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Yuni Grotesque

Beautiful new release by Philipp Neumeyer and TypeMates. 😍 Next TDC Award incoming … 😉

The History of the Web

A wonderful newsletter by Jay Hoffmann about the web's history, the incredible people that built it, and all the websites, code, and browsers you've never heard of.

Footer — The only footer gallery on earth.

A really nice gallery with a lot of footer design inspiration in all forms and colours, sorted by type and style. The footer often is a neglected part of a design. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid

An in-depth look at dark mode. Summary: it is popular, but not essential. Users like dark mode but maintain similar behaviors without it. They think about it at the system level, not the application level. If you choose to support dark mode, test your design to avoid common dark-mode issues.

Green Web Directory

For every country, the Green Web Directory lists the hosting providers that provided evidence of their green services.

Gravity

Gravity is a platform for carbon management, purpose-built for companies with complex value chains. It lets you calculate the carbon footprint of your organization and helps you identify areas to reduce emissions effectively.

“Gravity's platform quickly ingests, calculates, and distributes key emissions data about our businesses.”

Observable

With 200,000+ community examples, Observable is the fastest way to build custom data visualizations, apps, and dashboards to uncover deeper insights. From the creators of D3.

Accessibility Developer Guide

The «Accessibility Developer Guide» is an initiative of «Access for all», Swiss Foundation for technology adapted to people with disabilities. It is developed and maintained in collaboration with a number of acclaimed web agencies. The vision behind the Accessibility Developer Guide is to bridge the gap between providers of websites and users with special needs.

Building Web Layouts For Dual-Screen And Foldable Devices

Stephanie Stimac: “Dual-screen devices have been on the market for nearly three years. In that time new web platform technologies have been built with developer feedback to enable layout on the web that adapts to these devices. These web platform capabilities integrate with existing concepts, such as the viewport and media queries, so that developers and designers can spend more time ideating about how to leverage two displays to create enhanced experiences rather than learning a new set of code to build them.”

The Elements of UI Engineering

A brilliant post by Dan Abramov on common UI and design / engineering problems and how trying to solve them is often a greater lesson than only learning about a new technology. “Learning comes from exploring the problem space and trying different possible tradeoffs.”

Accessibility, Back to the Future | Bruce Lawson | Monki Gras 2019

Bruce says: When Sir Uncle Timbo invented the Web it was accessible by default. Developers, we broke it. Dull Old Web Farts like me wagged our fingers and advised developers to Be Nice To Cripples and sometimes shook our fists and shouted “Be careful of lawsuits”. But by going back to basics, I’ll show you how accessibility means inclusion, and makes the web better for all – not just disabled people, but billions of new customers. So, fire up the flux capacitor and let’s go. NB: I’ll still wag my finger a bit, for old times’ sake.

A Chaotic Good Guide to Image Performance, Part 1

A great guide to image performance by Mat Marquis.

Very Dictionary

Do you use “very” very often? This very nice website provides very good alternatives to “very” so you don't have to use “very” less often. Very useful …ermm… advantageous!

The business value of design

How do the best design performers increase their revenues and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their industry counterparts? The McKinsey Design Index (MDI) highlights four key areas of action companies must take to join the top quartile of design performers. What they found and point out in their report: There is a strong correlation between high MDI scores and superior business performance.

Kontrastor 82M – Dynamic Cascading Style Enhancer