Fixed Elements And Overlays In XD: Incredibly Easy And Fun Methods For Your Prototypes Fixed Elements And Overlays In XD: Incredibly Easy And Fun Methods For Your Prototypes Manuela Langella 2018-09-18T12:30:32+02:00 2018-09-18T12:39:10+00:00 (This article is kindly sponsored by Adobe.) A fixed element is an object you set to a fixed position on the artboard, allowing…
Flexbox: How Big Is That Flexible Box? Flexbox: How Big Is That Flexible Box? Rachel Andrew 2018-09-17T13:30:30+02:00 2018-09-17T11:38:35+00:00 This is the third part of my series on Flexbox. In the past two articles, we have looked at what happens when you create a flex container and explored alignment as it works in Flexbox. This time…
Monthly Web Development Update 9/2018: Native Lazy Loading And Imaginary Work Monthly Web Development Update 9/2018: Native Lazy Loading And Imaginary Work Anselm Hannemann 2018-09-14T14:50:19+02:00 2018-09-15T11:11:14+00:00 It’s an interesting concept to compare JavaScript with CO2 and yet a very valid one. Alex Russel who works for the Chrome team and has a lot of insights…
Smashing Book 6 Is Here: New Frontiers In Web Design Smashing Book 6 Is Here: New Frontiers In Web Design Vitaly Friedman 2018-09-13T13:25:00+02:00 2018-09-13T12:25:49+00:00 Imagine you were living in a perfect world. A world where everybody has fast, stable and unthrottled connections, reliable and powerful devices, exquisite screens, and capable, resilient browsers. The screens are…
The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing Eric Bailey 2018-09-12T13:30:55+02:00 2018-09-12T13:15:05+00:00 Earlier this year, a man drove his car into a lake after following directions from a smartphone app that helps drivers navigate by issuing turn-by-turn directions. Unfortunately, the app’s programming did not include instructions to avoid roads that turn…
Introduction To Animation And The iMessage App Store With Shruggie Introduction To Animation And The iMessage App Store With Shruggie Simon Schmid 2018-09-10T14:45:42+02:00 2018-09-11T07:07:33+00:00 When the App Store for iMessage in late 2016 went live, I released Kaomotion, a sticker app with animated kaomoji inside. Ever since the release of this app, I wanted to…
Getting Started With Machine Learning Getting Started With Machine Learning Alvin Wan 2018-09-07T14:00:26+02:00 2018-09-07T12:13:16+00:00 The goal of machine learning is to find patterns in data and use those patterns to make predictions. It can also give us a framework to discuss machine learning problems and solutions — as you’ll see in this article. First, we…
Designing A Textbox, Unabridged Designing A Textbox, Unabridged Shane Hudson 2018-09-06T13:30:16+02:00 2018-09-06T11:42:22+00:00 Ever spent an hour (or even a day) working on something just to throw the whole lot away and redo it in five minutes? That isn’t just a beginner’s code mistake; it is a real-world situation that you can easily find yourself in…
Preparing Your App For iOS 12 Notifications Preparing Your App For iOS 12 Notifications Kaya Thomas 2018-09-05T13:30:35+02:00 2018-09-05T11:52:50+00:00 In 2016, Apple announced a new extension that will allow developers to better customize their push and local notifications called the UNNotificationContentExtension. The extension gets triggered when a user long presses or 3D touches on a notification…
Take A New Look At CSS Shapes Take A New Look At CSS Shapes Rachel Andrew 2018-09-04T13:30:57+02:00 2018-09-04T11:38:45+00:00 CSS Shapes Level 1 has been available in Chrome and Safari for a number of years, however, this week it ships in a production version of Firefox with the release of Firefox 62 — along with a…
