Collective #597

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Creative Coding Essentials

The Alpha-version of Tim Rodenbröker’s course “Creative Coding Essentials”, teaching you the very basics of Creative Coding.

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Accessible SVGs: Inclusiveness Beyond Patterns

Carie Fisher explores the question “if true inclusiveness lies beyond patterns — what other factors should we consider when designing and developing accessible SVGs?”

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The CSS Podcast

Una Kravets and Adam Argyle break down complex aspects of CSS into digestible episodes covering everything from accessibility to z-index.

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How to create an accordion hover effect with box-shadows

A step-by-step tutorial on how to create a rainbow accordion animation in CSS, using only box-shadows. By Sarah L. Fossheim.

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Sketch Dark Mode Plugin

Generate a dark mode version of any Sketch document, the right way.

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MonoLisa

A beautiful monospace font family designed for software developers.

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CSS Viewport Units

A thorough and practical guide to CSS viewport units by Ahmad Shadeed.

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RedwoodJS

An opinionated framework that combines React, GraphQL, Prisma2, SQL, and lots more out of the box.

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The History of the URL

Zack Bloom from Cloudflare dives into the history of the URL.

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16 Things to Improve Your Website Accessibility (Checklist)

In this article Bruce Lawson explains how to improve website accessibility.

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Ping Pong Mini-Game

A great mini-game made with react-three-fiber ofc, use-cannon and zustand. By Paul Henschel.

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Photo Stream

Self-hosted, super simple photo stream. By Tim Van Damme.

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Deep Learning Algorithms – The Complete Guide

Learn about all the essential Deep Learning algorithms including models used in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

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Aliasing in computer graphics

A fascinating read on the manifestations of aliasing in 3D graphics including an attempt to theoretically unify them.

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CSS Mondrian

Piet Mondrian style art using CSS grid made by Adam Fuhrer.

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Flexbox and absolute positioning

A mini-post about Flexbox and absolute positioning, and a minor bug in the Firefox DevTools.

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Boardist

Create your personal workspace to keep everything organized with boards.

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Virtual Doom

In case you didn’t know about it: Virtual DOOM is a first-person 3D demo that uses the DOM as its render engine, no WebGL, canvas or SVG.

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Unscreen

Remove the background of any video with this online tool.

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Flip Counter Plugin

An advanced flip counter plugin that is easy to setup.

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Collective #597 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

Stay Calm And Read Smashing

Original Source: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/03/monthly-roundup-03-2020/

Stay Calm And Read Smashing

Stay Calm And Read Smashing

Iris Lješnjanin

2020-03-13T12:30:00+00:00
2020-03-13T22:08:58+00:00

For all the times we asked folks about Smashing, most still seem to believe that we’re some sort of large publishing company situated somewhere in the United States — both of which are wrong. It all started in Freiburg, Germany, and the team consists of folks scattered all over the world — with most of us not working fulltime for Smashing.

That’s right, working remotely is quite familiar to us, and so with the current situation going on with COVID-19 that is making everyone uneasy, we’d like to make the best of things and help our friends who are having to work or lead teams remotely for the first time. Our editor-in-chief, Rachel Andrew, has prepared a nice post to help you stay connected and keep learning while we go through this together.

You may have already heard that SmashingConf SF has been postponed to November due to the unfortunate travel restrictions and many other reasons. It was truly a difficult decision for the team to make, but we believe it is the best way forward — safety and health always come first.

Without further ado, here’s a short update of things going on at Smashing and some super creative work shared from and to the community!

Happy reading — from my computer to yours!

Designing With Ethics In Mind

...After months of hard work, the “The Ethical Design Handbook” is finally here — and it’s shipping! The response has already been overwhelmingly positive, and we’re excited to share reviews with you soon. There is still quite a bit of work to do on the web, but our hope is that with this book, you will be equipped with enough tooling to slowly move a company towards a more sustainable and healthy digital footprint!

Of course, you can jump to the table of contents right away, or download a free PDF excerpt to get a first impression of the book — we’re sure you won’t be disappointed! Read our official release post with all the details →

Always Learning New Things From One Another

Smashing PodcastWe all have busy schedules, but there’s always time to pop in those earplugs and listen to some music or podcasts that make you happy! We’re moving on to our 12th episode of the Smashing Podcast — with folks from different backgrounds and so much to share! You’re always welcome to tune in and share your questions and thoughts with us anytime!

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Apart from the heart-breaking news about our postponed SmashingConf SF, our SmashingConfs are known to be friendly, inclusive events where front-end developers and designers come together to attend live sessions and hands-on workshops. From live designing to live debugging, all of our speakers like to go into detail and show useful examples from their own projects on the big screen.

Here are some talks you may like to watch and learn from:

Talk Title
Speaker’s Name

Thinking With Grids
Jen Simmons

Building Accessible Interfaces: Patterns And Techniques
Sara Soueidan

Dynamic CSS
Miriam Suzanne

Dynamic Web Typography
Jason Pamental

Making A Difference With Differential Serving
Jeremy Wagner

Slam Dunk Your Javascript Fundamentals
Wes Bos

Think Like An Email Geek
Rémi Parmentier

Effortless Performance Debugging
Anna Migas

Move Fast & Don’t Break Things
Scott Jehl

Designer vs Developer!
Dan Mall, Brad Frost and Ian Frost

The first SmashingConf took place in Freiburg back in 2012, so there are so many more talks you can watch. See all SmashingConf videos →

Shining The Spotlight On React, Redux And Electron

Advent calendarsMark your calendars! Next week on March 19, we’ll be hosting a Smashing TV webinar with Cassidy Williams who’ll be explaining how to organize a modern React application and build an Electron application (with React). Join us at 17:00 London time — we’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences you’ve had with React in your projects!

Smashing TV is a series of webinars and live streams packed with practical tips for designers and developers. They’re not just talks, but more like conversations and “here-is-how-I-work”-sessions. Smashing Members can download recordings, and also receive discounts and lots of goodies to make their membership worthwhile. Tell me more →

Trending Topics On SmashingMag

We publish a new article every day on various topics that are current in the web industry. Here are some that our readers seemed to enjoy the most and have recommended further:

“Why Are We Talking About CSS4?”
by Rachel Andrew
Around the web and within the CSS Working Group, there has been some discussion about whether we should specify a version of CSS — perhaps naming it CSS4. In this article, Rachel Andrew rounds up some of the pros and cons of doing so, and asks for your feedback on the suggestion.
“Setting Height And Width On Images Is Important Again”
by Barry Pollard
Thanks to some recent changes in browsers, it’s now well worth setting width and height attributes on your images to prevent layout shifts and improve the experience of your site visitors.
“Setting Up Tailwind CSS In A React Project”
by Blessing Krofegha
This article introduces Tailwind CSS, a CSS library that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bespoke designs without opinionated styles. You’ll also learn how to seamlessly set up Tailwind CSS in a React project.
“Introducing Alpine.js: A Tiny JavaScript Framework”
by Phil Smith
Ever built a website and reached for jQuery, Bootstrap, Vue.js or React to acheive some basic user interaction? Alpine.js is a fraction of the size of these frameworks because it involves no build steps and provides all of the tools you need to build a basic user interface.
“How To Design Mobile Apps For One-Hand Usage”
by Maitrik Kataria
90% of the smartphones sold today have >5-inch displays. Bigger screen real estate presents newer challenges and opportunities for app makers and designers. Let’s look at how designing apps for one-handed usage can solve those challenges.

Best Picks From Our Newsletter

We’ll be honest: Every second week, we struggle with keeping the Smashing Newsletter issues at a moderate length — there are just so many talented folks out there working on brilliant projects! So, without wanting to make this monthly update too long either, we’re shining the spotlight on the following projects:

P.S.: A huge thank you to Cosima Mielke for writing and preparing these posts!

Find And Fix Errors In Your Designs

We all know those moments when we are so immersed in a project that we lose the distance we need to be able to catch little inconsistencies: an incorrect border-radius around an image or missing styles or text, for example. If you’re designing in Figma, the free and open-source plugin Design Lint makes finding and fixing errors like these easy so that no bug makes it into production.

Design LintA free and open-source plugin for Figma built to help you find and fix errors in your designs.: Design Lint.

Design Lint checks for missing text, fill, stroke, and effects styles, and catches incorrect border-radius values on all your layers. To not interrupt your workflow, the plugin automatically updates as you fix errors. The repo is available on GitHub, so feel free to write specific rules to tailor the plugin to your needs.

Learn CSS Positioning With… Cats!

Could there be a better way to learn CSS positioning as with a bunch of friendly cats? That’s probably what Ahmad Shadeed thought, too, when he created his interactive guide to how CSS positioning works.

Learn CSS Positioning

Meow! Ahmad Shadeed has prepared a great guide for you to learn everything about CSS positioning!

The guide teaches you to use CSS to position three cartoon cats and their blanket inside a box, and once you’ve grasped the concept, you can start tinkering with the interactive demo that visualizes how the result changes as you edit the values. Now who said learning can’t be fun?

Intimacy, An Interactive Short Poem

An inspiring experiment comes from the French graphic and interaction design student Thibaud Giffon: “Intimacy”. The interactive short poem uses abstract images, sound, and text to explore intimacy from different angles.

Intimacy

The “Mixed Up” musical poem is brought to life (sound ON) by just moving your cursor across the cords. Try it out!

Compassion, distance, confusion, touch — these are four of the eight chapters that make up the poem; and each one of them reflects the topic in its own, unique way: with warm and harmonious waves or circles that melt into each other but also with dissonant strings or colorful bubbles that burst as they make space for themselves. Beautiful!

All Your SVG Icons In One Place

Having one central place to organize all your assets is always a good thing, not only for teams — to keep track of what you have and to quickly find what you’re looking for. The free cross-platform app Iconset is such a place: it helps you collect, customize, share, and manage all your SVG icon sets.

Iconset

Organizing SVG icons all in one place with Iconset.

To make it easier to find the icon you’re looking for, you can organize your icons in sets or with tags, and, once you’ve found the icon you need, you can drag it directly into your favorite tool. A real timesaver. Iconset supports cloud services like Dropbox or OneDrive so that all your icons are always in sync between team members. The app is available for Mac and Windows.

An Ancient Hero’s WebGL Adventure

A reluctant hero on a quest he never asked for — that’s the story behind the browser-based adventure video game Heraclos. Set in ancient Greece, the young Heraclos stumbles across an amphora that belongs to one of the gods. He is declared to be the chosen one and gets sent off to climb the secret mountain and return the amphora to his owner.

Heraclos

Heraclos, an adventure video game made in WebGL.

What makes the game so noteworthy is the fun twist in the interaction between the hero and the god (a parody of common heroic stories) but also the technical background: Heraclos was designed in only three months by a group of students at the Gobelins school of images in Paris — with WebGL and Cannon.js. A great example of what’s possible on the web.

An Open-Source Screen Recorder Built With Web Technology

Have you heard of Kap, yet? The open-source screen recorder is one that is definitely worth checking out if you’re frequently doing screen recordings.

Kap

Kap, an open-source screen recorder built with web technology.

Built with web technologies, Kap produces high-quality recordings in GIF, MP4, WebM, or APNG formats. You can include audio (even from your microphone), highlight clicks, and trim the recordings. As a bonus goodie, there are also options to share your recorded GIFs on Giphy, deploy them with ZEIT now, or upload them to Streamable. Perfect for technical demos.

Open Peeps, A Free Hand-Drawn Illustration Library

584,688 possible combinations. That’s the number of different characters you could create with Pablo Stanley’s hand-drawn illustration library Open Peeps.

Open Peeps

“Open Peeps,” a hand-drawn illustration library created by Pablo Stanley.

Open Peeps lets you mix and match different vector elements to create diverse personalities: combine clothing and hairstyles, change emotion with facial expressions, set the scene with different poses — the possibilities are sheer endless. And if you’re in a hurry, Pablo also prepared some ready-to-download Peeps that you can use right away. Open Peeps is released under a CC0 license, so you are free to use the illustrations in both personal and commercial projects. A great way to add a handmade touch to your design.

How To Make Inputs More Accessible

In 2019, WebAim analyzed the accessibility of the top one million websites, with a shocking conclusion: the percentage of error-free pages was estimated to be under one percent. To make our sites inclusive and usable for people who rely on assistive technology, we need to get the basics of semantic HTML right. With its credo of starting small, sharing, and working together, Oscar Braunert’s article on inclusive inputs is a great starting point to do so.

Starting off with the basics of WAI, ARIA, and WCAG, the article explores how to make inputs more accessible. The tips can be implemented without changing the user interface, and, as Oscar puts it: “If in doubt, just do it. Nobody will notice. Except some of your users. And they will thank you for it.”

An Open-Source Font For Developers

High readability, quick text scanning, no distraction — these are just some of the demands developers have on a typeface. Well, the free and open-source typeface JetBrains Mono meets all of them beautifully.

JetBrains Mono

JetBrains Mono’s typeface forms are simple and free from unnecessary details. Rendered in small sizes, the text looks crisper.

To do so, Jet Brains Mono takes advantage of some small but mighty details: Compared to other monospace fonts, the height of JetBrains Mono is increased while the characters remain standard in width to keep code lines to the length developers expect. To improve readability even further, 138 code-specific ligatures reduce noise so that your eyes need to process less and whitespace becomes more balanced. Clever! JetBrains Mono comes in four weights and supports 145 languages.

The Ultimate Guide To iframes

With a lot of articles advising against them, iframes don’t have the best reputation. JavaScript developer Nada Rifki sees things differently: She suggests not to let their reputation prevent you from relying on iframes. After all, they have many legitimate use cases.

The Ultimate Guide To iframes

The ultimate guide to iframes written by Nada Rifki.

To help you form your own opinion on this controversial element, Nada wrote an ultimate guide to iframes which explores iframe features and how to use them; tricky situations where iframes might come in handy; last but not least, how you can secure your iframe against potential vulnerabilities. A great opportunity to see things from a different perspective.

A Guide To Console Commands

The capabilities of the developer’s debugging console have evolved significantly in the past years — from a means to report errors to automatically logging information like network requests and security errors or warnings. There’s also a way for a website’s JavaScript to trigger various commands that output to the console for debugging purposes. And while these features are mostly consistent between browsers, there are also some functional differences.

A Guide To Console Commands

“A Guide to Console Commands” by Travis Almand

If you’re looking for an overview of what console commands are capable of, Travis Almand put together a helpful guide. It covers Firefox and Chrome and examines various commands that can be used in the browser’s console output or with JavaScript. A handy summary.

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Background Scale Hover Effect with CSS Clip-path

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Today I’d like to share a simple hover effect with you. It’s a recreation of the hover effect seen in the menu on the DDD Hotel website by Garden Eight. The idea is to scale down the background image and “fitting” it to a clip shape which contains the same background image. The shape is visible because the opacity of the background is a bit lower:

When I saw the effect on the DDD Hotel website, I wanted to try to do it using the clip-path property and explore different shapes.

It’s very straightforward: one layer has the background image and a second layer has the additional clip path with a basic shape.

For the last demo, where I wanted to show two circles, I simply stacked two clip-path layers. But for more complex paths, one could also use an SVG instead.

Other interesting things that could be done here is to animate the clip-path (scale it/move it) or change the shape for each link. What do you think?

Background Scale Hover Effect with CSS Clip-path was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops.

10 Git Techniques You Need to Know Before You Join a Team

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Have you been using Git for some time but never in a team environment? Are you familiar with the basics of Git but unsure how large teams use Git at work?

In this post, I’ll talk about the basic Git techniques that you must be familiar with before you join a team. I’ve listed them in an order that you’d logically follow to contribute to a repository, as the importance of each step is paramount. Let’s now jump into the list.

1. Cloning: Getting Started in a Team

If you’ve used Git for personal projects, you may only have initialized a project from scratch and added to it over time. When you’re working on an existing codebase, the first step is to clone the codebase into your local system. This enables you to work on your copy of the repository without any interference from other changes.

To clone a repository, run the git clone command, followed by the path to the repository:

git clone /path/to/repo

If your source doesn’t reside in the same system, you can SSH to a remote system and clone too:

git clone username@remote_system_ip:/path/to/repo/on/remote

If you’re cloning from a source on the Internet, you can simply add the URL:

git clone https://github.com/sdaityari/my_git_project.git

Whenever you’re cloning a repository, you’ve the choice of multiple protocols to connect to the source. In the GitHub example above, I’ve used the https protocol.

2. Managing Remotes in Git

Once you’ve cloned your repository, it still maintains a pointer to the source. This pointer is an example of a remote in Git. A remote is a pointer to another copy of the same repository. When you clone a repository, a pointer origin is automatically created which points to the source.

You can check a list of remotes in a repository by running the following command:

git remove -v

To add a remote, you can use the git remote add command:

git remote add remote_name remote_address

You can remove a remote using the git remote remove command:

git remote remove remote_name

If you’d like to change the address of a remote, you can use the set-url command:

git remote set-url remote_name new_remote_address

3. Branching in Git

The biggest advantage of Git over other version control systems is the power of its branches. Before I jump into the essentials of branching, you may be wondering what a branch is. A branch is a pointer to a commit in your repository, which in turn points to its predecessor. Therefore, a branch represents a list of commits in chronological order. When you create a branch, you effectively create only a new pointer to a commit. However, in essence, it represents a new, independent path of development.

If you’ve been working on your own project, you may never have consciously used branches. By default, Git uses the master branch for development. Any new commits are added to this branch.

Branching is necessary for Git to bifurcate lines of work in a project. At a single time, there may be many developers who are working on a variety of different problems. Ideally, these problems are worked on in different branches to ensure logical separation of new code until code review and merge.

To check a list of branches and the current active branch, run the following command:

git branch

To create a new branch, run the following command:

git branch new_branch

Even though Git creates a new branch, notice that your active branch is still the old one. To start development in a new branch, run the following:

git checkout new_branch

To create a new branch and change the active branch, run the following command:

git checkout -b new_branch

To rename the current branch, run the following command:

git branch -m new_renamed_branch

Use the -D option to remove a branch:

git branch -D new_renamed_branch

Here’s a detailed guide on branching in Git.

4. Update your Local Repository: Merging

While we’ve checked the basics of branching in Git, the next logical step is to merge a branch into your base branch when you’ve finished working on a problem. To merge a branch, run the following command:

git checkout base_branch
git merge new_branch

While it may sound like an easy process, merging is potentially the most time-consuming process in Git, as it can give rise to conflicts.

5. Handle Conflicts

Imagine that you’re working on a file in a new branch. After you commit the changes, you request Git to merge your new branch with your base branch. However, the same part of the same file in the base branch has been updated since you created the new branch. How does Git decide which changes to keep and which changes to discard?

Git always tries to not lose any data in the process of a merge. If the changes to the same file were done in different parts of the file, you could get away by keeping both sets of changes. However, if Git is unable to decide which changes to keep, it raises a conflict.

When a conflict has been raised, running git status on your repository shows a list of files that were modified in both branches being merged. If you open any file with a conflict, you’d notice the following set of lines:

<<<<<<<< HEAD


========


>>>>>>>> new_branch

The part of the file between <<<<<<<< HEAD and ======== contains that code which is present in the base branch. The lines of code between ======== and >>>>>>>> new_branch are present in the new_branch branch. The developer who’s merging the code has the responsibility to decide what part of the code (or a mix of both parts) should be included in the merge. Once edited, remove the three sets of lines shown, save the file, and commit the changes.

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10 Genius Interior Design Apps

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The development of technology greatly simplifies the life of a person both in everyday affairs and in professional activities. Nowadays, architects have stopped using paper, pencils and a ruler to create a plan. This process has become much easier, more fun and more productive. All this became possible thanks to special design apps and programs. […]

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14 Best Adobe Font Pairings For Websites

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Adobe Fonts is one of the few resources for web safe fonts available. Other than Google Fonts, which are free, there are not many other places you can find such a large library of fonts for use on websites. While Adobe Fonts does require paying a monthly fee to use, it is also included with most Creative Cloud plans, for which most designers will already have an account. Because this invaluable resource has thousands of available fonts, it can be difficult to rummage through all of them to come up with the best Adobe font pairings for website projects. So we’ve put together fourteen of our favorites for you in an effort to save you some time.

In the Adobe font pairings below, you will find clean, legible web fonts that are actually being pulled in directly from Adobe fonts onto the page, the same as you would on a website. These are not images. So you can see exactly how they will display on a website. The titles of each of the Adobe font pairings are clickable links to the font pages themselves, for ease of access and bookmarking to use yourself.

We hope you enjoy these 14 best Adobe font pairings we’ve suggested, and find them useful in your upcoming projects.

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Orpheus (Bold) + Proxima Nova

Orpheus Makes A Great Headline

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URW Din (Bold) + Neue Haas Grotesk (Light)

URW Din Makes A Great Headline

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Lust + FF Tisa

Lust Makes A Great Headline

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Aktiv Grotesk (XBold) + Aktiv Grotesk Ext

Aktiv Grotesk Makes A Great Headline

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Big Caslon (Black) + Neue Haas Grotesk (Light)

Big Caslon Makes A Great Headline

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JAF Lapture (Bold) + Franklin Gothic URW (Light)

JAF Lapture Makes A Great Headline

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Brothers (Bold) + Interstate (Light)

Brothers Makes A Great Headline

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Rift (Bold) + Acumin (Light)

Rift Makes A Great Headline

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Sofia (Semi Bold) + FF Tisa

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Calluna (Bold) + Effra

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Miller Display (Bold) + Calluna

Miller Display Makes A Great Headline

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Din Condensed + Basic Sans (Light)

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Ambroise (ExtraBold) + JAF Domus

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Fieldwork (Bold) + Source Sans

Fieldwork Makes A Great Headline

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Collective #595

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Inspirational Website of the Week: PANAMÆRA

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A Variable Fonts Primer

Learn how to use variable fonts in your projects for improved UI design, long-form reading, and accessibility.

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Cannon-es and use-cannon

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Faux Code Generator

Turn any GitHub Gist into an SVG image.

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Improving perceived performance with the CSS `font-display` property

Learn how using the font-display property is a great way to tweak the way your fonts load.

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Why Are We Talking About CSS4?

Around the web and within the CSS Working Group, there has been some discussion about whether we should specify a version of CSS — perhaps naming it CSS4. In this article, Rachel Andrew rounds up some of the pros and cons of doing so, and asks for your feedback on the suggestion.

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Transform

A very useful polyglot web converter made by Ritesh Kumar.

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Broider

A fantastic little tool for designing and exporting lo-fi border decorations. By Max Bittker.

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Flowfield ART | Generative

A beautiful generative demo by Sikriti Dakua.

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Why 543 KB keep me up at night

Manuel Matuzovi? argues that we have to be much more considerate of what we’re putting online.

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Learn Box Alignment

A beautifully illustrated and interactive guide to learn all around CSS box alignment including flexbox and grid.

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Dynamic and async functionality in JAMstack

A tutorial by Deepak Gupta where you’ll learn how JAMstack sites handle dynamic content and interactions.

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Rouser

What a cool bubble effect. Can you make it burst?

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Building our own Chatbot and Cloud AI Service

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Free Android Phone Mockups

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Utility Props for Web Components

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Caching GraphQL Responses

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Basics Behind Color Theory for Web Designer

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As a collective digital artist, it is important to understand the fundamental science behind color theory. It’s a popular topic with a vast spread of information to retain and digest. Not only…

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iPad Pro 2020: All the latest rumours and leaks

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There has been much speculation about the arrival of the new iPad Pro 2020. The iPad Pro was pretty much neglected in 2019, so fans are keen to see if 2020 marks the year the powerful tablet gets some attention. While Apple's spring event was slated for March, it now looks as if it is going to be cancelled due to coronavirus fears. However, that doesn't mean that new products won't be announced, so we are still expecting news about the iPad Pro 2020 to be just around the corner. 

Delays and viruses aside, what do we know about the iPad Pro 2020? One thing's for sure, whatever the update looks like, there will be some great iPad Pro apps for designers, artists and illustrators to work with. Here we take a look at all the latest iPad Pro 2020 leaks and rumours. And spoiler alert: it looks like the iPad Pro really may become a MacBook killer this time round.

iPad Pro 2020: Design rumours

The most recent rumours are based around the iPad Pro's strides into laptop territory. One recent leak suggests that the iPad Pro could come with an optional keyboard that includes a proper trackpad, so it really could become a machine that creatives can use instead of their MacBook. 

Code seen by 9to5Mac for iOS 14 (expected to be with us in autumn) also suggests that both the iPad and the iPhone could soon work much better with a mouse. This could mean that you can connect your mouse via bluetooth to your device and it will work much in the same way as it does on a computer, with two-finger taps acting like right-clicks, for example. Note that iOS 13 does have mouse support for the iPad, but it's buried within the settings and overall seems pretty unintuitive. 

On top of these rumours, there's a lot of speculation floating around about the iPad Pro 2020's design in general. In the middle of 2019, Apple registered another two tablet models with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) regulator. And both of these new models didn't match any models that aren't in the current line-up, which has (naturally) led to speculation. 

A previous rumour, posted on Twitter last month, offers an unconfirmed look at the front and back of the new iPad Pro 2020. The most significant feature is addition of two rear cameras. Being that the current iPad Pro only has one, it hints that Apple has put the devices' photo-taking abilities in (ahem) focus.

iPad Pro 2020: Release date and price

Late last year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman suggested the release date would be early 2020, which is interesting when you consider Apple usually unveils new tech at its annual October event. Does this mean that Apple skipped a 2019 iPad Pro launch with the intent of releasing two new iPad Pros in 2020? Only time will tell.

There's no current news on the price of the new device, however with over a year between updates, we expect this iPad Pro refresh to be significant, in terms of both cost and capability. 

Below is what we've heard about the latest event being cancelled, with no news yet on how this will affect the iPad Pro. 

iPad Pro 2020: What we'd like to see 

While we wait for official confirmation from Apple, we can only speculate what the new iPad Pro 2020 will actually offer. However there's no doubt that the new iPad Pro will be a top-end, power-packed tablet. The current 12.9-inch model boasts a very powerful A12X Bionic processor, so expect even more processing power for demanding creative tasks like photo or video editing. 

Our biggest wish for the iPad Pro 2020 would be a bigger screen. Seeing as there is no longer a 15-inch MacBook Pro anymore, how about a 15-inch iPad Pro to fill the gap? The extra space would be perfect for designers, illustrators and artists to express themselves with an Apple Pencil. 

We'll update this post as and when more news drops on the new iPad Pro 2020. But if you can't wait that long to get your hands on one of these powerful devices, you can currently get some great deals on the 2018 iPad Pro models. Here are the best prices in your area: 

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The Latest Research for Web Designers, March 2020

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While it’s important to know about the latest research and surveys impacting web design, I think it’s just as important to stay informed about news that may affect your work as a designer.

As such, this roundup of the latest research for web designers includes a mix of reports along with some news and facts about something that people are talking about all around the world: the coronavirus.

A Better Lemonade Stand Analyzes the Best Remote Working Locations

With the help of Nomad List, A Better Lemonade Stand has aggregated a list of the 20 best places to work remotely.

While finding a place to live can be a very subjective matter (for instance, some people prefer colder locales or warm ones), this list takes into account factors that can have a serious impact on the work of a freelancer. For example, this is why Auckland, New Zealand ended up taking the #1 spot for remote work:

The other cities to round out the top 10 are:

Bengaluru, India
Budapest, Hungary
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Hanoi, Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Krakow, Poland
Lisbon, Portugal

I’d argue that it’s high scores on factors like the following that make them the best spots to work remotely from:

Cost
Internet speed
Free wifi in the city
Places to work from
Walkability
Happiness score
Quality of life

If you’ve been considering a move and you want it to not only be a place you love but that’s good for your business, one of these nomad-friendly spots might fit the bill.

Hubspot Gives Us a Comprehensive Look at the State of Marketing

As always, there’s almost too much information to digest in Hubspot’s annual State of Marketing report. But that’s not going to stop me from highlighting the points you can use to bring more money into your business:

Website Upgrades Needed

According to the survey, 63% of respondents are looking to upgrade their websites in 2020. If you have experience in and enjoy doing website redesigns, hop on this opportunity as soon as you can.

Maintenance Pros Wanted

Sometimes it’s not the design that needs to be tweaked. Rather your clients would benefit from a technical tune-up along with ongoing maintenance.

When asked which tactics have been the most beneficial for improving a website’s performance and search ranking, here’s what respondents had to say:

You could easily create a recurring revenue stream around these maintenance tasks.

Visual-Heavy Content Marketing is a Must

Marketers use a wide variety of content in their marketing strategies:

If you’re in the business of building websites, you should also be helping your clients create graphics for the media above. For instance, you could provide ongoing design services for:

Blog (and promotional social media) graphics
Videos or just video cover images
Infographics
Templates for case studies, ebooks, and white papers

Just because your job is primarily to build high-converting websites for clients doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be looking for other ways to serve them.

The Coronavirus’s Impact on Freelancers

With so much news about the coronavirus out there, it’s hard to know what to focus your attention. If you’re a freelancer, then these are the statistics and research you should focus on:

Conferences Around the World Are Being Cancelled

Business Insider and the LA Times rounded up lists of conferences that have been cancelled, rescheduled, or restructured because of the coronavirus:

Adobe Summit (it’ll be online instead)
Facebook’s F8
Facebook’s Global Marketing Summit
EmTech Asia
Shopify Developer Conference
Google I/O
Google Cloud Next ‘20 (rescheduled as an online event)

And for those of you who work with WordPress, WordCamp Asia was cancelled.

Considering how expensive and time-consuming professional design conferences can be to attend, these cancellations might not be as big of a disappointment to the freelance community. In fact, it might bring a change to the professional conference landscape, with more of them hosted virtually so that it becomes cheaper, more practical, and now safer to attend.

Some Freelance Gigs Are Drying Up

In particular, it’s Singapore’s population of freelancers that are feeling the effects of the coronavirus, according to a report from Vice.

It makes sense. As businesses close down their offices or their operations altogether, the contract workforce who works behind the scenes for them is going to be impacted as well. This is especially problematic for those who build ecommerce and retail websites. With many products manufactured in China (31.3% of all apparel and 37.6% of textiles are manufactured there, for instance), inventories are waning and many retailers are having to wait out the virus to resume operations. 

The Singapore government recently announced plans for its 2020 budget, which included contributing SG$800 million towards curbing the effects of the virus on the country. Additional support is to be given to industries the most severely affected by it as well.

While the country’s budget doesn’t account for freelancers (as I’m sure will be the case in other countries), the freelance community itself is stepping up.

Nicholas Chee, who runs a video production company in Singapore, started a Facebook group for freelancers who’ve been dealing with lost gigs as a result of the coronavirus. It’s called SG COVID-19 Creative/Cultural Professionals & Freelancers Support Group and is giving the freelance community a way to support each other through this crisis.

Web Designers May Be Able To Help Stop The Spread of Coronavirus

It’s not just Facebook groups that are going to help freelancers get through the coronavirus crisis in one piece. According to Dr. Stephanie Evergreen, web designers might actually be able to help slow down or stop the spread of the virus itself.

In an article she wrote for Fast Company, Dr. Evergreen, a data visualization specialist, demonstrates how more eye-catching graphics can better educate the public on what’s going on and what they can do.

For instance, she shares this graphic from the World Health Organization:

While it more effectively lays out this data than a wall of text would, it’s not going to do much to capture anyone’s attention.

It’s more important than ever for public health agencies to use data visualization to communicate with the masses, as the public is bombarded with more information each day and in need of a way for the most pressing issues to cut through the noise.

Quantifiable data, instead, should be presented like this graphic from the Florida Department of Health. 

It does both a good job of capturing attention and informing the public of what’s going on.

Bottom line: if your website is tasked with communicating critical data to the public, see if there’s a way you can lend your design skills to it. While a writer can clearly communicate what’s going on, graphics are more likely to grab and hold their attention.

Wrap-Up

While annual “State of” reports always tend to wind down around February/March, we still have a wealth of data coming in that not only affects your design strategy but your business strategy too.

Keep your eyes peeled for the next edition of the latest research for web designers as we’re sure to see the first quarterly reports come out for design, marketing, SEO, and more.

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