One idea that has lodged itself into my brain recently (largely from this panel discussion ) is how a front end developer needs to be aware . In a general sense, the front end developer is positioned in the middle of lots of other jobs. Everybody involved in a web team ends up talking with the front…

If two hours go by and no one interrupts you, consider yourself lucky. According to an article by Game Developer Magazine’s Chris Parnin, developers lose more time going back to a task after they’ve been interrupted than people working in other industries and the time spent away from their tasks is…

A history of web standards’ claim to “help our users” when they are actually putting them and developers in danger Jenn Schiffer Aug 30, 2016 · 5 min read Believe it or not, there was a time when all computer screens were the same size and building interfaces for all devices was an efficient task —…

Loading... Communication Comment 8.95 Buy Copies Loading... Executive Summary What makes a good listener? Most people think is comes down to three components: not interrupting the speaker, following along with facial expressions, and being able to repeat back almost verbatim what the speaker has…

A friendly robot greets me on Facebook. He’s dressed like a doctor, stethoscope and all, here to do a security checkup. So for the next 5 to 10 seconds, I wait as he pokes and prods my account. “He’s really taking good care of me!” I think, when I start to wonder: Are Facebook’s servers really…

Harry Brignull Jul 10, 2016 · 8 min read Onboarding is a fashionable topic at the moment. You see lots of onboarding articles and tear-downs shared these days. But onboarding is just the first date. If someone installs your app or registers on your site, you’re not guaranteed a long term…

I gave the closing talk at the Render conference in Oxford a few weeks back. It was a very smoothly-run event, the spiritual successor to jQuery UK. In amongst the mix of talks there were a few emerging themes. Animation was covered from a few different angles by Val and Sara . Bruce , Jake , Ola ,…

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue system defeated the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. At the time, the victory was widely described as a milestone in artificial intelligence. But Deep Blue’s technology turned out to be useful for chess and not much else. Computer science did not undergo a revolution.…

Right now, millions of consumers are facing a simple problem. Or rather, they're facing a problem with simplicity, as both the number of smart products and the functions of those products multiply. I was recently reminded of this when I tried to quickly snap a picture at a recent Apple event. I…

As many of us move away from designing pages toward designing systems , one concept keeps cropping up: modularity. We often hear about the benefits of a modular approach; modules are scalable, replaceable, reusable, easy to test, quick to put together—“They’re just like LEGO!” Modularity might…

Two unrelated things happened recently: A few high profile open source maintainer burnouts 1 I've been reading a lot of philosophy 2 I was first introduced to Stoicism by a friend who recommended the

Most of SuperFriendly ’s work over the last few years has been with organizations that need specific help with crafting design systems that enable them to extend the work long after we’ve handed off initial work. It’s not uncommon to receive initial inquiries containing sentences like these: We are…

Professionalism has become a destructive myth. You don't have to leave your conscience behind when you head to work. My all-time favourite columnist line is this. "You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue." The columnist is agony aunt Dear Sugar, the more…

Elon Musk During a visit to the German capital on Thursday, the Tesla e-car chief shared his thoughts on the VW scandal, stuffy CEOs, roadblocks to e-mobility – and the need to consign gasoline to history. By Lukas Bay and Thomas Tuma Published on September 25, 2015 11:07 am Elon Musk, Tesla CEO…

TL;DR: WebPagetest will now expose any User Timing marks that a page records so you can use the same custom events for your synthetic test measurement as well as your Real User Measurement (and you can use WebPagetest to validate your RUM measurement points). Before kicking off an optimization…

Quite a few people have been linking to an article on The Verge with the inflammatory title The Mobile web sucks . In it, Nilay Patel heaps blame upon mobile browsers, Safari in particular: But man, the web browsers on phones are terrible. They are an abomination of bad user experience, poor…

If you want to imagine how the world will look in just a few years, once our cell phones become the keepers of both our money and identity, skip Silicon Valley and book a ticket to Orlando. Go to Disney World. Then, reserve a meal at a restaurant called Be Our Guest, using the Disney World app to…

The other day I was watching Alex Schultz, the VP Growth at Facebook, give a lecture on Growth for the CS183B class. He made a lot of great points, but the last 60 seconds I thought were the best: “Mark [Zuckerberg] has said he thinks we won because we wanted it more, and I really believe that. We…

Addy Osmani Dec 15, 2014 · 16 min read I once told someone I was an architect. It’s true in a way since I now have to design an intricate web of lies to back it up. On a serious note, I thought it might be salutary to look at the state of application architecture in the JavaScript community as we…

“HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.” “Dear @SlackHQ, I love you. Yours, Dan” “@SlackHQ YOU COMPLETE ME” You’ve probably heard about Slack’s exponential growth. And you may have rea

I’ve been experimenting with the gulp task runner for a week or so now. My goal has been to recreate some or most of the functionality of ngBoilerplate ’s Grunt -based build script. (Confused? Look at

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CSS is a constantly evolving language, and as the new year begins it’s a great time to take a look at some of the emerging features that we can start to experiment with. In this article I’ll take a lo

A. Parens, Braces, Linebreaks // if/else/for/while/try always have spaces, braces and span multiple lines // this encourages readability // 2.A.1.1 // Examples of really cramped syntax if (condition) doSomething (); while (condition) iterating ++ ; for ( var i = 0 ;i

Since the release of the New iPad, there have been quite a few scripts to help you show high resolution images on your website when it’s being viewed on a retina display. Even though these scripts might seem like a quick and simple solution, they almost always slow down both the loading and…