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June 12, 2019 — Take a moment to remember the last time you collaborated in a code review. Did your team overcome feedback resistance and manage time expectations? Fostering a healthy mindset is the key to build trust and sharing knowledge with your colleagues. Read more…

June 11, 2019 — Accessibility forces you to see and think about your application beyond the typical sighted, mouse-based user experience. In this article, we’ll dig into some specific, practical examples. Read more…

May 3, 2019 — To make the best of SVG, it’s useful not only to learn its syntax but also to understand how SVG is generated by graphic design software. Let’s take a closer look at the process of generating SVG with popular design apps and how we can use them to our own advantage. Read more…

April 25, 2019 — In this final article of the series, we’ll look into notifications UX and permission requests, and how we can design the experience around them better, with the user’s privacy in mind. Read more…

April 18, 2019 — This third article of the series explores some of the respectful ways on how to deal with cookie consent prompts, push notifications, and third-party tracking. Read more…

April 10, 2019 — In this second part of the series, we’ll look into notorious GDPR cookie consent prompts, and how we can design the experience around them better — with our users’ privacy in mind, of course. Read more…

March 28, 2019 — There are a few ways to align elements in CSS. Let’s make sense of inline and box alignment, flex and grid alignment and common issues and problems to keep in mind. Read more…

February 20, 2019 — An introduction to the backend web application development process — discussing bleeding edge ES6+ JavaScript features, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, working with APIs and JSON, and using Node.js to build fast and scalable backends. Read more…

February 7, 2019 — It’s important to understand that all decisions involve emotions. In this article, Susan Weinschenk explains how you can make your users feel confident of their decisions and why it’s a bad idea to provide more than four options to choose from. Read more…

January 14, 2019 — Web Standards, and the documentation to support them, provide huge insight into ‘the why’ and ‘the what’ of the world wide web. In this article, we take a look at the history of Web Standards, how to use them in your work and ways you can get involved in making them. Read more…