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Fresh Inspiration For March And A Smashing Winner (2021 Wallpapers Edition)
smashingmagazine.com Feb 28, 2021
More than ten years ago, we embarked on our monthly wallpapers adventure to provide you with new and inspiring wallpaper calendars each month anew. This month, the challenge came with a little twist: As we announced in the February wallpapers post,...
Building User Trust In UX Design
smashingmagazine.com Feb 26, 2021
Building trust is one of the central goals of user experience design. And yet trust is a concept that’s very hard to define in a precise manner. We all know it when we feel it but often fall short of putting it in words. Being able to turn the...
The Future of Web Software Is HTML-over-WebSockets
alistapart.com Feb 25, 2021
The future of web-based software architectures is already taking form, and this time it’s server-rendered (again). Papa’s got a brand new bag: HTML-over-WebSockets and broadcast everything all the time. The dual approach of marrying a Single Page...
Create Responsive Image Effects With CSS Gradients And aspect-ratio
smashingmagazine.com Feb 23, 2021
To prepare for our future image effects, we’re going to set up a card component that has a large image at the top followed by a headline and description. The common problem with this setup is that we may not always have perfect control over what...
State Of GDPR In 2021: Key Updates And What They Mean
smashingmagazine.com Feb 22, 2021
The EU’s directives have impacted virtually every digital professional as products and services are designed with GDPR in mind, regardless of whether you’re a web design company in Wisconsin or a marketer in Malta. The far-reaching implications of...
Building Your Own Personal Learning Curriculum
smashingmagazine.com Feb 19, 2021
After completing a bootcamp in March 2019, I was overwhelmed by the choice of frameworks, libraries, languages, and courses I had to choose from to continue independent learning and hopefully score myself one of those elusive junior developer jobs....
Designing Inclusive Content Models
alistapart.com Feb 18, 2021
In the 1920s, Robert Moses designed a system of parkways surrounding New York City. His designs, which included overpasses too low for public buses, have become an often-cited example of exclusionary design and are argued by biographer Robert A....
Context And Variables In The Hugo Static Site Generator
smashingmagazine.com Feb 18, 2021
In this article, we’ll take a close look at how context works in the Hugo static site generator. We’ll examine how data flows from content to templates, how certain constructs change what data is available, and how we can pass on this data to...
Useful DevTools Tips And Shortcuts (Chrome, Firefox, Edge)
smashingmagazine.com Feb 16, 2021
Out of all the tools available at our fingertips these days, DevTools is probably one of the most advanced ones. Over the years, it has become a tool for debugging, profiling, auditing and even prototyping — all living within the same interface,...
Optimizing Video For Size And Quality
smashingmagazine.com Feb 15, 2021
Over the last few years, more and more projects are using video as an integral part of the application. This is a great direction, as videos are more engaging than still photos (videos can double conversion rate and increase time spent on site),...
Things To Expect From A Smashing Workshop: Form Design Masterclass
smashingmagazine.com Feb 15, 2021
It took me around six months on and off to write the content for the workshop. After a lot of deliberation, I decided to structure it like I do in my book, Form Design Patterns. It was a 4-day workshop split into two 45-minute segments, with...
What Saul Bass Can Teach Us About Web Design
smashingmagazine.com Feb 12, 2021
Web design exists at a lovely intersection of different disciplines. In previous articles, I’ve written about the lessons to be learned from newspapers and from ancient Roman architects. This time we’ll be looking at one of the all-time great...
The Never-Ending Job of Selling Design Systems
alistapart.com Feb 11, 2021
I’m willing to bet that you probably didn’t start your web career because you wanted to be a politician or a salesperson. But here’s the cold, hard truth, friend: if you want to work on design systems, you don’t have a choice. Someone has to pay...
Building A Web App With React, Redux And Sanity.io
smashingmagazine.com Feb 11, 2021
The fast evolution of digital platforms have placed serious limitations on traditional CMS like Wordpress. These platforms are coupled, inflexible and are focused on the project, rather than the product. Thankfully, several headless CMS have been...
Getting The Most Out Of Git
smashingmagazine.com Feb 9, 2021
Not a single project today will get away without some sort of version control with Git under the hood. Knowing Git well helps you become a better developer, boost your developer’s workflow and truly improve the quality of your code base. However,...
Managing CSS Z-Index In Large Projects
smashingmagazine.com Feb 8, 2021
There are several articles that explain z-index (here’s a good one), since it continues to trip up developers of all experience levels. I do not think that the number of articles is a sign that none of them do a good job at explaining it, but that...
Improving Your Team’s Communication In The Age Of Remote Work
smashingmagazine.com Feb 5, 2021
Products are not built in isolation. A big part of our professional lives is spent discussing, brainstorming, and deciding alongside others. No matter our field of expertise we need our team’s knowledge to amplify our own. With the rise of remote...
Top 9 Tips For Optimizing Images in 2021
webdesignerdepot.com Feb 4, 2021
The ‘need for speed’ is an essential item on every website’s bucket list these days. And why not? Enhanced speed is directly responsible for converting traffic into paying clients. Anyone in any industry wishes to boost their website’s loading...
Designing Better Tooltips For Mobile User Interfaces
smashingmagazine.com Feb 3, 2021
Ideally, mobile designs would be seamless with no need for technical documentation, online help, or tooltips. In reality, even the best designs can benefit from supplemental information. A tooltip provides this supplemental information when users...
How To Port Your Web App To Microsoft Teams
smashingmagazine.com Feb 2, 2021
Perhaps you are using Microsoft Teams at work and want to build an app that runs inside Teams. Or maybe you’ve already published an app on another platform and want to gain more users on Teams. In this article, we’ll see how to build a new web...
Things You Can Do With CSS Today
smashingmagazine.com Feb 1, 2021
CSS is great and getting better all the time. Over recent years, especially, it has evolved really fast, too. Understandably, some of the really handy powers CSS gives you might have slipped you by because of this, so in this article, I’m going to...
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