Everyone’s obsessed with animations and parallax effects in 2025—but guess what? Nobody’s watching. Users don’t wait. It’s time we stop designing for Dribbble clout and start designing for real people.
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Everybody loves a beautiful wallpaper to freshen up their desktops and home screens, right? To cater for new and unique designs on a regular basis, we started our monthly wallpapers series more than 14 years ago, and from the very beginning to today, artists and designers from across the globe have accepted the challenge and
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Explore AmpereOne’s Memory Tagging, QoS enforcement, and Nested Virtualization features that empower developers to build secure, efficient applications and accelerate AI adoption. Continue reading Empowering Developers and Fueling AI Adoption with AmpereOne Design Innovations on SitePoint.
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After four years, the demos in my “Headless Form Submission with the WordPress REST API” article finally stopped working. The article includes CodePen embeds that demonstrate how to use the REST API endpoints of popular WordPress form plugins to capture and display validation errors and submission feedback when building a completely custom front-end. The pens
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Ever sat in a meeting where everyone jumped straight to solutions? “We need a new app!” “Let’s redesign the homepage!” “AI will fix everything!” This solution-first thinking is endemic in digital development — and it’s why so many projects fail to deliver real value. As the creator of the Core Model methodology, I developed this
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Your site might “work,” but it *feels* broken—and your users notice. Micro failures are the tiny, invisible UX screw-ups that slowly kill trust, tank conversions, and make people leave without saying a word. If you think they don’t matter, congratulations: you’re designing for no one.
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Master 8 crucial security layers for production Node.js apps. Learn dependency auditing, authentication, input validation, rate limiting & more. Continue reading Hardening Node.js Apps in Production: 8 Layers of Practical Security on SitePoint.
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Many CSS experts have weighed heavily on possible syntaxes for a new masonry layout feature last year. There were two main camps and a third camp that strikes a balance between the two: Use display: masonry Use grid-template-rows: masonry Use item-pack: collapse I don’t think they’ve came up with a resolution yet. But you might
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Clicks are dead. Scrolling took over. What used to be a choice—navigation—is now a passive feed disguised as design. From infinite scroll to TikTokified portfolios, the web is turning into one big dopamine loop. Designers need to take back control before every site becomes just another endless scroll-fest.
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It’s common to see Web Components directly compared to framework components. But most examples are actually specific to Custom Elements, which is one piece of the Web Components picture. It’s easy to forget Web Components are actually a set of individual Web Platform APIs that can be used on their own: Custom Elements HTML Templates
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