It's the website design trend that you see everywhere but might not have a name for: gaussian blur. It's present in several other named trends that have been popular this year and for some time, including the frosted glass effect, creating image depth, bokeh backgrounds, and even for various other background techniques. Here, we'll look […]

Organizations pursuing a more customer-centric innovation strategy often use one of two concepts: Agile or Design Thinking. Incidentally, both strategies share a similar philosophy. Both ideologies are about taking an iterative design approach to software development that collects customer feedback, inspires ideas, and helps teams avoid mistakes. This development approach will result in building better […] The post A Deep Dive into Design Thinking with Agile Methodology appeared first on Developer.com.

With just the right combination of blur and transparency, you've got one of the hottest trends in website and app design - the frosted glass effect. It is a design technique that uses a gaussian blur, shadows, and transparency to create an element that mimics looking through real-life frosted glass. Let's dive into seven different […]

Formatting numbers on the client side is an important task, especially when you consider how much raw API usage is in play these days. What’s also important is ensuring those numbers are meaningful to users, no matter where they are in the world, especially if you’re an eCommerce website. Writing internationalization code can be a […] The post Intl.NumberFormat appeared first on David Walsh Blog.

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Sketch app is a great tool for anyone who wants to make stunning user interface designs. Sketch files are well organized and really easy to navigate through and also to customize. The best thing about Sketch is that you can find lots of UI kits with tons of elements that can be used individually or […] The post 40 Sketch Templates for User Interface Designers appeared first on Line25.

Mobile website design is something that you may already be familiar with. The web design trend that is also known as responsive website design is not a new concept. The origin of mobile web design can be traced back to 1996 when website design pioneer Glenn Davis developed and popularized the technique of liquid layout that was flexible and adaptable to different screen sizes. Website designers advanced the technique further over the years. In 2004, web developer Cameron Adams proposed a technique called resolution-dependent layout using JavaScript. It involved detecting the screen size of users to display the appropriate website … Continue reading → Visit us at InstantShift.com The post Mobile Web Design Trends: Why Mobile Web Design is the Way of the Future? appeared first on InstantShift.

We're opening up our Smashing TV webinars to everyone, and today you can follow along as Rachel Andrew builds a layout using CSS Grid and Flexbox. In the session, Rachel will be building a component of a layout, talking through her thinking as she does so. Is Flexbox or Grid the right method to use? How will the component respond to different screen sizes? And, what about those old browsers?

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:PHP Town Hall Podcast: Episode 54: Conferences and Stuff SitePoint PHP Blog: Rapid Enterprise App Development with Zend Expressive PHP Roundtable: 066: Docker: Drinking the Kool-Aid AWS Developer Blog: Automated Changelog in AWS SDK for PHP Laravel News: Maximize Your Terminal Productivity Herberto Graca: Packaging & namespacing Laravel News: BotMan 2.0 PHP Chatbot Framework Rob Allen: Deploying a PHP application to Cloud Foundry Martin Hujer: Don't Use Entities in Symfony Forms. Use Custom Data Objects Instead Sitepoint PHP Blog: ReactJS in PHP: Writing Compilers Is Easy and Fun! Matt Stauffer: Real-time (automatic) Facades in Laravel 5.4 Jeff Ochoa: Understanding Laravel Pipelines Pawel Mikolajczuk: Create custom Twig node and parser Sergey Zhuk: Cancelling ReactPHP Promises With Timers Freek Van der Herten: What Laravel 5.5 means for our packages StackOverflow: A Tale of Two Industries: How Programming Languages Differ Between Wealthy and Develo PHP.net: PHP 7.1.9 Released Delicious Brains Blog: Grav CMS | Self-Hosted WordPress Alternatives Part 2 PHP.net: PHP 7.2.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

Internal tools are custom software applications that are built for internal users in an organization. These applications mostly have CRUD functionality and are built by engineers for users like sales, support, finance, HR, engineering, and everyone in between. For example, here is an example of a tool we made to engage with our users using … continue reading The post Internal apps - the (often) neglected child of software development appeared first on SD Times.