Cloud gaming is one of the most exciting pieces of tech to come about over the past couple of years to anyone who is seeking modern-day gaming without having to purchase a new console or expensive PC hardware. Cloud gaming also gives you unparalleled flexibility, letting you play anywhere you have a solid internet connection. …
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Managing Email: Why I am not using Hey.com yet
Over the years there have been a number of attempts to make Email more manageable. Far beyond just reducing spam, many services will group your email into categories of things you may still want but aren’t that important. Some services try to apply machine learning and more to email triage by auto categorizing based on …
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The author experience
What is the content editing experience like and how can we make it better.
CSS in JS
The latest drama in the web community is whether or not CSS in JS is great, or here to destroy us all.
Raising our standards
We need to stop accepting sub par mobile user experiences on the web. We should expect our mobile experiences to feel more like native applications in 2019.
How to make the Apple TV 3D Button in HTML, CSS, and JS
A fun user interface element, buttons on the Apple TV take on a three dimensional effect to help the user.
Perfect is the enemy of the good
If you have worked on the visual design of a site long enough you have likely encountered the phase of the process where you no longer find the once new and inspired design appealing. The site is no longer “fresh” or “shiny” in your eyes and your motivation for completing it is waining.
Design, Style, and Opinions.
The following is a thought experiment I had about the nuances of web design and how we might focus our attention on the visual nature of the web to understand what is a style trend and what is truly great design. User experience is made up of many factors, and of those factors the visual …
Varnish caching on a budget
No matter how you create and manage your website, performance is always a key part of your sites success. It is no surprise that a slow website is likely to turn away visitors particularly on an e-commerce site. Time is money and customers don’t want to use slow sites. So how do you know if your site …
The Year of Frosted Glass
Yesterday’s skinned designs of faux leather stitching and dramatic drop shadows has given way to photo centric flat design. And one facet of that new style trend is to use transparency. However as many people come to realize, using a semi transparent color over a photo can often still be too messy visually to allow …