In this issue

YOUR FIRST UX DESIGN JOB
Tim Caynes reveals the secrets to securing your first user experience graduate role.

DON’T FORGET THE PROTOTYPE
Mike Kirwan details the importance of prototyping in the web design process..

LAND YOUR FIRST UX DESIGN JOB

Tim Caynes reveals the secrets to securing your first graduate user experience role

3 mins

HARNESS HOME-GROWN TALENT

Rob Sandbach outlines how the UK should leverage both its soft and hard skills to offer the most attractive app and website development propositions for businesses worldwide

5 mins

Amina Adewusi

In just over a year, Amina Adewusi went from teaching herself how to code to joining the engineering team at Guardian News & Media and speaking at industry events. Here she tells us about her inspirational journey and why we should all encourage diversity in developers

7 mins

DAN DAVIES

The front-end designer explains how CSS Grid gives us the chance to bring the spirit of print design back to the web

7 mins

SOLAR WEEKEND FESTIVAL

For its 15th anniversary, Dutch music festival Solar Weekend wanted to translate its special vibe into a special site. Gewest13 explains how it did it

5 mins

CONNECT THE WEB'S BUILDING BLOCKS

Discover how to pick the perfect materials to build powerful sites with Jeremy Keith

10 mins

BOOST YOUR PAGESPEED INSIGHTS SCORE

Performance is a core foundation of great user experience. Google Chrome engineering manager Addy Osmani shows you how PageSpeed Insights gives you a to-do list for UX improvements to so you can get fast and stay fast

8 mins

TURN TEXT INTO SPEECH WITH GOOGLE'S API

Richard Mattka introduces you to the field of AI speech synthesis using Google’s new neural-network powered Text-to-Speech API

9 mins

CREATE ANIMATED 3D MAP CONTACT PAGES

Use OpenStreetMap and a very simple API from eeGeo to create 3D maps with animated cars and camera moves

4 mins

GENERATE DYNAMIC CHARTS WITH VICTORY

Matt Crouch shows you how to build interactive charts and graphs in React using customisable ready-made components

4 mins

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