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

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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. In his recent Smashing Conference talk, green software expert Asim Hussain mentioned that the biggest shift he is seeing is as a result of regulation — or the threat of regulation. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

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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. The exponential proliferation of connected devices with varying software and technical capabilities has made it more and more difficult to cater web content to every single user. What Are Client Hints? Why Use Client Hints?

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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. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

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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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google.

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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. Drew McLellan: He’s a Senior Software Engineer for an agency called Echobind. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Mike on Twitter. Weekly Update.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s because they are meant for user preferences, as mentioned here in the case of iOS and here in the Android documentation when talking about the Security library which is designed to provide wrappers to the SharedPreferences specifically to encrypt the data before storing it. Secure Storage On Mobile. Large preview ). In React Native.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. Take advantage of specialization and economies of scale by moving expensive files to services designed for them.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2018

However, being an easy-to-use inclusive and versatile piece of software, WordPress comes with a plethora of options that are not necessarily utilized in each and every project. But if you still need convincing, Google penalizes slow websites. In recent years, the industry thankfully started paying more attention to performance.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. App Design. At this point, the design of our app is in place. Firebase is application development software from Google that enables us to develop iOS, Android, and web apps. Getting Started.

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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. The CMS itself is provided on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model which I like to term Content-as-as-Service (CaaS). It worked a treat without having 50 Google Docs flying all over the place. Enterprise features.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I used to design and develop WordPress themes. module.exports = { plugins: [ { resolve: `@pehaa/gatsby-theme-wp-child`, options: { wordPressUrl: process.env.GATSBY_WP_URL, fonts: { google: [{family: "Rubik"}], }, }, }, ], }. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers written by Matthew Talebi. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers written by Nataliya Sambir. But the other thing is to be able to take operational concerns into account during your design development and implementation of any technology. Not everyone is Google.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

It means adopting common software development practices. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Of course, design isn’t quite like art. While design tries to solve a particular problem, art makes us think and feel — provoking us and questioning the status quo. When we design experiences on the web, usually we rely on things that worked well in the past. Designing A Galaxy Far Far Away. Covid Art Museum.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is important to make sure that your message looks as designed for all your recipients. Just a couple of years ago one online media for software developers sent a digest to its subscribers by listing them in a Cc field. Design Your Mobile Emails To Increase On-Site Conversion.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

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. Luckily, QUIC was designed with TLS in mind from the start, and as such does combine both the transport and cryptographic handshakes in a single mechanism.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I think that maybe the small counter argument here is if you Google, “How to do X with React,” you’re going to get half a dozen different approaches to doing that thing. So we enhanced and maybe over-stretched the high tech document system to behave like a software application. And I think that is valid. Drew: It was, yeah.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Two of the most active contributors to this project are Google and Microsoft and, when it comes to DevTools, they collaborated on a few interesting features that I’d like to go over now. You can read more information about this on Microsoft’s and Google’s documentation sites. CSS Layout Debugging Tools. Large preview ). Localization.

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