20+ Best PowerPoint Templates of 2018

The key to winning your audience is a perfectly designed PowerPoint presentation. Whether you’re speaking at a conference, pitching to an investor, or talking about sales projections at a business meeting, this collection of the best PowerPoint templates will help you speak to your audience. The way you design your PowerPoint slides will play a […]
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The Red Reveal: Illusions on the Web

In part one of a series of posts about optical illusions on the web, Dan Wilson looks at how to create the “Red Reveal” that he happens to describe like this:

Growing up, my family played a lot of board games. Several games such as Outburst, Password, and Clue Jr. included something that amazed me at the time — a red lens and cards with some light blue text that was obscured by a myriad of red lines. When you …


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How to Cope With New Year’s Burnout

There are few things more demoralizing than returning from a nice New Year’s break to a mountain of work. Although we’d all like to take another holiday come February, the sad fact is that this is not a tenable solution. So how do you deal with burnout effectively? The solution may appear cliched on the …
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My Talk Writing Process

Some people have a talk-preparation process that is super organized and runs like a well-oiled machine. Mine, on the other hand, is a bit messy, but it works for me. Even when the end talk is polished and put together, it doesn’t mean the whole process to get there was the same way.

When putting together a new talk recently, I noticed there was most definitely a pattern to how my talks take shape. Here’s how the talk-making process goes for me


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Shipping system fonts to GitHub.com

System font stacks got hot about a year ago, no doubt influenced by Mark Otto’s work putting them live on GitHub.

The why, to me, feels like (1) yay performance and (2) the site looks like the rest of the operating system. But to Mark:

Helvetica was created in 1957 when the personal computer was a pipe dream. Arial was created in 1982 and is available on 95% of computers across the web. Millions, if not billions, of web …


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WordPress Translation is an Accessibility Issue, Don’t Fall Behind

WordPress is a global platform. With over 29 percent of the Internet, a lot of those users aren’t in English speaking countries. In fact, since 2014, there are more downloads not in English than in English. While WordPress defaults to English, it supports many languages and there are many great ways to translate WordPress post …
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Avoid SEO Disaster While Redesigning Your Website

After a while, every website needs a redesign. Trends change, UI/UX features evolve and it’s only fitting that you keep up with them. However, you have strong rankings, traffic is growing as well as the profits, so it’s understandable that you are worried. It’s not uncommon to make mistakes during redesign that can cost you …
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CSS Basics: Fallback Font Stacks for More Robust Web Typography

In CSS, you might see a ruleset like this:

html {
font-family: Lato, "Lucida Grande", Tahoma, Sans-Serif;
}

What the heck, right? Why don’t I just tell it what font I want to use and that’s that? The whole idea here is fallbacks. The browser will try to use the font you specified first (Lato, in this case), but if it doesn’t have that font available, it will keep going down that list. So to be really verbose here, …


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Your Sketch library is not a design system redux

I really like this post by Brad Frost about what is and isn’t a design system, particularly when he de-emphasizes the importance of tools when it comes to that sort of work :

…components living inside static design tools like Sketch isn’t itself a design system. Pardon my clickbait. Perhaps a better title would have been “Your Sketch library is not a(n entire) design system.”

No doubt tools like Sketch are super valuable, and having a set of reusable components …


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How To Balance SEO And UX Design

We’re currently living in a time where brands rely on the powers of SEO and UX to make their brand and content stand apart from the rest of the competition. Not only do people want to stand apart from the rest on their field, but they also want to entice the biggest audience as well. …
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