Where do hands and fingers fall on the device? This question is the linchpin for every form factor this book examines, and the answer tells you how to design your layout for comfort and efficiency. Since we hold phones, phablets, tablets, and laptops very differently, it’s no surprise that each of these touchscreen variations has […]
The days of floats and margin trickery are finally behind us, as CSS furnishes developers with new and improved properties perfect for those delicate layouts. Layout features such as vertical alignment, evenly distributed spacing, source-order control and other patterns such as “sticky” footers are quite effortless to achieve with flexbox. In this article, we’ll […]
At StaticGen, our open-source directory of static website generators, we’ve kept track of more than a hundred generators for more than a year now, and we’ve seen both the volume and popularity of these projects take off incredibly on GitHub during that time, going from just 50 to more than 100 generators and a […]
Every so often, a designer gets promoted. If you are lucky, they are someone you have personally trained and developed. Congratulations! You now have a newly-minted design manager on your team. As a new manager, their relationship with the team will most likely change. They are now in charge of delegating design tasks, performance reviews, […]
Over at Perch we develop the product based on customer feedback. Our method of ordering features is to add the things that will make the most difference to the most people. We gather feedback from our interactions with customers (primarily this happens in our support forums) and try to shape a feature from the specific […]