Best of the web for Design and Web Development December 2022

• January 2nd, 2023
• News

This is the final monthly round up to wrap up 2022. The post includes a great collection of design tutorials from how to create a long shadow text effect to a wonder women logo. The second half of the post is jam packed with articles on web design and web development. Some great articles from “Why you should be using new CSS features today” to “Boosting Productivity For Designers With Efficient Tools”. I hope enjoy December roundup, and look forward to next month.

Tutorials

Easily Make Spiral Gradients in Illustrator

There are a few different ways to make swirls in Illustrator, using the Arc, Circle or Path tools, and even with the Blend tool. When it comes to making spiral gradients there are also different methods you can use to achieve the same effect. Today I will show you a quick and easy way to make spiral gradients in Illustrator starting with a single circle and using the powerful Transform Panel to make the gradient look exactly how you want.

How to Outline Something in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make an outline of an image in Photoshop. I’ll explain everything in so much detail that everyone can outline images in Photoshop, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time.

How to Make Y2K Logos the Easy Way!

There are a few different ways to make swirls in Illustrator, using the Arc, Circle or Path tools, and even with the Blend tool. When it comes to making spiral gradients there are also different methods you can use to achieve the same effect. Today I will show you a quick and easy way to make spiral gradients in Illustrator starting with a single circle and using the powerful Transform Panel to make the gradient look exactly how you want.

How to Draw the Wonder Woman Logo

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to draw the Wonder Woman logo step by step.

How to create a vibrant long shadow text effect

This Photoshop tutorial is in the form of a video screencast where we will be guiding you through step by step how you can create a unique long shadow gradient text effect. This is a great technique with endless possibilities to different variations for creating a stunning vibrant text effect end result.

Web and Design articles

Announcing SvelteKit 1.0

After two years in development, SvelteKit has finally reached 1.0. As of today, it’s the recommended way to build Svelte apps of all shapes and sizes.

Cascade Layers

Don’t let specificity force you into strict selector conventions. Cascade Layers allow us to manage specificity without resorting to naming hacks or the `!important` flag.

Does WWW still belong in URLs?

For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Google, Instagram, and Facebook. This group has chosen to redirect example.com to www.example.com. In the opposite corner: GitHub, DuckDuckGo, and Discord. This group has chosen to do the reverse and redirect www.example.com to example.com.

Why you should be using new CSS features today – part 2

In the previous part of this article, I tried to tickle your brain a bit to unleash your curiosity and drive your determination to try some new CSS features today. That’s exactly what I’ll be doing in this part, writing some new stuff today so you can slowly polish new CSS skills very sneaky and hidden in the code, like a ninja.

Product discovery vs. delivery: How to uncover what your users need

Teams receive pressure from all layers of the organization. Everyone has a brilliant idea that they’re sure will change the business forever. Others have urgent and important issues to solve. And you’re in the middle of this mess, trying to figure out how to create value.

Don’t fall into the UX generalist trap

Why it will make your career in UX short-lived, and why specialising will give you a long-term edge.

Boosting Productivity For Designers With Efficient Tools

There are many ways of working on a computer — but some are faster than others. And for us designers, every second saved by working faster is that much more time to do the things that we love. In this article, Ashish Bogawat shares some of his favorite ways how to boost productivity and do things faster by using efficient tools and workflows.