Looking for UI design inspiration? Rather than adding a new color or changing a font, have you thought about your textures? Continue reading UI Design Inspiration: Do You Think About Your Textures? on SitePoint.
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There’s a reason for all the new, experimental color features CSS is introducing. And there’s a reason for all the excitement they’re stirring up. Colors are hard. Defining a base color palette can be time-consuming and involve quite a few stakeholders. And that’s not even considering contextual colors, like hover, active and inactive states. Defining…
They say we are entering the Data Age. There’s certainly enough of the stuff about. Between analytics, public records, and the slow yet steady growth of the Semantic Web, millions of data points are at our fingertips, just waiting to have their stories told. Telling captivating stories with data is easier said than done. Spreadsheets…
HeadSpin is a performance testing platform for actionable insights into your app. Test on real devices, automate testing, and move faster. Continue reading Get Deeper Insights Into Your App Performance with HeadSpin on SitePoint.
Setting up a new typography system is always a complicated task with literally hundreds of tweakable variables. The best way to save your sanity is a design system that can answers most of those little questions. Continue reading Web Typography: Establishing a Strong Typographic System on SitePoint.
The best JavaScript charting libraries for creating and graphs and figures. From the scientific to the simple. Continue reading 15 JavaScript Libraries for Creating Beautiful Charts on SitePoint.
When we talk about accessibility, we tend to talk about many things — such as dark mode, keyboard navigation, prefers-reduced-motion, and screen readers — but there is one thing that does not receive that much attention: Windows High Contrast Mode (from now on, abbreviated as WHCM). This is a tendency I have seen in some…
Technological development is an iterative process. One might assume that any engineer has at least a rough idea of how we got from the first wheel to self-driving cars or from the abacus to fintech applications, but this is a risky thing to take for granted. Even digital heritage needs museums to be preserved. Without…
Though SVG Patterns aren’t super widely understood, they offer a lot of really interesting design options – once you get your head around them. Continue reading 6 Clever SVG Pattern Generators for Your Next UX Design on SitePoint.
This article is a sponsored by Site Search 360 My site has been created using a static site generator and deployed to a CDN, so I’m super happy with how fast it is. But there has been a functionality that I’ve been missing all along: search. As it’s been mentioned many times, Jamstack doesn’t mean…