Smashing Magazine

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. New Online Workshops on Smashing. Designing The Perfect Navigation.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m posting this on the Sunday before re:Invent, and will update as I find out more during the week… Sustainability Track Sessions and Workshops What follows are the catalog descriptions of the talks, after I’ve watched the videos I’ll update this post with my own commentary. You must bring your laptop to participate.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

I’ve just created a new kata which you and your team/friends can use to practice your architecture and domain-driven design skills. You can find out more about that here: [link] This kata is based on content from my workshops. The third part of the worskhop focuses on strategy?—?how Is each domain core, supporting, or generic?

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

In the six months since I’ve received feedback from my own workshops and other people’s workshops about ways to improve the canvas. Please feel free to use it, create remixes, or simply take it as inspiration to develop your own ways of designing bounded contexts. More importantly, keep looking for better ways to design systems.

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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. Jump to online workshops ?. Design Patterns Game. Image source: Design Patterns Game ). CSS Flexbox.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the limit, statically generated, edge delivered, and HTML-first pages look like the optimal strategy. Enabling dynamic commerce requires close integration between server and client, an optimized streaming and data fetch strategy, and a production platform that operates at scale. Jump to the workshop ?. (vf, Online, and live.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Start by mapping out the current state of your domains If you’re not sure what your domains are, I have created a Strategic DDD Kata which provides a scenario for you to practice designing domain boundaries. The Strategy Cycle.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 17, 2018

While workshops may help bridge this gap, most workshops focus on a particular research theme and students working on “not hot” or not well established research areas are left out. We believe having all of these mechanisms as part of one workshop that specifically targets early stage students would complement existing efforts.

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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. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. Jump to the workshop ?. Not only does Next.js Global styles.

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Tech News Gather

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The first thing you should do is educate yourself on successful trading strategies. This qualification which verifies their proficiency in designing or executing non-fungible tokens, unquestionably lays the groundwork for such a future with non-fungible tokens. Are you considering becoming more involved in the Bitcoin trading market?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ahmad’s strategies on achieving the cut-out effect. When designing cards, you might want a border-radius to have a quite sizeable value when there is enough space to display it along with other cards. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

My participation at these conferences is a mixture of talks and workshops. I’ve used Miro exclusively for my in-person workshops and talks, and I plan to for all upcoming events. Miro for In-person Workshops? At NDC Porto 2022, I teamed up with Maxime Sanglan-Charlier to run our 2 hour software architecture-themed workshop.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Vitaly specializes in front-end development, performance optimization, and responsive design, and he has made an epic contribution to the performance industry in addition to many other technology and design-related spaces. You can catch Vitaly on Twitter @ smashingmag. Ilya Grigorik. Ilya Grigorik. Patrick Hamann. Patrick Hamann.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design by Lee Copeland. You can keep borrowing these books from them though. Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Will the incremental strategy of delivering pattern matching and algebraic data types ( Project Amber ) pay off? Will Quarkus bear out its promise and the faith of its early fans?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. Jump to the workshop ?. Now that we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practice. More after jump! With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Jump to the workshop ?. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. Let’s fix that!

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Alex Russell

JUNE 13, 2018

It also described the ecosystem dynamics that make change difficult, even before considering the varying firm-level strategies of browser vendors. Most ideas and designs aren’t good, and most of the ones we eventually accept don’t start good. A venue outside a chartered Working Group in which to design and iterate.

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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

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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Smashing Magazine

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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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you facilitate or attend domain discovery workshops, one of the most effective and simplest ways to uncover insights is to make the scale or size of something explicit. During one workshop, I asked a developer “How often does this go wrong?”. There was an industry expert consultant in the workshop.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? This is normal, embrace the fuzziness and apply design thinking.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 24, 2022

In this article, I’m referring to question formats used in surveys, questionnaires, and workshops. Pre-workshop : questionnaires sent out to workshop attendees to help plan the final details of an upcoming workshop. It is a skill I would definitely encourage all leaders and facilitators to reflect on.

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Smashing Magazine

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 this article, we’ll look at ways to make an existing design dyslexia-friendly. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 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 ?. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. You can also experiment with various workshop formats. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. Jump to the workshop ?. The Problem With Traditional Approaches.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

In every workshop, I always ask everyone “Imagine there is no text here. What do you read from the image below, and what might you propose to do next in the workshop? Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts.

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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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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The result is that we create better designed software systems and teams of problem solvers rather than order takers. Used judiciously, EventStorming gives us the ability to uncover enough information about our domain and our business that we can use it to design our microservices, bounded contexts, and even our teams.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

In this three-part series , we are going to go through the CSS refactor process from the beginning to the end, starting with knowledge on how to approach it and some general pros and cons of refactoring, then moving onto the refactoring strategies themselves and ending with some general best practices on CSS file size and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

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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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. 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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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

You may find that other approaches work better for you, and in reality every workshop is different so you need to be flexible. The following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops. The scope of the workshop will influence how many levels is necessary. This is a tricky problem for facilitators.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process. Interaction Design Foundation. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Devin Harold. Large preview ).

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