Web Performance Optimisation by lazy-loading images using SVGs as placeholders, representing edges, shapes and silhouettes.

Rare in-depth interview with Jony Ive and stunning images of the new Apple Park – and see his unapologetically minimal cover design for the Wallpaper* magazine

We recently spent time optimizing our font loading strategy on the Frontend Infrastructure team at NerdWallet. This is what we did and how…

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

The following is a guest post by Rob Levin. Rob is a Senior UI/UX Developer at Mavenlink, and coauthor of the Unicorn UI CSS Button Library. Their 2.0

The 7 Principles on the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design website.

At the top of an SVG file’s code are things like DOCTYPE, xml, xmlns, xlink, and version. Here’s what they mean and when you need them.

My wife is a jewelry designer. She has a workshop where she spends much of her time hammering, soldering, tinkering, shaping, sawing, buffing, polishing, experimenting, and iterating in order to produce gorgeous designs from a slew of shiny metal materials. Her workshop environment is designe

The Truth About Button Color on Websites (According to NASA and Eye Tracking) It’s one of the oldest debates in web design and digital marketing: which color should you use for call to action buttons?

The following manifesto represents my answer to the question — “As a UX or UI, designer, how do I know when and where to implement motion…

Learn the CSS Grid Spec

A game for learning CSS grid layout

Free SVG icons for popular brands.

The following manifesto represents my answer to the question — “As a UX or UI, designer, how do I know when and where to implement motion…

An extensive CSS reference with all the important CSS properties and info to learn CSS from the basics.

Browse the latest blog posts from the Digital Product and Innovation team at Whitesmith. From How to Build an MVP to Best Practices on Product Discovery, our Blog has it all.

As a developer, rarely has my approach been put into question. If it works, it ships. The definition of “works” is usually well defined. Does it look like the design composition? When people click...

Here’s some tips for creating icons — anything from a single colour pictogram to a highly detailed app icon.

**Editor’s Note**: _This article contains many video examples that show functional animation. Therefore, it may take longer to load on slow connections._ A good UX designer can easily explain the logic behind each decision in a [design concept](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/02/27/design-principles-dominance-focal-points-hierarchy/). This includes the [information architecture](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/10/20/improving-information-architecture-card-sorting-beginners-guide/), the [content hierarchy](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/02/27/design-principles-dominance-fo...

LukeW Ideation + Design provides resources for mobile and Web product design and strategy including presentations, workshops, articles, books and more on usability, interaction design and visual design.

If you want practical tips on how to improve your website, you should watch people using it for the first time - aka first time users.

Just over a year ago, we released Origami — a free tool for designing interactive user interfaces. We’ve used it here at Facebook to design…

Freelance Front-End Web UI/UX Developer - Lebanon

**Editor's Note**: _Designers could learn how to code, and developers could learn how to design. Sometimes it might not be an option. In this article, the author makes a suggestion to designers without coding skills on how to start crafting code. You might want to take the suggested tool with a grain of salt (or not) but the idea might be worth looking into._ Designers have widely adopted HTML and CSS for a while now. They usually feel comfortable enough to implement their own designs, at least in a static form. However, they’re often intimidated by JavaScript — and rightly so! HTML and CSS...

…and one weird trick you won’t believe works every time.

People always ask us how we make our GIFs, so we figured it was time to spill the beans.

An in depth look at how we redesigned the Trello Android app using Google's Material design guidelines.

I take a look at how Flex actually calculates its space, and how we might use it now, and in the future.