Mr Branding: Web Design Weekly #345

Monday, February 11, 2019

Web Design Weekly #345

Headlines

On Simplicity

It’s cool to use the latest and greatest tech; but we should always ask if our choices really benefit the user, or if we do it mostly for ourselves. (mxb.at)

React as a UI Runtime (overreacted.io)

Be: The WordPress Theme that follows the latest design trends

Be Theme is a ThemeForest top-three bestseller, with over 143,000 downloads to date. With a 4.81/5 rating based on 5,360 reviews, this WordPress theme looks to be an ideal solution to satisfy your clients’ needs. (muffingroup.com)

Articles

The end of the celebrity designer

A more open approach to design helps build better products and demystifies the process for the rest of the company. (goabstract.com)

A Guide To CSS Support In Browsers

In this article, Rachel Andrew details the different types of browser support issues, and shows how CSS is evolving to make it easier to deal with them. (smashingmagazine.com)

Build Better Component Libraries with Styled System

The Styled System library is very simple on its face, but it provides a powerful API that solves a lot of common component library problems. Alan Smith takes a closer look at how. (medium.com)

How to Turn Your Angular App into a Progressive Web App

In this article, the Gistia engineering team share some great knowledge on how to convert your Angular app into a PWA. (gistia.com)

Tools / Resources

Custom Cursor Effects

A collection of five demos and a tutorial on how to create animated custom cursor effects for interactive elements like navigations, galleries and carousels. (tympanus.net)

Indigo Player

Indigo player is a modern, highly extensible video player written in TypeScript. It plays MPEG-DASH / HLS and MPEG-4 is built on top of the HTML5 video element. (github.io)