Hey everyone and welcome to another another edition of responsive design weekly.
This week Apple hosted their development conference and we had a preview of what was to come in the iOS12 release. The biggest splash as part of the event came with announcement that the next version of the Apple Watch OS will provide access to websites.
It was Matt Griffin who was one of the first to write about redesigning websites for small screens we find on our wrist (link to the a list apart article), and although we've had a lot of time between articles there's a lot of ideas on it this week. | | Headlines Ethan, the father of Responsive Design, on the World Wide Wrist.
| | | What would be the best way to learn and improve your skills? By looking over a designer or developer's shoulder! At SmashingConf Toronto taking place on June 26–27, they will let us do exactly that. All talks will be about running live coding and design sessions on stage, showing how speakers such as Dan Mall and Lea Verou, Rachel Andrew, and Sarah Soueidan design and build stuff — including pattern libraries setup, design workflows and shortcuts, debugging, naming conventions, and everything in between. | | Articles I totally agree with the idea that all Frameworks (Polyfils) should themselves eventually become extinct and no longer needed. The idea of jQuery was always to superceded by Javascript itself and I'd like to see AMP go the same way one day.
Robin looks at Jeremy's comments about AMP in a slightly different light, in that AMP might be like Flash. Flash showed us that the web could be so much more than just words and links, perhaps AMP will be the catalyst for a faster more performant web.
Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. It's about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such.
With so many products across the Adobe line, they face unique challenges when building a design a system that scales. For example, a button element has 9 variants, with each having five states, and is supported across four colour themes. That's 180 permutations.
Tutorials
Erik Runyon covers off the interactions, limitations, layout, forms, reader mode etc for the Apple Watch with websites.
Another reader who wrote in this week was Oliver who has written this great starter article on variable fonts, complete with a demo page.
The Scrimba tool is brilliant and I really enjoy the tutorials that Per has been putting together. This week you can learn how to automatically get metadata on your image using one of Azure's machine learning API's.
Tools & Resources This week our feature site is using this Sing App template which is a free and open-source admin dashboard template built with Bootstrap 4. There's a paid version as well with a whole bunch of extra stuff, but the free version is pretty great too.
I'm sure you've all seen Unsplash before, but just in case you haven't you're really missing out. This week we had an email from Larry who is always on the look out for royalty free images and recommended this... we've used Unsplash for a long time now and they've recently celebrated their 5th birthday.
Learning front-end development is tough and sometimes it's helpful to ask someone a question. That's where Dev Pal steps in as your pal for help and advice.
This is a pretty cool site that was put together by OGURY and provides you with a quiz about a bunch of GDPR questions. The site and interactivity is great, and you learn a little about GDPR to boot.
Keyframes gives you a visual timeline to help you create, view, and run animations without having to go back and forth between your browser and editor.
Sketch.systems helps software designers think about complex product behavior. Sketch out states, add prototypes, and clarify questions quickly.
Every shortcut for designers in one place 🚀
Jobs The Natural History Museum is looking for two Senior Web Developers to join the team and work on the public facing digital experience. Salary £36-41k. Closing date 11th June, 9am.
| | It's good to be back in the swing of things again.
Thanks to those that suggested some of the links for this week, if you have come across something that you found interesting, or have written yourself, hit reply and let me know.
Cheers,
Justin. | | | |
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