Advent Calendars for Web Professionals: 2022 Edition

Advent of CSS: 24 CSS challenges for the season starts December 1. In the background, an illustration of a snowy scene of red houses and green evergreen trees.

Are you a fan of Advent calendars? I am!

Since 2012, I’ve published a roundup of online Advent calendars for people who work on the web.

Whether you’re a designer, developer, programmer, user experience professional, project manager, or writer, you’re bound to find an interesting Advent calendar in my collection.

This year’s roundup includes calendars focused on user experience, HTML, CSS, online digital security, PHP and more.

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Enjoy Your 2022 Thanksgiving Holiday: No Weekly Web Design and Development Resourcdes Roundup

Large blue, pink, green, and silver fish balloon with bright yellow lips floats down Woodward Avenue, tended by two dozen balloon handlers dressed in blue fish matching costumes. Hannon House and Episcopal Church in the background.

There is no roundup of web design and development news this week. I’m taking a break to enjoy the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday with my family. Please return next week for my hand-curated collection of the latest web design and development resources. To stay current on what’s happening with web design and development this week, I… Continue reading Enjoy Your 2022 Thanksgiving Holiday: No Weekly Web Design and Development Resourcdes Roundup

Include Disabled People at the Beginning of Your Project: You Are Not Your User [Video]

An illustration of a woman in a short-sleeved red dress speaking at you, standing in in an open office area with seated workers at desks and tablesbehind her.

When I took my user experience classes almost 20 years ago, one of the first and most challenging, things for me to learn: I wasn’t the user for the websites and services I designed and developed.

My college instructor stressed the importance of research and identifying who our prospective users were.

So we could design websites and services that fit their needs.

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