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. In this article, we’ll build a website (a tea shop!) To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Design Tokens. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

Code Splitting y CSS-in-JS : cómo CSS-in-JS nos permite extender el code-splitting y lazy-loading a CSS, SVGs y otros recursos. Puedes echar un ojo a Website Sameness o Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? progress * 4 ) } workshops · { Math. para más inspiración :).

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. It’s so easy to get design choices wrong and make things worse instead of making them better. In order to effectively design sociotechnical systems, I recommend using design heuristics. We have the unpredictable nature of markets.

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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). Jump to the workshop ?. Open-Source Flag Icons.

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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

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future. These are very limited, and rarely fit the designs we are building! This code gives our element a red background color: my-element { background-color: #ff0000; }. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. How will you serve blazingly fast code, then? More after jump!

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. A/B tests are used throughout Netflix to deliver more joy to current and future members.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Well, it’s simply an apt allegory when it comes to dealing with tests in a code base. These traps might feel like an unexpected ambush when you’re working on a code base, especially when doing so for a long time. They test units of code together, looking at their interaction. So, a test’s design should be flat.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts.

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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

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. Jump to the workshop ?. In code, that looks like this: export async function getServerSideProps(context) { let wildcard = context.req.headers.host.split(".")[0];

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

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 smart interface design patterns. Jump to online workshops ?. With Lea Verou, Brad Frost, Stephanie Eckles and so many others. Check Fallback Elements.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Perhaps led by strong managers, they will fight vehemently for their work to be prioritised and software systems to be designed to their needs. Subservient contexts are contexts which are designed and built to the requirements of their consumers, either by force or an attempt to try and be helpful.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Although this isn’t something I’d look to drop on a website any time soon, it’s a neat little challenge to make. It fits in with my whole stance on “ Playfulness in Code ” to learn. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code. Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code. It’s a collection of mostly <head> tags and attributes I usually use on every website I build. It’s a collection of mostly <head> tags and attributes I usually use on every website I build. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Example: Swedish public transportation website. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. One of the many.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. 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. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In the real world, content often differs vastly from the neat, perfectly fitting content presented in designs. In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors.

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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 Let’s progress from theoretical considerations into hands-on code.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. You’ve probably worked on a project with a poor CSS codebase before and thought how you’d written the code differently, given the opportunity to refactor or rewrite everything from scratch. Leftover, unused chunks of code from deleted features.

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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. Jump to the workshop ?.

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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. Jump to the workshop ?. Procurement Sites.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Using the proposed file structure is not a bad way of structuring your project per se, but as your project grows, you will need a better structure as your code becomes clustered and harder to navigate and access files. Jump to the workshop ?. code some certain instructions that are peculiar to Vue.js. Online, and live.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Let’s get right into the code. website to download the latest version. Just before we start, this is the repo containing the code demonstrating everything under Real-time update on GraphQL, using Apollo as a state management tool, Fragments, and Apollo directives. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

In his upcoming online workshop The TypeScript Masterclass , Stefan Baumgartner will dive into type systems and how to use them well when writing JavaScript. Jump to the workshop ?. A mistake could be made when you work with several projects/websites. Online, and live. August 5–19, 2021. Test your sending script.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Between an endless amount of code to make sure you’re providing full coverage and dealing with the fragile nature of front-end tests — where a simple selector change can completely break an end-to-end workflow — it can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. They’re all testing the code. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 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. Jump to online workshops ?. insert([{ code: 123456 }]); Note : The supabase_url and supabase_key are stored in a.env file.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

How do we make design systems work? In his upcoming Smashing workshop on Successful Design Systems , Brad Frost explains how to plan, execute and maintain a successful design system at your organization. Jump to the workshop ?. The JSON objects only need to hold information we can’t build with code.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Two notable examples are comments on GitHub and the source code for posts on Smashing Magazine! 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. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Websites with a lot of motion might also have a higher impact on the battery life of mobile devices, or cause more data to be used (autoplaying videos, for instance, will require more of a user’s data than a static image). On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. some-element { animation: none; } }.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

All you need to do is select a base color, the contrast ratio of the shades, and the number of color variations you’d like to have, and the tool generates a perfectly-balanced color palette that you can copy and paste into your favorite design tool. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. A true timesaver.

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