Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Illustration has been used for 10,000 years. One of the first ever recorded drawings was of a hand silhouette found in Spain, that is more than 66,000 years old. Fast forward to the introduction of the internet, around 1997, illustration has […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More As expected from anyone who has ever tried building anything solo, my goal was not to build an app but the app — the one app that’s so good you wonder how you ever survived without it. I had everything in […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by DebugBear I was chatting with DebugBear’s Matt Zeunert and, in the process, he casually mentioned this thing called Tight Mode when describing how browsers fetch and prioritize resources. I wanted to nod along like I […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More The list of attributes available in HTML is long and well-documented. Even if you haven’t memorized them (and there’s totally nothing wrong with an author… er… random person off the street, who has), there are a bunch of places where HTML […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic. Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if you’re not equipped to deal with them. This can result in a loss […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In 2024, Artificial Intelligence (AI) hit the limelight with major advancements. The problem with reaching common knowledge and so much public attention so quickly is that the term becomes ambiguous. While we all have an approximation of what it means to […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Component-specific styling, styling parents based on their children, relative colors — the web platform is going through exciting times, and many things that required JavaScript in the past can today be achieved with one simple line of HTML and CSS. As […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Maybe 2025 has already started as you’re reading this, maybe you’re still waiting for the big countdown to begin — either way, it’s never too late or too early for some New Year’s inspiration! Our new collection of desktop wallpapers has […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Many design leaders find themselves in an impossible situation. On one side, senior management have read articles trumpeting the incredible ROI of user experience design. McKinsey tells us that design-led companies achieve 56% higher returns to shareholders. Forrester reports that every […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More What makes an incredible project? Is it the client? The type of project? An exorbitant budget? While those things help to create the environment in which a great project can thrive, what truly makes a project something powerful is you. No, […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More You can safely use scroll-driven animations in Chrome as of December 2024. Firefox supports them, too, though you’ll need to enable a flag. Safari? Not yet, but don’t worry — you can still offer a seamless experience across all browsers with […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More So, I love drawing birds with code. Inspired by my brother’s love for birdwatching, I admire the uniqueness of their feathers, colors, and sounds. But what I notice most is the way their bodies curve and different birds can have dramatically […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Graceful degradation is a design approach that ensures the basics of a website will still function even if specific individual parts of it stop working. The approach removes single points of failure: just because one thing stops working doesn’t mean the […]
Source: Medium.design - Medium | Read More A simple trick with Figma variables A Bit of Context How do I change the appearance of my fixed button depending on the chosen payment method? Above is a screenshot of a prototype I worked on for mobile purchase funnel iterations. I work as a product designer at Medium, mostly […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More It’s the end of the year, and as we look at our inventory, we thought, “Let’s help everyone in our community get ready for the year ahead!” Get friendly pricing on bundles of books and workshops to dive deep into the […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More For a multistep form, planning involves structuring questions logically across steps, grouping similar questions, and minimizing the number of steps and the amount of required information for each step. Whatever makes each step focused and manageable is what should be aimed […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More As the year is coming to a close, many of us feel rushed, meeting deadlines, finishing off projects, or preparing for the upcoming holiday season. So how about some beautiful, wintery desktop wallpapers to sweeten up the month and get you […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More The groundwork for what we call today “signals” dates as early as the 1970s. Based on this work, they became popular with different fields of computer science, defining them more specifically around the 90s and the early 2000s. In Web Development, […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More On Thursday, October 10, 2024, I gave my first talk at an international event, the WordPress Accessibility Day (WPAD) 2024. Just a few months before, I was a newcomer to the world of web accessibility. Yet here I was, speaking to […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More As I sit down to write this article, I can’t help but marvel at the incredible changes sweeping through our industry. For the first time in my career, I feel like we’re no longer limited by our technology but by our […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by Penpot Penpot is a free, open-source design tool that allows true collaboration between designers and developers. Designers can create interactive prototypes and design systems at scale, while developers enjoy ready-to-use code and make their workflow […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More It’s the end of the year, and as we look at our inventory, we thought, “Let’s help everyone in our community get ready for the year ahead!” Get friendly pricing on bundles of books and workshops to dive deep into the […]
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 […]
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 […]