Internet pioneers urge EU to kill off its bad copyright bill
Tim Berners-Lee, Jimmy Wales, Vint Cerf lead the pack warning that proposed EU copyright laws would mean “automated surveillance”.
— by @effgo.ux.ee/2HREuaz
Big brands call for digital advertising reform or will pull spend
Advertisers have 8 demands for agencies, ad-tech, media and platforms.
1. Money back for all bot traffic.
…
8. Design better, less intrusive ads.
— by @wfamarketersgo.ux.ee/2IDakgx
Introducing Acrylic, the first “material” for building modern Windows app UIs
Acrylic is a translucent surface, recommended for supporting or secondary elements, such as navigation or dialogs and flyouts.
— by @MikeTheSnowbeango.ux.ee/2rNJYgM
I built a #PWA and published it in 3 app stores. Here’s what I learned.
Turning a web app into a Progressive Web App and submitting it to 3 app stores requires about a month of work, a few hundred dollars, and lots of red tape.
— by @JudahGabrielgo.ux.ee/2rM7oDL
Outcome-driven design
How to:
- rate product's or company's position in the marketplace;
- find market opportunities;
- move from problem solving to innovation.
— by @jvetraugo.ux.ee/2KvbdoV
The W3C's WebAuthn could get rid of website passwords
Firefox, Chrome and Edge will support the new open standard for web-based biometric authentication.
— by @exfilemego.ux.ee/2KvlEZy
Ethical advertising
- Do not track people, don’t sell their data.
- Host everything yourself, no third-party scripts or images.
Done.
— by @readthedocsgo.ux.ee/2GZENVr
Notable points from Google’s JavaScript Style Guide.
- Stop using `var`.
- Prefer arrow functions.
- Wrap strings in single quotes, not double quotes (but prefer back-ticks ☺, see next).
- Use template literals.
— by Daniel Simmons
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Chrome’s mobile article recommendations is one of the fastest growing sources of publisher traffic on the internet. 72 percent of pages “Articles for You” surfaces are AMP.
— by @saroff_nycgo.ux.ee/2GXINWo
“Based on what we learned from AMP, we now /---/ take the next step and work to support more instant-loading content not based on AMP technology in areas of Google Search designed for this, like the Top Stories carousel.”
— by @cramforcego.ux.ee/2HuvZUo
Product Accessibility Guidelines by @VoxProduct (/ht @helloanselm)
A checklist you can use to bake #a11y into your work no matter your role or stage in a project.
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AMP for email: what you might want to know
As Google makes yet another attempt at interactive email, @freshinbox ponders if the potential benefits might be worth the effort for ESPs and developers.
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How to work with components in Figma
A well-built component can take on many forms simply by swapping out nested components, and toggling the visibility of layers.
by @negativespacecago.ux.ee/2I6hxkI