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“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  Check out my work on my Behance portfolio : --------- Follow me on instagram : @bentaherghassen

Google has been working on a Material Design refresh for Chrome across desktop and mobile in recent months, and elements of the redesign are starting to make their way to the stable version of the browser. Chrome 68, released earlier this week, now includes parts of the Material Design refresh hidden behind settings flags in both the iOS and desktop versions. Chrome 68 for Android does not yet include the Material Design refresh changes. Google has not yet enabled its more rounded tabs in Chrome on the desktop.but they’re still not hidden behind a flag in the stable channel version of the browser. Here’s how to enable parts of the Material Design refresh on desktop : Chrome desktop : update your navigation Navigate to chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md In “UI Layout for the browser’s top chrome” change the option from default to refresh Restart Chrome to see the changes  

The differences between design and development actually lead to more of a discussion around frontend and backend web work.    Let’s start with the frontend… Front End : When we discuss the “frontend” of the web, what we’re really talking about is the part of the web that you can see and interact with. The frontend usually consists of two parts: the web design and front end web development. In the past when someone discussed development it usually referred to the backend, but in recent years there has been a real need to differentiate between designers that worked strictly in Photoshop and those that could code HTML and CSS . It went even further when designers crossed the lines to working with JavaScript and jQuery . So now when we discuss the term “web design”, we’re really talking about those that work with Photoshop and Fireworks, and those that code using HTML, CSS, JavaScript or jQuery (it might be important here to state that jQuery is a compiled li...