Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. In Myriam Jessier’s " Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 ", she sums up Google’s four micro-moments: “I want to know.”. “I

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

These are only a few questions to consider when having the goal of building a fast website. Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites. Note : If you’re looking for a complete overview of best practices and tools, have a look at the Frontend performance checklist.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

and exercise best CSS practices. In this article, we’ll build a website (a tea shop!) There are a couple of questions we have to consider when organizing style within Next.js: How can we fit within the conventions/best practices of the framework? Let’s learn these techniques by applying them to a website project.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Meet Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces , Steven Hoober’s brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. There is a wealth of information on websites to help guide you along your learning path.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. “ More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

In my opinion, one of the best use-cases for currentColor is styling inlined SVG elements. Whenever we export an icon from a design tool, it comes with a specific fill and other color values defined in the design. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. See the Pen curentColor alerts by Adrian Bece. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

We saw how important it is to keep the typographic design parameters and variables the same to get a more accurate result while testing different typefaces. Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Measurement: Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Did you miss out on it?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Traps in this area can be caused by following best practices that are not suitable for tests. This can occur for various reasons, but it usually happens when you try to take an easy, seemingly convenient shortcut, disregarding testing best practices. Any test, no matter the type, should be designed plain and simple.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. A font is a branding consideration as well as a design asset that can enhance the legibility of a site’s content. Hey, look at that — great job, team!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website. Existing best practices and guidance, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), give us a solid foundation for inclusive design and already incorporate many details that affect dyslexic readers.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Although landing pages are a common practice in online marketing, we were trying to make the most of it. SEO is key to our success.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. This way, the image loads faster, and your website will get a better LCP score.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Mike’s personal website. Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. Actually, I was just checking the Cut Into The Jamstack website today, and the accessibility score is very high. But for me, I don’t have design sense. Show Notes. Mike: Yeah.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In this article, we’re going to cover code-splitting best practices and showcase some examples using React, so we load the minimum JavaScript necessary to render a page and dynamically load sizeable non-critical bundles. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Website performance is not consistent across devices.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As such, I urge you always to be mindful of the website while scraping, take care not to damage it, and follow ethical guidelines. Recommended Reading : “ The Guide To Ethical Scraping Of Dynamic Websites With Node.js So, it goes without saying just how big of a data treasure trove the website is. Not all websites are the same.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. Some such examples include: Decreasing code quality as more features are added due to the varying CSS skill levels within a development team and lacking internal rules, conventions, and best practices. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

These are just a couple of examples of what disabled users face daily when they try and access a website that is inaccessible. The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Component-based design, enabled and enforced by modern JavaScript frameworks, does not only provide great developer experiences and project ergonomics when used in a smart way, but it can also offer advantages for accessibility. website : 1 — Welcome to GOV.UK For example, let’s take the (abridged) headline tree from the GOV.UK

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

It is not that most web design agencies are ignorant of other marketing approaches or that any of them are inherently bad. On the contrary, in the second part of his two-part series on getting web design clients , Stephen Roe breaks down the opportunities of these approaches. However, in practice, the results can be underwhelming.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?. Debugging Overflow.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). Infrastructure Integration.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. It makes sense, because it allows you to quickly create websites and has a rich plugin’s ecosystem to help you scale your site. The Benefits Of Going Headless And When It Makes Sense.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Best Practices When Writing Custom Directives. It is considered best practice not to directly access a state object. In a traditional app where we have signup, logins, or product page we want to have consistent behavior and design. UI kit built upon material design. Vue Devtools ,” website.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. design tokens. design systems. responsive design and testing. responsive design and testing. Table of Contents. accessibility.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. A mistake could be made when you work with several projects/websites. It is important to make sure that your message looks as designed for all your recipients. Design Your Mobile Emails To Increase On-Site Conversion.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website written by John C Barstow. We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Chris on Twitter. The Vanilla JavaScript Podcast. Weekly Update. Chris: Indeed.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! Five years later, we know that server push doesn’t really work in practice, streams and prioritization are often badly implemented , and, consequently, (reduced) resource bundling and even sharding are still good practices in some situations. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It was a “multi-stepped” form and not a trick by the website. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. We see that everywhere to sign up to websites, newsletters, or updates. This display was by design. I sighed in relief. Large preview ).

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