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The Untapped Power of Vulnerability & Transparency in Content Strategy
alistapart.com Aug 22, 2019
In marketing, transparency and vulnerability are unjustly stigmatized. The words conjure illusions of being frightened, imperfect, and powerless. And for companies that shove carefully curated personas in front of users, little is more terrifying...
Testing Made Easier Via Framework Minimalism And Software Architecture Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Aug 22, 2019
Like many other Android developers, my initial foray into testing on the platform lead me to be immediately confronted with a demoralizing degree of jargon. Further, what few examples I came across at the time (circa 2015) did not present practical...
Bringing A Better Design Process To Your Organization Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Aug 21, 2019
As user experience (UX) designers and researchers, the most common complaint we hear from users is: In fact, many organizations have teams dedicated to delivering what users and customers need. More and more software developers are eager to work...
How To Build A Real-Time Multiplayer Virtual Reality Game (Part 1) Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Aug 20, 2019
In this tutorial series, we will build a web-based multiplayer virtual reality game in which players will need to collaborate to solve a puzzle. We will use A-Frame for VR modeling, MirrorVR for cross-device real-time synchronization, and A-Frame...
Pitching Your Writing To Publications Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Aug 19, 2019
Recently, I had a chat with Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert over on the Shoptalk Podcast about writing for publications such as Smashing Magazine and CSS-Tricks. One of the things we talked about was submitting ideas to publications something that...
Explore data visualisation with p5.js
www.creativebloq.com Aug 15, 2019
p5.js is the most recent JavaScript implementation of the famous desktop creative coding environment Processing. It takes much of the power and ease of use of Processing and puts it into your browser. It helps you draw in canvas but also integrates...
The (Upcoming) WordPress Renaissance Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Aug 15, 2019
It has been 8 months since Gutenberg was launched as the default content editor in WordPress. Depending who you ask, you may hear that Gutenberg is the worst or the best thing that has happened to WordPress (or anything in between). But something...
Push your character designs further with this workout
www.creativebloq.com Aug 14, 2019
At the heart of any creative project is communication and storytelling. Whether thats something as intangible as a wordless comic strip, a single illustrated figure conveying an emotion, a TV ad telling us to buy something, or a government...
Smashing TV Interviews: The Mozilla View Source Line-Up Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Aug 14, 2019
Smashing TV has been working with our friends over at Mozilla to bring you content from their upcoming View Source conference in Amsterdam. Were really excited about the event that they are putting together. Here on Smashing Magazine, we often...
The 10 best audio logos and why they work
www.creativebloq.com Aug 13, 2019
Audio logos might seem like an odd concept. After all, when you think about logos, you probably think of something visual. But branding is not just about what we see, but what we hear, too. And so in recent years, the phrases 'audio logo', 'sonic...
Creating Authentic Human Connections Within A Remote Team Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Aug 12, 2019
On any given day, walk into your local coffee shop and youll likely see someone situated at a table, staring into a computer screen. Without knowing any details, one things for sure, its obvious theyre at work. Many of us have been there at...
Handling Unused CSS In SASS To Improve Performance Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Aug 9, 2019
In modern front-end development, developers should aim to write CSS which is scalable and maintainable. Otherwise, they risk losing control over specifics such as the cascade and selector specificity as the codebase grows and more developers...
An Essential Tool for Capturing Your Career Accomplishments
alistapart.com Aug 8, 2019
Imagine youre ready to apply for your next job. Like most busy professionals, you probably havent updated your résumé or your portfolio since you looked for your current job. Now you need to update both, and you cant remember what work youve...
Making Peace With The Feast Or Famine Of Freelancing Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Aug 2, 2019
Its embarrassing to admit particularly as I host a podcast about this very subject but I dramatically dropped the ball when it came to booking in projects for this past spring. It just suddenly happened. I was finishing up two major contracts...
Getting to the Heart of Digital Accessibility
alistapart.com Aug 1, 2019
Quick! Think of the word developer or coder whats the first thing that comes to mind? Maybe a whiteish male in his twenties living in a busy metropolis, wearing a nerdy t-shirt and hoodie? Someone a bit like Mark Zuckerberg? Or maybe a...
Text To Speech With AWS Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Aug 1, 2019
This two-part series presents three projects that teach you how to use AWS (Amazon Web Services) to transform text between its written and spoken states. The first project will use text to speech to turn a blog post or other written content into a...
Simplify The Handoff From Sketch To Visual Studio Code With Indigo.Design Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jul 31, 2019
(This is a sponsored article.) If you think about it, software teams are a lot like sports teams. While each team member works towards the same exact goal, the role they play and the actions they take are vastly different from one another. Which is...
I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jul 29, 2019
This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop...
How to design video games cinematics you won't want to skip
www.creativebloq.com Jul 29, 2019
Cinematics are crucial to the world of video games. Although they rarely receive the same attention as in-game elements such as video game characters, they serve a variety of purposes, from advancing the story of a game to promoting its release....
Should You Create An MVP Before Creating An App? — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jul 26, 2019
Can you afford to gamble on an idea for an app or on an assumption about how consumers will respond to it? I bet your clients aren’t too comfortable doing that either, especially when it’s their money and reputation on the line. An app can be a...
Designing And Building A Progressive Web Application Without A Framework (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jul 25, 2019
The raison d’être of this adventure was to push your humble author a little in the disciplines of visual design and JavaScript coding. The functionality of the application I’d decided to build was not dissimilar to a ‘to do’ application. It is...
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