Ethics is a timely subject for all of us who work on digital products, so it was no surprise The Ethical Design Handbook was well received. There is a real need for practical solutions beyond just complying with the law. The book offers ways to evaluate current practices, create opportunities for change when needed, and embed ethical design into your workflow. Something Good In The Mail As printed copies started to make their way around the world, we got to see some happy responses and thoughtful reviews:

The Procreate app is an amazing app for designers. While the Apple Pencil is the best choice, let's take a look at some other stylus choices available to you.

Web performance is a tricky beast, isn't it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers?

This week's Designer News (N.344) includes Open-Source UI Components, hack.css, Open Design Kit, Native CSS Search Engine, Learn TypeScript, Google Fonts, Design Trends, and more. The post Weekly News for Designers (N.344) appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

AI, the next digital revolution is providing unimaginable possibilities to every sector of the industry. Be it transportation, information technology, hospitality, healthcare, and much more, AI is making entrepreneurs prepare for what's next to come and boost their business performances. As technology opens the door towards data and automation, opportunities are emerging from every sphere...

It's a common question: What does a new website cost? It might be for a new brand or company that's never had a website before or for an existing organization looking for a website design refresh. And the answer is a bit complicated. It all depends on the path you want to take and your […]

On the Happyr.com Developer blog Tobias Nyholm has written up a tutorial showing how you can use functionality included in the Symfony framework to define access control rules in a database using voters and values stored in the database. I was recently at a PHP conference in Odessa where I met many great developers. One of them asked me a question, that the answer was not obvious. His use case was that he wanted to use Symfony's Access Control configuration to restrict access in his application. But he also wanted to configure the rules dynamically. Since all the configuration in Symfony is cached with the container for performance reasons, we could obviously not allow a use a database to somehow "print" new configuration. We need to do something smarter. Voters are a part of the Symfony security component and are set up as a service in the Symfony DI container. When a route is defined in the access_control section, the matching voter is called and the access granted/denied state is determined by values from the token and subject provided (from the database).

Design trends come and go, but there are some new trends that are here to stay. Explore the latest techniques & styles to stay at the top of your game. Read More

If your website is powered by WordPress, integrating social media functionality couldn't be easier if you use one of these free plugins. The post 8 Powerful Plugins for Integrating Social Media into WordPress appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Take a closer look at where publishers and ad blockers are heading in the "ADpocalypse". Read More