"There are three design patterns for representing an inactive command in a graphical user interface..." "Which option has superior usability?" #ux #design www.uxtigers.com/post/inactiv...

"When anyone can build anything, standing out isn’t about better tools or flashier features. It’s about fundamentally different skills that most people skip entirely..." www.antonsten.com/articles/how...

"When it comes to content creation in UX writing, consistency is key for maintaining and enhancing the user experience." This article provides "the top 16 content style guides for you to use on your next content style guide creation journey." uxwritinghub.com/content-styl...

"useHooks is a collection of custom React Hooks that’s available via npm. It has a great selection of super useful Hooks that will simplify your web development process and make you a faster, better, more efficient developer." blog.logrocket.com/7-custom-rea...

"The smart/dumb component pattern in Angular separates components based on their responsibilities, making it easier to reuse the same data or application state across different UI presentations." www.telerik.com/blogs/clean-...

"...the basic snippets of HTML", tags included to make websites appear in desktop and mobile browsers as expected. #WebDevelopment blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-fo...

"...when you stop treating AI like magic and start treating it like what it actually is (a very enthusiastic intern with zero life experience), things start to make more sense." #ux #PromptEngineering www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/10/ai-u...

Highlight #WebAccessibility issues in your #HTML via this #CSS snippet, such as div buttons, empty anchors, and images missing alt text. frontendmasters.com/blog/a11y-li...

'If you’re lost in an AI user flow, blame the writing. Lots of these tools use unclear labeling, make phony promises, or simply cram interfaces with vague, hyphenated phrases like “AI-enabled.”' uxdesign.cc/ai-interface...

"...deeper-level redesigns eventually deliver well-refreshed, up-to-date, highly usable designs by pushing the next redesign need in years. How to select the right UX redesign level that optimizes cost but delivers good results?" blog.logrocket.com/ux-design/ux...

Advice to level up your contact forms including designing an easy-to-scan layout and ensuring #accessibility. #WebDesign www.telerik.com/blogs/4-desi...

"JavaScript now has native support for grouping data with Object.groupBy() and Map.groupBy(). These static methods make grouping expressive, concise, and far more readable..." allthingssmitty.com/2025/10/06/g...

"...sometimes it’s better to start fresh than to endlessly patch a flawed design. Incremental improvements can only go so far if the underlying structure is broken." #ux blog.logrocket.com/ux-design/ho...

"So how do you overcome creative block? Simply put, you find fun in the process. Treat your failures like exercises and explorations of curiosity rather than reflections on your own capabilities and self-worth." tympanus.net/codrops/2025...

"...quality isn’t a slogan, a program, or a scorecard. It’s a promise kept at the edge by the people doing the work. And, ideally, quality is fundamental to the product itself..." matthewstrom.com/writing/dece...

A discussion, with examples, of a wide array of #css media queries including forced-colors, orientation, and prefers-reduced-motion. #WebDevelopment frontendmasters.com/blog/learn-m...

"Instead of fighting with each other, the design and development teams should approach collaboration as coowners of the product experience... here are a few tips for making coownership work." www.nngroup.com/articles/dev...

'Is vibe coding (i.e. letting AI generate code without looking at the code) good or bad? The answer is of course neither, because “it depends”.' #development martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

"Every time a user is forced to jump between different screens, tabs, or workflows, they lose momentum, context, and focus... For products where efficiency is critical... this friction can make or break the experience." #ux blog.logrocket.com/ux-design/ta...

Using "cos" and "sin" in #CSS to create circular layouts, popup menus with circular animations, wavy layouts, and more. #WebDevelopment css-tricks.com/the-most-hat...

Five ways to reduce a three-column grid to one-column for smaller screens or browser windows, each with their pros and cons. #css #WebDevelopment frontendmasters.com/blog/breakpo...

Learn how to write simple web and API servers in #JavaScript with #node. #WebDevelopment 2ality.com/2025/09/impl...

"...developers need to construct an optimal development toolkit for themselves by choosing tools from dozens of frontend frameworks, libraries, languages, build tools, ... deployment tools, and AI tools, even before writing a single code line." blog.logrocket.com/frontend-too...

"a comparison engine to help you compare AI tools side-by-side" covering Claude, Gemini, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and more. blog.logrocket.com/ai-dev-tool-...

"Think of Cursor as Visual Studio Code’s ambitious younger cousin—the one who not only borrows your syntax highlighting but also brings a full brain along for the ride—and is also a fork of its bigger cousin." #AI #Development frontendmasters.com/blog/getting...

"Having accessibility baked into the Design System is critical to prevent redundant issues... creating an audit structure upfront is so important." #ux #ui #WebAccessibility uxdesign.cc/auditing-you...

A discussion of non-mutating #JavaScript methods to sort, reverse, and splice arrays, useful for #React / functional programming. #WebDevelopment allthingssmitty.com/2025/09/08/f...

"...why exactly do browsers bother to throttle setTimeout if web developers can just use scheduler.postTask or MessageChannel instead?" #JavaScript #WebDevelopment nolanlawson.com/2025/08/31/w...

"Modern JavaScript regular expressions have come a long way compared to what you might be familiar with." Learn "the history of improvements" and proposals of what may be to come. #WebDevelopment www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/08/hist...

"In this article, we will help developers recognize that AI coding tools could create more problems than they solve when used carelessly, and provide practical strategies to work with AI more effectively." blog.logrocket.com/fixing-ai-co...

Part of a learning #WebDevelopment series, here is a primer on asynchronous #JavaScript discussing promises and asynchronous functions. 2ality.com/2025/09/java...

"Prompting is us designing our own interactions with machines — it uses the same mindset with a new medium." #AI www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/prom...

In #Angular, "Unlike the zone-based change detection that runs for entire component trees, signals provide fine-grained reactivity that updates only what actually changed." #JavaScript www.telerik.com/blogs/angula...

"To comply with the [European Accessibility Act], websites and apps should implement various accessibility features, including text-to-speech, keyboard navigation, and screen reader compatibility." baymard.com/blog/europea...

"...why card-based layouts work so well, how they influence user experience, and how to design cards that make content more usable and engaging." #ux #ui designshack.net/articles/ux-...

"Promise.any() is a modern, elegant solution for scenarios where at least one success is enough, and failures are expected. Whether you’re optimizing API calls or enhancing UX with optional features, it’s a powerful addition to your async toolkit." #JavaScript allthingssmitty.com/2025/08/25/u...

"...many consumers are simply not aware of how powerful generative AI tools can be in information-seeking, and don’t know how to prompt to achieve better outcomes." www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-...

"The AI we need isn’t just one that can process text, voice, images, and gestures simultaneously. We need a partner... detecting the unspoken truth in the dissonance between these multimodal signals." #AI uxdesign.cc/lifting-the-...

"Design isn’t about decoration. It’s about creating order... Order takes discipline. Tough decisions. Design is decision-making. It’s about setting constraints." #ui #WebDesign www.telerik.com/blogs/how-th...

"...why it’s so risky to eliminate entry-level roles. If no one has mastered the new [#AI] landscape, we need more hands and perspectives, not fewer." blog.logrocket.com/dont-let-ai-...

Explanations and demonstrations of the SVG "path" element, including lines, curves, and arcs. #WebDevelopment www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/interact...

"Beyond functionality, color is also a powerful tool for brand recognition and emotional connection. Consistent use of brand colors across a digital product reinforces identity and builds trust." #ux #ProductDesign www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/psyc...

"Event delegation streamlines event handling by attaching a single listener to a parent element. When a child triggers an event, it bubbles up to the parent, reducing memory usage and simplifying code." #JavaScript blog.logrocket.com/deep-interna...

"The merit of a solution can’t be measured by a binary yes-or-no — and one of the most important reasons to do research is precisely to uncover the nuance between these two extremes." #ux www.nngroup.com/articles/res...

"Advanced prompting is about moving beyond one-shot, throwaway prompts. It’s an iterative, structured process of refining your inputs using different techniques so you can guide the AI toward more useful results." www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/desi...

Here's something we don't always think about when designing webpages - quotes. This article goes into shapes, borders, typefaces, and more. #css #WebDesign css-tricks.com/getting-crea...

With the Custom Highlight API, "you can apply (some) styling to text that you get your hands on in JavaScript via the Range() class." Useful for search engine result pages, syntax highlighting, etc without adding span tags. frontendmasters.com/blog/using-t...

Regarding design systems - "tools and techniques for syncing tokens, updating components, and keeping docs up to date, showing how automation can make all of it easier." www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/auto...

Thoughts on naming color palettes, and why you should create your own palette as "distinction creates identity". #css #WebDevelopment css-tricks.com/thinking-dee...

"Logical assignment operators combine a logical operator (||, &&, or ??) with assignment(=) to create a shorthand form... They solve real-world problems more safely and readably, especially when dealing with mutable state" #JavaScript allthingssmitty.com/2025/07/28/l...