Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. This book will make a fabulous addition to your design collection. Andrew Clarke.

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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. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-08-05T17:04:11+00:00. Part 1: Perfect Accordion.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. Repairing Magazine has a very peculiar business model. Repairing Magazine user interface relies on a modern JavaScript library, React. Let’s focus on a scenario very useful for blog owners: handling paid content.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

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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 know the code is the same UI? Matthew Talebi. 2021-10-12T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-10-12T12:08:10+00:00.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. When you share a bunch of files (let’s say in different formats or versions), it’s not enough to design each link correctly. Slava Shestopalov. 2021-12-06T17:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-06T19:34:18+00:00.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Cookieless Alternative To Embed HTML, CSS And JS Code Snippets. Cookieless Alternative To Embed HTML, CSS And JS Code Snippets. At the same time, we want to have an interactive website with comments, polls, videos, code examples, and many more. Deploy the code example with your favorite hosting provider (e.g. Get Started.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Clean coding practices.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s a common misconception that the code which is produced by the framework build tools (Webpack, for example) is fully optimized and cannot be improved upon any further. The answer lies in code-splitting.

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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

JUNE 28, 2021

Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code. Creating Custom Emmet Snippets In VS Code. Until recently, I would just copy and paste the boilerplate whenever I needed it, but I’ve decided to improve my workflow by adding it as a snippet to VS Code — the editor of my choice. Snippets And Abbreviations In Visual Studio Code.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Cover design by Espen Brunborg.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. One of the reasons for that is because a PWA has the same code base.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. The benefit of doing this is the entire site’s source code can live in Git. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. Check out the Almanac for CSS property and selector-specific insights, or dive straight into the Snippets to grab some reusable code. Visit website 2. Visit website 4. Visit website 5.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Need to design something? It can be tempting to start with a computer-based tool, e.g. wireframing software like Balsamiq , or design tools like Photoshop or Figma. This process is recommended even if we aren’t designing something big or in the capacity of a designer. The Power Of Pen And Paper Sketching. Tracy Osborn.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Lambda layers are a way to share code across API endpoints, reducing the amount of repeated code across the API project. This not only allows us to run Lambda scripts locally, but we can also add breakpoints using Debug Mode in Visual Studio Code. Debug Mode in Visual Studio Code ?? On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. You’ll also find example code or references to more specific guides so you can implement these tips to your PWA. Skeleton screen examples on Code My UI. Large preview ). — Google.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results. And we can get that with real-user monitoring (RUM) where a snippet of code on my site collects real data based on from real network conditions coming from real users is sent to a server and parsed for reporting. Lighthouse results.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

As a result, users can enjoy more capable and feature-rich applications that remain performant through techniques like code-splitting, caching, prefetching, and other resource optimization techniques — with some applications that are even able to work offline. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Rather than pushing off INP until after it starts influencing the way we measure site performance, let’s take a few minutes to level up our understanding of what it is and why it’s designed to replace FID. INP Improves How Page Interactions Are Measured OK, so we now know that both INP and FID are about page interactions.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

With deeply nested <div> tags we can easily get lost, not knowing which is their ending </div> HTML End Tag Labels helps us understand the structure of the HTML code, by having the class names of the opening tag be displayed next to its closing tag. Quick and easy reminder: add a “TODO” in your code.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

You know, have a plan for it and write code that’s mindful about adding extra weight to the page. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right? I’d say many — if not most — sites and apps rely on some number of third-party scripts where we might not have any influence over the code.

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Smashing Magazine

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. You’ll be better prepared to design, launch, and expand your product lineup with that data. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman.

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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. Let’s progress from theoretical considerations into hands-on code. Online, and live.

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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. add-to-cart').click();

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. In code, that looks like this: export async function getServerSideProps(context) { let wildcard = context.req.headers.host.split(".")[0]; project set up, we’re going to want to create the only code file we’ll need for this project: pages/index.js.

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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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