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Introduction Authentication is usually a crucial part in any web app. You could always roll your own authentication mechanics if you wanted, however, this creates an additional barrier between the user and your web app: Registration.
That’s why OAuth, and…

How can you be sure you're moving your design problem in a straight line? That you're moving _directly_ to a solution? From client to payment, from product to audience?
**How certain are you** of what the second step in your process is? Or the third? Or how…

Most people have an idea of the perfect solution to their design problem. The downside is that so does everyone else with the same problem.

Variable fonts can expose any number of axes, each controlling a different aspect of the font.

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Have you been thinking about starting a design business? With all the outstanding reasons to do so, we can certainly see why. You might be drawn by the independence, the...

This week's Designer News (N.359) includes Bootstrap 4 Cheat Sheet, Learn Sketch, Pure CSS Icons, Web Animation Principles, Essential CSS Tricks, and more.

Go minifiers for web formats. Contribute to tdewolff/minify development by creating an account on GitHub.

Use React and Redux to create a media library.

How do you go about designing an app? Michael Flarup brings you an article about just that. A top level, somewhat simplified, and very honest overview of the steps involved in designing an app. This is an account of how most of the apps I work on are born…

Fast HTTP package for Go. Tuned for high performance. Zero memory allocations in hot paths. Up to 10x faster than net/http - valyala/fasthttp

The Progressive Web Apps (PWA) technology developed by Google has been available to the public for almost a year, but relatively few people outside the world of hardcore developers are...

In today’s web design market, you can’t move for drag and drop page builders, all in one frameworks and ready-to-go WordPress themes. With platforms like SquareSpace leading the charge, the...

When designing websites – two crucial things to understand are how to make the website easy to navigate, and the other is helping guide users to the main action you...

I love hacks and unusual patterns! As logical consequence, I loved this post about "Real" Mixins !!! The only hitch about that post is that...

Buttons are a vital element in creating a smooth user experience, so it’s worth paying attention to the best essential practices for them. In this article, Nick Babich will show you the essential items you need to know in order to create effective controls…

Illustration is a great way to boost many of your skills and to experiment with drawing techniques, colors and composition. In this article, Igor Izhik will show you how these skills will make you a better specialist in any creative field by sharing how he…

Explore whether there's a perfect solution to design problems and the quest for ideal design outcomes.