Creating that singular piece of graphic design that users will first interact with each time they encounter your product can be intimidating. A beautiful, identifiable and memorable app icon can have **a huge impact on the popularity and success of the app**.…

If you don’t work at a place like Google or 3M—companies celebrated for rewarding innovation—don’t despair. You can still push new ideas through, see them gain traction, and watch your company evol…

Sorry for the long delay, but the SQL Server adapter is now Rails 5 ready. This includes support for the latest SQL Server on Linux. Tons of Rails 5 work is coming including better contributor Docker support, schema dumping, JSON type support, and more.

Thinking about images in terms of their usability is important. All visual communication in your design leaves a cumulative impression on the user. Compelling images have a unique ability to inspire and engage your audience to provide useful information.…

When a big tech company unveils its new identity, it usually does so with a surprise announcement. Not this time.

Taking care of your Gemfile with basic hygiene and some ongoing love will make life for future you much easier Bundler and Gemfile best practices

A big list of all the props, values, methods, functions, interfaces, modules, constants, constructors, events, attributes, parameters, return values, variables, elements, statements, operators, declarations, types, primatives, selectors and units of all the…

How can we build an internationalized React front-end application? With the help of this article, you can prepare yourself with a list of traps and issues you may face along the way.

What fuels your work? What fuels your mind? What do you do on a non-productive day or when you’re sad? Nowadays, I try to embrace these times. I try to relax and not be angry at myself for not being productive.

And the fun fact about it? Well, most of the…

There are certain WordPress plugins that just about every web professional knows about. Usually, the big name plugins are well-known for good reason. But most of them, at one point,...

The more you work with Git, the faster you’ll learn its workflows.

We analize what the "dynamic performance optimization" of Node.js means, and show you methods for detecting the optimized parts of a code.

After dockerizing our existing infrastructure at Sense Health I have been working on building a suite of micro services for the backend.

This week’s Designer News (N.369) includes a Sublime Text 3 Tutorial, a Collection of Public APIs, Understanding Flexbox, those Problematic Placeholders and more.

Will the resources spent implementing app indexing for Google search be a boon or a bust for your app’s traffic? If your resources are limited and you’re wondering if app indexing would deliver enough traffic and installations to justify the effort, our experience…

Make learning JavaScript frameworks one of your new year’s resolutions. Trust me, it’s easier than going to the gym. We've listed all the new ones.

Website design trends come and go; although some have demonstrated significant staying power. Just when you begin to think that every possible design trend has already been invented, a new...

Though brief, this post details the performance differences between using a Postgres database and Elasticsearch 5 to retrieve statistics for an indexed numeric column. Spoiler One of them is a hell of a lot quicker than the other.

Things come and go with the passage of time, but user experience will always be paramount. The evolution of UI and UX design is something to behold, and thing may...