Google and Monotype Release Noto Font for All Languages

NewsDoru Ciobanu • October 09, 2016

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 …

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

UX DesignMarcin Treder • September 08, 2016

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 …

10 Places to Share Code Snippets Quickly

Website ToolsNataly Birch • August 03, 2016

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is quite a powerful instrument as an online application for quickly composing and sharing code snippets through a natural, intuitive and handy interface. The latter offers live previews and separate windows for CSS, HTML and …

Designing Airbnb’s Website: An Interactive Mockup Exercise

UX DesignIndra Sofian • July 19, 2016

When you think of a good website design, what comes to mind? For me, it’s Airbnb. I like its design not just because it has a pretty color palette or an eye-catching video on the front page, but because it …

JavaScript Unit Testing for Beginners

CodingJake Rocheleau • July 01, 2016

Developers should love the security of unit tests. Nobody loves writing unit tests, but the peace of mind they bring can easily be worth the extra work. Unit tests check blocks of code to ensure that they all run as …

20 Great Examples of Website Gamification

Website ExamplesNataly Birch • June 27, 2016

Gamification - 20 Great Website Examples

Modern web technologies open up new horizons for the creatives. If you still mourn the death of Flash, then you are likely to miss unique and ample opportunities provided by WebGL, HTML5 and other advanced libraries and languages. The time …

Bootstrap 4 Tutorial: Working with npm, Grunt.js and Sass (Part 2)

Bootstrap, CodingSam Norton • June 22, 2016

Firstly read the Bootstrap 4 Tutorial: Working with npm, Grunt.js and Sass (Part 1). Bootstrap 4 comes with an official Sass port for the framework. If you are not familiar with Sass, implementing it via Bootstrap can be a little …

Rounded Corners and Why They Are Here to Stay

Website DesignKeith Bryant • June 06, 2016

You see them almost everywhere these days. It’s difficult to think of them as a trend, as they’ve essentially become an industry standard. We see them in hardware, in user interfaces and on the web. Rounded corners are here to …

23 Websites That Are Stepping Away from Traditional Layouts

Website ExamplesPaula Borowska • June 06, 2016

23 websites that are stepping away from the traditional web layout

For one reason or another most websites follow the same rules when it comes to layout. You see it everywhere, from Facebook and Apple to startups of all kinds and even random teen blogs. Most websites follow a grid and …

Smoke Transitions: Beginning of a Trend?

Website DesignAntonio Petre • June 02, 2016

A website homepage includes any number of features such as branding, icons or illustrations. Recently, we’ve seen a surge in the popularity of motion in web design; more sites are joining the party with subtle interaction designs and animations that …