Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More No design exists in isolation. As designers, we often imagine specific situations in which people will use our product. It might be indeed quite common — but there will also be other — urgent, frustrating, stressful situations. And they are the […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Picture this: you join a new project, dive into the codebase, and within the first few hours, you discover something frustratingly familiar. Scattered throughout the stylesheets, you find multiple @keyframes definitions for the same basic animations. Three different fade-in effects, two […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by Cloudways If you build or manage websites for a living, you know the feeling. Your day is a constant juggle; one moment you’re fine-tuning a design, the next you’re troubleshooting a slow server or a […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More When you plug in a controller, you mash buttons, move the sticks, pull the triggers… and as a developer, you see none of it. The browser’s picking it up, sure, but unless you’re logging numbers in the console, it’s invisible. That’s […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More I’ve been in front-end development long enough to see a trend over the years: younger developers working with a new paradigm of programming without understanding the historical context of it. It is, of course, perfectly understandable to not know something. The […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by DebugBear There’s no single way to measure website performance. That said, the Core Web Vitals metrics that Google uses as a ranking factor are a great starting point, as they cover different aspects of visitor […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More I explained recently how I use <symbol>, <use>, and CSS Media Queries to develop what I call adaptive SVGs. Symbols let us define an element once and then use it again and again, making SVG animations easier to maintain, more efficient, […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Let’s dive into the building blocks of UX strategy and see how it speaks the language of product and business strategy to create user value while achieving company goals. Part of theMeasure UX & Design Impact(use the code 🎟IMPACTto save 20% […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More With component variants, design systems become more flexible, letting you reuse the same component while adapting its look or state with ease. In this article, Daniel Schwarz demonstrates how design tokens can be leveraged to manage components and their variations using […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More The new month is just around the corner, and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! All of them are designed by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy! November can feel a bit […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Here is a lesson on Iterators: iterables implement the iterable iteration interface, and iterators implement the iterator iteration interface. Sounds confusing? Mat breaks it all down in the article. Hey, I’m Mat, but “Wilto” works too — I’m here to teach […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More First, a recap: Ambient animations are the kind of passive movements you might not notice at first. However, they bring a design to life in subtle ways. Elements might subtly transition between colours, move slowly, or gradually shift position. Elements can […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More I have made a lot of mistakes with AI over the past couple of years. I have wasted hours trying to get it to do things it simply cannot do. I have fed it terrible prompts and received terrible output. And […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In the early days of my career, I believed that nothing wins an argument more effectively than strong and unbiased research. Surely facts speak for themselves, I thought. If I just get enough data, just enough evidence, just enough clarity on […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Last year, a study found that cars are steadily getting less colourful. In the US, around 80% of cars are now black, white, gray, or silver, up from 60% in 2004. This trend has been attributed to cost savings and consumer […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More I’ve written quite a lot recently about how I prepare and optimise SVG code to use as static graphics or in animations. I love working with SVG, but there’s always been something about them that bugs me. To illustrate how I […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In Part 1 of this series, we explored the “lopsided horse” problem born from mockup-centric design and demonstrated how the seductive promise of vibe coding often leads to structural flaws. The main question remains: How might we close the gap between […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More As September comes to a close and October takes over, we are in the midst of a time of transition. The air in the morning feels crisper, the leaves are changing colors, and winding down with a warm cup of tea […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In “A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer”, Kate stumbled her way through an AI-augmented sprint (coffee was chugged, mistakes were made). In “Prompting Is A Design Act”, we introduced WIRE+FRAME, a framework to structure prompts like designers structure […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More There is a spectrum of opinions on how dramatically all creative professions will be changed by the coming wave of agentic AI, from the very skeptical to the wildly optimistic and even apocalyptic. I think that even if you are on […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Unlike timeline-based animations, which tell stories across a sequence of events, or interaction animations that are triggered when someone touches something, ambient animations are the kind of passive movements you might not notice at first. But, they make a design look […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Misuse and misplaced trust of AI is becoming an unfortunate common event. For example, lawyers trying to leverage the power of generative AI for research submit court filings citing multiple compelling legal precedents. The problem? The AI had confidently, eloquently, and […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More As responsible digital professionals, we are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of our work and need to find effective and pragmatic ways to reduce it. James Chudley shares a new decarbonising approach that will help you to minimise the […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More From competitive SEO research and monitoring prices to training AI and parsing local geographic data, real-time search results power smarter apps. Tools like SerpApi make it easy to pull, customize, and integrate this data directly into your app or website. SerpApi […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More For too long, personas have been something that many of us just created, despite the considerable work that goes into them, only to find they have limited usefulness. Paul Boag shows how to breathe new life into this stale UX asset […]