Adventures in Interface Development
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SVG Spriting
SVG sprites offer the same efficiencies as PNG sprites, but they can be trickier to implement because of their innate scalability.
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Creating Social Icons from Glyphs
Even though using font glyphs for social icons allows only one color, complex color can be added with background gradients in a CSS-styled structure around the glyph.
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Making a Custom Icon Font for Your Website
Reducing server calls for image resources will speed up your page load and enhance performance. A great way to do this is to replace sprited icons with mobile-friendly custom fonts.
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It’s not us. It’s you.
I recently placed an online order at Zulilly. I knew in advance it would take some time because Zulilly is a drop-ship merchant. They told me that upfront and I was okay with a longer-than-average shipping time. But when the item hadn’t even begun its shipping process six weeks later, I decided I’d been patient…
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PWAs: Easy! Unless…
We’ve had a third party building and managing our native apps for several years and they’re doing a terrible job. We wanted to get rid of them, but weren’t ready to part with the app experience, which is important to our most committed mobile users. We came up with two alternative solutions: build our own…
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Good Design
Good design is subjective and can’t necessarily be measured. In the late 1970s, Dieter Rams attempted to express what he believed to be the most important principles for design. Here is a brief overview: 1. Good design is innovative Design is constantly evolving and part of that evolution is adapting to new technology. Technological innovations…