Jun 17, 2018

Web-Crunch Digest - Issue #120

By Andy Leverenz • Issue #120 • View online

Welcome to another week! Happy Fathers Day to you dads out there! This week was an exciting one for me.

I launched a new side project called Affinicasts. Affinicasts features real-world video tutorials & courses for modern designers. The primary focus of the app is to offer tutorials and courses covering Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, and, coming soon, Publisher. I’m hoping to make this platform a valuable resource to the design community as well as learn a lot long the way.

I wrote/recorded a video about how I built Affinicasts in this weeks article. I hope you enjoy it and if you have any feedback I’m all ears!

Latest Web-Crunch Articles

Announcing Affinicasts: My Newest Side Project

I’m beyond excited to announce my new project Affinicasts!

In the last 9 months, I’ve been a little obsessed with creating my newest side project called Affinicasts. For those that don’t know, Affinicasts is a new community and platform filled with video tutorials revolving around Affinity-Serif products. Affinity Photo, Designer and coming soon Publisher, are featured as the main focus of the site.

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Latest News & Articles

Distinct Design Systems

Clearly, I’m biased: most of SuperFriendly’s work nowadays involves either creating a design system or modifying one as part of a larger effort for a client. But why even go through any of that effort in the first place?

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Images That Don’t Stink: How to Choose Pictures for a Landing Page

And the name’s fitting. This part of your website can be a hero for real. It makes the first impression, creates emotion, and can make prospects leave right away, or continue reading. What strategies…

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The new (and old) CSS units you've never heard about

Exploring the newly defined CSS units that have been recently or are going to be implemented in browsers. Plus some other older trivia.

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Tips for designers to become better copywriters, from the experts: Part 1

As designers, we often find ourselves in the position of the copywriter. It makes sense; we are closest to the interface and content in many cases drives design decisions, so it must come first…

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Weekly Inspiration and Resources

Hidden Treasures of Creativity

After almost 100 years, original typography sketches and unpublished letter fragments from the legendary Bauhaus school of design were rediscovered and are now ready to inspire a new generation of designers. Five beautiful alphabets have been meticulously completed and digitized by an international team of students guided by renowned type designer Erik Spiekermann.

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Design Challenges & Design Challenge Ideas

Sometimes people want to go to an event (concert, museum exhibit, etc.) that none of their friends are interested in. These people might not want to experience the event alone, so they forego the opportunity. Create an app to allow people like this to find one or more person to go to the show with them.

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Site Design – Stripe: About Us

Learn about Stripe, our company, and how to join the team. Discover why Stripe is the best way to accept payments online for businesses around the world.

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Notable Tutorials

Understanding the Almighty Reducer

I was recently mentoring someone who had trouble with the .reduce() method in JavaScript. Namely, how you get from this: const nums = let value = 0 for

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Using GraphQL with Rails

An introduction on how to design and consume APIs in Rails using GraphQL instead of REST.

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How to write a Bundler plugin

Plugins can be installed from RubyGems (default) or from a Git server. To use a gem on your machine, you can run bundler plugin install . Once the plugin is installed, the commands will be available for use and the hooks will be automatically registered with Bundler.

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