One of the most consistently neglected parts of today’s user experiences is our handling of errors. We’re so busy designing the happy paths through our products that we often forget to give the same care and attention to the times when things will go wrong
We're equal parts delighted and excited to share that Piccalilli will be working with Mat Marquis and Scott Riley to launch two premium courses this year: JavaScript for Everyone and Mindful Design.
Instead of leaning into heavy social sharing widgets, you can create a truly user-friendly social sharing component that works for everyone, using built-in APIs and progressive enhancement.
I read a really interesting article on CSS layout that I don’t really agree with, so I thought I’d lay out some advice related to that.
Sam Rose walks us through some real-world usage of TypeScript’s utility types in their day job’s open source codebase to help those new to the language get to grips with this key capability.
Our newsletter, The Index has had a full design refresh — root to branch. It’s clearer, easier to subscribe to and a much better reading experience. We’ve also introduced simple, non-intrusive ads to keep Piccalilli sustainable long-term.
Abbey Perini talks about how yes, there is a code angle to maintainable and extensible components, but it's also useful to appreciate the wider context, historical problems and the long term impact of opinions in your code.
Jason Bradberry challenges the ideals of displaying your entire navigation as a cluster of links and presents a case for exploring off-screen menus where the context is right for it.
Number input elements can be rather problematic but if you utilise the step and pattern attributes, they suddenly become a lot more useful.
Big refactors and migrations for key infrastructure like global state are not to be taken lightly. Michelle Barker is here to show us how she did exactly that — migrating from Vuex to Pinia for global state in a huge, single page app — using a pragmatic, considered approach.