🧑💻 5 Tools to Make Your Dev Life Easier in 2024 (Plus, Master Box Shadows!)
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Another week, another dose of design & dev goodness! This week's newsletter is packed with tips and tools to help you level up your skills in just 5 minutes.
Here's a sneak peek:
🧰 Essential Dev Tools for 2024 ✨ Mastering Box Shadows ➕ UI Principles for B2B
A box shadow is a kind of drop shadow. And a drop shadow is a kind of image filter which is particularly popular in graphic design due to how versatile it is at adding an approximation of depth to composition.
Whatever your reason for building Open Source (whether it be pumping up your skills, solving a problem you can’t shake, contributing to something great and promising, or for GitHub stars), you need users.
💭 Fun Fact
Pre-SVG Roots (1990s) -Before SVGs, there were several vector graphic languages vying for dominance on the web, like VML (Vector Markup Language) from Microsoft and PGML (Precision Graphics Markup Language) from Adobe. This competition paved the way for the need for a standardised format.
This is the latest in a series of posts explaining the decisions we make that affect our users, as well as the results of those decisions (positive or negative).
Where Design meets Development. This year, we’re reimagining the way professionals engage with technology, under the theme “Revolutionizing User Interfaces: The Dawn of Intuitive Digital Worlds“. 3-4 October
Our local conference encourages our community to share their knowledge and experience. Lightning talks, keynote talks, local speakers and workshops. September 19-20
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