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Not All Advice is Good Advice May 6, 2021
From the time we’re children, we’re trusting people. We rely on those close and older than us to point us toward success and “the right way”. One of the toughest days of our lives is when we realize our parents, or people we look up to, aren’t always perfect, aren’t always right, and worst of […]
Image Optimization Strategies Compared (Sponsored) April 29, 2021
We all know the stats. Slower website performance is strongly linked to higher abandon rates and lower conversions. What you may not know is that the main culprit is bloated web page payloads, bringing down our otherwise performant web pages via images. That being said, images also drive conversions, social sharing, and overall visitor engagement; […]
Regular Expression Match Groups April 26, 2021
Regular expressions are incredibly powerful but can be difficult to maintain. They’re a skill you learn on the job and, when the suits walk by, make you look incredibly smart if you have a few up on your screen. How can we solve the maintainability problem? With a match groups, as Addy Osmani enlightened me […]
Object.entries April 20, 2021
Navigating and managing data structures is a really important skill for every level of engineer to have and improve upon. Over the years, the JavaScript language has continued to provide more methods for managing data structures, from Object.keys to Object.values and so on. One of my favorites is Object.entries, an API that provides the keys […]
CSS Smooth Scroll April 19, 2021
Improving the user experience of web applications has always been a priority of mine. I always come back to the same though I’ve had for 20 years: “users expect a web app to work — let’s make the app a joy to use.” Over the years we’ve employed JavaScript to improve the UX, but over […]
Monitor Your SEO Placement with SEObase (Sponsored) April 16, 2021
Search engine optimization is big business; both SEO experts and their customers want to track the effectiveness of their keywords, campaigns, and competition. To get and measure those results, however, you need the right tooling monitor those results. SEObase is an awesome tool for doing just that — monitoring keywords and results across search engines! […]
Five Top Quality APIs April 13, 2021
It’s easy to think about creating beautiful UIs for presenting data when you don’t consider the effort that goes into gathering and serving the data itself. Here’s the thing — thanks to apilayer, you can focus on your UIs and not the pain of API creation. No need to worry about licensing, load balancing, and […]
Intl.NumberFormat April 13, 2021
Formatting numbers on the client side is an important task, especially when you consider how much raw API usage is in play these days. What’s also important is ensuring those numbers are meaningful to users, no matter where they are in the world, especially if you’re an eCommerce website. Writing internationalization code can be a […]
Detect CSS Overflow Elements April 8, 2021
Every once in a while you encounter a CSS annoyance that takes some cleverness to discover. One such case rears its ugly head in unwanted and unexpected scrollbars. When I see unwanted scrollbars, I usually open developer tools, click the element inspector, and hover around until I find the villainous HTML element. As a visual […]
How to Mine Ethereum March 25, 2021
Note: I expect a large number of people to object to cryptocurrency mining’s energy use and I totally understand. Hell, I agree. A few notes to consider: first, this will soon be remedied by Ethereum switching to proof os stake. Second, much of the energy used to mine cryptocurrencies is renewable. While mining cryptocurrency isn’t […]

Principles of Graphic Design

Principles of Graphic Design
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Posted on March 22, 2018Author Willie BeckCategories Web design Fundalmentals

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