Web Design: Successful Design Principles that Can Boost Your UX

Antitrust

Front-end

First up, CSS Grid on Bootstrap [medium/@tallys].

A presentation from CSSconf EU 2017, with Una Kravets building a CSS game [youtube/jsconf].

Idea: start thinking of your styleguides as products [seesparkbox].

Christian Heilmann says the choice between CSS and JavaScript is pitting trust against control [christianheilmann].

This popped up in my feeds again today for some reason: an account of a day without JavaScript [sonniesedge]. A few swears in there, for obvious-in-retrospect reasons.

Some sensible guidelines: don’t use social share buttons on a mobile site, unless a user arrived via a social network [bigmedium].

A discussion on taking responsive web design beyond the visual [sitepoint].

Far, Go

Back-end/programming

An introduction to developing apps with Go [checkmarx.gitbooks].

Examples of the new iOS 11 APIs [github/artemnovichkov].

A guide to optimizing your bug-tracking via CloudApp [sitepoint].

And a look at BDD in JavaScript - getting started with Cucumber and Gherkin [sitepoint].

An explanation of exactly what DevOps is [medium/@ingshtrom]. That was from Versioning reader Alex H, thanks for sending that through mate, nice work!

The Almighty Dollar

Design/UX/product

Actual good deal alert! - check out our ultimate web design bundle, it’s US $29 and full of good things! [sitepoint].

Successful design principles that can boost your UX [blog.prototypr].

How to create noisy gradients and textures in Photoshop [medium/@stefanhrlemann].

How to approach design ethics [invisionapp].

The origins of the United States’ dollar sign [99percentinvisible]. Looking forward to a similar piece on the origins of Ty Dolla Sign.

Cut Through the ‘Cord

News/business

A big ransomware attack began yesterday [nytimes], but if you’ve been hacked and have paid up to get your stuff, the hacker won’t be able to help you because he had his email turned off [motherboard.vice].

There are scandals a-brewing in the world of Insta-influencer #promotion [buzzfeed].

There probably isn’t a ninth planet in our solar system [quantamagazine]. But what if there was?

The software developer’s guide to getting a job [sitepoint].

Admit it, your team is in a lot of conflict all the time and it’s awful! Here are four ways to “deflate the discord” [alistapart]. My biggest source of discord at the moment? The fact that I thought it was spelt “dischord”.

And 15 SEO best-practices for structuring URLs [moz].

Soothe Sayer

Everything else

AR Measure [armeasure] is an amazing app that’ll turn your useless “smart” phone into something you actually need: a ruler.

Made With ARKit [madewitharkit] is a showcase of stuff made using, yes, ARKit. Yes, there’s Minecraft.

Finally, Soothe [motherboard.vice] is a Chrome extension that’ll remove all the offensive stuff from the internet. You’ll be left with some parts of Wikipedia (nothing involving science, history, religion or literature) and PDF versions of printer manuals, I guess. The important stuff.

There ya go, a mid-week Versioning for ya'll. I will have some more tomorrow, taken from the non-self-censored internet. The things I do for you!

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