Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger's excellent guide to cheating at design contains advice that will benefit anyone, from first-time designers, to some of the professional designers working today. Packed with advice on simplified hierarchies, effective contrast, using icons properly, enhancing bland designs, and tons more. A must-read.
Check Your Privacy with Polisis
How often do you really read a privacy policy? And how often do you really understand the legal implications of what you've read? Polisis is a super useful new tool designed to visually explain exactly what that nefarious tech corp is planning to do with your precious email address. Search for a policy and then review it visually.
How to Get a Design Job
Every year, tens of thousands of aspiring designers apply for roles with agencies and in-house design departments. And yet those applications repeat the same mistakes again and again. Luke Jones has spent months reviewing hundreds of applications and shares some smart tips for getting yourself onto that all-important shortlist.
Getting Started with Stimulus
Stimulus is a modest JavaScript framework released by Basecamp. It's designed to hook your existing HTML into interactions and data, without separating states from your DOM. Jonathan Cutrell's great tutorial will walk you through the basics of Stimulus, and then help you build your first application with this hot new framework.
The Case Against Google
Critics have long argued that Google is too dominant; that it holds an effective monopoly. For more than a decade some tech experts have argued that Google should be nationalized, or regulated by governments. In this lengthy article, the NYT looks at the argument for breaking up Google's strangle-hold on the market.
Owning the Role of Frontend Developer
Frontend developers are frequently overlooked when it comes to strategy. Business, and UX decisions are commonly made without input from the people who'll have to implement those decisions. Ronald Méndez shares his experience of winning a seat at the table, and discusses the benefits frontend developers bring.
How to Tweak SVGs with JavaScript
Did you know that SVGs can be manipulated with inline JavaScript? In this excellent tutorial Terence Eden shares how to do just that, by building an SVG calendar icon that updates the date it displays automatically. The brief tutorial will teach you how to implement JavaScript in SVG, and offers tips on rendering text in the format.
5 Subtle Metrics That Could Make or Break Your Site
Every web developer worth their salt will check metrics on their site regularly. Hits, bounce rate, traffic sources, are all worth considering. But they're not the only metrics that affect your site. Our roundup of 5 lesser-known, but essential metrics will introduce data that you might not realise you should be continually evaluating.
Do Co-Working Spaces Work?
There are numerous co-working spaces in every major city, offering hot-desking, funky communal areas, and friendly communities. In the self-employed economy they're the perfect antidote to the loneliness of working from home. But will relocating from a home-office to a co-working space actually help you be more productive?
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