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Design

The Importance of Aesthetics in Web Design

A cheap looking website means that you hired the cheapest talent possible with the fewer resources. That translates into a usability nightmare because users cannot perform their tasks with ease.

Teylor Feliz
July 8, 2015

Design

Users First with Responsive Web Design and Progressive Enhancement

Progressive Enhancement is for users what Responsive Web Design is for devices. RWD tries to cover smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers while PE covers users with little technical knowledge, disabilities, experienced users, and casual users.

Teylor Feliz
June 17, 2015

Development

The HTML5 Vibration API

The new HTML5 API’s are helping us to provide better user experiences no matter the device visiting the site. For example, for a desktop computer you may display a message on the screen while on smartphones, the message could be accompanied with a vibration of the device.

Teylor Feliz
June 15, 2015

General

Freelancer’s Guide on How to Keep From Getting Burnt Out

Taking on too much work and not being realistic with what you can do, will ultimately lead to you being fed up with your work

Teylor Feliz
June 9, 2015

Development

The JavaScript Framework Bandwagonism

JavaScript Frameworks and libraries usually get a lot of attention at their birth but their lifespan is very short if we compare them with other popular frameworks and libraries in other languages.

Teylor Feliz
May 14, 2015
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General

12 Tips on Pricing your Freelance Work

Many clients think that they are allowed to make as many changes as they wish to a site, and all of those changes are included in the price.

Teylor Feliz
April 14, 2015

Development

3 Reasons Why Not to Build Around a Public API

The real issue is creating an application where the core components depend on external API’s because you are not really creating something unique that will last. You are extending the functionality and adding value to the API, and later they will replace your idea with theirs.

Teylor Feliz
April 9, 2015

Design

Let the Users Decide if a Feature Affects Them

If Facebook is willing to show you a message asking for your phone number, it would be nice to let people know or decide if they want that new feature that is going to drain their data plans.

Teylor Feliz
March 19, 2015

Development

Now the Internet Explorer is Dead. Let’s Stop the Hate

Some of the biggest problems of Internet Explorer are caused because the browser needs to be backwards compatible, so it does not break any application, especially in the enterprise.

Teylor Feliz
March 17, 2015

General

Admix Web Magazine is back!

I won’t be doing ”list-of” or “round-of” just for the sake of page views.

Teylor Feliz
March 17, 2015

Design

A Graphic Designer is Not a Web Designer

There is a huge misunderstanding in the graphic design community, where some believe that it is just because they are "Graphic Designers" that are Web Designers by default

Teylor Feliz
December 17, 2014

Design, Development

Consider People with Disabilities in UX Your Projects

I strongly believe in the use of usability in startups and in creating a more democratized and inclusive web. However, this is not the case for most applications, where they designate most of their resources to flashing animations that don’t add anything to the application itself.

Teylor Feliz
July 28, 2014