Questions tagged [frontend-development]
Front-end web development is the practice of producing HTML, CSS and JavaScript for a website or Web Application so that a user can see and interact with them directly. The challenge associated with front-end development is that the tools and techniques used to create the front end of a website change constantly and so the developer needs to constantly be aware of how the field is developing.
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Should a Skeleton loading effect be used when refreshing a view with data already present?
I'm developing a mobile app, should I display a skeleton effect when the user trigger a pull refresh even when there's already a data on the screen and won't load a new or additional data in those ...
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Fixing a fraying relationship between UX and Dev [closed]
I will start off by saying that I know the best way to defend design decisions is not to. That's what data (quantitative and qualitative) is for. But the product I'm working on doesn't have that. What ...
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Is there a term to describe the presence of unnecessary complexity in UX development?
Here is the case. One client wants us to create a relatively simple website and app (it's just for online courses, nothing extraordinary). We have our dev team, but the client has its own, and they ...
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Is it a good practice to mix filled and outline badges?
The theme I'm using for my website has two different badge versions: filled and outline (like the image below). My question is: Should I mix these styles at the same page/theme, or should I use only ...
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Does a hover state background need to pass color contrast for accessibility?
We have some discussion going on between myself (design) and lead engineer. With this key question: Does the background of a hover state have to pass color contrast? Our current system has our ...
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What's the best way or practice to align the 3 lines at the bottom like the 3 ones at the top
I have too long text that I don't want to shorten or get rid of and it gets returned to the next line (Avis des tous les clients d'Abricibuis.www.Abricibuis.com) What's the best practice to align the ...
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How to work with devs as a junior UX designer
I work as a junior UX designer in a small team of a department (consists of 2 junior ux/ui designers and a non-designer team lead). There is no senior designer. The reason why I emphasize on this team ...
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Best tool to validate UI mockups by overlaying them [closed]
I'm looking for a solution/tool that will allow me to validate that my frontend project is pixel-perfectly aligned with the Photoshop mockups. Best would be to make the browser window transparent - ...
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What is the difference between UX Engineer, UX Designer and Front End Developer? [closed]
I often find these designations as quite confusing and most of the companies in my country have various definition about each of the above mentioned post. I was curious what is the requirement from ...
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How do you call top block with user info on a profile screen?
There is this block in every social media app, on a user profile screen. It contains user's userpic, name and other info, before their content starts below it. How do UX designers and developers call ...
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How to communicate for required transitions to front-end developers?
See for example the Google Accounts log-in experience, where you move from 'Enter email' to 'Enter password' via a smooth dynamic transition with no page refresh https://accounts.google.com/ How can I ...
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Best way to display a lot of schools information on a single webpage?
I'm a front end developer and I need a page to display information about all schools in my city (52). I tried using Bootstrap Cards and an input where the user will type and the cards bellow will be ...
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Is there a technical reason why shopping websites don't provide users with a simple binary search? [closed]
The following two examples show the problem with common search interfaces when there are multiple pages. Example « previous 1 2 … 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 … 129 130 next » https://www....
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Why can't I type directly into the HTML with FF Dev Tools? [closed]
Hopefully this question isn't too oddly specific. Let me know if it belongs on ProWebmasters instead... I'm making some mock-ups in Photoshop, using screen shots from the site in its present state as ...
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How do you document and share motion/animation information with developers?
I have project right now. I'm building a website with a developer guy. I shared all the assets using Zeplin. But since this is the first time, I should also share how everything should behave. I have ...