If the title of this article drew you in, there's a good chance you've seen some kind of Venn diagram with a dozen circles showing the overlap between user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). This article doesn't dispute any of that. But it does explain UI vs. UX in an alternate way. One of […]

This week's Designer News - No 524 - includes Tiny Helpers for Your Projects, BEM Methodology In CSS: A Quick Start Guide, The Role of Animation and Motion in UX, a Design System Checklist, Motion App for Creating Animated Icons, Magical Rainbow Gradients with CSS Houdini and React Hooks and much, much more! The post Weekly News for Designers No 524 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Latest PECL Releases:Phalcon 4.0.1 Fixed issue New issue xlswriter 1.3.3 - FEAT mergeCells and insertFormula support format. - FEAT put csv with callback. - FEAT global default format. - FIX READ turning data into custom types. taint 2.0.6 - PHP-7.4 Compatibility yaconf 1.0.8 - Fixed PHP-7.4 build - Added Yaconf::__debug_info method for debug purpose zstd 0.7.7 - Fixed PHP_ADD_BUILD_DIR in config.m4 zstd 0.7.6 - Fixed PHP_ADD_INCLUDE in config.m4 zstd 0.7.5 First alpha release igbinary 3.1.0b4 * Don't call __destruct for objects where deferred __unserialize calls were not started (e.g. due to Serializable::unserialize throwing). memcache 4.0.5.2 - Version 4.x supports PHP 7.0-7.4. - Version 4.x is considered to be stable for production usage. - Support for PHP 5.x has been removed, please use memcache extension ver. 3.x - Special thanks to Frantisek Drojak - thesource93 (github) for making this happen msgpack 2.1.0beta1 + Improved performance + Upgraded bundled msgpack headers to 3.2.0 * Merged PR #101: Update README in order to match compatibile PHP version * Merged PR #125: fix ce->name is a zend_string * Merged PR #106: Update README * Merged PR #126: add mising tests in archive * Merged PR #135: Add fixes for issue #81 This also includes tests. * Merged PR #143: Fixed build with PHP-7.4 * Fixed issue #139: Segmentation fault when using cloned unpacker * Fixed issue #132: Segfault on session php7.3 * Fixed issue #107: $unpacker->execute() bug * Fixed issue #83: Arrays and negative index * Fixed issue #137: DateTime(Immutable) serialization doesn't work with php 7.4 RC1 * Fixed issue #105: MessagePackUnpacker() bug * Fixed issue #90: msgpack_unpack is super slow (30x times igbinary) on big data sets * Fixed issue #91: Private property in base class * Fixed issue #67: Integer overflow on a 64-bit system * Fixed issue #33: int64 and uint64 decode is not supported in 32-bit php * Fixed issue #119: uint64 numbers are cast to uint on Windows * Fixed issue #134: msgpack-php msgpack_serialize/msgpack_pack not handling properly large int * Fixed issue #81: Serialize optimization * Fixed issue #108: tests/041.phpt failure * Fixed issue #142: Recursion encoded as NULL * Fixed issue #138: Serializers comparison for session like data gRPC 1.26.0 - gRPC Core 1.26.0 update - #20991: Added php.ini option to set custom grpc log location - #20987: Performance improvement to Call::startBatch() - #20903: Init ssl roots cert only once datadog_trace 0.36.0 **Note** environment variable `DD_SAMPLING_RATE` as been deprecated. Use `DD_TRACE_SAMPLE_RATE` instead. Added Close open sandboxed spans on exit on PHP 7 #679 Support for tracing without limits #686 Add extra info to curl errors #688 Changed Enable Sandboxed Symfony Integration #682 Migrate Mongo library integration to sandboxed api #669 Rename env DD_SAMPLING_RATE to DD_TRACE_SAMPLE_RATE #687 memcache 4.0.5.1 - Version 4.x supports PHP 7.0-7.4. - Version 4.x is considered to be stable for production usage. - Support for PHP 5.x has been removed, please use memcache extension ver. 3.x - Special thanks to Frantisek Drojak - thesource93 (github) for making this happen mailparse 3.0.4 - Replace ulong with zend_ulong, fix Windows build (cmb) memcache 4.0.5 - Version 4.x supports PHP 7.0-7.4. - Version 4.x is considered to be stable for production usage. - Support for PHP 5.x has been removed, please use memcache extension ver. 3.x - Special thanks to Frantisek Drojak - thesource93 (github) for making this happen yaf 3.0.9 - Fixed build with PHP-7.4 pdflib 4.1.4 - add LICENSE file (bug #78947)

The Search page is one of the most used pages on a website and it is considered to be the second most important means of navigating a website, the main menu being the first. Thus, it is essential to give it the attention it requires and make it as user-friendly as possible. The search page […] The post 20 User-Friendly Search Page Designs appeared first on Line25.

Testing to see how your design renders in mobile phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, and other types of Internet-capable devices is essential because nowadays there's an innumerable number of ways people look at our designs. The post 10 Useful Responsive Design Testing Tools appeared first on WebFX Blog.

Halloween is a busy time. Not just for the kids, but also for professional designers. It's that time of the year you start looking for Halloween-themed fonts, templates, vectors, and icons for designing all those spooky posters and greeting cards. Well, this year you won't have to spend hours searching for creative fonts for your […]

Steven Spielberg once famously said, "If a person can tell me the idea in 25 words or less, it's going to make a pretty good movie." He was referring to the notion that the best mass-appeal 'blockbuster' movies are able to succinctly state their concept or premise in a single short sentence, such as Jaws ("It's about a shark terrorizing a small town") and Toy Story ("It's about some toys that come to life when nobody's looking").

When it comes to flyer design, choosing the right font can make a big difference. This collection of the best fonts for flyers can help you find a unique typeface for your next design project. Whether you're working on a flyer design for a business event, a party, a music festival, or a club event, […]

Selling services online is an entirely different ballgame than selling products. There are separate processes, marketing techniques, and web design principles you must follow. You can’t pitch services in the... The post Web Design Tips to Help You Sell Services Online appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Netlify Forms is a form handling feature that receives submissions from HTML forms automatically. In this article, we'll cover how to use it with Angular reactive forms and how to deploy the finished app on Netlify's hosting platform, Netlify Edge.