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5 Fun Augmented Reality Apps for Design Inspiration

Augmented reality is a growing trend in application design and development. Apple has invested in the technology with recent updates (ARKit), and plans to include even more AR features. So how do you start planning to design for augmented reality? It starts with playing with apps already on the market to see how they work. […]
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13 Performance-Boosting Site Speed Tips for WordPress

There’s no doubt about it: Site performance is crucial to the success of your website. Today, over 25 percent of users will leave a page if it takes more than 4 seconds to load. And a delay of just a second can compound with dropped conversion rates, decrease your page views, and increase your bounce …
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How to Convince Your Clients to Stay on WordPress

Doing business is almost impossible without being on the Internet. So why do Freelancers and Agencies hear from potential clients that they don’t need a website at all?   People strive to simplify their life, so they opt for using services like Facebook Pages, Wix or Weebly. What clients don’t know is that WordPress is …
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Gotchas When Publishing Modules in npm and Bower

Bower and npm are de-facto the package managers of the web. I doubt there are many front-end developers out there who haven’t heard of them or used them to manage dependencies.

Whilst many of us use them as consumers, one day you might decide to share a project of your own and become a contributor! This happened to me recently. I had the experience of publishing my open-source library on npm and Bower.

Although their official docs were quite good, …


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20+ Best PowerPoint Templates of 2018

The key to winning your audience is a perfectly designed PowerPoint presentation. Whether you’re speaking at a conference, pitching to an investor, or talking about sales projections at a business meeting, this collection of the best PowerPoint templates will help you speak to your audience. The way you design your PowerPoint slides will play a […]
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The Red Reveal: Illusions on the Web

In part one of a series of posts about optical illusions on the web, Dan Wilson looks at how to create the “Red Reveal” that he happens to describe like this:

Growing up, my family played a lot of board games. Several games such as Outburst, Password, and Clue Jr. included something that amazed me at the time — a red lens and cards with some light blue text that was obscured by a myriad of red lines. When you …


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How to Cope With New Year’s Burnout

There are few things more demoralizing than returning from a nice New Year’s break to a mountain of work. Although we’d all like to take another holiday come February, the sad fact is that this is not a tenable solution. So how do you deal with burnout effectively? The solution may appear cliched on the …
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My Talk Writing Process

Some people have a talk-preparation process that is super organized and runs like a well-oiled machine. Mine, on the other hand, is a bit messy, but it works for me. Even when the end talk is polished and put together, it doesn’t mean the whole process to get there was the same way.

When putting together a new talk recently, I noticed there was most definitely a pattern to how my talks take shape. Here’s how the talk-making process goes for me


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Shipping system fonts to GitHub.com

System font stacks got hot about a year ago, no doubt influenced by Mark Otto’s work putting them live on GitHub.

The why, to me, feels like (1) yay performance and (2) the site looks like the rest of the operating system. But to Mark:

Helvetica was created in 1957 when the personal computer was a pipe dream. Arial was created in 1982 and is available on 95% of computers across the web. Millions, if not billions, of web …


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WordPress Translation is an Accessibility Issue, Don’t Fall Behind

WordPress is a global platform. With over 29 percent of the Internet, a lot of those users aren’t in English speaking countries. In fact, since 2014, there are more downloads not in English than in English. While WordPress defaults to English, it supports many languages and there are many great ways to translate WordPress post …
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