Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conversation about the same design problem. One is talking about whether the team has the right skills to tackle it. The other is diving deep into whether the solution actually solves the user’s problem. ...
Hey Designers! 👋 This week we have: balanced web design sustainable websites 5 css tips easier layouts and more… Symmetry is the simplest way to achieve balance, but balance and symmetry and not the same things! Matt Brunton encourages you to stop centering everything, and shows you why and how to create asymmetrical layouts. ...
Designers love to craft, but polishing pixels before the problem is solved is a time-sink. This article pinpoints the five traps that lure us into premature detail — being afraid to show rough work, fixing symptoms instead of causes, solving the wrong problem, drowning in unactionable feedback, and plain fatigue — then hands you a ...
Feedback, in whichever form it takes, and whatever it may be called, is one of the most effective soft skills that we have at our disposal to collaboratively get our designs to a better place while growing our own skills and perspectives. Article Continues Below Feedback is also one of the most underestimated tools, and ...
Hey Designers! 👋 This week we have: balanced web design sustainable websites 5 css tips easier layouts and more… Symmetry is the simplest way to achieve balance, but balance and symmetry and not the same things! Matt Brunton encourages you to stop centering everything, and shows you why and how to create asymmetrical layouts. ...
Event listeners are essential for interactivity in JavaScript, but they can quietly cause memory leaks if not removed properly. And what if your event listener needs parameters? That’s where things get interesting. Amejimaobari Ollornwi shares which JavaScript features make handling parameters with event handlers both possible and well-supported. JavaScript event listeners are very important, as ...
“Any comment?” is probably one of the worst ways to ask for feedback. It’s vague and open ended, and it doesn’t provide any indication of what we’re looking for. Getting good feedback starts earlier than we might expect: it starts with the request. Article Continues Below It might seem counterintuitive to start the process of ...
Hey Designers! 👋 This week we have: balanced web design sustainable websites 5 css tips easier layouts and more… Symmetry is the simplest way to achieve balance, but balance and symmetry and not the same things! Matt Brunton encourages you to stop centering everything, and shows you why and how to create asymmetrical layouts. ...
What’s the best way to make your SVGs faster, simpler, and more manageable? In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke explains the process he relies on to prepare, optimise, and structure SVGs for animation and beyond. SVG animations take me back to the Hanna-Barbera cartoons I watched as a kid. Shows like ...
I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine? Or design products that work on devices yet to be invented? Article Continues Below Flash, Photoshop, and responsive design#section2 When I first started designing websites, ...
