Persuasion is all around us, in our everyday lives. As designers, we can use ethical persuasive design methods to get users to take some action. With plenty of persuasive methods available, we have to be selective about what we use. The key to persuading your users is to keep it simple: using focused persuasive techniques and tactics that will work for your users. In this article, Lyndon Cerejo will show you everything you need to know about persuasion.
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Developers conduct AB tests, accessibility audits, unit tests and cross-browser checks. Once you’ve solved a problem, you don’t want to repeat that effort. By building a reusable component library, we can continuously utilize past efforts and avoid revisiting already solved design and development challenges. In this article, Oliver Williams looks at augmenting HTML with components that have built-in functionality and styles. He’ll also show you how to make these custom elements reusable across projects using NPM.
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Staying up to date with the latest techniques, browser updates, and hot topics can be quite a challenge. Every month, Anselm Hannemann summarizes what’s been going on in the web industry, so you can easily catch up on everything new and important.
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While this tutorial was kindly sponsored by Serif, the creator of Affinity, we’d like to point out that it is written by an independent design professional who personally enjoys using the software and shares her lessons learned. In this article, Isabel Aracama would like to walk you through just some of its very user-friendly main tools and features as an introduction to the software and to show you how we can create a nice flat vector illustration of a Volkswagen Beetle.
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Learning to code can be tough. If you are new to JavaScript and/or have struggles adding it to your skillset, Murat Kemaldar may have an approach for you to overcome those barriers. You are definitely not alone, and you have every right to think that learning to code is a tough nut to crack. In this article, Murat shares his advice on how writing code differently and poetically has helped him overcome his initial struggles and insecurities.
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Involving other people early on — especially people from other disciplines — can feel scary. By taking inspiration from code reviews, we can improve collaboration both within our own fields as well as across disciplines, be it design, UX, content or development. No one is really promoting waterfall processes anymore. So how can you involve people early on so that you’re avoiding the waterfall, but also making sure that you’re not setting yourself up for design by committee? Ida Aalen found her answer when learning about code reviews.
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CSS can be hard to manage across a project, especially when you need to include media queries for various breakpoints and fallbacks for older browsers. In this article, we will take a look at using Fractal to manage components which use CSS Grid. Rachel Andrew is going to describe a method of working that she’s adopted over the past two years that helps her to manage CSS across her projects.
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Most web professionals like to see their influence felt in web design projects as early as possible, in order to make sure what they have to say gets heard. Let’s go through each aspect of the design process, talking about SEO questions along the way.
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Do you know Redux’s real power is beyond managing the state? Do you want to design with an understanding of how Redux works in mind? With the help of this article, Linton Ye would like to show you a full picture of Redux: what it can do, why it does its things, what the downsides are, when to use it, and how it relates to design. Even if you haven’t written a single line of code before, it’s still possible and beneficial to understand Redux. Expect plain English and doodles — no code or abstract talks.
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Many of us are taught to make sure our sites can be used via keyboard. Why is that, and what is it like in practice? Chris Ashton did an experiment to find out. He hopes to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Chris used the web for a day without JavaScript. Today, he forces himself to navigate the web using just his keyboard.
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