Frans Hals Museum

The Frans Hals Museum and KesselsKramer commissioned us to create a platform that reflects the contemporary and classic duality of the Museum. Protip: Play all games in the 'play' section :)
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You Can Easily Trick A Computer Vision By Twisting Some Colors

As per the latest research, it has been revealed that one can easily fool a computer vision, that too, by only tweaking some colors. Surprising, isn’t it? Well, a system becomes vulnerable when it comes to identifying an image which is slightly manipulated in terms of color. If a particular...

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Ask the UXperts: Building Accessible Apps — Amir Ansari & Kelly Schulz

Our next ‘Ask the UXperts’ session is all about an amazing journey into digital accessibility.

Amir Ansari and Kelly Schulz are partners in appsforall – a project that seeks to help people create more accessible apps. Their target audience is product owners, app developers and designers. Their mission is to provide the tools, resources and guidelines necessary to start the process of re/building apps with accessibility and inclusion in mind.

In this session we’ll

• learn how they’ve approached educating and building empathy amongst their own teams
• find out about their challenges and how they approached them
• talk about how we can lead the way with understanding our responsibilities and implementing good processes

If inclusive design is a part of your manifesto then this is the session for you.

The Details

• Where: Our dedicated ‘Ask the UXperts’ Slack channel (You’ll need to request an invitation if you haven’t yet joined our Slack channel)
• When: 4pm Wednesday 2 May PDT or 9am Thursday 3 May AEST (or find out what time that is for you)

Meet Amir Ansari

Amir Ansari heads up the User Experience Practice at Transpire – a consultancy that aims to create impactful, design lead digital products that empower businesses and make a difference.

He has a team of wonderful, talented and friendly UXers helping to make people’s lives easier.

Amir has done his 10,000 + hours (over 18 years) of practice designing and leading designers, and is passionate about creating inclusive and accessible experiences that leave people feeling engaged and empowered. He likes to do all that with a smile on his face.

Meet Kelly Schulz

Kelly joined Telstra (Australia’s largest telecommunications company) in 2007 and has worked to improve customer experience for all customers.

With five years leading Telstra’s Complaint Analysis & Insights Team, she has a deep knowledge of how product, process and system design plays a significant role in the lives of consumers.

Born with a rare, genetic, eye condition, Kelly has been legally blind since birth. Now responsible for Telstra’s Accessibility & Inclusion strategy, Kelly’s approach focuses on building awareness, and an accessibility conscience, to foster inclusion of customers, employees and their communities living with disability.

How does Ask the UXperts work?

These sessions run for approximately an hour and best of all, they don’t cost a cent. We use a dedicated public Slack channel. That means that there is no audio or video, but a full transcript will be posted up on here in the days following the session.

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Length.js – JavaScript Library for Length Units Conversion

Length.js is a useful JavaScript library for length units conversion. It was designed to work both in the browser and in Node.js

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Web Design Weekly #315

Headlines

Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017 and 2018

Quite an epic post which has loads of useful code examples explaining so many awesome new JavaScript features. (freecodecamp.org)

Remote Teams (medium.com)

Articles

Automating Your Feature Testing With Selenium WebDriver

Selenium is a framework for the automated testing of web applications. Using Selenium, you can basically automate every task in your browser as if a real person were to execute the task. In this article, Nils Schütte explains the ins and outs to help get you started. (smashingmagazine.com)

Data Tables

Heydon Pickering explores how to create inclusive data tables. Ones that are screen reader accessible, responsive, and as ergonomic as possible for everyone. (inclusive-components.design)

Hit The Ground Running With Vue.js And Firestore

In this article, Lukas van Driel sets up the basics of a web app using Vue.js and Firestore (Google’s new Firebase data storage). (smashingmagazine.com)

Why would you do that in CSS?

Chris Coyier shares some great examples and thoughts around some of the more crazy CSS experiments. (css-tricks.com)

Design Systems at Gusto

Robin Rendle shares some things he has learnt about design systems at Gusto. (medium.com)

Playbook – One place for all the best design thinking (askplaybook.com)

Tools / Resources

React Testing Library

Simple and complete React DOM testing utilities that encourage good testing practices. (github.com)

Node debugging with VSCode

A early version of a new Auto Attach feature has been added to VS Code’s Node.js debugger. If enabled, the Node debugger automatically attaches to Node.js processes that have been launched in debug mode from VS Code’s Integrated Terminal. (visualstudio.com)

WebGL Distortion Hover Effects

A little library that can be used for creating WebGL powered distortion hover effects using displacement images. (tympanus.net)

Milanote

Milanote is a tool for planning creative projects. (milanote.com)

Prettier 1.12: Fixes, Features and Formatting (prettier.io)

780+ Vector Emojis (streamlineicons.com)

Array Cheatsheet (github.com)

React Spring (github.com)

Inspiration

JSConf AU 2018 Videos (youtube.com)

CSSConf AU 2018 Videos (youtube.com)

Jobs

Web Developer at The Jacky Winter Group

We’re on the hunt for an experienced web front-end designer/developer to join our team in our beautiful offices in Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia. (jackywinter.com)

Principal/Lead Designer at Khan Academy

Product Designers! Come join Khan Academy and put your passion and skill for great design toward a deeply meaningful purpose. Join us on our mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. (khanacademy.org)

Need to find passionate developers or designers? Why not advertise in the next newsletter

Last but not least…

GitHub turns 10 (github.com)

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Now & Then: The Evolution of the Smartphone - #infographic

When the first-ever smartphone was released back in 1992, who would have imagined how the then brand-spanking-new product category would develop and evolve? From biometric and facial recognition features, to quicker wireless connections and greater memory storage, to clear images and the ability...

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When Wix Revolutionizes Web Design for Designers

This article was created in partnership with Wix. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible.

Constructed from start to finish by an all-designer team, the Wix Playground goes to show how, when given the right tools, professional creatives can independently master their work online. And this, without giving in to technological constraints and artistic compromises. When letting creativity run this freely, the Web really does become a playground.

It is a rare occasion in a designer’s career to work for fellow designers. When the opportunity does arise, it usually carries with it a unique thrill. This is what happened to the Wix Design team, when they were asked to imagine a new language, content and stand-alone website to speak web design to the community of professional creatives. “We could do whatever we wanted, which was exciting and extremely challenging at the same time”, recalls Hagit Kaufman, VP of Design and Branding at Wix.

While the team was brainstorming at the early stages of the project, the ideas of enjoyment and free experimentation kept coming up. “Most of the designers involved expressed the act of creating with Wix as ‘playing’, having fun with the design features on a blank page”, says Lior Dahan from the Wix Studio. The project was hence titled “Playground”, a name highlighting the company’s belief that the Web should, first and foremost, be fun.

Enjoy unlimited creative freedom

The resulting Playground mini-site is an incredible celebration of online creativity. Every single element was built from scratch, in-house. Even more impressive: no developer was involved in the process. Thanks to the agility of the Wix Editor and its meticulous design features, the Design team could bring their creative vision to life on their own. Among the assets that Wix offers are customizable layouts, allowing complete control over all the elements of the page, down to perfecting the exact column width. Designers can pick from numerous sophisticated effects, such as parallax or hover boxes, to add that interactive spark. Finally, retina-ready image display, as well as an HD video player, make their vision shine through as sharply as they’ve intended.

These design features are accompanied by other helpful tools such as custom domains, unlimited storage and industry-leading SEO, meant to answer all professional creatives’ needs. These versatile options enable all web design decisions to remain solely in the hands of the designer. As Hagit Kaufman puts it, this gives the user the ability to “own their site from design to live, and make use of that freedom to bring their true self as a designer forward - without depending on anyone else.”

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