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

AUGUST 4, 2021

With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns. Expanded Child From console.log(children). { $$typeof: Symbol(react.element), key: null, props: { href: "[link] children: "Smashing Magazine", style: {padding: "0 10px"} }, ref: null, type: "a", // … other properties }.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. It was a great privilege.

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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

JUNE 13, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Web design had stagnated, predictability had replaced creativity, and ideas seemed less important than data. Andrew Clarke.

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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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To do that, you develop a personalized design style, including a certain combination of colors, typography, spacing, animations, and others, and apply the style consistently throughout your site. An example in case is this same website, Smashing Magazine. What about images? It makes more sense to automate this task. Let’s start!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. 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

JUNE 25, 2021

The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. So, having some free time in quarantine, I decided to check whether one of the most evolving industries right now, education technology (EdTech), uses this potential of UX. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Mark Lankmilier. 2021-06-25T10:00:00+00:00.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. I became fascinated by the ways magazine art directors including Alexey Brodovitch and Bea Feitler brought images and text together. Andrew Clarke.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. This is untrue, she says. Alla Gringaus #webperf Click To Tweet.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. At some point, though, we need to sit down with clients and give them a sometimes sobering reality: software development without a business technology roadmap can be a lot like driving aimlessly from point A to point Z.

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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 31, 2021

To cater for new and unique artworks on a regular basis, we started our monthly wallpapers challenge more than ten years ago, and from the very beginning to today, artists and designers from all across the world have accepted the challenge and submitted their designs to it. Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Sweden. Join in! ?.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

To get you in the right mood for December — and the holiday season, of course — artists and designers from across the globe once again got their ideas bubbling and created festive and inspiring wallpaper designs for you. ” — Designed by LibraFire from Serbia. Designed by Ricardo Gimenes from Sweden. Join in! ?.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

JavaScript Design Patterns. Knights of the Flexbox Table is another well-designed interactive course to help you learn the different aspects of the flexbox specification. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Design Patterns Game. Design Patterns Game is unique and is not for JavaScript beginners. CSS Flexbox.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Even if you didn’t study graphic design at art school, you might know a few famous names. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine.

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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 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 bridge this gap between what is designed over what is developed without the overhead of constantly doing reviews?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal. When you work in design for any length of time, forming habits is natural. This repetition can be fabulous for your productivity, but when each design looks much like your last, you can quickly begin to feel jaded. Andrew Clarke.

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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. seconds — the best number Smashing Magazine has ever seen since the Core Web Vitals initiative was launched. More after jump!

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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

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. With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?.

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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

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. I like to think of design tokens as the glue that maintains consistency across the project. Not only does Next.js Global styles.

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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" ). Let’s fix that!

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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

JANUARY 7, 2022

Especially if your technology stack has just been hacked and set up for ransom. Some companies may insert a design/research spike just before the epic kicks off but it always feels reactionary and ends up being a hack shortcut. You’ll need to pull over, stop the car, and get it fixed. Rarely is this the case, but it can happen.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Arts & Society. A great podcast interview. Recent Entries.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

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. I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. More after jump! Let’s fix that!

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site. The Web Designer’s Connection to Web Hosting. I get why they’d think that way.

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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. To follow along, you will need basic knowledge of the Next.js framework and TypeScript.

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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

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 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Drew: It’s an off the shelf design system that you can drop in to build the UI for your project. aj Dobrucki.

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