The designer, the coworker, and the teacup: A story about critiquing design
A designer was asked to create a new teacup for a manufacturer of tableware. Preferring natural materials, she began by making a modest, thin cup from bamboo. A coworker interested in design stopped...
View ArticleLord of the Rings: Character Analysis with Flexmonster & Highcharts
Hi everyone! We continue to analyze and visualize cool datasets from Kaggle. It's the most popular dataset platform among data scientists and analysts. Recently we came across on the "Lord of the...
View ArticleSetting up Pivot Grid & GeoChart to Show Data
Catch the tutorial on how to make a web report look more interactive and appealing. Our goal is to create a dashboard with data in a table and a chart. The chart must be updated in real-time after...
View ArticleHow to Create Healthcare Dashboard with Flexmonster Pivot & FusionCharts
If you work in a medical center, you have a lot of data from different departments. Therefore, you need a reporting tool for tracking healthcare KPIs. 🏥 Should it be interactive? Undoubtedly. Today...
View ArticleHow You Can Get Started with CSS Grid
More like my slow journey with CSS Grid, but these things always sound cooler as a guide. As I finish my 10th CSS Grid pen* (my 10th pen-niversary, if you will), I figure I might as well pen (ha!)...
View ArticleA Case for Web Accessibility
One would think that by 2019, the argument about the necessity of implementing Web Accessibility would be over, that everyone would agree that Web Accessibility is fundamental, that it would be the...
View ArticleA job interview, Tim Berners-Lee, and the imaginary hot air balloon
Photo by Kupono Kuwamura on Unsplash Around twelve years ago, I went to a group interview (the company interviewing several people at once to review not only their answers but also the interactions...
View ArticleQuick AngularJS Beginner Guide
Overview This is not a guide on what AngularJS is and how to make anything and everything. This is for those who want to get a feel for what AngularJS has to offer. I hope you enjoy. tl;dr - not a...
View ArticleCSS Shapes Resources
Documentation & Guides: CSS Shapes - MDN Overview of CSS Shapes - MDN <basic-shape> - MDN shape-image-threshold - MDN shape-margin - MDN shape-outside - MDN CSS Shapes Module Level 1...
View ArticleInspire Yourself, Inspire Others!
Inspire Yourself Background Info I'm not sure if it's just me or if other people are/have had this issue. Where you have a great year with lot's of success but the next year you shoot higher but...
View ArticleQuick Prototyping With Vue CLI 3
When you're like me (and a ton of other devs), you'll get an idea in your head that you want to start working on immediately. So you might clone a boilerplate you have stored in Github, spin up a new...
View ArticleThings You Can Do With CodePen
Google "CodePen tutorial," "CodePen help," or a similar phrase and the average result will dive way, way down into the gritty details of using CodePen. You'll find videos and articles galore on how to...
View ArticleCodepen St. Louis: January 24, 2019 @ Caleres
The Caleres front end dev team hosted another edition of CodePen St. Louis on January 24, 2019. It was a great way to kick off a new year and get inspired to make cool stuff. We enjoyed seeing...
View ArticleComplete guide to accessible video and audio for the web
According to the American Institute of Research, the total disposable income for U.S. adults with disabilities is about $490 billion. And the complete amount you will be getting by being compassionate...
View ArticleCartoonifying and animating a still photograph
For this week's CodePen challenge, I created an animation of bats flying over people on a bridge using a single element and a still picture. This is a photograph in JPEG format, without transparencies...
View ArticleThe Danger Crew 2019 Edition
I'm kicking off 2019 by putting this out into the world: The Danger Crew is ready to play! Play the Danger Crew! Two of seven chapters are available in the link above. The rest of the chapters are...
View Articlefocus-within
Just discovered focus-within which let's you style the parent of a focused input. .field { background: #eee; } .field:focus-within { background: lightyellow; } Browser compatibility:...
View ArticleTop JavaScript Dashboards For Your Web Project
The power of data visualization cannot be underestimated. Regardless of the industry you are working in, you should be able to analyze the incoming data and visualize the results immediately. We’ve...
View ArticleCreating vector-like CSS illustrations
There are several posts out there around CSS illustrations, but not one I've read so far -correct me if I am wrong-, which talks about the technique I'll share with you today. Creating vector-like CSS...
View ArticleTables, Tequila and Beer
In a recent article tables and beers I explained how browsers correctly represent table semantics of simple tables with either a row or column of headers. Thus alleviating the need to use the scope...
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