Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity. Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity. He knew that to sell his clients’ products, his designs needed to resonate with Black audiences, by showing images they related to and language which was familiar to them.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Cover design by Espen Brunborg.

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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

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

AUGUST 4, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at a React utility React.Children.toArray which lets us prepare the children prop for inspection and iteration, some of its shortcomings and how to overcome them — through a small open-source package, to keep our React code function the way it is deterministically supposed to behave, keeping performance intact.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s a common misconception that the code which is produced by the framework build tools (Webpack, for example) is fully optimized and cannot be improved upon any further. The answer lies in code-splitting.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. One of the reasons for that is because a PWA has the same code base.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

New technologies, libraries, and techniques are continuously emerging and if you want to stay on top of all these changes you will need to immerse yourself in communities, groups, and conferences all revolving around web development. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald.

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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 2, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. This code will actually create a shift to the main-content element as the margin counts as part of that element so it will appear to shift when that is removed (even though it doesn’t actually move on screen). Jump to online workshops ?. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and apps that can help you supplement your skills in different areas of web development. JavaScript Design Patterns. This is a straightforward flexbox playground that also generates the code for you. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. Ideally, the design process should take into account the ways in which clients might wish to share content from social media. A selection of well-designed testimonials could be a better alternative.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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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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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. Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements.

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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

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. The main thread is the single execution context that is responsible for rendering the UI, executing JavaScript code, and handling user interactions.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

Icons are a fantastic way to help convey meaning and add some character to a design. Two versions available: Designers can use the Flagpack in Figma and Sketch, developers can install it directly within their code project (React, Vue, and Svelte are supported). Open-Source Flag Icons. Large preview ). A friendly little detail.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2021

It is tentalizing to address all design problems with them, especially on mobile, but there often are other ways to overcome design issues. The point is: consider whether a dialog is the right design pattern before using it. Mark it as a dialog for assistive technologies ( role="dialog" ). Defining the API.

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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

JULY 27, 2021

is opinionated about how to organize JavaScript code, but it doesn’t have built-in opinions about how to organize CSS. To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Then, we’ll remove everything in the styles/ directory (it’s all sample code). Design Tokens.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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. You can see the complete list of reasons for the Chrome source code , with a bit more explanation in this sheet. More after jump! Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer. Sustainable Web Design. Data transfer is one thing that we can measure quite easily.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Code sharing. The code block above will generate a new Nx workspace and the Next.js

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. In the past couple of years, it’s no secret that our design tools have exponentially evolved. How do we know the code is the same UI? Matthew Talebi. 2021-10-12T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-10-12T12:08:10+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. For years, we waited patiently for browsers to adopt CSS technology faster. This has allowed many of us to explore newer CSS technologies more freely: CSS Grid, clamp() , background-blend-mode , and more. Doing this helps foster reduced and simpler code. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This liberal attitude is known as Postel’s Law, which is conveyed superbly by Jeremy Keith in Resilient Web Design : “Even if there are errors in the HTML or CSS, the browser will still attempt to process the information, skipping over any pieces that it can’t parse.”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. JavaScript is less forgiving.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? 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

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Notably, Astro explicitly states that it is specifically designed for content-driven websites, such as marketing, documentation, or eCommerce sites. Completely framework-agnostic, you can connect Storyblok and your favorite technology within minutes. This, in turn, leads to very fast load times and quicker interactivity.

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

We have more focus than ever on motion design on the web. My first few sites were simple (and ugly) things I put together using Notepad and an FTP client while teaching myself HTML using a little magazine I bought. I didn’t think much about accessibility or performance or semantic markup or visual design when I started.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? 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

MAY 20, 2021

When evaluating whether it’s better for us to create our own platform, or to use a third-party service, there are some things that we should consider: Designing and creating authentication services is not our core skill. It allows you to add security to apps developed using any programming language or technology. What Is Auth0?

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