the-content-mesh/

 

Story Mapping, Visual Way of Building Product Backlog

Story mapping is a top-down approach of requirement gathering and is represented as a tree. Story mapping starts from an overarching vision. A vision is achieved via goals. Goals are reached by completing activities. And to complete an activity, users needs to perform tasks. And these tasks can be transformed into user stories for software development.

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/story-mapping-visual-way-building-product-backlog

 

Are Your Analytics Lying?

Most people are not ready to convert right away and you shouldn’t expect them to do so anyway…

Basically I’m saying you need to focus on long term conversion strategies too!

https://www.cortes.design/post/saas-marketing-myth-analytics

 

Milanote

Capture your teams ideas, all in one place.

https://milanote.com/

 

Screen Guru

Take a screenshot of any website. Easily.

https://screen.guru/

 

Spotify Design

Spotifys very own blog section of design. Well worth a scroll through!

https://spotify.design/

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Website Inspiration

Andy Allen

Portfolio of a designer. Simple. Quick to load. Gets to the point.

http://www.andyallen.co/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Adobe XD Auto Animate

It’s a fight to see who can get the best product out. Sketch is doing well, but Adobe keep upping their game. The newest feature seems pretty exciting!

https://www.behance.net/gallery/72065227/Auto-Animate-UI-Kit

 

How To Improve UX of Web Forms

By creating forms, you build an interface where dialogue happens. So, the goal here is to make sure that the form asks the right questions at the right time.

http://maxsnitser.com/blog/how-to-improve-ux-of-web-forms

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

An Empathy Lesson & Test on Accessibility for Developers

This article walks through 5 reasons why accessibility is so important when creating websites

https://www.ronaldjamesgroup.com/article/an-empathy-lesson-test-on-accessibility-for-developers

 

Rallax.js

I personally use a libary called Rellax. So when this came out I was pretty intrigued. Small. Vanilla JS. Dynamic parallax without dependencies.

https://chriscavs.github.io/rallax-demo

 

Coder

This web app looks like it is going to be a life changer for me. The full code editor, in the cloud. Starting with 3GB free, before any money is needed.

https://www.coder.com

 

WordPressify

A design system to automated your WordPress development. Looks a dream!

https://github.com/luangjokaj/wordpressify

 

A bit of everything

Only One Deliverable Matters

Too many people get precious about those documents—I know I’ve been guilty of it. Somewhere along the way, detailed wireframes, high-fidelity comps, and motion prototypes all got enshrined as critical deliverables. Those design artifacts are unimportant. Only one deliverable matters: the product itself.

https://bigmedium.com/ideas/only-one-deliverable-matters.html

 

Social Media Image Resizer

Need quick, clean image resizing? Promo has you covered.

https://slide.ly/promo/image-resizer/

 

Hand tremors and the giant-button-problem

This article looks at the accessibility problems with buttons, and how those with hand-tremors struggle with bad UI.

https://axesslab.com/hand-tremors/

Humaaans Illustration Design System

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Are you able to be the villain? What about if the product you are making has potential to harm? Also, on a more positive note. Here are some great examples of design systems, the state of UX in 2019, and more! Enjoy!

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Stop Showing Design Options and Commit

Normally create 20 different versions and let the client pick? But you are the expert, no?

https://medium.com/slite/stop-showing-design-options-and-commit-595d80bdb4aa

 

The State of UX in 2019

We have seen quite a lot this year. Here’s what to expect for UX in 2019.

https://trends.uxdesign.cc/

 

Humaaans

Mix and match illustrations of people with a design library. Definitely bookmark this!

https://www.humaaans.com/

 

A UX Guide For Designing Error Pages

404’s & maintenance pages. Use this checklist before you get started.

https://blog.prototypr.io/a-ux-guide-for-designing-error-pages-fb9ced1f1c8a

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Why You Shouldn’t Split Test During an eCommerce Redesign

Comparing the performance of the old and new site isn’t as useful as other exercises during the redesign process you can run. Don’t split test this!

https://www.goinflow.com/ecommerce-redesign-best-practices/

 

Awesome Design Systems

A collection of design systems, some open source. All the way from Audi, to Cloudflare. Some great examples.

https://github.com/alexpate/awesome-design-systems

 

React Create

Simple library to create component templates for React and React native projects.

https://github.com/obiwankenoobi/create

 

Tiny Details: A Look at Hamburger Menu Reveal Transitions

Examples of the hamburger menu done well, and also not so well. A few nice takes here.

https://speckyboy.com/hamburger-menu-reveal-transitions/

 

A bit of everything

Be the Villain

They’re not going to be fun conversations. It’s not going to be easy convincing others that these aren’t paranoid delusions best tucked out of sight in the darkest, dustiest corner of the backlog. Realistically, talking about it may even harm your career.

https://24ways.org/2018/be-the-villain/

 

8 Lessons from Creating a Design System

Mono created a design system. Here is what they learnt along the way!

https://mono.company/design-systems/eight-lessons-from-creating-a-design-system/

 

Raindrop.io

Think bookmarks, but your your team. Build collections of assets, or working on a new job that needs inspiration. Raindrop makes it simple.

https://raindrop.io/

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This week is more UI focused, due to a project that I am working on. I have still managed to include some brilliant development inspiration articles, and a few thought pieces at the bottom of the rundown. Have a good week!

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Adobe XD Wireframe Kits

A collection of Adobe XD wireframes to get you off the ground in your next web project!

https://newtodesign.com/xd-wireframe-kits/

 

Accessibility before Aesthetics

It’s time we start addressing accessibility before aesthetics in our design processes to create meaningful products for our diversified societies and cultures. Before diving into the Why, How and What of it, let’s revisit the definitions of these terms to set the context.

https://uxplanet.org/accessibility-before-aesthetics-9a0fb463e149

 

Montage

Fast, easy prototyping for everyone. Using a user-generated library of components, designs can be got of the ground quicker than ever.

https://www.trymontage.com/

 

Rememberly — A UX case study to help people affected by Alzheimer’s and Dementia

A brilliant case study for a apps UX that needs to do its job.

https://medium.com/tj-egbert-design/rememberly-a-ux-case-study-to-help-people-affected-by-alzheimers-and-dementia-6a5c17a1e690

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Zeroheight

This brings the design system closer to everyone involved. Starts with the designers, then can be fleshed out by the developers. Edited by everyone.

https://zeroheight.com/

 

The Dogs of CodePen

10 animated dogs. Thats all.

https://blog.codepen.io/2018/09/05/the-dogs-of-codepen/

 

Strategies For Headless Projects With Structured Content Management Systems

Using a Structured Content Management System (SCMS) can be a great way to free your content from a paradigm that begins to feel its age. In this article, Knut Melvær suggests some overarching strategies, with some concrete real-world examples on how to think about working with structured content.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/11/structured-content-done-right/

 

Getform

Not enough time to build in a form? Use Getform! Backend platform for designers and developers.

https://getform.io/

 

FreeCodeCamp – JavaScript Platform Game Tutorial

Lear how to build a Maria like platform game with this 3 hour video tutorial!

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/beaucarnes/platformer-game-turorial-javascript–m1JO9zlF4

 

Drop-Down Usability: When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Use Them

Deciding when to use a drop-down — or when to use another interface type, such as a radio button interface or open text field — for a specific input can be tricky. This article talks through the when and wheres.

https://baymard.com/blog/drop-down-usability

 

A bit of everything

Deep Dive Duck

Need to keep an eye on your competitors? Monitor changes on their site and get it set to you in a weekly email!

https://deepdiveduck.com/

UX UI Website Examples

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This week is a little more focused on UI design and development. And god damn they are pretty. Its all about those micro-interactions. On top of this, there are articles on Just In Time Design (it rhymes right!) and User Empowerment. Plus so much more! Enjoy this weeks design and development inspiration rundown!

 

Website Inspiration

BornFight

A digital agency that has been building websites and apps since 2009. Considering they have been doing it this long, I would have hoped the site would load slightly faster. However, it looks really good on desktop!

https://www.bornfight.com/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Design Dots

Another design and dev article curator. But this one is so much nicer. Build on Webflow, the auther only adds 5 pieces of content a day. Each from a different sector. Well worth a look.

https://www.designdots.co/

 

UI UX Interaction Design Week 16

A collection of UI and UX interfaces. Some great examples of websites done right.

http://gillde.com/ui-ux-interaction-design-week-16/

 

Building Your Colour Palette

An article on how to build a website colour palette. Well written, helps get the job done.

https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette/

 

User Empowerment Through Design

It’s not just about creating stunning visuals anymore, users are seeking whole experiences that make them feel more powerful and complete.

https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/empowerment-through-design/

 

The UX of Registration and Login

Two of the biggest barriers to entry. Registration and Login. If not designed right can lose a lot of users.

https://www.twotalltotems.com/blog/index.php/2017/12/20/the-ux-of-registration-and-login/

 

Mobbin

A collection of hand picked mobile design patterns that reflect the best in design. A definite bookmark.

https://mobbin.design/

 

Gestalt-Driven UX: The Patterns That Drive Our World

Gestaltism is a holistic philosophy that studies how humans recognize patterns and simplify complex, disparate information.

https://hackernoon.com/design-psychology-gestalt-driven-ux-64ac01cd257a

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Feather

Feather is a collection of simply beautiful open source icons. Each icon is designed on a 24×24 grid with an emphasis on simplicity, consistency and readability. Only loads the ones you need.

https://github.com/feathericons/feather

 

autoComplete

autoComplete.js is a simple pure vanilla Javascript library that’s built for speed, high versatility and seamless integration with wide range of projects & systems.

https://github.com/TarekRaafat/autoComplete.js

 

A bit of everything

Just In Time Design

Continuously delivering small iterations based on the team’s needs can transform the product development process. This approach shifts the focus away from highly-produced, out-of-date, difficult-to-maintain design, opening up the process to tighter collaboration and a higher standard of quality.

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/just-in-time-design.html

 

No I Don’t Want To Take Your Survey

In our industry surveys help with understanding the end user. The issue is how companies go about getting the information. Sometimes a survey on a website that interupts the user experience just isn’t the best way!

http://gerrymcgovern.com/no-i-dont-want-to-take-your-survey/

 

HolaBrief

Very few projects end up with exceptional results. HolaBrief makes it easy to ask all the right questions and nail your design brief every time. Built by designers, for designers.

https://www.holabrief.com/

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A massive selection this week. 2 great website examples to help inspire your portfolio designs. Some great JS frameworks and testing tools. A few articles to help designers design the good stuff, and even more articles to keep you busy. Enjoy this website design and developer inspiration rundown.

Website Inspiration

Tom Rush

A Leeds based digital creative website. Tom has built a simple, easy to read, and quick to load portfolio that does a great job.

https://tomrushworth.co.uk/

 

Tim Householter

First Tom, now Tim. A lead designer at Transom Design in Seattle. His site uses lots of white space and grids to display his work. Clean, simple, easy to read.

http://timhouseholter.com

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

In the dead of night we are drawn to dark interfaces

Distraction free, pretty, and amplification. What dark interfaces are a massive thing in product design.

https://uxdesign.cc/in-the-dead-of-night-a4c7fa98aec4

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Grid Tile Layouts with auto-fit and minmax

A new and easy way to make perfect responsive title layouts with CSS Grid.

https://gedd.ski/post/tile-layouts/

 

Building Your Colour Palette

You can’t build anything with five hex codes. To build something real, you need a much more comprehensive set of colours to choose from.

https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette

 

Creating Excellent UX Flow Charts

Flow charts, like any deliverable in the design process, is an excuse to talk to your team. As much as we like complaining about meetings and formal deliverables, the truth is that design work would come to a dead stop without (a) conversations and (b) pictures.

https://medium.com/eightshapes-llc/creating-excellent-ux-flow-charts-df6f1e46e524

 

Google Web.Dev

With actionable guidance and analysis, web.dev helps developers like you learn and apply the web’s modern capabilities to your own sites and apps.

https://web.dev/

 

Glorious Demo

The best way to create animated code for demos. Copy, pastable, and pretty.

https://glorious.codes/demo

 

Chromatic – UI testing for Storybook

A continuous UI testing tool that combines the accuracy of manual testing with the efficiency of automation. 21% of software budget is on bugs, and the cost of bug repair in production is 5-10x. This tool helps save time and money.

https://blog.hichroma.com/chromatic/home

 

Maizzle

Maizzle is a BYOHTML framework for rapid HTML email development. It’s like a static site generator, but tailored to email.

https://maizzle.com/

 

Svelte

The magical disappearing UI framework. I still need to have a proper look into this but it seems really interesting. Using vanilla JS, but the same functionality as major JS frameworks. Teeny tiny in size.

https://svelte.technology/

 

Why using `tabindex` values greater than “0” is bad

Using Tab Indexes in web development? Maybe you should stop doing that…

http://www.karlgroves.com/2018/11/13/why-using-tabindex-values-greater-than-0-is-bad/

 

A bit of everything

Web Typography Resources

A great list of resources all centred around typography. Perfect for designers and developers.

https://betterwebtype.com/web-typography-resources

 

Cacher

The code snippet organiser for developers. Integrates with most editors to store commonly used snippets from the whole team on the cloud.

https://www.cacher.io/

 

Heat maps 101: a complete guide with examples, tools, and case studies

Hotjar walk you through why, how and when to use heat maps. Mixed up with a few case studies and examples to show how valuable they can be.

https://www.hotjar.com/blog/heatmaps

 

Designing, laws, and attitudes.

I often hear from stakeholders who worry that “accessible” means “ugly.” Well here are resources that are accessible and visually beautiful.

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/designing-laws-and-attitudes/

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Website Inspiration

Puree Maison

Although the designers have not considered usability at all, it is a good site to show the different animations and reveals that can be used across a website. Some brilliant hover states over images, and gentle fades on scroll.

https://pureemaison.com/en

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Palx

The last few week have been good for colour generators. Here is another brilliantly simple colour palette generator to sit in your bookmarks.

https://palx.jxnblk.com/

 

40 Orange Website Designs

Creative Overflow have pulled together 40 websites that are based on the colour orange. Some modern, some dated, but all good examples.

http://creativeoverflow.net/40-orange-website-designs-to-inspire-your-next-project/

 

Three Web Design Tools To Speed Up Things

While looking for tools to unify web designs and developers I came across three really interesting web apps. One not yet out yet. One that have been the block a few times, and the other new on the scene.

 

Webflow

Give you the power to design, build, and launch responsive websites visually, while writing clean, semantic code for you.

https://webflow.com/

Hadron

Hadron is a development environment for designers and developers who work together towards the same goal, moving ideas forward and learning from each other along the way.

https://hadron.app/

 

Bondlayer

Bondlayer empowers web designers to craft native apps and responsive websites. Without coding or template restrictions.

https://www.bondlayer.com/

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Spectre

A new lightweight modern CSS framework. It is under 10kb gzipped, responsive and uses modern elements and components.

https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/

 

Markdown to JSX

A lightweight customizable component for Markdown within React

https://github.com/probablyup/markdown-to-jsx

 

Playroom

A simple design environment that allows you to simultaneously design across a variety of themes and screen sizes, powered by JSX and your own component library. Create quick mock-ups and share the work simply.

https://github.com/seek-oss/playroom

 

An Annotated Webpack 4 Config for Frontend Web Development

As web development becomes more complex, we need tooling to help us build modern websites. Here’s a complete real-world production example of a sophisticated web­pack 4 config

https://nystudio107.com/blog/an-annotated-webpack-4-config-for-frontend-web-development

 

‘Atomic’ font size management with Sass

Atomic sizing with Sass should make styling fonts easier. It moves away from styling font elements like H1s, and focuses on specific classes.

https://iamsteve.me/blog/entry/atomic-font-size-management-with-sass

 

A bit of everything

Kill Your Personas

How persona spectrum’s help push real user needs.

https://medium.com/microsoft-design/kill-your-personas-1c332d4908cc?

 

We Do People Leave Your Website? Undecided Explorers

Trying to improve conversion rates? Maybe take a look at users that do convert… You may need to tailor.

https://www.hotjar.com/blog/why-people-leave-your-website

 

User Research? But Why?

If your job has anything to do with design, there is a good chance that you would have experienced the need to do some form of user research. If you happen to work with or for a group of people who have limited understanding of the design process, then you must have had your moments of frustration. This article helps answer these questions.

https://uxdesign.cc/user-research-but-why-2d399182637b

 

Meta Tags

A great tool to mock up Meta Tag views across social media platforms, as well as a teaching tool for those who are not in the loop.

https://metatags.io/

 

Netflix Web Performance Case Study

There are no silver bullets to web performance. Simple static pages benefit from being server-rendered with minimal JavaScript. Libraries can provide great value for complex pages when used with care. Netflix breaks down the process in this case study.

https://medium.com/dev-channel/a-netflix-web-performance-case-study-c0bcde26a9d9