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JavaScript is Eating the World
Once thought of as a dying technology, JavaScript has risen to dominate front-end coding, with few sites able to run effectively without it. What JavaScript has done on the front end, NodeJS is doing on the backend. This concise overview by Anthony Delgado gives us a run down of the top 5 companies switching their allegiance to JavaScript.
Front: Shared Inbox
If you're managing a public email address like contact or help you'll understand the drawbacks of having one person manning the inbox. Front is an incredibly useful team app that enables customer conversations all in one place. Give your customers the best experience you can with email collaboration.
3 Essential Design Trends, September 2017
We all love a good design trend, and this week Carrie Cousins has picked out 3 must-see trends for web designers. Rainbow colors are popular this month as we step away from minimalist color schemes. Hero images have also started to be reimagined. Perhaps because we're heading towards Fall, dark animated patterns are trending too.
New Pixels
New Pixels is a fun drawing app for iOS that allows you to build images as if you are combining building blocks. It's a fun way to design contemporary feeling illustrations, even if draughtsmanship isn't your strong point. Once you've created your simple illustration you can post it to the gallery or share with friends.
UI for Variable Fonts
Variable Fonts are the biggest revolution in font formats since OpenType. For those not familiar with the concept, they are font files that contain flexible coordinates, meaning that a single file can contain definitions that can be adjusted with code. In this deep-dive article Andrew Johnson digs into the UI implications for design tools.
Google to Flag HTTP as "Not Secure"
Since the start of 2017, Google has begun phasing in "not secure" messages for any site using HTTP. Thanpa Software discuss what this means, and where we're heading next. Hint: from October the warnings will become stronger, eventually HTTP will be flagged as a broken HTTPS connection. The solution? Grab yourself an SSL certificate soon.
SpeechKit AI
SpeechKit is an AI that transforms your written news posts in spoken audio, in a format they describe as mini-podcasts. You can choose the voice to use, and the service is available in several languages. A simple API makes it a cinch to integrate into your site and analytics help you understand your users' listening patterns.
Your Logo is Copied
Think your branding is original? Nope. Because no one's is. In this four minute read Ferdinand Vogler sets out to demonstrate that everything has been done before. From Airbnb to Helly Hansen, no logo is unique. But fear not, the moral of the story is that originality isn't the goal, effective design is.
Have Designers Lost Control of Design?
In a world of analytics and A/B testing, does the designer truly have a place? Has design been overtaken by businessmen, reducing it to its lowest common denominator? Katharine Schwab's insightful article probes the ethical minefield of the current design landscape and asks exactly where the designer's role lies.
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