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tuesday
15 Jun 2021
Does the Hamburger Menu Make Mincemeat of UX Design? uxpin.com

The hamburger menu looks as tasty as it sounds. It’s a design-cum-navigation element, now on almost all apps, that comprises three horizontal lines. It looks like a hamburger. Picture something like this:

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Does the Hamburger Menu Make Mincemeat of UX Design?
Design
WordPress 5.8 Introduces Support for WebP Images wptavern.com

WebP support is coming to WordPress 5.8. This modern image file format was created by Google in September 2010, and is now supported by 95% of the web browsers in use worldwide. It has distinct advantages over more commonly used formats, providing both lossless and lossy compression that is 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs and 25-34% smaller than comparable JPEG images.

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WordPress 5.8 Introduces Support for WebP Images
Development
Boost your design using isometric 3D constructor isometrica.xyz

Look how you can create a unique realistic 3D room combining blocks, adding objects and shadows

Realistic shadows that easy to apply

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Boost your design using isometric 3D constructor
Design
sunday
13 Jun 2021
Disasters I've seen in a microservices world world.hey.com

When Martin Fowler's post about microservices came out in 2014, the teams where I worked were already building service-oriented architectures. That post and the subsequent hype made their way into almost every software team in the world. The "Netflix OSS stack" was the coolest thing back then, allowing engineers worldwide to leverage Netflix's lessons in distributed systems. More than six years later, if we look into software engineering jobs right now, most of them talk about a microservices' architecture.

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Disasters I've seen in a microservices world
Development
Glue: the Dark Matter of Software blog.metaobject.com

"Software seems 'large' and 'complicated' for what it does". I keep coming back to this quote by Alan Kay.

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Development
18 Pure CSS Animated Page Loaders csshint.com

Latest Collection of hand-picked Pure CSS Animated Page Loaders examples code and download Zip.

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18 Pure CSS Animated Page Loaders
Design
Perfection in Design: Why It’s a Bad Idea hongkiat.com

If you are a designer or a developer, you’d probably know that trying to make your project perfect can extend the time needed to complete the project-even several times. There’s always that one last element you want to improve quickly before sending it. But in my opinion Perfection is equal to fascism.

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Perfection in Design: Why It’s a Bad Idea
General
Adding Shadows to SVG Icons With CSS and SVG Filters css-tricks.com

The trick to applying a shadow directly to SVG via CSS filters is the drop-shadow() function

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Adding Shadows to SVG Icons With CSS and SVG Filters
Development
thursday
10 Jun 2021
13 Inspiring Graphic Design Trends For 2021 vectornator.io

With a year as tumultuous and life-changing as 2020, design will be forever changed, and we will likely see trends emerging in response to this year for several years to come. We don’t know what those trends will be, but we can take a pretty good guess at what graphic design trends will look like for the upcoming year.

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13 Inspiring Graphic Design Trends For 2021
Design
Visual Design Principles in UX drawer.design

With quickly emerging trends, it is crucial to come back down to earth and remind ourselves of visual design fundamentals. Trends come and go, so you don’t always have to use them nor understand them, but the fundamentals were, are, and will always be here, so let’s not forget about them and get them right!

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Visual Design Principles in UX
Design