Designing Birthday Picker UX: Simpler Is Better — Smashing Magazine
In this new series of articles on UX, we take a closer look at some frustrating design patterns and explore better alternatives, along with plenty of examples to keep in mind when building or designing one. Let’s start with an infamous birthday picker.
User-Friendly Mega-Dropdowns: When Hover Menus Fail — Smashing Magazine
Everything to keep in mind when designing and building a mega-dropdown, common pitfalls, hover entry/exit delays, trajectory triangle technique and SVG path exit areas.
Designing A Perfect Language Selector UX — Smashing Magazine
How difficult can it be to design a bulletproof language selector? It’s not as straightforward as one might think. We need to avoid redirects, decouple our language and country presets, allow for overrides, and use non-modal windows. Let’s dive in!
CAT Salon: Digital sustainability pt. 1 – an introduction (with Tom Greenwood)
CAT member, founder of B-Corp Wholegrain Digital and author Tom Greenwood gives an introduction of digital sustainability and provides starting points to mak...
Explore all videos, case studies, worksheets, external resources and glossary. This guide is a collaboration between IDEO and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
La compilation : du code au binaire… et retour ! | Connect - Editions Diamond
On trouve des compilateurs partout : quand on construit des programmes, bien sûr, mais aussi quand on visite la page web des Éditions Diamond — elle embarque du JavaScript, qui est probablement compilé à la volée par un composant de votre navigateur. Quand on utilise un Notebook Jupyter pour du calcul scientifique — ne serait-ce que pour la compilation en bytecode du source Python. Quand on installe un APK pour ART, celui-ci est transformé en code natif depuis son bytecode Dalvik… encore de la compilation. Et nous allons voir que le domaine de la compilation peut aussi très largement intéresser celui de la sécurité informatique et du reverse engineering.
A Management Maturity Model for Performance - Infrequently Noted
Despite advances in browser tooling, automated evaluation, lab tools, guidance, and runtimes, modern teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. This is not a technical problem per se. It's a management issue, and one that teams can conquer with the right frame of mind and support.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
Everything you need to know about web applications in modern web development. You will learn about traditional websites, full-stack web applications, client-side and server-side rendering/routing, single-page applications, code splitting, APIs, microservices, static site generation ...
Top Tasks: To Focus On What Matters You Must De-Focus On What Doesn’t — Smashing Magazine
We waste so much today. One way of focusing on what truly matters is by identifying Top Tasks for yourself. Learn how to make tough decisions by focusing on the real, quantifiable evidence that will help create a better experience for your users.
Three levers for change as a technologist: Consumption, Intensity, and Direction - The Green Web Foundation
This post presents a simple model to talk about the levers available to you as a technologist, and how you might embed an awareness of climate in your work.
The web should be a platform that helps people
and provides a positive social benefit.
As we continue to evolve the web platform,
we must therefore consider the consequences of our work.
The following document sets out ethical principles
that will drive the W3C's continuing work in this direction.
Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache — Smashing Magazine
At the end of 2021, the Chrome team shipped some functionality that has the ability to make or break sites meeting the Core Web Vitals. So, let’s learn a little bit more about the Back/Forward Cache (aka bfcache), and what you can do to test if your website is compatible with it.
A Guide to Writing About Digital Accessibility | Deque
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is coming up. If you’re writing about accessibility, these tips will help you cover this topic in a careful, empathetic and ethical way.