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Issue 7: Design Systems

Design System Process

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This month’s newsletter will be about Design Systems. The first time I heard about Design Systems, was when reading Brad Frosts book in 2016. Of course, modular design existed way before that, for example in graphic design with the of the 60s, that described, what colors, fonts and sizes to use. However, Frost’s book was one of the first foundational books for creating modular pattern libraries for the web.

#7

September 3, 2021

Issue 6: Web Animation

Web animation effects on the user

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Web Animation has always been one of the most exciting topics in web development for me. I even wrote a about it to learn more about the scientific aspects of animation.

#6

July 26, 2021

Issue 5: The Head

Web Crawlers unhappy about missing head

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The first half of the year went by so quickly! This month I want to talk about the element. It’s such an invisible part of a website, yet it’s quite important and powerful.

#5

June 7, 2021

Issue 4: Web Typography

Web Typography

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This month’s issue is about web fonts and typography. A few years ago I found on choosing typefaces inside the excellent . Choosing the right font is a really hard decision, that highly influences how a website, app or, print product looks in the end. The infographic tries to solve this hard choice by starting with the kind of project you’re working on. It also shows how complex choosing the right font can be.

#4

May 3, 2021

Issue 3: Frontend Testing

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This month I wrote quite a few unit tests in , so this issue will take a look a the seven pillars of frontend testing. When I was working at the university, all our student projects had to go at least through some user testing to evaluate and improve their projects. I think it is probably the first kind of testing every developer has to go through and a testing method that provides immense value but is often overlooked.

#3

April 6, 2021

Issue 2: CSS Features

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This month, we’ll take a look at CSS Features. Every year you’ll find articles like or . Over the years CSS has become really powerful, supporting responsiveness on many devices and different use cases like , or . For me that makes a lot of sense because CSS has been around for more than 25 years, since 1994 and the world has changed a lot since then. If you want to learn a little bit more about the history of CSS, I can recommend reading .

#2

March 1, 2021

Issue 1: Frontend Frameworks

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This first issue is about picking frontend frameworks. In the last few years I’ve worked with many different frameworks. Some I loved, some felt confusing, others took quite some time to learn. With every framework I learned, I got a step closer to understanding that the right question to ask is not but rather .

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January 29, 2021