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I’m willing to bet that you probably didn’t start your web career because you wanted to be a politician or a salesperson. But here’s the cold, hard truth, friend: if you want to work on design systems, you don’t have a choice. Someone has to pay for your time, and that means someone has to…
In the 1920s, Robert Moses designed a system of parkways surrounding New York City. His designs, which included overpasses too low for public buses, have become an often-cited example of exclusionary design and are argued by biographer Robert A. Caro to represent a purposeful barrier between the city’s Black and Puerto Rican residents and nearby…
The future of web-based software architectures is already taking form, and this time it’s server-rendered (again). Papa’s got a brand new bag: HTML-over-WebSockets and broadcast everything all the time. The dual approach of marrying a Single Page App with an API service has left many dev teams mired in endless JSON wrangling and state discrepancy…
Everyone wants to be an expert. But what does that even mean? Over the years I’ve seen two types of people who are referred to as “experts.” Expert 1 is someone who knows every tool in the language and makes sure to use every bit of it, whether it helps or not. Expert 2 also…
While running a website doesn’t require too much need for complex growth strategies, ‘sales funnels’ are something you should investigate. ClickFunnels is a market leader for creating targeted pages to drive users through your funnel. However, it’s not the only solution. There are a number of ClickFunnels alternatives available that are worth considering. Of course,…
Global markets give you access to new customers. All you need to do is inform potential buyers about your product or service. Your website is a good place to introduce your product or service outside your locale. Localizing your web content sounds like the right way to reach out to the global market. Localization will…
Are you like me, reading about people fading away as they burn out, and feeling unable to relate? Do you feel like your feelings are invisible to the world because you’re experiencing burnout differently? When burnout starts to push down on us, our core comes through more. Beautiful, peaceful souls get quieter and fade into…
A lot of PowerPoint decks will include an agenda slide. As one of your first slides, this will set the tone for the meeting or presentation, so it really needs to “hook” your audience with some visual appeal. In this demo, we’ll see how to take a boring agenda slide design and turn it into…
You probably use a lot of images in your PowerPoint decks, but are they as impactful as they could be? Using some simple tricks, you can really take your images to the next level. In this hands-on demo, we’ll take standard images, crop them to a shape, and then increase their size so they fill…
Lisa Gade reviews the Lenovo ThinkBook 14s Yoga, their more affordable alternative to the ThinkPad X1 Yoga convertible Ultrabook. The 14” ThinkBook has an aluminum casing with a 14” display supporting pen and touch, and it has 360 degree hinges. Street pricing typically starts at $949, and the laptop runs Windows 10 Pro on Intel…
Tables are a great way to display information in PowerPoint. But sometimes you want a something with a little more “pow” than the styles you get out-of-the-box. In this hands-on demo, we’ll see how to transform a table that was created using the standard styles into something with a little more WOW factor. No special…
Whether your customers are shopping for tennis shoes or a marketing automation tool, they care about your product’s features. Features (along with price and design) are one of the main factors people consider when comparing products. Would you buy a computer without knowing how much storage it has? Or a pair of yoga pants without…
Content, content, content. At times, it seems it’s all marketers think about. Even so, you may eventually find yourself in a content desert, desperately searching for a well of fresh content ideas. You’ve exhausted every Google search, every whiteboard brainstorm. Read moreInstalling and Configuring your OnApp CloudHowever, there’s one strategy you may not have thought…
It costs 5X less to retain a customer than it does to acquire a new one. That’s why customer retention is crucial to growing your Ecommerce business. What is customer retention? Read moreInstalling and Configuring your OnApp CloudCustomer retention is the ability to encourage customers to keep coming back to make purchases. Research shows that…
Looking to spend less time customizing the styling of your dev project and at the end to look like you’ve spent days? Sound crazy, but a lot of developers have seen this potential in Ant Design Framework thanks to the powerful theme customization in every detail. Ant Design is an enterprise-class UI design language and…
Maybe you’ve been part of a team that you’ve seen slowly slide into a rut. You didn’t notice it happen, but you’re now not shipping anything, no one’s talking to each other, and the management’s Eye of Sauron has cast its gaze upon you. Maybe you’ve just joined a team that’s in the doldrums. Maybe…
“Only a fool knows everything.” — African Proverb Since March 2020, most of us have been working from home, and the days blend into each other and look the same. This is not the first time I have experienced this type of feeling. My commute — New York to New Jersey — is what folks…
The Service Worker API is the Dremel of the web platform. It offers incredibly broad utility while also yielding resiliency and better performance. If you’ve not used Service Worker yet—and you couldn’t be blamed if so, as it hasn’t seen wide adoption as of 2020—it goes something like this: On the initial visit to a…
Beyond the severe toll of the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps no other disruption has transformed user experiences quite like how the tethers to our formerly web-biased era of content have frayed. We’re transitioning to a new world of remote work and digital content. We’re also experimenting with unprecedented content channels that, not too long ago, elicited…
This Person Does Not Exist is a website that generates human faces with a machine learning algorithm. It takes real portraits and recombines them into fake human faces. We recently scrolled past a LinkedIn post stating that this website could be useful “if you are developing a persona and looking for a photo.” We agree:…