6 Super-Useful Chrome Extensions for Designers

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If you are a Chrome user, you probably love it for it’s speed and simplicity. However, no matter how much you like simplicity, sooner or later you’ll need will add some extra functionality you desperately need. In such cases, it’s extensions to the rescue. If you were a Firefox user before you switched to Chrome (or perhaps you time-share between …

CSS Guidelines (2.0.15) – High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS

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CSS is not a pretty language While it is simple to learn and get started with, it soon becomes problematic at any reasonable scale. There isn’t much we can do to change how CSS works, but we can make changes to the way we author and structure it. In working on large, long-running projects, with dozens of developers of differing …

20 Useful Docs and Guides for Front-End Developers

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I come across so many interesting info-apps and documents in my daily research, so I thought I’d provide a list of those here. True, not everyone likes the “list post” or roundup, but hey, we can’t please everyone. And we don’t do these types of posts too often anyhow. In this case, this is a great way to bookmark a …

Let’s talk about margins — The Message — Medium

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I saw a film recently on an airplane that made me cry. The film was a love story but the love part of the story didn’t make me cry. No, the scene that made me cry was about paper. The movie focuses on a Japanese publishing company’s small dictionary unit. There’s only four or five people in it. They are …

Styleguide Driven Development – We build Envato

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tyleguide Driven Development (SDD) is a practice that encourages the separation of UX, Design & Frontend from Backend concerns. This is achieved by developing the UI separately in a styleguide. By separating the UI and backend tasks so they don’t rely on each other, it allows teams to iterate fast on prototypes and designs without having to make changes to …

Git, Bitbucket, and You – Tuts+ Code Article

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The popularity of Git speaks for itself. If you’re reading this article, hopefully you know that Git is the preferred source code management tool of many, many developers.  With the interest in Git growing when compared to other source code management systems, it’s one of the most attractive options from which to choose especially if you’re just getting into version control. via …