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JUNE 2, 2021

The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4). For the launch, we mostly focused on getting the new design out the door, but once the website’s relaunch went live, we started focusing our attention on turning the red and orange scores to greens. Large preview ).

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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. Insight 2: There Are Established Strategies To Tackle Web App Accessibility Problems. More after jump!

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AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify. More after jump! Government.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. We used an eager loading strategy paired with a high fetchpriority on the images.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tatiana Mac wrote this excellent article which covers some of the approaches developers might consider taking, as well plenty of other great points, including key questions to ask when designing with motion on the web. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. See the Pen [Reduced-motion toggle]([link] by Michelle Barker.

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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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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Unless you’ve designed a truly innovative new product, the chances are that you can already find something at least similar on Amazon. Scraping those product pages can net you invaluable data such as: The competitors’ pricing strategy. You’ll be better prepared to design, launch, and expand your product lineup with that data.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

You’ll find psychology heuristics just like tips for building a winning UX strategy , dive deep into user research and UX writing , and explore real-world examples — good and bad — from which you can learn to create experiences that truly matter. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. Now that we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practice. The live version is available at [link] and the source code can be found at [link]. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. “

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Existing best practices and guidance, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), give us a solid foundation for inclusive design and already incorporate many details that affect dyslexic readers. In fact, some of those resources are linked in the Understanding WCAG 2.1 On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. A font is a branding consideration as well as a design asset that can enhance the legibility of a site’s content. Hey, look at that — great job, team!

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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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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. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Design Patterns Game. Image source: Design Patterns Game ).

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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. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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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. For a while, Flipkart adopted an app-only strategy and temporarily shut down its mobile website altogether. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices.

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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. Large preview ).

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

In Part 1 , we discussed various strategies and techniques for handling images, video, and audio in a Gatsby project. file: module.exports = { plugins: [ { resolve: `gatsby-transformer-remark`, options: { }, }, ], }; Restart the development server and navigate to [link] graphql in the browser. Your (smashing) email Once a week.

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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. Please read the next section carefully because I’ve added reference links to help you get started. The five-stages design process.

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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. Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

QA is a central part of any quality management approach and all quality management is very closely linked to risk management. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. In most sectors where risks are understood and perceived as critical, quality assurance inevitably develops. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?.

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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

JUNE 20, 2019

As the Google Fonts API becomes more widely used, it is likely visitors to your site or page will already have any Google fonts used in your design in their browser cache. The default code for implementing Google Fonts looks like this: <link href="[link] rel="stylesheet"> If you do that, it will load only the ‘regular 400’ variant.

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JULY 20, 2021

Rethink Your Content Strategy For A Headless CMS ”. “ Constantly improving the user experience (UX) and design (UI) for you, so that content creators and developers feel comfortable creating new fields, components or pages. Coupled: linked back-end front-end. <link rel="[link] href="[link]. Monolithic.

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AUGUST 15, 2021

The roadmap helps them define how a new IT tool, process, or technology supports their business strategy and growth and aligns projects with short and long-term goals. Unlike traditional software development approaches, Agile focuses on the strategy, not the plan. There are hundreds of templates companies use for their tech roadmaps.

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JULY 13, 2021

On the other hand, a new way of thinking and designing user interfaces started to emerge. Define The Migration Strategy. Denys Mishunov wrote an article on Smashing Magazine presenting an alternative to these two migration ideas, trying to get the best of the previous two approaches: The Frankenstein Migration. web application.

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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. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. It helps bring down the high levels of the Cortisol hormone that is linked to stress. However, below are some ideas or other mental health improvement strategies that are effective which you can explore.

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JULY 27, 2021

To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Design Tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. Here, I style basic HTML elements (headings, body, links, and so on).

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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. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

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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. These strategies often involve spinning up and down numerous servers and using tools like load balancers and managed databases.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Whilst I believe Scrapbook handles this update well, it’s an important consideration when designing your user’s experience. Now we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practise. More after jump! Continue reading below ↓ Meet “TypeScript in 50 Lessons” , our shiny new guide to TypeScript.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

And while you could always just trim the fat and build more minimally designed and content-centric sites, why compromise? So, today, let’s focus on how you can still design with as many images as you want without slowing down your website. The Necessity Of An Image Optimization Strategy For Mobile. Size Your Images Correctly.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

A component has a purpose, which can range from something very basic (such as a link or a button) to something very elaborate (such as a carousel or a drag-and-drop image uploader). The term “component” is often used to refer both to functionality and design. Large preview ). Large preview ). The Component-Based API Specification.

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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. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Jump to table of contents ?. Large preview ).

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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. Attainable DevOps. Weekly Update.

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