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November 8, 2024
Alternatives To Typical Technical Illustrations And Data Visualisations

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Thomas Bohm rethinks technical illustrations and data visualizations, sharing interesting and uncommon examples of how to present data and information. Bar graphs and pie charts are great, but there’s so much more to explore! Good technical illustrations and data visualisations allow […]

November 5, 2024
Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Feeling good with your Lighthouse score of 100%? You should! But you should also know that you’re only looking at part of the performance picture. Learn how Lighthouse scores are measured differently than other tools, the impact that has on measuring […]

October 31, 2024
About Medium’s new(ish) logo

Source: Medium.design - Medium | Read More You might have noticed a change to Medium’s logo and app icon. Here’s why and how we did it. Alright, yes, we changed the logo again. Sort of. But not really that much at all. It’s for a good reason, we promise. Hear us out. This year has been one […]

October 31, 2024
Ingredients For A Cozy November (2024 Wallpapers Edition)

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More November is just around the corner and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Created with love by the community for the community, they are available in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy! When the days are gray […]

October 30, 2024
Designing For Gen Z: Expectations And UX Guidelines

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More There are many myths revolving around Gen Z and how they use tech. Time to take a look at actual behavior patterns that go beyond heavy use of social media. Part of Smart Interface Design Patterns by yours truly. Every generation […]

October 17, 2024
CSS min() All The Things

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Victor Ayomipo experiments with the CSSmin()function, exploring its flexibility with different units to determine if it is the be-all, end-all for responsiveness. Discover the cautions he highlights against dogmatic approaches to web design based on his findings. Did you see this […]

October 15, 2024
It’s Here! How To Measure UX & Design Impact, With Vitaly Friedman

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Design decisions shouldn’t be a matter of personal preference. We can use reliable design KPIs and UX metrics to guide and shape our design work and measure its impact on business. Meet How To Measure UX and Design Impact, our new […]

October 11, 2024
Using Multimodal AI Models For Your Applications (Part 3)

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More You’ve covered a lot with Joas Pambou so far in this series. In Part 1, you built a system using a vision-language model (VLM) and a text-to-speech (TTS) model to create audio descriptions of images. In Part 2, you improved the […]

October 7, 2024
Build A Static RSS Reader To Fight Your Inner FOMO

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More RSS is a classic technology that fetches content from websites and feeds it to anyone who subscribes to it with a URL. It’s based on XML, and we can use it to consume the feeds in our own apps. Karin Hendrikse […]

October 4, 2024
How A Bottom-Up Design Approach Enhances Site Accessibility

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More You can’t overstate the importance of accessible website design. By the same token, bottom-up philosophies are crucial in modern site-building. A detail-oriented approach makes it easier to serve a more diverse audience along several fronts. Making the most of this opportunity […]

October 2, 2024
Interview With Björn Ottosson, Creator Of The Oklab Color Space

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Go behind the scenes with Björn Ottosson, the Swedish engineer who created Oklab color space, and discover how he developed a simple yet effective model with good hue uniformity while also handling lightness and saturation well — and is “okay” to […]

September 30, 2024
Crows, Ghosts, And Autumn Bliss (October 2024 Wallpapers Edition)

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Could there be a better way to celebrate the beginning of a new month than with a collection of desktop wallpapers? We’ve got some eye-catching designs to sweeten up your October. Enjoy! The leaves are shining in the most beautiful colors […]

September 27, 2024
How To Manage Dangerous Actions In User Interfaces

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More One of the main laws that applies to almost everything in our lives, including building digital products, is Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Our goal is to prevent things from going wrong and, if they do, […]

September 23, 2024
The Timeless Power Of Spreadsheets

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In this age of endless newfangled organizational tools, the spreadsheet holds firm. Frederick O’Brien explains how, from engineering to design, they can still provide a rock-solid foundation for your work. Part of me can’t believe I’m writing this article. Applying the […]

September 19, 2024
Embracing Introversion In UX

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More I place myself firmly in the category of being an introvert when it comes to my role as a UX researcher. I love the process of planning and executing research. I have never felt a need to be the loudest or […]

September 18, 2024
SVG Coding Examples: Useful Recipes For Writing Vectors By Hand

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Even though I am the kind of front-end engineer who manually cleans up SVG files when they are a mess, I never expected to become one of those people. You know, those crazy people that draw with code. But here we […]

September 17, 2024
Creating Custom Lottie Animations With SVGator

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by SVGator SVGator has gone through a series of updates since our last article, which was published in 2021, when it was already considered to be the most advanced web-based tool for vector animation. The first […]

September 12, 2024
How To Build Custom Data Visualizations Using Luzmo Flex

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by Luzmo In this article, I’ll introduce you to Luzmo Flex, a new feature from the Luzmo team who have been working hard making developer tooling to flatten the on-ramp for analytics reporting and data visualization. […]

September 10, 2024
Why Anticipatory Design Isn’t Working For Businesses

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Consider the early days of the internet, when websites like NBC News and Amazon cluttered their pages with flashing banners and labyrinthine menus. In the early 2000s, Steve Krug’s book Don’t Make Me Think arrived like a lighthouse in a storm, […]

September 6, 2024
How To Create A Weekly Google Analytics Report That Posts To Slack

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Google Analytics is great, but not everyone in your organization will be granted access. In many places I’ve worked, it was on a kind of “need to know” basis. In this article, I’m gonna flip that on its head and show […]

September 5, 2024
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More I was recently asked by a student to help with a seemingly simple problem. She’d been working on a website for a coffee shop that sports a sticky header, and she wanted the hero section right underneath that header to span […]

September 3, 2024
The Big Difference Between Digital Product And Web Design

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In the early days of the web, I remember how annoying it was when print designers would claim they could design websites, too. They assumed that just because they could design for one medium, they could design for the other. That […]

August 31, 2024
Goodbye Summer, Hello September (2024 Wallpapers Edition)

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Lush green slowly turning into yellows and reds in the Northern hemisphere; nature reawakening in the Southern part of the world: September is a time of change. A chance to leave old habits behind and embrace the beginning of something new. […]

August 30, 2024
Integrating Image-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Models (Part 2)

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In Part 1 of this brief two-part series, we developed an application that turns images into audio descriptions using vision-language and text-to-speech models. We combined an image-to-text that analyses and understands images, generating description, with a text-to-speech model to create an […]

August 26, 2024
Generating Unique Random Numbers In JavaScript Using Sets

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Want to create more randomized effects in your JavaScript code? TheMath.random()method alone, with its limitations, won’t cut it for generating unique random numbers. Amejimaobari Ollornwi explains how to generate a series of unique random numbers using theSetobject, how to use these […]

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