approach. Then I forgot, then CSS Tricks did a post, then I forgot, then a thing happened, and now here we are…"
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/01/fixed-table-headers.html
A Use Case for a Parent Selector
By Chris Coyier.
"Having a 'parent selector' in CSS is mentioned regularly as something CSS could really use. I feel like I've had that thought plenty of times myself, but then when I ask my brain for a use case, I find it hard to think of one. Well, I just had one so I thought I'd document it here…"
https://css-tricks.com/a-use-case-for-a-parent-selector/
Min and Max Width/Height in CSS
By Ahmad Shadeed.
"…In this article, we will go through the maximum and minimum CSS properties for width and height, and to explain each one in a detailed way with possible use cases and tips…"
https://ishadeed.com/article/min-max-css/
Understanding CSS Grid: Creating A Grid Container
By Rachel Andrew.
"In a new series, Rachel Andrew breaks down the CSS Grid Layout specification. This time, we take a detailed look at what happens when you create a grid container and the various properties that can be applied to the container to shape your grid…"
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/01/understanding-css-grid-container/
How to Create Printer-friendly Pages with CSS
By Craig Buckler.
"This article was updated in 2020 to reflect latest best practices in CSS print styling…"
https://www.sitepoint.com/css-printer-friendly-pages/
How Auto Margins Work in Flexbox
By Chris Coyier.
"Robin has covered this before, but I've heard some confusion about it in the past few weeks and saw another person take a stab at explaining it, and I wanted to join the party…"
https://css-tricks.com/how-auto-margins-work-in-flexbox/
Is 'is' Useful?
By Chris Coyier.
"Anytime we have fairly repetitive selectors that have a common parent, it's probably a place we can use the :is() pseudo-selector…"
https://css-tricks.com/is-is-useful/
+04: EVALUATION & TESTING.
Open vs. Closed Questions in User Research (Video)
By Alita Joyce.
"When doing user research for a UX design project, we can ask questions in two ways: open-ended (no fixed set of response options) and close-ended (users are restricted to picking from a few answers). Both work well, but only for those research questions they are suited to answer."
https://www.nngroup.com/videos/open-vs-closed-questions/
Can We Automate UX Expert Reviews? (Video)
By David Travis.
"I answer the question, 'In the light of so many jobs/activities being automated by AI, how likely is that UX inspections and expert reviews can be automated?'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXr49-HePfA
+05: EVENTS.
Accessible Microcopy: A Co-Meetup with Portland UX Writers
January 16, 2020.
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Accessibility-and-User-Experience-Meetup/events/267515998/
UXCamp DC 2020
January 18, 2020.
Washington D.C., U.S.A.
http://uxcampdc.com/index.html
ConveyUX
March 3-5, 2020.
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
https://conveyux.com/
South by Southwest Interactive
March 13-22, 2020.
Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
https://www.sxsw.com/interactive/
HalfStack Charlotte
April 24, 2020.
Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A.
https://halfstackconf.com/charlotte/
CHI 2020
April 25-30, 2020.
Oahu, Hawaiʻi, U.S.A.
https://chi2020.acm.org/
Intro Web Accessibility with WAI-ARIA, WCAG 2.0, and Section 508 Compliance
May 4-5, 2020.
Washington D.C., U.S.A.
https://www.gpo.gov/how-to-work-with-us/agency/events-and-training/calendarview/2020/05/04/gpoevents/intro-web-accessibility-with-wai-aria-wcag-2.0-and-section-508-compliance
National ADA Symposium
May 10-13, 2020.
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A
http://www.adasymposium.org/
+06: HTML.
Why You Should Choose HTML5
Over
By Bruce Lawson.
"Browsers' visual display of headings nested inside elements makes it look as if they are assigning a logical hierarchy to those headings. However, this is purely visual and is not communicated to assistive technologies. What use is , and how should authors mark up headings that are hugely important to AT users?…"
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/01/html5-article-section/
+07: JAVASCRIPT.
Progressive Web Apps in 2020
By Maximiliano Firtman.
"…How Progressive Web Apps look like now that 2020 is starting? What has been added in 2019 to the ecosystem that you might not be aware of? Let's find out…"
https://medium.com/@firt/progressive-web-apps-in-2020-c15018c9931c
+08: MISCELLANEOUS.
The People's Web
By Anil Dash.
"…If we're going to build a new web, and a new internet, that respects our privacy and security, that doesn't amplify abuse and harassment and misinformation, we're going to need to imagine models of experiences and communities that could provide a better alternative. There's not going to be a "Facebook killer". But there could simply be lots of other sites, that focus on a different, more constructive and generative, set of goals…"
https://anildash.com/2019/12/23/the-peoples-web/
The Internet Isn't What We Fight FOR, It's What We Fight WITH (Video)
By Cory Doctorow .
"The world has problems that are much more urgent than internet policy: climate change, inequality, issues of race, gender and gender identity, and more. The internet is less important than all of these battles! But the internet is where we will have these battles - it's the terrain on which we fight. It's not what we fight FOR, but it's what we fight WITH. That is why it's crucial to keep the internet free, fair and open…"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Bvdz3vVfM
Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
By Stuart A. Thompson and Charlie Warzel.
"Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies - largely unregulated, little scrutinized - are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files…"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html
Matuzo.at From Scratch
By Manuel Matuzovic.
"I'm redesigning and building my website from scratch. In this first video I introduce myself and I describe what my plans are for the following weeks and months…"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cijF86B5UYI
+09: NAVIGATION.
Search Box vs. Navigation (Video)
By Katie Sherwin.
"Is it enough to have a search feature on a website? Or do users also benefit from a well-designed navigation interface? Depending on the nature of the site, the balance between the two can change."
https://www.nngroup.com/videos/search-box-vs-navigation/
Text Links: Best Practices for Screen Readers
By Sailesh Panchang.
"The following screen readers and browsers were tested for this update…"
https://www.deque.com/blog/text-links-practices-screen-readers/
+10: TYPOGRAPHY.
B612 Font Family
By Airbus.
"B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens. Use B612 on the web…"
https://b612-font.com/
A Short History of Body Copy Sizes on the Web
By Florens Verschelde.
"It's hard to pick a font size that is just right, especially as you try to adapt to different screens and scenarios. Looking at the recent history of how we got here can give us some perspective…"
https://fvsch.com/body-copy-sizes/
+11: USABILITY.
User-Experience Quiz: 2019 UX Year in Review
By Raluca Budiu.
"Test your usability knowledge by taking our quiz. All questions and answers are based on articles that we published last year."
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-quiz/
Usability and User eXperience (UX) from A to Z
By The Usability People.
"Affordance - An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, which allows an individual to perform an action…"
http://www.theusabilitypeople.com/usability-and-user-experience-ux-z
[Section one ends.]
++ SECTION TWO:
+12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
Accessibility Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/accessibility.html
Association Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/associations.html
Book Listings.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/books.html
Cascading Style Sheets Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/css.html
Color Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/color.html
Drupal Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/drupal.html
Evaluation & Testing Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/testing.html
Event Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/events.html
HTML Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/html.html
Information Architecture Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/architecture.html
JavaScript Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/javascript.html
Miscellaneous Web Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/misc.html
Navigation Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/navigation.html
PHP Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/php.html
Sites & Blogs Listing.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/sites.html
Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/standards.html
Tool Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/tools.html
Typography Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/type.html
Usability Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/usability.html
XML Information.
https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/xml.html
[Section two ends.]
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Laura L. Carlson
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University of Minnesota Duluth
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