Articles by 24 Ways from December 2016

Drew McLellan wraps up our 2016 season with a look at the HTML5 Device Orientation API and how an annoying physical interaction can become an annoying virtual one. Like the silver sixpence in your fig...

Jen Simmons points us in the direction of a useful but less well known CSS feature that becomes increasingly important when designing page layouts for a global audience. Like the wise men following th...

Meri Williams sets her sights on self improvement in 2017 with a guide to personal development. Like a good Christmas dinner, you can set a beautiful table, but unless you get the turkey prepared and ...

Christopher Murphy puts distractions to one side to discuss the issue of time management and procrastination. Whether youre trying to finish up projects for Christmas, or are yet to buy your final gif...

Amy Simmons conducts us in five lessons but sadly no carols, sharing the experiences gained in coming to a dev role from a background in journalism. Like seeing Christmas through a childs eyes, someti...

Mat Marquis puts on some festive tunes before recounting the tale of asynchronous JavaScript. Promises offer a robust way of structuring your code to avoid event-driven disasters of visitor-vexing jan...

Tom Ashworth pops a few mince pies in the oven to warm through as he shares with us experiences learned when on-boarding new front-enders into his team. From frameworks to refactoring, code reviews to...

Francis Storr delves deep into our HTML and considers if the choice and application of semantics in front-end code contributes in a meaningful way to the information architecture of our sites. Perhaps...

Sarah Drasner drops down on the sofa, turns on the TV and puts on some Christmas classics. Yes, its time to talk animation, and not just any animation, but how you prescribe and document animation in ...

Dean Hume pops on his gown and slippers and opens up his Christmas stocking to discover the high performance gifts of Server Push and Service Workers. Its the gift that keeps on giving. Being a web de...

Lisa Maria Martin harnesses the huskies of information to the sled of knowledge and takes us on a ride through the snowy peaks and valleys of information design. Plan your route carefully and make you...

Andy Clarke unpacks his tinsel and untangles the Christmas illuminations to add some brilliance to the subject of style guides. Whether you choose a boxed pre-decorated tree, or lovingly choose each a...

Rachel Andrew opens the door on next generation CSS to bring us tidings of Grid joy. But rest not on your laurels, we must look to what comes next for the specification. Gold may be just around the co...

Shane Hudson dusts the snow from his jacket and helps us take our first tentative steps into the gloomy world of virtual reality. So mark his footsteps good my page, tread thou in them boldly. Thou sh...

Annie-Claude Ct gathers us round the hearth to tell a tale of many languages. Like choosing the right Christmas sweater to wear while building a snowman, we must choose the language we code in wisely....

Richard Rutter shepherds a tea towel onto our collective heads and describes a technique for responsively scaling display text to maintain a consistent feel in both landscape and portrait screen orien...

Leslie Zacharkow presents the purrfect solution for anyone whos ever dreamt of creating their own Chrome browser extension. So kick back, and while your chestnuts roast on an open fire, roast your fri...

Heydon Pickering questions whether accessibility is really the name of the game, and asks if perhaps inclusivity might be a more broadly acceptable term for the valuable design work we do. Would a cin...

Lara Hogan stands up and goes it alone to expound on the benefits of presenting on stage with a buddy. Preparing and delivering a presentation to a room full of people can be a daunting task, and some...

Harry Roberts addresses the hastily-coded elephant in the room and helps us to identify what is technical debt, and what is just bad code. Hark the herald Harry sings, time for some refactoring. In my...

Gillian Sibthorpe rearranges the doors on our advent calendar by looking at how to manage those tougher projects. Like a game of limbo at the office holiday party, it pays to remain flexible in the fa...

Alicia Sedlock embodies the Ghost of Code Reviews Yet-to-Come with a call to start testing. Do you know your unit from your integration, your acceptance from your visual regression? And will you pass ...

Wren Lanier sets aside time to explore the benefits of a regular schedule for user research. Santas elves quickly discovered the benefits of working to a fixed schedule, which is of course why we dont...

Seb Lee-Delisle lights up our 2016 advent series with an illuminating guide to making your own Stranger Things style fairy lights to pick up messages from the upside-down (also known as the Internet)....