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can be similarly accessible to developers who understand what they want
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their design to accomplish.
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* [Laws of UX](https://lawsofux.com/) provides a beautiful overview of
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design principles for building user experiences. Highly recommended even
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if just to see how the information is presented.
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* [How I Work with Color](https://medium.com/@JustinMezzell/how-i-work-with-color-8439c98ae5ed)
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is a fantastic article from a professional designer on how he thinks
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about color and uses it for certain effects in his designs.
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* [Web bloat](https://danluu.com/web-bloat/) is the story of traveling
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and using the web with low bandwidth, high latency internet connections
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that often drop packets. The author explains how many websites are
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barely usable and that if you truly want your site to work well you need
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to ensure it works for connections much worse than the fiber connection
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you may have at the home or office.
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* [The Average Web Page (Data from Analyzing 8 Million Websites)](https://css-tricks.com/average-web-page-data-analyzing-8-million-websites/)
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shows the most frequently used HTML elements, metadata, text
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content and other statistics from a large scale analysis of the web.
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* [Kuler](https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/) is a complementary
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color picker by Adobe that helps choose colors for your designs.
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* [Front-end performance checklist](https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Performance-Checklist)
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is a comprehensive checklist useful when you are implementing a
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web application's client side code.
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* [Front-end Developer Handbook 2018](https://frontendmasters.com/books/front-end-handbook/2018/)
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provides a high-level overview of many of the tools developers use
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in the browser and some other useful information on average salaries
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and where to search for front-end development jobs.

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## 2018
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### November
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* Updated the [web design](/web-design.html) page with new resources.
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* Updated the [data visualization](/data-visualization.html) page with
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