Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Websites with a lot of motion might also have a higher impact on the battery life of mobile devices, or cause more data to be used (autoplaying videos, for instance, will require more of a user’s data than a static image). Most new operating systems enable the user to set their motion preferences in their system-level settings.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Being completely absorbed for a few weeks or months in designing a product interface or a website can be a thrill. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Color plays an essential role in making a product or website easy and intuitive to use. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Read More From The Series.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it’s easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on your website for free. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Bold (700).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. Chapter 9 describes ways we can consider likely problems when planning the design of our apps and websites. menus, lists, floating bars, tabs). People Only Touch What They See. +.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Feature phones all use proprietary and little known operating systems developed by the makers of the phones, as opposed to prevalent ones like Android or iOS. or what would later be derisively called dumbphones. While some feature phones are still clamshell or flip phones, the candy bar or slider are at least as common.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

A wonderful little tutorial to make your website or app shine. Windows High Contrast Mode in particular behaves differently than other operating system display modes and completely overrides authored colors with user-set colors. Plus, a series of wonderful tutorials for doing all kinds of unusual effects with React.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Depending on the browser and operating system, you may also experience browser scrollbar widths upsetting the 100vw calculation as well. Within a fixed layout set to 100vh , the bottom part of the website content is stuck behind the browser chrome, making it inaccessible when scrolling is prevented.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ). Unless they don't.

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