Examples of Great URL Design
Here are some cool ways to structure URLs
Read more [blog.jim-nielsen.com]
How we created those fancy animations on the Flare homepage original
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Some fancy tricks are being used to achieve this.
Read more [flareapp.io]
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Watch the keynote of Tailwind Connect 2023
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The keynote of Tailwind Connect 2023 took place on June 20th, 2023, featuring presentations from Adam Wathan, Sam Selikoff, and Steve Schoger.
How we use CSS custom properties to customize your newsletter archive original
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Here's an interesting technique that we use in Mailcoach.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Making the best all-in-one monitoring tool even better
Our friends at Digital With You wrote a detailed case study on how they helped us redesign @OhDearApp They cover rewriting marketing text, choosing new colours, redesigning all pages.
Read more [digitalwithyou.com]
A preview of Flare's upcoming redesign
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My colleagues and I are hard at work making the best error tracker for Laravel even better.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Three Equitable Design Considerations
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This post discusses three equitable design considerations to avoid creating unintentional barriers and cultural or social biases for potential users.
Read more [tighten.com]
Three Web Accessibility Considerations
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta – Edit
This post discusses accessibility design considerations that will help users with disabilities successfully use and navigate your website or application.
Read more [tighten.com]
Using the shadow DOM as a better iframe original
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Here's how we use the Shadow DOM to ensure layout from page doesn't affect the layout of a component.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
The making of the WWSD videos original
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We published a fun series of videos as a promo for our Black Friday sales. These videos are inspired by the more recent apple announcement videos. Let's take a look behind the scenes to see how they were made! The WWSD videos We used WWSD to name our week of Black Friday discounts. It stands for…
A preview of Oh Dear's upcoming redesign
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One of our goals for this year is to bring the UI of Oh Dear to the next level. Behind the scenes, our team is working hard on a complete rewrite of our marketing website and app.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders.
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Pretty cool what you can do with CSS nowadays
Read more [robbowen.digital]
Creating your own color system with Tailwind
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In this post, Oh Dear's front end developer Nick goes into more detail on why and how he implemented a tailwind-like color system that will be used in the upcoming redesign.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Building Oh Dear’s new design: Implementing the design
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Here's a new blog post by our designer Nick on how he's revamping the looks of Oh Dear.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Building Oh Dear’s new design: Project setup
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We are currently rebuilding the Oh Dear website and application frontend. In this post, you'll read more about the project setup and tools used.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Adding Real Capabilities To Systems Through Naming
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Shawn McCool shares some interesting thoughts on how things should be named.
Read more [shawnmc.cool]
The value of a good database design
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You might think that the way your store your data isn't really that important. Well it's more important than you think it is. A good database design just like good clean code is the key to performance, not only for the end user but also for you the developer. A poor database model just like poorly written code will slow you down and furthermore it will slow your database queries down which results in a slow application.
Read more [tray2.se]
Recreating the GitHub UI with Tailwind
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Here's Jess Archer showing how you can recreate the GitHub UI with Tailwind.
What's new in Tailwind CSS v3.0
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Another impressive, feature rich release by the Tailwind team. Here's a rundown of all the new features.
We Analyzed 425,909 Favicons
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The people at IconMap fetched the Tranco top 100,000 websites and analyzed their favicons
Read more [iconmap.io]
