Maggie Appleton gets into what is perhaps the foremost metaphor the web is founded on: paper.
…Paper documents were the original metaphor for the web. […]
The page you’re reading this on still mimics paper. We still call it
There are tons of smokin’ hot websites out there, with an equal or greater number of talented designers and developers who make them. The web is awesome like that and encourages that sort of creativity.
Even so, it amazes me …
In the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of change and diversion in regard to web technologies. In 2020, I foresee us as a web community heading toward two major trends/goals: extensibility and interoperability. Let’s break those down.…
I noted Trey Huffine’s 2018 version of this article in The Great Divide.
…To put a point on this divide a bit more, consider this article by Trey Huffine, “A Recap of Frontend Development in 2018.” It’s very well
Here’s a wonderful reminder from Charlie Owen that everyone in the web design industry isn’t using the latest and greatest technology. And that’s okay! Charlie writes:
…Most web developers are working on very “boring” teams. They’re producing workhorse products that
This is a video from my talk at WordCamp US.
…Let’s take a peek at what front-end development has become these days. Starting from what the role is, where we sit, and the expectations of us. Then we’ll get into
Product teams from AirBnb and New York Times to Shopify and Artsy (among many others) are converging on a new set of best practices and technologies for building the web apps that their businesses depend on. This trend reflects core …
Someone asked Chris Ferdinandi what his biggest challenge is as a web developer:
…… the thing I struggle the most with right now is determining when something new is going to change the way our industry works for the better,
The team at Kapwing has collected a lot of images from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and presented a history of how the homepage of popular websites like Google and the New York Times have changed over time. It’s super …
Jon Moore documents a trend in which designs opt for non-rectangular headers. Slants, rounded bits, image crops, even weird jagged polygons. I mean c’mon, what kinda site would put a weird jagged polygon as a header? …
