Virtual Reality and Web Design: Everything You Need to Know

Virtual Reality and Web Design: Everything You Need to Know

How will the web look in virtual reality? The 2D web could become immersive, interactive and tangible. Imagine Wikipedia as an extensive multimedia library. Instead of reading about the Egyptian pyramids, you could wander around them, explore the inside of …

Google and Monotype Release Noto Font for All Languages

Google and Monotype Release Noto Font for All Languages

Font lovers around the world rejoice! After six years of intense collaboration between Google and Monotype, Noto Font, the universal font, is here. With support for 800 languages, 100 written scripts and more than 110,000 characters, Google’s Noto is like …

Intro to Variable Fonts in Web Design

Intro to Variable Fonts in Web Design

There’s been talk for years of creating fonts that come with adjustable sizes by default. And for years this was just a pipe dream. But it seems that variable fonts are finally here and they’ll only gain support over the …

Vue 2.0 is Here! The Progressive JavaScript Framework

After six months of intense development, eight alphas, eight betas and eight release candidates, Vue 2.0, “The Progressive JavaScript Framework” is finally out. Being the 26th most popular JavaScript project on Github and one of the fastest growing libraries on …

Create a Statistics UI Panel Using HTML & CSS3

Create Statistics UI Panel using HTML & CSS3

Topic: HTML / CSS3 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 45 minutes In this tutorial, we are going to create a Statistics Panel using HTML and CSS3. We’re going to use Google Fonts for this tutorial, specifically “Roboto.” HTML First, let’s …

Is Design Cyclical? Why Styles Are Continuously Changing

Is design cyclical? Why styles are continuously changing

Note: Use of “design” largely refers to design style, specifically mobile and web, for this article. I was recently looking through some screenshots of apps from earlier versions of iOS. It had me thinking about where design is headed over …

7 Things You May Not Know in JavaScript

There is a lot of fun to be had when working in JavaScript. Even for developers that interact with it daily, some parts of the language remain unexplored. I’m going to highlight seven things you may not know about JavaScript. …

How Changing the UX 180 Degrees Made Grew Sales By 180%

How changing the UX 180° made our sales grow by 180%

Bannersnack’s Design Journey and Case Study Were you ever asked to fully change the experience and UI of a product that is used by more than 3 million people? Well, it happened to me. Let me tell you my story …

Why Designers and Web Developers Must Work Together

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Why Designers and Web Developers Must Work Together

It seems like a common sense idea: Designers and developers must work together. But too often, these individuals work apart while working on the very same project. The designer works to create elements and color palettes and typography that looks …

Wireframing, Prototyping, Mockuping – What’s the Difference?

Wireframing, Prototyping, Mockuping - What’s the Difference?

A couple of years ago I realised that a lot of my IT, non-designer, friends were using the names of my beloved design deliverables synonymously. They assumed that a wireframe, prototype and mockup are exactly the same thing – a …