Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. Cache Merril. In reality, all good software development must flow from a business technology roadmap, as it: Provides context around the development team’s daily work. What Is A Business Technology Roadmap?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. More after jump! Let’s fix that!

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That’s not to say the extraneous content is pointless — enhanced design and user interfaces can have an important impact on the brand of a website, and delightful little extras can really impact your users’ relationship with your site. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. And Is It Used?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

You can see the impact of these efforts in the Core Web Vitals Technology Report from Google Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) / HTTP Archive : Ratio of sessions with good CWV per platform. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report.) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We collaborated with WaterBear and its partner companies to build a revamped and redesigned version of WaterBear’s web and mobile app from the ground up using modern front-end technologies. Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca. Minification.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. At first glance, it seems like a simple task, but in the background, browsers do a tedious job of calculating the size of these images in different scenarios: For images that are resized in responsive design. The change of design. Cache Your Images.

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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. For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology. Look out for: A supported SDK for your choice of technology, language, and platform.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

This includes analyzing which technologies a webpage uses, including which JavaScript frameworks, using the Wappalyzer service. However, the easiest way to gain insights from this data is to use the Core Web Vitals Technology Report created by Rick Viscomi. More after jump! Your (smashing) email. Once a week. Analyzing Per Metric.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. Ideally, the design process should take into account the ways in which clients might wish to share content from social media. It’s worth considering whether other design options might provide the same (or better) value.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Considering how important images are to web design, this isn’t an element we can dispose of so easily nor can we afford to cut corners when it comes to optimizing them. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies. Worse, all of that image manipulation can compromise the resulting quality.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Over those years, we have seen the technology stack evolve from server-rendered pages with some minor JavaScript and CSS to full-blown JavaScript applications. To mitigate the performance issues, we had to add a lot of (unbudgeted) extra servers and had to aggressively cache pages on a reverse proxy. Jonne Kats.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The web technology changes so fast, but the web itself tends to move a little bit slower just in terms of developer trends and habits. And so you see these slightly longer arcs where you’ll have a bunch of technology pile up around one approach and then it’ll slowly start to swing the other way and then change all at once.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

The term “component” is often used to refer both to functionality and design. Note : Brad Frost’s “ Atomic Design ” is a great methodology for identifying these common patterns and building a reusable design system. Brad Frost identifies five distinct levels in atomic design for creating design systems.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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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. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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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. Setting Realistic Goals.

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