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How To Convert An Infographic Into A Gifographic Using Adobe Photoshop
smashingmagazine.com Dec 13, 2018
Gifographics are the next step in the evolution of infographics. This article will take a closer look at the evolution of infographics and how to make a gifographic by using Adobe Photoshop. Visuals have played a critical role in the marketing and...
The Importance Of Macro And Micro-Moment Design
smashingmagazine.com Dec 13, 2018
It’s not just micro-moment design problems that can cause trouble. Macro design issues can result in massive UX problems, too. Let’s take a closer look at how to avoid such failures and why they are critical to the UX success of any product. (This...
Protecting Your Site With Feature Policy
smashingmagazine.com Dec 12, 2018
Feature Policy can help protect your site from third parties using APIs that have security and privacy implications, and also from your own team adding outdated APIs or poorly optimized images. Find out how. One of the web platform features...
How To Build A Real-Time App With GraphQL Subscriptions On Postgres
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 10, 2018
Building real-time applications is hard. However, GraphQL is rapidly upending this status-quo. Let’s explore what GraphQL is, and then take it for a spin by building a poll app in which users can vote and on-screen aggregated results are updated in...
What Can Be Learned From The Gutenberg Accessibility Situation?
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 7, 2018
WordPress has a brand new content editor called “Gutenberg” that is going to shape WordPress for years to come. In this article, Andy Bell explains why it’s a movement and not just a new editor. So far, Gutenberg has had a very mixed reception from...
Elements To Ditch Or Repurpose On Mobile
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 6, 2018
Give yourself a break in 2019. There’s no need to master new design techniques; most of what was on trend this year is going to stay on trend next year. Instead, think about ways in which you can clean up your clients’ mobile websites and set a...
What Is The Role Of Creativity In UX Design?
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 6, 2018
Did you know that there are three brain networks that are involved in creativity? In this article, Susan Weinschenk explores what creativity is, the recent brain science on what is happening in your brain when you are being creative, and the role...
Caching Smartly In The Age Of Gutenberg
www.smashingmagazine.com Dec 5, 2018
When optimizing the speed of our websites from the server side, caching ranks among the most critical tasks to get just right. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz examines an architecture based on self-rendering components and SSR, and analyzes how...
Boutique hotels: 10 of the world’s best design hotels
creativebloq.com Dec 4, 2018
Boutique hotels are booming. Every month, we see stunning identity and interior projects for new design-led hotels. For creatives, there’s plenty of work in this sector: but what about when it comes to staying at a design hotel? Where are the...
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like… December (2018 Wallpapers Edition)
smashingmagazine.com Nov 30, 2018
December is here, so why not spread some holiday love across your devices — we’ve got some truly eye-catching wallpapers to sweeten the last days of the year. What are you looking forward to in December? Spending time with family and friends during...
Get started with variable fonts in CSS
www.creativebloq.com Nov 29, 2018
Typography on the web allows for graphic designers to be expressive with their client’s messages. The web has come a long way with typography, from only allowing fonts that are installed on the user's computer, to now having a whole raft of weird...
A beginner's guide to working with colour in watercolour
creativebloq.com Nov 28, 2018
An Extensive Guide To Progressive Web Applications
smashingmagazine.com Nov 27, 2018
In this article, we’ll look at the pain points of users who are browsing old non-PWA websites and the promise of PWAs to make the web great. You’ll learn most of the important technologies that make for cool PWAs, like service workers, web push...
The 12.9" iPad Pro Giveaway
creativebloq.com Nov 26, 2018
Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Automatically Inlined Code
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 26, 2018
Overusing inline CSS or JS code, as opposed to serving code through static resources, can harm the site’s performance. In this article, we will learn how to load dynamic code through static files instead, avoiding the drawbacks of too much inline...
5 reasons why you should be using code-based design tools
creativebloq.com Nov 26, 2018
We're in the middle of the biggest change in UI design tools since the beginning of design tools in the 70s. Code-based design tools are picking up traction and getting ready to take over a market dominated by old school illustration tools. So...
Traditional branding is dead
www.creativebloq.com Nov 22, 2018
Skyhooks and stripy paint. Literally making something out of nothing. Sounds like a classic agency swindle doesn’t it? Only it’s not. It’s a very real and highly critical emerging issue that everyone in our sector needs to address, now. It may well...
5 huge illustration trends for 2019
www.creativebloq.com Nov 22, 2018
In a broad arena like illustration, which stretches across national borders and multiple media (from packaging design to posters, newsprint to digital, boxes and billboards, print ads and beyond), identifying trends accurately is a bit of a...
6 huge logo trends for 2019
www.creativebloq.com Nov 21, 2018
As humans, we naturally seek out and identify patterns; it’s how we’re programmed. So when it comes to logo design, as with all design work, it's natural to look for identifiable trends. But there’s also a lot of confusion, and often wishful...
Implications Of Thinking In Blocks Instead Of Blobs
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 20, 2018
What does Gutenberg bring to the future of WordPress? In this article, Leonardo Losoviz shares a number of implications of building sites through a component-based architecture (as the concept) and through Gutenberg (as the implementation),...
Build An Interactive Infographic With Vue.js
www.smashingmagazine.com Nov 19, 2018
Have you ever had a requirement in which you had to design and build an interactive web experience but the grid system fell short? Furthermore, the design elements turned into unusual shapes that just wouldn’t fit into the regular web layouts? In...
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