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Responsible JavaScript: Part II
alistapart.com Jun 13, 2019
You and the rest of the dev team lobbied enthusiastically for a total re-architecture of the company’s aging website. Your pleas were heard by management—even up to the C-suite—who gave the green light. Elated, you and the team started working with...
Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jun 13, 2019
One look at me is going to tell you I’m not much of an adventurer. I don’t consider myself particularly cultured and my wife jokes regularly about what she says is my lack of style. So what drew me to Avaunt magazine and its coverage of...
Bringing A Healthy Code Review Mindset To Your Team — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jun 12, 2019
A ‘code review’ is a moment in the development process in which you (as a developer) and your colleagues work together and look for bugs within a recent piece of code before it gets released. In such a moment, you can be either the code author or...
Styling In Modern Web Apps — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jun 10, 2019
If you search for how to style apps for the web, you’ll come across many different approaches and libraries, some even changing day by day. Block Element Modifier (BEM); preprocessors such as Less and SCSS; CSS-in-JS libraries, including JSS and...
Web Accessibility In Context — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jun 7, 2019
Haben Girma, disability rights advocate and Harvard Law’s first deafblind graduate, made the following statement in her keynote address at the AccessU digital accessibility conference last month: She charmed and impressed the audience, telling us...
Resilient Management, An Excerpt
alistapart.com Jun 6, 2019
In Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development, the Storming stage happens as a group begins to figure out how to work together. Previously, each person had been doing their own thing as individuals, so necessarily a few things need to be ironed out: how...
Image Optimization In WordPress — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jun 6, 2019
A slow website is everyone’s concern. Not only that it chases visitors away but it also affects your SEO. So trying to keep it ‘in shape’ is definitely one of the main items to tick when you run a business or even a personal site. There are many...
How To Start Using Sketch And Framer X — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jun 5, 2019
When it comes to showing the transition, interaction and animation of elements in the user interface, a prototyping tool like Framer X can make a difference in the way you communicate your vision to the team and stakeholders and as a result, boost...
When Do We Need A Design System? An Interview With Brad Frost — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Jun 3, 2019
Design systems have been around for quite some time. We’ve even published a book on design systems, yet just as they can be difficult to maintain, how do we know when we actually need one in the first place? Design systems are a wonderful yet...
Daily Ethical Design
alistapart.com May 30, 2019
Ideally, in every design project, we should assess the potential impact in all of the above-mentioned areas and take steps to prevent harm. Yet there are many legitimate, understandable reasons why we often neglect to do so. It’s easy to have moral...
Should Chatbots Replace Forms On Mobile? — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com May 29, 2019
I recently was on Jeff Bullas’ website when I encountered a pop-up promoting an ebook. Nothing about that seemed too out of the ordinary. However, what struck me as odd was that the CTA wasn’t an Email field and “Submit” button. Instead, it just...
Demystifying JAMstack: An Interview With Phil Hawskworth — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com May 27, 2019
Some of you might have heard of JAMstack, and perhaps even about how to switch from WordPress to Hugo, but is JAMstack a viable option for any kind of project? I spoke with Phil Hawksworth, a front-end engineer who (after 9 years of working at...
Digging Into The Display Property: Grids All The Way Down — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com May 24, 2019
Today, we are going to take a look at what happens when we use display: grid and how we might use the new subgrid value of grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows to allow for grids all the way down through our markup, which relate to each...
The best new web design tools of 2019 so far
www.creativebloq.com May 23, 2019
The world of the web moves quickly, and keeping up to date with new web design tools can often be a job in itself; no-one wants to be using old tools and techniques when there are new ones available that make your life easier and enable you to...
Switching From WordPress To Hugo — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com May 22, 2019
When WordPress 5 was released, I was excited about making use of the Gutenberg editor to create custom blocks, as posts on my personal blog had a couple of features I could turn into a block, making it easier to set up my content. It was definitely...
Vue.js And SEO: How To Optimize Reactive Websites For Search Engines And Bots — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com May 21, 2019
Reactive JavaScript Frameworks (such as React, Vue.js, and Angular) are all the rage lately, and it’s no wonder that they are being used in more and more websites and applications due to their flexibility, modularity, and ease of automated testing....
10 new web design tools for May 2019
www.creativebloq.com May 17, 2019
We're always on the lookout for hot new web design tools that can save you some precious time and improve your workflow. Every stage of building a website is covered this month, from planning your layout, creating colour schemes and adding...
5 Common Design Mistakes that Disappoint Users | Webdesigner Depot
www.webdesignerdepot.com May 17, 2019
Designing an interactive interface or a website is not an easy feat. You have to analyze everything about your audience, in the first place their behavior, and then implement thorough planning. New technologies are making it easier but they are...
8 golden rules of mobile design
www.creativebloq.com May 16, 2019
Mobile design is a relatively new but vital consideration. Just a decade ago, designing for the web meant designing for a desktop computer; now it means designing for mobile devices too. Mobile phones are driving an increasing amount of web traffic...
Creating Your Own React Validation Library: The Basics (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com May 16, 2019
I’ve always thought form validation libraries were pretty cool. I know, it’s a niche interest to have — but we use them so much! At least in my job — most of what I do is constructing more or less complex forms with validation rules that depend on...
Does Your Web Design Business Need a Rebrand? | Webdesigner Depot
www.webdesignerdepot.com May 16, 2019
How long ago did you start your design business or side gig? Three months? Three years? And how long has it been since you evaluated your business since then? As a web designer, your job is to think critically and creatively for your clients, which...
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