Development Another month, another new CMS. This one looks built on top of some pretty awesome technologies, though, and might be worth looking into if you’re in the need of a new CMS.

Content & SEO Shopping and search are getting more aligned. Google is rolling out features ahead of the 2021 holiday season and we do suspect this is because of the concern around an anemic buying season: Read more on Shopping!

Cookie privacy, notifications (does anyone actually turn on notifications for a website?), newsletters, chats, UX surveys, ads, etc. etc. etc. block the user from getting to the actual content they came for.

Design & UX Why does the new menu exist for creating new empty files? A closer look from the folks over at Microsoft on a piece of UX history that many might not know.

Design Clippy.js Via Smore To start off, here’s a fun piece of nostalgia that’s been making its way into all our office chats lately. Someone rebuilt him for the web. Nobody saw it coming, but we’re delighted to have him back!

Design Sketch announced Cloud Inspector, their free developer hand off tool. I’ve been sort of down on Sketch lately, as we’ve mostly moved over to Figma for UX/UI design, but it’s good to finally see Sketch start adding more requested features.