February 9, 2022 — In this article, Steven Hoober shines the spotlight on Fitts’ Law and explains why we should always ask questions and consider what particular guidelines and lessons mean to our users and our products. Read more…

February 8, 2022 — Statoscope is an instrument that analyses your webpack-bundles. Created by Sergey Melukov, it started out as an experimental version in late 2016, which has now become a full-fledged toolkit for viewing, analyzing, and validating webpack-bundles.

Editor’s Note: This article is a transcription of Sergey’s live performance (Russian). Read more…

February 7, 2022 — While QR codes have many uses and can be leveraged at many touch points, they are just one of dozens of technologies that can improve the customer’s journey. Stanislav Khrustalev shares his advice with a list of things to keep in mind when using QR codes for your business. Read more…

February 4, 2022 — rameworks provide convenient ways to achieve complicated tasks, and they have benefits beyond technical ones, such as aligning a group of developers to a particular style and pattern. The web platform offers many choices, and adopting a framework gets everyone at least partially on the same page for some of those choices. In this second part, Noam suggests a few patterns of how to use the web platform directly as an alternative to some of the solutions that are offered by frameworks. Read more…

February 3, 2022 — In this article, we’ll look specifically at what we can do to reduce the impact of social media embeds and social sharing widgets — or even some strategies to avoid them altogether. While the spotlight is on reducing the environmental impact, many of these tips will be great for performance too. Read more…

February 2, 2022 — In this article, Adrian Bece shares more about the benefits and caveats of code-splitting and how page performance and load times can be improved by dynamically loading expensive, non-critical JavaScript bundles. Read more…

February 1, 2022 — It’s shipping! Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces”, our brand-new guide with guidelines and best practices to improve usability and accessibility on mobile. 400 pages. For designers and developers working with mobile UIs. Jump to details and get the book right away. Read more…

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…