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Monthly Web Development Update 6/2019: Rethinking Privacy And User Engagement
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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.
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Styling In Modern Web Apps
by Ajay NS
In this article, we welcome you to take a detailed dive into the different ways of organizing styling in modern applications which often have complex interfaces and design patterns.
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Web Accessibility In Context
by Be Birchall
In this article, Be Birchall explains why it’s so important to prioritize accessibility among teams and why there needs to be more awareness raised among developers.
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In this article, Adelina Țucă explains how you can easily optimize all the images on your website (manually or on autopilot) in order to gain better loading times.
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How To Start Using Sketch And Framer X
When it comes to showing the transition, interaction and animation of elements in the user interface, a prototyping tool like Framer X can make a difference in the way you communicate your vision to the team and stakeholders and as a result, boost …
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COMING UP NEXT • JUNE 25-26, 2019
SmashingConf Toronto 2019
Improving accessibility and front-end workflow, refactoring, security, interface design patterns, CSS Grid techniques, performance, Git and how to write better JavaScript.
PERSON OF THE WEEK
Jules Forrest is a senior product designer leading design systems at Credit Karma. She focuses on creating internal tools that help teams ship high-quality and accessible products. Jules also built Women Who Design, a directory of accomplished women in the design industry. Outside of work, she likes experimenting with CSS Grid on CodePen. Thank you for sharing and caring, dear Jules!
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Rounded Triangles With Clip-Path
JUN 19, 2019 — Sebastiano Guerriero’s quick tutorial shows how to design a
CSS triangle that inherits some properties from its parent thanks to the clip-path property.
Heydon Pickering shared
Relearn CSS Layout
JUN 18, 2019 — Through a series of simple, composable layouts, Every Layout will teach you how to better harness the built-in algorithms that power browsers and CSS.
Mandy Michael shared
Variable Fonts For Developers
JUN 17, 2019 — variablefonts.dev showcases the many possibilities and opportunities that variable fonts can offer developers and designers on the web.
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The Layout Instability API
JUN 14, 2019 — Unexpected layout shifts are annoying. The new Layout Instability API helps web developers detect when these shifts are happening to their users. Now available in Chrome behind a feature flag.
FontBase shared
SuperSearch
JUN 13, 2019 — SuperSearch lets you find the right font for you project based on real optical properties such as weight, x-height, contrast, and proportion.
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National Park Typeface
JUN 12, 2019 — The free typeface National Park is designed to mimic the national park service signs carved using a router bit.
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