Excalidraw celebrated its second birthday! What happened during the last year and what’s next? It’s been another great year for Excalidraw, the virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams. Let’s review what happened since the last time. The importance of remote working and collaboration has not been diminished, and more…
How did Excalidraw fare in its third year of existence, and what’s to come? Let’s find out! Greetings Excalidraw users! Thank you all for the support throughout the year, and for being a part of our growing user base! ❤️ With your help, we’ve recently crossed 350K monthly users. 🔥…
Since we’ve shipped the editor redesign late last year, one burning question many of you devs had was when is it going to be released to the Excalidraw package, and why has it not been released in the first place? The editor redesign just dropped, check it out! 🔥💖 Designed…
Click here for the TechCrunch article.The demand for software development far outpaces the supply of software developers. While movements such as open source have made it easy for developers to build and share tools, the skillset to write software has only gone up with ever-evolving programming frameworks and technology stacks.…
The speed of software development lifecycle is closely tied with not just how efficiently we plan and build the software but also how efficiently they get tested too. We knew there was something off as we started to spend more time in debugging test code in Cypress rather than shipping…
In Part 1 we discussed an overview of our team looking for a better alternative to Cypress, finding Playwright, and the results. In this post, we will look into our existing Cypress setup, its issues, and Playwright's Page Object Model.In Cypress, we were relying on commands to abstract test logic…
UI design elements are the pieces that create an engaging website or app experience. Users can’t interact with a site to achieve their goals without them. From clicking links to submitting forms, each user action depends on fully functional and intuitive design elements to get the job done.However, UI design…
If users don’t find your product engaging or seamless to use, they may skip it for a competitor’s product. That’s where user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design come in. These closely related disciplines help you build products that put users first.What is UX design?User experience (UX) design ensures…
Proven design concepts can help your brand message stand out in an accessible way to more people in more places.This is especially true on social media, where you have just seconds to capture the attention of people scrolling past your post. Are you making graphics for a LinkedIn post or…
What makes one website or app more successful than another? While product offerings and customer service certainly play a part, your UI design is your users/customers’ first impressions of your organizations. Users have become increasingly aware of how they engage with a site or app, and each click can bring…