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Time Travelling CSS With :target
CSS Tricks - 9 September 2024
Checkbox and radio button hacks are the (in)famous trick for creating games using just CSS. But it turns out that …
Design System Governance Models
UX Planet - 8 September 2024
Design system governance models help organizations manage and maintain design systems across teams and products. There are three popular models …
Hover Effect in UI Design: Tips & Tricks
UX Planet - 6 September 2024
Hover effect is a powerful tool in UI design that adds interactivity and feedback to user actions. Similar to a …
Leverage AI for Mock Tables and Charts When Testing Prototypes
Nielsen Norman Group - 6 September 2024
Creating realistic data for prototypes is a chore. Use these prompting tactics with generative AI to enhance content fidelity in …
How To Create A Weekly Google Analytics Report That Posts To Slack — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine - 6 September 2024
Google Analytics is often on a “need to know” basis, but why not flip the script? Paul Scanlon shares how …
Every webpage deserves to be a place (Interconnected)
Brad Frost - 6 September 2024
This by Matt Webb is easily one of the coolest and most creative bits of web design I've seen in …
Icon IQ: Test Your Icon Knowledge with a Quiz
Nielsen Norman Group - 6 September 2024
Test your icon knowledge with a 10-question quiz! Discover key insights from the first book from NN/g Press, "Digital Icons …
Hot Potato Process As Replacement for Design Handoff
UX Planet - 5 September 2024
Design handoff is by far the most stressful part of the design process. In many organizations, design handoff causes a …
Height Elements: A Tricky Combination — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine - 5 September 2024
Sticky positioning is one of those CSS features that’s pretty delicate and can be negated by a lot of things, …
Quick Hit #16
CSS Tricks - 5 September 2024
"Never, ever hire for JavaScript framework skills. Instead, interview and hire only for fundamentals like web standards, accessibility, modern CSS, …
Quick Hit #15
CSS Tricks - 5 September 2024
Almost missed that the WP Twenty Twenty-Five theme was approved a couple weeks ago.
Flux.1 is a Mind-Blowing Open-Weights AI Image Generator with 12B Parameters
UX Magazine - 5 September 2024
Dive into the world of Flux.1, the groundbreaking AI model with 12 billion parameters that sets a new benchmark in …
Furniture & Home Decor: New UX Benchmark with 5,000+ Performance Scores and 5,400+ Best Practice Examples – Articles – Baymard Institute
Baymard Institute - 4 September 2024
We’ve released a new UX benchmark of 10 ‘Furniture & Home Decor’ sites with over 5,000 new industry-specific UX performance …
Design systems should do less
Prototypr - 4 September 2024
Why design systems should cover less scope, not more
Loading Spinner UI Design Tips and Tricks
UX Planet - 4 September 2024
When people interact with a digital system, they expect the system to acknowledge their commands. Well-designed system feedback is one …
Your guide to becoming a content designer
UX Planet - 3 September 2024
Our meet-ups are always buzzing with wonderful conversations. Recently, one topic has been coming up more often: transitioning into content …
Why Computers Can’t Be Conscious
UX Magazine - 3 September 2024
This article explores why, despite rapid advancements in AI, computers are far from achieving true consciousness. It critiques the idea …
You can’t systematize creativity
UX Planet - 3 September 2024
Growing up in the ’90s, I always thought of creativity as something exclusive to artists and those working in advertising. …
Another Stab At Truncated Text
CSS Tricks - 3 September 2024
Seems like we're always talking about clipping text around here. All it takes is a little browsing to spot a …