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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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. Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] - Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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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

JULY 8, 2021

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js In a traditional app where we have signup, logins, or product page we want to have consistent behavior and design. UI kit built upon material design. Development Process. Development Process. Uma Victor. 2021-07-08T11:00:00+00:00.

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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. The website is a collection of songs collected over decades and now searchable, with filters by genre, speed, country, and time period. Covid Art Museum.

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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. Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] , Oct 2020 [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. Large preview ).

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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. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. In Myriam Jessier’s " Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 ", she sums up Google’s four micro-moments: “I want to know.”. “I

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

We saw how important it is to keep the typographic design parameters and variables the same to get a more accurate result while testing different typefaces. Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Measurement: Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Did you miss out on it?

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Smashing Magazine

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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. Overall, this UX audit and redesign concept would be of great use to UX designers, business owners, and marketing people because it presents a way to audit and fix a product’s most obvious usability issues. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Mark Lankmilier.

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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. In other words, INP is a clearer and more accurate way to measure the speed of user interactions.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. Meet Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces , Steven Hoober’s brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines. Here’s how we are approaching it. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Smashing Magazine

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. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. Hey, look at that — great job, team! Meh, untrue.

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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? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. There are more challenges for us in addition to scale and diversity: Retaining existing design and behavior. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Fixes To Common Problems. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. I’m a big fan of Smashing Magazine and am very interested in web performance and the Core Web Vitals. Search Console told Smashing Magazine that their LCP on mobile for most of their pages needed improving.

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Smashing Magazine

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. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices. State Of Mobile 2021. That might come a little bit unexpected. Large preview ). Improving Accessibility.

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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

MAY 9, 2022

You can also disable the Back/Forward Cache in Chrome at chrome://flags/#back-forward-cache if you want to experiment more, but the above steps should hopefully be a sufficient enough test to give a rough feel for the potential speed gains. More after jump! 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. This enables you to use wildcards in more than one route without duplicating code as well as speeding up the processing as code execution happens on the edge. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. “ More after jump! split(".")[0];

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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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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Regardless of which diagram you subscribe to, ultimately the goal is to weigh the different options between cost and speed to determine the right fit for your particular application. The designers on the team can plug in their mockups as a baseline and easily use them to compare the actual experience. Design/UX Collaboration.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

You get the advantages of a static website (speed, security, static hosting) while you continue to manage your content via a WordPress dashboard. I used to design and develop WordPress themes. In this context, a theme is a JavaScript object that stores design system style values, scales, and/or design tokens.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Base your budget on user research and design principles, such as Better performance through better design. In the chart below, we can see why Smashing Magazine is so much faster - they're simply delivering a lot less JavaScript. Speed Index. What are your users actually trying to achieve and how long will they wait?

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. This also implies that you don’t have to spend additional time and money on creating a PWA to suit various devices, greatly speeding up time-to-market. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Why is that?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. SEO is key to our success.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. When we measure speed through Lighthouse, we get a speed index of 1.5 Whilst I believe Scrapbook handles this update well, it’s an important consideration when designing your user’s experience. seconds for the ISR + SWR variant of the site and 5.8

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. More after jump! The Architecture Behind Partytown.

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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. One of the biggest challenges of responsive web design is creating clean markup. Downlink , which represents the user’s maximum download speed. Why Use Client Hints?

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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. This speeds up the retrieval process and brings in performance improvements to your application. Technical and sales support. Enterprise features. Infrastructure Integration. Monolithic vs Microservices.

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