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I came clean about my long-running and ongoing battle with chronic depression last year in a blog post on my personal site. But don’t worry, things no worse than they were then and this post is about something else. This post is about designing empathetic user experiences.

Several other sites have been posting on this topic, whether it’s how UX can improve mental health or how it can be used to prevent suicide.

It’s the latter I’d like to …

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Thanks so much to Wufoo for the support of CSS-Tricks! Wufoo is a form builder where you can quickly build forms of any complexity. From simple contact forms to multi-page logic-riddled application forms that sync to Salesforce and handle site-integrated exit surveys, it handles lots of use cases!

There is another powerful feature of Wufoo: taking payments. it’s especially worth knowing about, in my opinion, because of how affordable it is. It’s essentially eCommerce …

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We’ve been covering performance quite a bit — not just recently, but throughout the course of the year. Now, Harry Roberts weighs in by identifying three types of ways performance can be tested.

Of particular note is the first type of testing:

The first kind of testing a team should carry out is Proactive testing: this is very intentional and deliberate, and is an active attempt to identify performance issues.

This takes the form of developers assessing the performance …

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In this tutorial, we’ll pair Vue.js, three.js and LUIS (Cognitive Services) to create a voice-controlled web visualization.

But first, a little context

Why would we need to use voice recognition? What problem might something like this solve?

A while ago I was getting on a bus in Chicago. The bus driver didn’t see me and closed the door on my wrist. As he started to go, I heard a popping sound in my wrist and he did eventually stop as …

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