“Pay as you chat” module introduced by entrepreneur Marc Köhlbrugge

Entrepreneur Marc Köhlbrugge has introduced the Expensive Chat – a web-based chat service where typing every character costs a penny. Initially spotted by Motherboard/Vice, the feature was introduced by Köhlbrugge on his official Twitter account as a ‘social experiment.’ Köhlbrugge explains that...

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Web Design Weekly #348

Headlines

Color Spaces

Color is one of those areas with seemingly infinite depth of complexity. In this article, Bartosz Ciechanowski goes deep into the complexity but aims to keep it simple. An epic article. (ciechanow.ski)

World Wide Web (css-tricks.com)

Design + Development, Together at Last

Designers and developers need an integrated workflow. Bildr Studio combines design tooling with the power of a full development environment. Build the real app as you design it. (bildr.com)

Articles

When Is A Button Not A Button?

In this article, Vadim Makeev explains how you can create a proper interactive button for your users — one that shouldn’t be confused for anything else. (smashingmagazine.com)

The Dark Side of the Grid

This is part 1 of 3 in a series of articles that aim to give you an overview of potential implementation pitfalls, or in other words, the dark side of the grid. (matuzo.at)

How to add custom Angular Material Theme in Angular

Angular Material gives you nice inbuilt design features to design your Angular components seamlessly. In this post, Anup Sarkar explains how to write a custom angular-material-theme for an Angular application. (medium.com)

Using Custom React Hooks to Simplify Forms

A look into using custom React Hooks to build forms that require half the code to write, are reusable, and are much easier to read. (upmostly.com)

Tools / Resources

Making Google Fonts Faster

If you use Google Fonts on your website or web application, a few additional steps can lead to much faster load times as this article explains. (medium.com)

SkySilk Cloud – Host your Website for as Low as $2/Month

SkySilk is a boutique-style cloud service which offers a wide variety of Linux applications and clean OS templates to deploy and host your websites, applications, game servers, and more. Plans start as low as just $2/month for .5 GB RAM, 200 Mb/s bandwidth, and 10 GB SSD storage. (skysilk.com)

JavaScript Loading Priorities

Addy Osmani has put together a handy table of JavaScript loading priorities in Chrome. (addyosmani.com)

i18n Literally

A simple way to introduce internationalisation to your JS. (github.com)

Cheatsheet for React users using TypeScript (github.com)

Collection of React Hooks (nikgraf.github.io)

CSS selectors cheatsheet (medium.com)

Styled System v4 (styled-system.com)

Inspiration

Chris Coyier’s Favorite CodePen Demos (davidwalsh.name)

Awesome Design Systems (github.com)

Jobs

Product Designer at Gusto

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll take ownership of a large area of the Gusto product and be involved in the entire product development process, from early research and visioning to tweaking pixels up to launch. (gusto.com)

Design Systems at Zendesk

we’re looking for a self-starting senior designer with an impeccable sense of beauty and craft, who will elevate our product’s aesthetics and usability. Your standards are pixel-perfect, with exceptional interaction design and an eye for accessibility, localisation, and motion. (zendesk.com)

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Last but not least…

I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I’m sorry (habr.com)

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Your Phone Number can now be used by Facebook to make you visible to almost everyone...and it's quite concerning!

Providing a phone number for 2-Factor-Authentication for securing Facebook accounts has been in practice for a long time now. However, it has recently been revealed that it is used for more than just security reasons. According to Jeremy Burge’s recent tweet, the phone numbers can now be used by...

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Internet Shutdowns have become ineffective, but governments refuse to move on

Over the past decade, Internet has become a force to be reckoned with. Everything from entertainment to jobs and businesses has slowly been shifting to internet and this is why many governments want to make sure that it is regulated constantly. Due to this, internet disruptions and shutdowns are...

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Video Posts On Instagram Can Increase Your Engagement By 2x (Social media marketers take note)

Instagram already owns the status of receiving the maximum engagement among all the sites in social media world but if one wants to know how, then a recent study has revealed that posting videos on the platform can bring in two times more engagement for users as compared to any other type of posts....

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Instagram is testing local business profile pages

In an attempt to make Instagram more appealing to the business users, the platform is rolling out a new way to display local businesses with in-app profile pages. The pages look similar to Google’s local knowledge panels and will display the business address, hours, contact information and...

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