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COOL STUFF

WE LEARNED

THIS MONTH

DON’T TELL ME YOU MISS
ME: 3 BETTER APPROACHES
TO USER RETENTION
Few things are more
off-putting than the
reek of desperation. But if
your site is running a
retention campaign, that’s
how you might be coming
across. To stop putting
people off, this article
outlines three strategies for
inviting back former visitors.
https://netm.ag/2SD8tM

FREE FONT DESIGNED TO
MAKE IT EASIER FOR DEVS
TO READ CODE
Scrawling through
lines of code can be a
taxing process, but the
process can be made easier
with a developer-friendly
font. And few come more
friendly than JetBrains
Mono, a free font designed
for straightforward parsing.
It even includes a bunch of
multilingual options.
https://netm.ag/37HbaAH

DIGITAL TRENDS 2020:
EVERY STAT YOU NEED
TO KNOW ABOUT THE
INTERNET
Want to know how
people are using the
internet to help inform your
next web design project?
This digital overview uses
information from data
partners to create a detailed
summary of how people
around the world use the
internet, devices, social
media and ecommerce.
https://netm.ag/2wmFCTx

WHICH CMS DO YOU PREFER?

THE POLL

Statamic

3.

Textpattern

6.67%

Drupal

6.67%

Joomla!

6.67%

TYPO

6.67%

Kirby

6.67%

Prismic

6.67%

WordPress

26.67%

Craft

9.99%

Magnolia

3.33%

Grav

3.33%

ProcessWire

3.33%

ExpressionEngine

3.33%

Umbraco

3.33%

Wagtail

3.33%

That following grids,

trends, or using

templates is always a

bad idea. Know your audience

and understand your business

maturity. You’d be surprised at

how much you overcomplicate

things for no reason.

@iamlucid

Designers that know a

little about the web and

expect things to be

changed quickly just because

they change their mind.

@jordanairwave

The single page

continuous scroll page.

Some person thought

that it was a good idea to make

things appear and disappear

from the DOM depending on your

scroll position. Also, fooling

people that a page has a certain

dimension and then keep adding

to it.

@Siderite

[That] everything

.should be reachable in

three clicks.

@daaazzle

That ‘number of pages’

has any relationship to a

web project’s scope,

complexity or cost.

@blucube

“It needs to be above

the fold”

@stevekreeger

That because something

already exists on a

website, it’ll be easy to

do on another one.

@simonminter

Either the idea that pixel

perfection exists or that

the design only needs to

work on one browser.

@frontendben

From our timeline^

What do you think is the most annoying web

design misconception?