Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More With December just around the corner, how about some new desktop wallpapers to welcome the last month of the year — and the holiday season, if you’re celebrating? Our latest edition of monthly wallpapers has got you covered. Enjoy! As the […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too. From image classification to click-based tests, many “human checks” are anything but inclusive. There’s no universal solution, but understanding real user needs is where […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More We’re so happy to announce that “Maturing Design Systems”—a Smashing book by Ben Callahan — will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s insights and advice are so powerful, we thought you might like to read an excerpt from the book. […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of theMeasure UX & Design Impact(use the code 🎟IMPACTto save 20% off today). With alive UX trainingstarting next week. No design exists in isolation. As designers, we often […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Animations can be one of the most joyful parts of building interfaces, but without structure, they can also become one of the biggest sources of frustration. By consolidating and standardizing keyframes, you take something that is usually messy and hard to […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Server chaos doesn’t have to be the norm. AI-ready infrastructure and automation can bring clarity, performance, and focus back to your web work. If you build or manage websites for a living, you know the feeling. Your day is a constant […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Debugging controllers can be a real pain. Here’s a deep dive into how CSS helps clean it up and how to build a reusable visual debugger for your own projects. When you plug in a controller, you mash buttons, move the […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More There are many existing web features and technologies in the wild that you may never touch directly in your day-to-day work. Perhaps you’re fairly new to web development and are simply unaware of them because you’re steeped in the abstraction of […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More There are lots of tips for improving your website performance. But even if you follow all of the advice, are you able to maintain an optimized site? And are you targeting the right pages? Matt Zeunert outlines an effective strategy for […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More SVG is one of those web technologies that’s both elegant and, at times, infuriating. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke explains his technique for animating SVG elements that are hidden in the Shadow DOM. I explained recently […]
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 […]