Principles of User Interface Design

"To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse." - Paul Rand Clarity is job Clarity is the first and most important job …

Web Animation Tools That You Can Use for Your Web App

Technologies used to create web animations Developers mostly use CSS animations and transitions or JavaScript to create animated web pages. Let’s look at these and other approaches of making web animation. CSS animations CSS animations make possible transition between different states using a set of keyframes. You can animate elements of your web page in …

Deploy websites with Github

When you’re starting to create a website, it can be extremely exciting. But I think you can agree that deploying a website and making it live is even more exciting. Often, this is challenging if you’re not familiar with Github. So first, I’ll try to simplify Github when it comes to deploying sites for you …

ES6: Template Literals

ES6 : Template Literals A new and fast way to deal with strings is Template Literals , which we will discoverin this Article - Let’s start! How we were dealing with strings before ? Before we used to see strings between single ‘ ’ or double “ ” quotes , as shown below : var name = …

What Is SEO Content? A Guide to Creating Content for SEO

What Is SEO Content? To understand what marketers mean by SEO content, it’s helpful to break down the phrase into its component parts: “SEO” refers to search engine optimization, or the process of optimizing a website so that people can easily find it via search engines like Google.By “content,” we mean any information that lives on the web and can …

2020 Mobile App Development — Is Cross Platform still a Fad?

The invention of Mobile has revolutionized the world. Mobility has reshaped mankind by having a wonderful impact in the most fundamental aspects of our lives. With the advent of smart phones, mobility has a greater reach than any other technology. It’s amazing to see that we have 8.98 Billion mobile users now surpassing the world population of 7.68 …

UX Design Patterns: What, Why and How

Quick summary: UX design patterns help designers devise workable solutions to common interface problems. UX patterns incorporate design best practices for every single piece of functionality, whether it’s a sign-in form or a site's navigation. In this article, we'll go through the main categories of design patterns such as: * Data input * Content structuring …

Understanding state management, and why you never will

What is state? If I asked 100 developers to define “state,” I would end up with many answers: The data (whatever that is!).All the variables in all the StatefulWidgets.All the variables in the entire application.A store, like a Redux or Flux store.The behavior of the app at a given moment in time (this is my …

Design patterns for modern web APIs

Design patterns are formalized best practices that the programmer can use to solve common problems when designing an application or system. In this post, I’d like to look at a combination of high level design and architectural patterns that I believe can help create web APIs that are more flexible, maintainable and easier to understand in any …

A (Brief) Introduction to Static Site Generators

The new technologies that are powering a broader, industry-wide return to HTML-based websites. What Is a Static Site Generator? Simply put: A static site generator is a tool that takes in source files and spits out an entirely static website. These static site generators work by taking your content, — typically stored in flat files …