Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Designing The Perfect Navigation. UX, Design.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. Check out the Almanac for CSS property and selector-specific insights, or dive straight into the Snippets to grab some reusable code. Visit website 2. Visit website 4. Visit website 5.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Copy a ten or twelve-word sentence from a page of interest on your site into the Google search bar, put it inside double-quotes, and click on Search. How To Track Suspicious Activity. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Sustainable Web Design. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

without any need to code. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Subscribe and get “Smart Interface Design Checklists” — a free PDF deck with 150+ questions to ask yourself when designing and building almost anything. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Andrew Clarke. 2020-03-23T13:00:00+00:00.

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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

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces , Steven Hoober’s brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines. Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. So we decided to use Web Vitals Google Chrome extension since it can record CLS on a page while the user is interacting with it. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

It should be useful if you are new to product design, UX, interaction or digital design, or if you have experience in these fields but have not performed a competitive analysis before. Competitive Analysis, Service Design Cycle, Five-Stages Design Process. The five-stages design process. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. As I previously mentioned, my primary data source for this analysis is Google CrUX. Starting in June 2021, these metrics have become a ranking factor for Google search.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Google Workspace ( Gmail , Calendar , Drive , etc) stopped IE11 support on March 15, 2021. This might seem manageable for you, but the more complicated our button designs get, the more overhead we have with hover styles. Doing this helps foster reduced and simpler code. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

More specifically, we’re going to talk about storage and UI differences, which are the ones that most often cause confusion to developers when writing Flutter code that they want to be cross-platform. Running Different Code On Different Platforms. In this article, we’re going to see some of those differences and how to overcome them.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. How will you serve blazingly fast code, then? Agustinus Theodorus. You’re here to optimize.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. You’ll also find example code or references to more specific guides so you can implement these tips to your PWA. Skeleton screen examples on Code My UI. Adaptive loading illustration by Google.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. He’s been writing code for two decades, and using JavaScript the whole time. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Mike on Twitter.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

You know, have a plan for it and write code that’s mindful about adding extra weight to the page. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right? I’d say many — if not most — sites and apps rely on some number of third-party scripts where we might not have any influence over the code.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

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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

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. Clean coding practices.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. Rather than pushing off INP until after it starts influencing the way we measure site performance, let’s take a few minutes to level up our understanding of what it is and why it’s designed to replace FID.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. And we can get that with real-user monitoring (RUM) where a snippet of code on my site collects real data based on from real network conditions coming from real users is sent to a server and parsed for reporting. Lighthouse results.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment. Credit: Devin Harold.

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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. Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. responsive design and testing. responsive design and testing.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. This frees up the browser’s main thread to run your own code. More after jump! Builder.io

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The deployed app is available for viewing , and the final code is on Github. based cross-platform framework whose motto is : “write code once and simultaneously deploy it as a website, a mobile app and/or an Electron app”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. They offer a wide variety of customization options to further control how code is being optimized and which browsers are supported. 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

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Let’s illustrate the browser’s behavior with an example using our previous code: <img src="image-300.png". Eloïse Martin.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

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. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. In that case, you can always use the <picture> HTML tag, as shown in the code below, so that the browser can pick the image format supported in the order provided. <picture> The change of design. Large preview ). <picture> <!--

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

The concept of responsive web design has been around for a while, but all of the kinks have yet to be ironed out. Client hints were introduced by Google for Chrome, and other browsers have adopted (or in the process of adopting) them since the HTTP specification was released. What Are Client Hints? How Do Client Hints Work?

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