This week's Designer News - No 612 - includes Dot HQ Web Browser, The Future of CSS: Cascade Layers, Geometric Art, Simpler Block Spacing in WordPress with :is() and :where(), 20 Killer JavaScript One Liners, Actionable Color Palettes and much, much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 612 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

One of the most important aspects of pitching your startup is the presentation. In fact, it's your pitch deck that'll do most of the talking during your presentation. These startup pitch deck PowerPoint templates can make all the difference! It goes to say that your startup pitch deck needs to be more than perfect for […]

On your list of places where people might access your web app, "Microsoft Teams" is probably number "not-on-the-list". But it turns out that making your application accessible where your users are already working has some profound benefits. In this article, we'll look at how Microsoft Teams makes web apps a first-class citizen, and how it enables you to interact with those apps in completely new ways.

React is one of today's most popular ways to create a component-based UI. It helps to organize an application into small, human-digestible chunks. With its "re-render the whole world" approach, you can avoid any complex internal interactions between small components, while your application continues to be blazingly fast due to the DOM-diffing that React does under the hood (i.e. updating only the parts of the DOM that need to be updated). But can we apply the same techniques to web graphics — SVG in particular? Yes! I don't know about you, but for me SVG code becomes messy pretty fast. Trying to grasp what's wrong with a graph or visualization just by looking at SVG generator templates (or the SVG source itself) is often overwhelming, and attempts to maintain internal structure or separation of concerns are often complex and tedious.The post Generating SVG With React appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Introduction For me, even after having pushed the deploy button many times, deploying to production keeps being dreadful. Accidentally pushing an unwanted feature that sneaked in somehow is one of the many things I am afraid of. In this blog post I show you how we reduced our deployment anxiety with a script using git log for listing all the features that go live after pushing that deploy-to-pro button. In this blog post I first introduce you to the way we work and provide you with the necessary information to… The post Know what you deploy – a script using git log for listing all features that go live appeared first on bol.com Techlab.

Today, we're taking flat design to the next level. Not every project works with some of the bold, bright color choices that are commonly connected to flat design. So don't get stuck using them. Kick up your flat design scheme a notch with a more muted color palette. The subtle change can help give your […]

When it comes to running a small business, your website is the face of your company. Often, the website is the first impression that potential customers will get of your business, so it's important that it looks professional, reputable, and attractive. It often seems like design trends change too quickly to keep up, however keeping...

We can't repeat enough how wonderful the web performance community is! There are good folks who help make the web faster, and their efforts matter indeed. With the new year sinking in and everyone's resolutions still being put to the test, personal goals such as reproducing bugs and fixing issues suddenly become something we all have in common: improving the web for everyone involved. As various areas of performance become more and more sophisticated and complicated throughout the years, Vitaly refines and updates his front-end performance checklist every year.

Spring is coming! With March just around the corner, nature is slowly but surely awakening from its winter sleep. And, well, even if spring seems far away in your part of the world, this month's wallpaper selection is bound to at least get your ideas springing. Just like every month since more than nine years already, artists and designers from across the globe got out their favorite tools and designed unique wallpapers to cater for some fresh inspiration on your desktop and mobile screens.

In a time where design and technology are continuously updating, many new design trends keep coming up. However, with the constant need of coming up with something new, many designers go back to old designing tricks to create a fresh look and stand out from the crowd. Same goes for icon design. One such design […] The post 10 Tips for Creating the Perfect Hand Drawn Icons appeared first on Line25.