📝 Issue #440: The Return of the 90s Web, Serious UX Mistakes, WWDC 2020, 10 Tools I Can’t Design Without, and more…

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Culture runs in circles, and the wheel always turns. OK, so Friends is on permanent rerun, but that’s not the only 90s phenomenon that’s popular right now. Max Böck looks at the current state of the emerging web and draws some interesting parallels with the way it all worked back in the day.

In-app messages are hyper-targeted notifications in apps, or on websites, that appear at precisely the right time to help with onboarding, solve problems, or upsell; getting them right is critical for customer engagement. Rachel Jamison explains how Intercom uses them to best effect, and how you can too.

Seen a great logo and wondering what the typeface is? Well, it’s probably Futura. But on the off-chance that it’s not, Font In Logo can track it down for you. The site has a growing collection of famous logos. Click through to the profile page of each company for a link to where you can get the font.

In our semi-regular series, different designers give us a window into their practice by sharing 10 tools they find essential for their day to day design work. In this edition Marvellous Aham-Adi shares his go-to design apps, from the every popular Sketch, to Procreate on iPad, to Startup 3 for Bootstrap.

Vue is one of the most popular Javascript frameworks on the web. For the last year the Vue team has been working on the next major version; in this detailed article Evan You explains the motivations and challenges involved in rewriting Vue from the ground up, with improved performance and scaleability.

Tunnel To Dev is an incredibly useful tool that allows you to expose your local web server to the Internet. You can use it for demoing sites to clients anywhere in the world with a simple link. It’s also great for mobile development, just send your phone a link to check your design without the hassle of deploying.

By now, you’ve probably heard that Apple is abandoning Intel for chips of its own making, that was the big headline-grabbing news for Apple fans. What you might have missed were the host of incremental developments announced at WWDC. Dan Moren walks us through the more enticing tidbits.

MakeSpace is a new kind of way to browse the web. Part web-browser, part-chat room, you can use MakeSpace to browse the web with others, host discussions, create experiences, even shop together. The project is still in development, and if you’d like to get involved, they want to hear from you.

Designing an ecommerce site can be a challenge for even the most experienced web professional. When you get tunnel-vision about a project it can be hard to spot mistakes. This great guide by Diana Malewicz will help you beat some of the most serious UX mistakes that too many stores make.