What makes a great conference? It fuels your ideas and polishes up your skills. It fosters your professional growth and takes your work to the next level. Luckily, a lot of conferences provide videos of their talks after the event has ended, some do even stream live to pass on their knowledge even if you couldn't attend. The videos collected in this round-up revive the spirit of the conferences they were recorded at and cater for a lot of fresh insights and light-bulb moments to make the learning never stop. As a very special goodie, we're very pleased to also feature the live stream of this year's Build 2016 Conference, taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA, right here on Smashing.The post Never Stop Learning With Conference Live Streams And Videos appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

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Scroll shadows are when you can see a little inset shadow on elements if (and only if) you can scroll in that direction. It’s just good UX. You can actually pull it off in CSS, which I think is … The post Scroll Shadows With JavaScript appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

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I first showed you how to define a project such as this one, and gave you the basics of the architecture as well as the mechanics behind the game engine. Then, I showed you the basic implementation of the engine — a basic REST API that allows you to traverse a JSON-defined world. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to create an old-school text client for our API by using nothing other than Node.

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Laravel eCommerce Live Stream Module allows the admin to integrate the live stream system for the promotion of products to the Webstore. The admin can invite influencers for the live stream and can add streams to the store. The admin can add title, description, schedule date, thumbnail, and products to the stream and can assign [...]

(This is a sponsored post). Testing is a fundamental part of the UX designer's job and a core part of the overall UX design process. Testing provides the inspiration, guidance and validation that product teams need in order to design great products. That's why the most effective teams make testing a habit. Usability testing involves observing users as they use a product. It helps you find where users struggle and what they like. There are two ways to run a usability test: The post 10 Simple Tips To Improve User Testing appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

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Online customer reviews can motivate numerous feelings from us. As customers, we frequently depend on them to direct our buy choices. As business heads, we both praise and fear them as they can impact customers to purchase from us or to click that “x” and leave our shop altogether. Giving an ensured 5-star involvement to each customer is impossible. In the long run, you will need to manage negative reviews. From a customer point of view, negative reviews can adversely affect your business and can drive down your posting on customer review sites, making it harder to discover. While nobody … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com