Today, virtually all companies have to grow non-stop. What we call “growth” in the tech world is called “persuasion” in academia. With this article, Akar Sumset will show you why gamification is a great tool for growth and how persuasion science proves that. You will see how the six components of mass interpersonal persuasion relate to gamification, with well-known examples and facts for it to be easier to understand and relate to. Let’s get going!
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With iOS 10.3, Apple has gifted the world powerful new features, as well as fixes for critical security holes. For your typical iPhone user, it’s a really nice upgrade. For a software developer who is responsible for either a mobile website or a native app, it can be a huge pain, because Apple changed the confirmation alert into a new non-blocking dialog. For developers, there is a hidden change that has more important implications: the App Store had always received a special exemption from the old version of this alert, but that exemption has now been removed.
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In this tutorial, Joseph Zimmerman aims to help you understand how v-model works on native inputs and on custom components by default. Also, you’ll learn how to create custom checkboxes and radios that emulate how v-model works on them natively.
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To help you start into August freshly inspired, artists and designers from across the globe once again challenged their artistic skills to create unique desktop wallpapers for you to indulge in — wallpapers that are a bit more distinctive as the usual crowd. All wallpapers in this collection can be downloaded for free and come in versions with and without a calendar. A big thank-you to everyone who shared their artworks with us! Now it’s up to you to decide which one will become your August companion.
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Paul Boag has been working on the web for over 22 years now, and he feels like he wasted many of those years. To help you avoid making similar mistakes and wasting valuable years of your life, in this article, Paul shares his lessons learned and hard truths at the start of his career.
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Today, developers can help to defend their users’ personal privacy by adopting the Privacy by Design (PbD) framework. The PbD framework poses challenges that only you can answer. No one else can do it for you: it is your responsibility to commence the process. These common-sense steps will become a requirement under the EU’s imminent data protection overhaul, but the benefits of the framework go far beyond legal compliance. In this article, Heather Burns will give you an insight into the PbD framework.
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Take a look on CSS grid layout for making websites with a demo to see different levels of enhancement. You can use the hottest cutting-edge technologies and fancy techniques, as long as you don’t forget who you are making websites for: users. Your users aren’t all the same, nor do they use the same device, OS, browser, Internet provider or input device. By providing a basic experience to begin with, you can get the best out of the modern web without compromising accessibility. In this article, Manuel Matuzović explains how floating, flexbox and grid work inviting to provide an accesible and usable experience for various browsers. Integrate progressive enhancement so you can build resilient websites!
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What’s going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting everything that popped up over the last week in his web development reading list so that you don’t miss out on anything. The result is a carefully curated list of articles and resources that are worth taking a closer look at.
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In this article, Vitaly Friedman will look into the fine details of designing better slider controls for selecting a value or a range of values. A slider is helpful because it allows users to explore a wide range of options quickly. The main point of interaction with the slider is to display options quickly. This means not forcing the user to click on a button to see the outcome or wait until the result is displayed. Feedback should be smooth and continuous. However, sliders are just a bit too difficult to use, require just a bit too much precision, are a bit too confusing to navigate, and are a bit too difficult to grab and move around. After a close look at perfect accordions and date and time pickers, let’s turn our attention to sliders, with do’s and don’ts and things to keep in mind when designing one.
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Creating large, harmonious and uniform color palettes can be a challenge. Good intentions and confident plans can be abandoned when things get a little unwieldy.
But you can equip yourself with some tools to manage the complexity. With the right techniques, large color palettes can be created, refined and refactored at will. Large color palettes can be tamed.
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