Most front-end developers glaze over at the mention of the word. However, having a strong grasp of how CSS Specificity works is key to minimizing tedious debugging. Specificity tells the browser what rules to apply to an element, and if there is a...
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A Brief Look at Lean UX Design
What is Lean UX? Lean UX was born out of the Lean startup movement. The concept of ‘being lean’ is derived from Lean manufacturing principles, which essentially postulates [1]: “making obvious what adds value by reducing everything else.”
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SassDoc is to Sass what JSDoc is to JavaScript: a documentation system to build pretty and powerful docs in the blink of an eye. – SassDoc.com So your team is using Sass, and everybody is whipping out amazing @mixins, @extends, custom functions,...
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I love Sass, and I love using icon fonts. However, I do not like the limitations of using inline non-semantic, presentational markup to place these wonderful symbols, e.g. What if we could keep the embellishments in our stylesheet, minimize the HTML markup,...
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The amount of thought and time that goes into designing a universally accepted icon is amazing. Choosing when to utilize icons to represent interfacing elements is paramount to whether users will understand, and seamlessly navigate areas of a website. Previously, website icons...
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