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12:00 pm GMT - Tue, December 24, 2019
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The Accidental Side Project
Drew McLellan puts the chairs up on the tables, sweeps the floor, and closes off our season, and indeed the entire 24 ways project with a look back at what its meant to run this site as a site project...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, December 23, 2019
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Four Ways Design Systems Can Promote Accessibility and What They Cant Do
Amy Hupe prepares a four bird roast of tasty treats so we can learn how the needs of many different types of users can be served through careful implementation of components within a design system. De...
12:00 pm GMT - Sun, December 22, 2019
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Usability and Security; Better Together
Divya Sasidharan calls into question the trade-offs often made between security and usability. Does a secure interface by necessity need to be hard to use? Or is it the choice we make based on years o...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, December 21, 2019
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Flexible Captioned Slanted Images
Eric Meyer gift wraps the most awkwardly shaped of boxes using nothing but CSS, HTML and a little curl of ribbon. No matter how well you plan and how much paper you have at your disposal, sometimes yo...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, December 20, 2019
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There Is No Design System
Jina Anne silences the night to talk about how we talk about Design Systems. Can the language we use impact the effectiveness of the solution? Fear not, if mighty dread has seized your troubled mind. ...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, December 19, 2019
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A Modern Typographic Scale
Rob Weychert reaches for the top notes to sing us a song of typographic scale. A little attention to scale and to the mathematics will help you to hit a high note with your designs this Christmas and ...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, December 18, 2019
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Five Interesting Ways to Use Array.reduce() (And One Boring Way)
Chris Ferdinandi turns the heat down low and lets the sauce reduce while we take a look at how to add spice to our source with a sprinkling of Array.reduce(). Just a little ingenuity with the humblest...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, December 17, 2019
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Building a Dictaphone Using Media Recorder and getUserMedia
Chris Mills brushes up his shorthand and shows how the MediaStream Recording API in modern browsers can be used to capture audio directly from the users device. Inching ever closer to the capabilities...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, December 16, 2019
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A History of CSS Through Fifteen Years of 24 ways
Rachel Andrew guides us through a tour of the last fifteen years in CSS layout, as manifested in articles here on 24 ways. From the days when Internet Explorer 6 was de rigueur, right up to the modern...
12:00 pm GMT - Sun, December 15, 2019
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Microbrowsers Are Everywhere
Colin Bendell gets into the minutia of microbrowsers - the small previews of your site that are pervasive all around the web and through social media apps and search engines whenever an item of conten...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, December 14, 2019
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Design Tokens and Component Based Design
Stuart Robson rolls up his sleeves and begins to piece together the jigsaw puzzle that is design tokens and component based design. Starting with the corners, and working around the edges, Stu helps u...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, December 13, 2019
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Art Direction and the New WordPress Editor
Mel Choyce explores how the new WordPress editor (also know as Gutenberg) can be used to create more carefully art directed posts. Like gifts carefully arranged beneath the Christmas tree, its the con...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, December 12, 2019
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Making Distributed Working Work
Anna Debenham harnesses up the huskies and puts them to work to figure out how teams distributed across multiple locations can work effectively to all pull in the same direction. With modern workforce...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, December 11, 2019
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Gift Giving to the World (Wide Web)
Frances Berriman asks us to give the gift of consideration to those who are using the web on constricted devices such as low-end smart phones or feature phones. Christmas is a time of good will to all...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, December 10, 2019
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Zs Still Not Dead Baby, Zs Still Not Dead
Andy Clarke digs deep into snow to find ways flat design can be brought back to life in CSS with the use of techniques to create a sense of depth. Like spring after an everlasting winter, perhaps its ...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, December 9, 2019
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Its Time to Get Personal
Laura Kalbag discusses the gift of personal data we give to Big Tech when we share information on its platforms, and how reviving ye olde personal website can be one way to stay in control of the cont...
12:00 pm GMT - Sun, December 8, 2019
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It All Starts with a Humble
Andy Bell rings out a fresh call in support of the timeless concept of progressive enhancement. What does it mean to build a modern JavaScript-focussed web experience that still works well if part of ...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, December 7, 2019
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Iconography of Security
Molly Wilson and Eileen Wagner battle the age old Christmas issues of right and wrong, good and evil, and how the messages we send through iconography design can impact the decisions users make around...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, December 6, 2019
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Beautiful Scrolling Experiences Without Libraries
Michelle Barker appears as one of a heavenly host, coming forth with scroll in hand to pronounce an end to janky scrolljacking! Unto us a new specification is born, in the city of TimBL, and its name ...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, December 5, 2019
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Interactivity and Animation with Variable Fonts
Mandy Michael turns the corner on our variable font adventure and stumbles into a grotto of wonder and amazement. Not forgetting the need for a proper performance budget, Mandy shows how variable font...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, December 4, 2019
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An Introduction to Variable Fonts
Jason Pamental forges a path through the freshly laid snowy landscape of variable fonts. Like a brave explorer in a strange new typography topology let Jason show you the route to some fantastic font ...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, December 3, 2019
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Future Accessibility Guidelinesfor People Who Cant Wait to Read Them
Alan Dalton uses this, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, to look back at where weve come from, to evaluate where we are, and to look forward to whats coming next in the future of acc...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, December 2, 2019
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Twelve Days of Front End Testing
Amy Kapernick sings us through numerous ways of improving the robustness and reliability of our front end code with a comprehensive rundown of ideas, tools, and resources. The girls and boys wont get ...
12:00 pm GMT - Sun, December 1, 2019
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Making a Better Custom Select Element
Julie Grundy kicks off this, our fifteenth year, by diving headlong into the snowy issue of customising form inputs. Nothing makes a more special gift at Christmas that something youve designed and cu...