2023-02-02 15:00
What UX podcasts are you listening to? Below you’ll find a few wonderful UX podcasts we came across, as well as podcasts that the UX community shared with us.
Whether you’re par… Read More
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smashingmagazine.com
UX research can be enormously helpful to copywriters; this article shows which types of UX research are most valuable, and how copywriters can use them.
2023-02-02 09:00
This article is a sponsored by AWS Amazon
A good chunk of all websites out there runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). At the most basic, a website will usually use Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 sol… Read More
2023-02-01 11:00
Since Next.js 13 release, there’s been some debate about how stable the shiny new features packed in the announcement are. On “What’s New in Next.js 13?” we have cove… Read More
2023-01-31 16:00
As designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration, and, well, sometimes the best inspiration lies right in front of us. With that in mind, we embarked on our wallpapers advent… Read More
2023-01-31 08:30
This article is a sponsored by Gong.io
Perhaps this is a controversial statement, but I hate it when UI and UX designers are referred to interchangeably. To my mind, at least, they are diffe… Read More
2023-01-30 14:00
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) have been a staple in Web Development for quite some time, and for a good reason. They can be scaled up or down without loss of quality due to their vector pro… Read More
2023-01-27 11:30
Nurturing connections with your customers is one of the most effective ways to gain valuable insight into their experiences with your product and make informed decisions that fuel growth and… Read More
2023-01-26 14:00
Design should never be a trade-off when it comes to creating an accessible web. There are many features coming to the web that will make creating contrast a lot easier. But even though CSS f… Read More
2023-01-26 10:00
This article is a sponsored by Maze
Although you might be able to map out the development of a new product with a definitive start and end date, there really is no end point.
The most succe… Read More
2023-01-25 12:30
When we make purchasing decisions, we often rely on expertise from people like us who happen to have purchased that item already. And so we seek user reviews, often looking for a high enough… Read More
2023-01-24 11:00
There’s a type of cognitive dissonance that haunts designers: the genuine desire to be truly innovative and original whilst simultaneously trawling the web for inspiration and design i… Read More
2023-01-24 08:00
In this episode, we ask whether technology is making us redundant; will we all soon be replaced with AI? Vitaly Friedman talks to Tejas Kumar to find out.
Show Notes
Stéphanie Walte… Read More
2023-01-23 12:00
Using :has() gives us the ability to “look ahead” with CSS and style a parent or ancestor element. Then, we can broaden the selector to target one or more siblings or children. B… Read More
2023-01-20 17:00
When developing a new feature, what determines whether an existing component will work or not? And when a component doesn’t work, what exactly does that mean?
Does the component functi… Read More
2023-01-19 15:00
Living in a highly extroverted world, everyone is expected to outshine the rest to succeed and grow. Meeting people, talking, and generally being an outspoken person will be noticeable. Howe… Read More
2023-01-19 15:00
Living in a highly extroverted world, everyone is expected to outshine the rest to succeed and grow. Meeting people, talking, and generally being an outspoken person will be noticeable. Howe… Read More
2023-01-18 14:00
Auto layout is driving you bananas? You’re scared about what will happen with your design in the browser? Then our deep-dive Figma Auto Layout Masterclass with Christine Vallaure is fo… Read More
2023-01-17 14:00
This article is a sponsored by Swimm
Everything surrounding software documentation is tough — from allocating time to do it to keeping it up to date. Documentation success is tricky to… Read More
2023-01-16 18:00
Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. LCP measures the time it takes… Read More
2023-01-12 09:00
Over the past 12 months, we continue to see new free and open-source projects shared around the developer community. In my newsletter, Web Tools Weekly, I feature more than two dozen tools e… Read More
2023-01-11 08:00
When we think about closed captioning, we often think about noisy environments, be it busy restaurants, shopping malls, or airport lounges. There, consuming content via audio is difficult, a… Read More
2023-01-10 11:30
This article is a sponsored by UXPin
Is it controversial to say deep integration of design systems, removing the need to maintain both a code and design version of each component, is the cur… Read More
2023-01-09 09:00
There is a strange ritual that web developers around the world have been perpetuating from the dawn of computers to modern days. Without this ritual, the web application cannot really exist… Read More
2023-01-05 09:00
Data visualizations are everywhere; from the news to the nutritional info on cereal boxes, we’re constantly being presented with graphical representations of data. Why? Data visualizat… Read More
2023-01-02 09:00
Many projects start with assumptions. We assume that users understand hamburger icons and how mega-menus work; that they understand how to deal with disabled buttons; that they safely store… Read More
2022-12-31 09:00
The new year is the perfect occasion to tidy up your desktops and home screens and start on a fresh, clean slate — no clutter, just the things you really need and space for what’… Read More
2022-12-30 15:00
When I wrote my previous tutorial about the extended use of the CSS clamp function, I was surprised by the drawback of zooming of text in fluid typography.Thanks to Adrian Bece and Adrian Ro… Read More
2022-12-29 13:00
A spatial system is a set of design guidelines about spacing, sizing, and dimensions of user interface components. It is a mandatory part of any design system, as it helps to create visual r… Read More
2022-12-27 11:00
Allow me to preface this article by saying that I’m not a terminal person. I don’t use Vim. I find sed, grep, and awk convoluted and counter-intuitive. I prefer seeing my files i… Read More
2022-12-23 13:00
Localization is one of the most interesting fields in terms of user interface: text length may be different depending on the language, default alignments for text might vary, reading directi… Read More
2022-12-20 12:00
This article is a sponsored by Extensis
This article is ideal for your lunch break. It highlights five quite straightforward (dare I even say simple) graphic communication problems. I then e… Read More
2022-12-19 13:00
As a sole design system maintainer, I try to minimize the time I spend in Slack or meetings and maximize the time I spend in Figma or code (aka, focused and actually working).
For the past f… Read More
2022-12-16 10:00
There is a multitude of ways to do anything on a computer — and some are faster than others. As knowledge workers that push pixels on our screens all day, for us, every second saved by… Read More
2022-12-15 13:30
This article is a sponsored by Flatfile
With the explosive growth of cloud computing over the last decade, unprecedented volumes of data — customer data, product data, statistics, fina… Read More
2022-12-13 17:30
Q. Did any part of your education require you to read the building regulations?A. No, I don’t recall, but I don’t think so.Q. What about fire safety of building materials?A. No… Read More
2022-12-13 15:00
In Part 1, we explored general patterns of creating responsive and accessible tables depending on the design, use case, and data complexity. In this article, we’ll cover a few more com… Read More
2022-12-12 13:00
This article is a sponsored by STUDIO
For years, reports have been warning of technology taking away jobs, particularly in fields like food preparation, truck driving, and warehouse operatio… Read More
2022-12-08 13:00
What is privacy? What exactly does it mean? How do we consider, manage and maintain privacy? And how dow do we design and build experiences that have privacy at their heart? That’s exa… Read More
2022-12-07 11:00
Maybe you’ve already seen some tech advent calendars pop up in your timelines and feeds? Or perhaps you’re already following along your all-time favorite advent calendar every da… Read More
2022-12-06 12:00
Tables allow us to organize data into grid-like format of rows and columns. Scanning the table in one direction allows users to search and compare the data while scanning in the other direct… Read More
2022-12-02 09:00
Before we start with a deep dive into the details and the anatomy of a component, let’s start at a higher level and see what we’re working on within our design system.
Laying It… Read More
2022-12-01 09:00
What if we were able to implement the sizes of designer’s contribution without hassle? What if we could set custom anchor points to generate a perfectly responsive value, giving us mor… Read More
2022-11-30 11:15
2022 is slowly but surely coming to an end. And, well, could there be a better way to welcome the last few weeks of the year than with some beautiful, wintery desktop wallpapers? To get you… Read More
2022-11-24 16:00
If you’ve been working with JavaScript for a while, you may be fairly familiar with DOM (Document Object Model) and CSSOM (CSS Object Model) scripting. Beyond the interfaces defined by… Read More
2022-11-22 16:00
Single Page Applications (SPAs) can provide a rich, interactive user experience when dealing with real-time, dynamic data. But they can also be heavy, bloated, and perform poorly. In this ar… Read More
2022-11-21 10:00
In the previous article, we talked about how to improve accessibility for keyboard users using HTML and CSS. Those languages can do the job most of the time, but certain design requirements… Read More
2022-11-18 07:00
This article is a sponsored by Deque
In this episode we’re talking about User Journey Mapping. What is it, and how does it help us build better digital products? Vitaly talks to expert… Read More
2022-11-17 10:00
This article is a sponsored by Storyblok
Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a produc… Read More
2022-11-16 14:00
A cursory google search will return a treasure trove of blog posts and articles espousing the value of adding accessibility checks to the testing automation pipeline. These articles are rife… Read More
2022-11-14 14:00
Keyboard accessibility is an important part of the user experience. There are multiple criteria in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) about this topic. Still, it’s somehow ove… Read More
2022-11-11 09:00
Many millions of people dream of flying the coop and spending time working abroad.
The opportunity to work abroad is a popular prospect, one undimmed by the years of restriction due to the p… Read More
2022-11-09 07:00
Design systems ensure alignment, reusability, and consistency across a project or brand. And while we have gotten very good at breaking down UIs into reusable components, a lot of design sys… Read More
2022-11-07 14:00
October has come and gone, and with it, Next.js has released a new major version packed (pun intended) with tons of new features — some of which can be seamlessly adopted from your Nex… Read More
2022-11-04 09:00
It used to be the norm that businesses were opaque, with employees only having access to what they needed to get their work done. Over the past twenty years, though, there has been an increa… Read More
2022-11-03 07:00
You might know it already, but perhaps not yet: we regularly run friendly online workshops around front-end and design. We have a couple of workshops coming up soon, and we thought that, you… Read More
2022-11-02 14:00
When it comes to complex navigation on mobile, we often think about hamburger menus, full-page overlays, animated slide-in-menus and a wide range of nested accordions. Not all of these optio… Read More
2022-11-01 11:00
This article is a sponsored by Neo4j
GraphQL enables an API developer to model application data as a graph, and API clients that request that data to easily traverse this data graph to retri… Read More
2022-10-31 09:00
November tends to be a rather gray month in many parts of the world. So what better remedy could there be as some colorful inspiration? To bring some good vibes to your desktops and home scr… Read More
2022-10-29 12:00
We surf the web daily, and as developers, we tend to notice subtle details on a website. The one thing I take note of all the time is how smooth the animations on a website are. Animation is… Read More
2022-10-28 14:00
In this article, I’m going to explain how to implement motion controls in the browser. That means you’ll be able to create an application where you can move your hand and make ge… Read More
2022-10-26 15:00
Simply defined, the concept of typographic hierarchies refers to the visual organization of content in terms of their relative importance. In other words, the manner in which we organize the… Read More
2022-10-24 19:00
This year, I joined the team and helped design the survey together with the community which led to a number of improvements. If you write CSS frequently, investing a few minutes to fill it i… Read More
2022-10-21 12:00
I run the yearly State of CSS survey, asking developers about the CSS features and tools they use or want to learn. The survey is actually open right now, so go take it!
The goal of the surv… Read More
2022-10-20 14:00
I can’t believe it’s already been nine months since I last wrote about the new DevTools features across browsers! You folks are due for an update. And what an update this is goin… Read More
2022-10-19 12:45
To many of us, privacy might feel like a complex, abstract concept. We can’t hold privacy in our hands, we can’t touch it, we can’t explore its volume or shape with our eye… Read More
2022-10-17 12:00
Full-Site Editing is one of the main improvements added to the WordPress platform with version 5.9. It allows users to make sweeping changes to their website design and layout via a graphic… Read More
2022-10-13 15:00
Good communication is not about forcing everyone to say “Yes” or to sell something to people that they don’t want to buy. Good communication is about sharing your ideas as… Read More
2022-10-11 15:30
Sustainability is rightly becoming more widely discussed within the web development industry, just as it is an increasing concern in the wider public consciousness. Many countries around the… Read More
2022-10-10 09:00
In the first part of this article, we covered Shared Element Transitions API (SET API) and how we can use it to effortlessly create complex transitions for various UI elements, which would u… Read More
2022-10-07 08:00
The widespread adoption of chatbots was imminent with the stellar rise and consolidation of instant messaging. However, the accelerated pace at which chatbots have evolved from accepting scr… Read More
2022-10-07 06:00
Building authentication into an application is a tedious task. However, making sure this authentication is bulletproof is even harder. As developers, it’s beyond our control what the u… Read More
2022-10-05 12:00
Fluid typography is getting a lot more popular, especially since the clamp() math function is available in every evergreen browser. But if we’re honest, it’s still a lot of mathe… Read More
2022-10-03 13:00
Animations are an essential part of web design and development. They can draw attention, guide users on their journey, provide satisfying and meaningful feedback to interaction, add characte… Read More
2022-09-30 13:30
When we look closely, inspiration can lie everywhere. In the leaves shining in the most beautiful colors in many parts of the world at this time of year, in a cup of coffee and a conversatio… Read More
2022-09-29 21:00
As designers, we want to design optimal experiences for the diverse range of people a product will serve. To achieve this, we take steps in our research and design decisions to minimize the… Read More
2022-09-29 12:00
This article is a sponsored by Wix
What should you focus on when designing your security strategy? This question becomes more and more tricky as your organization grows and matures. At an in… Read More
2022-09-28 11:00
It is exciting how websites are being optimized. Localization, A/B testing, and cross-domain campaign tracking contribute to your bottom line. But why stop there? The customer experience is… Read More
2022-09-27 14:00
When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Research shows… Read More
2022-09-26 10:30
We’re so happy to be back after all these years! Let’s brush up our front-end and design skills, together — at the wonderful SmashingConf New York, with plenty of practical… Read More
2022-09-23 11:30
In the quarter-century I’ve been a product designer, design has matured. We’ve developed tools and practices that allow us to work faster, better, and more in concert with engine… Read More
2022-09-22 13:00
I’ve been using Angular since version 2, and it has come a long way since those days to what it is right now. I’ve worked on various Angular projects over the years, yet I keep f… Read More
2022-09-21 11:30
Undoubtedly, there are major advantages of inline validation. We validate input as users type, and so as people move from one green checkmark to another, we boost their confidence and create… Read More
2022-09-20 13:00
In this episode of The Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about HTML email. Do we still have to design like we would for IE5? Vitaly talks to expert Rémi Parmentier to find out… Read More
2022-09-20 08:00
This article is a sponsored by Gatsby
You may have heard things about Gatsby a few years ago, and if you’re not keeping an eye on what we’re doing today, it’s entirely unde… Read More
2022-09-19 18:00
Back in the 90s, my first operating system was Windows. Now in the 2020s, I work primarily on building web applications using the browser. Over the years, the browser’s transformed int… Read More
2022-09-16 10:00
Product ratings and reviews should provide clarity about a product’s qualities. Unfortunately, the nearly ubiquitous star rating scale can foster assumptions; it often lacks clearly de… Read More
2022-09-15 10:00
This article is a sponsored by Storyblok
We should all care more about web accessibility. It’s the best tool to make the web a more inclusive, equal space — and, in my opinion, i… Read More
2022-09-14 10:00
A couple of days ago, I revisited the awesome 2021 State of JS Survey. The state of JS is an online survey that collects data from developers around the world to see the most recent and upco… Read More
2022-09-13 10:00
This article is a sponsored by Fable
The Web Accessibility Initiative — Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) is a technical specification that provides direction on how to… Read More
2022-09-12 13:00
Every UI component brings along its unique challenges. Inventing a new solution to every problem takes time, and very often it’s really not necessary. We can rely on smart design patte… Read More
2022-09-09 08:30
Design systems have become a standard in the digital industry. Virtually every big player uses one — from Amazon over Google and Airbnb to Uber. There have been numerous studies and re… Read More
2022-09-08 13:00
Given just how complex the web has become, it’s easy to overlook some fine little details just before the big release. And sometimes it’s difficult to pick out just the right tec… Read More
2022-09-06 19:00
A long, long time ago, in a land far, far away...
By “long ago,” I mean circa 1924, and by “far away,” I mean London, UK., scientists W. D. Wright and J. Guild conduc… Read More
2022-09-06 10:00
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask how do you go from running a creative studio to designing NFTs. Vitaly talks to artist Yiying Lu to find out.
Show Notes
Yiying Lu on Twitte… Read More
2022-09-05 14:00
Privacy by design is possible, but over time, it has become challenging to build and deploy sites and apps that use personal information in practical ways that are safe and ethical. In fact… Read More
2022-09-02 10:30
A website’s primary navigation is critical to its usability and accessibility. However, navigation systems are deceptively complicated. All but the simplest websites have to deal with… Read More
2022-09-01 11:00
In Part 1, The Rise Of Serverless Databases, of the “Databases For Front-End Developers” series, we talked about the hurdles and traps of scaling and maintaining your databases… Read More
2022-09-01 08:00
This article is a sponsored by Bryntum
While there exist numerous data grid libraries with similar features out in the world, not all may adequately fit your business and app use cases. When… Read More
2022-08-31 08:45
Lush green slowly turning into yellows, reds, and browns in the Northern hemisphere; nature awakening from its slumber in the Southern part of the world: September is a time of change. A cha… Read More
2022-08-30 09:00
This article is a sponsored by Uxcel
Web design is full of people who value open collaboration and knowledge sharing. It’s a career in which you can be completely self-taught, using af… Read More
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