February 1, 2022 — According to the documentation, Easy Peasy is an abstraction of Redux, providing a reimagined API that focuses on developer experience. It allows you to quickly and easily manage your state, whilst leveraging the strong architectural guarantees. We’ll use Easy Peasy as a state manager of choice to build a note application which would help us learn how it works. Read more…

January 31, 2022 — Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for February 2022 and can be downloaded for free. As a little bonus goodie, we also compiled some timeless treasures from past February editions at the end of this post for you. Enjoy! Read more…

January 28, 2022 — In this article, Noam Rosenthal dives deep into a few technical features that are common across frameworks, and explains how some of the different frameworks implement them and what they cost, focusing on data-binding, reactivity, conditionals and lists. You will also take a look at the cost of using those frameworks. Read more…

January 26, 2022 — Administration experience is often assumed or glossed over in software because 99% users never engage with it directly. Yet this is one critical area that, when used effectively, can tie closely to a company’s business strategy and affects the bottom line. In this article reveals how something as trivial as administration in both software and As-a-service can be either a booster or bottleneck to a company’s productivity and innovation. It also provides several design aspects that UX practitioners should evaluate when designing the administration experience. Read more…

January 25, 2022 — What’s new in Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox? Patrick Brosset breaks it down with the latest features in DevTools across browsers. We hope you enjoy these updates, and that they’ll turn out useful when doing web development. Read more…

January 24, 2022 — We all have run into CSS collisions and sudden regressions in our codebases when new styles are written or 3rd-party styles are added. This is because of the interdependence of styles due to source order, specificity, and inheritance. Some ways to control the cascade have included methodologies like ITCSS and BEM and other newer native features. Cascade layers will be the ultimate native solution for resolving conflicts between multiple sources of styles. Cascade layers introduce the new at-rule of @layer. The intent is to help CSS authors be more intentional about ordering the “layers” of CSS rules as a new method of cascade management. Read more…

January 21, 2022 — Joining a team where there are no established design practices may feel disheartening. Does this situation resonate with you? If yes, then read on — as this article is sharing the author’s advice based on his personal experience and it will show you a way (although not easy) of facing the problem in a manner that will bring other benefits, beside order and consistency. Read more…

January 20, 2022 — You probably know how annoying it could be to handle different states, if you have ever built React applications that use asynchronous data. In this article, Georgii Perepecho explains the most common React Query features that you need to be familiar with when creating a real-life application that is stable when testing. Read more…

January 19, 2022 — What goes into creating a successful design system? How can you take your testing workflow to the next level? And what smart interface design patterns could help you enhance your UIs? Let’s figure it out. With our online workshops on front-end and UX. Read more…

January 18, 2022 — Every once in a while, we publish freebies related to different occasions and themes. We hope that with this icon set, everyone will be able to find their own use case for these icons in particular. Today, we present to you three icon sets designed by the creative folks at GraphicSurf — all free for personal and commercial use. Read more…