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Sketch vs Figma, Adobe XD, And Other UI Design Applications — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 19, 2019
For a while now, Sketch has been the application of choice for many UX and UI designers. However, we have lately seen many new contenders for Sketch’s position #1 as a universal UI design tool. Two apps that I think stand out mostly from the rest...
Privacy UX: Better Notifications UX And Permission Requests — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 18, 2019
Imagine you are late for one of those meetings that you really don’t want to be late to. You hastily put on your shoes and your coat and fetch your door keys and grasp for the door handle — just to head out in time. As you are stepping down the...
Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 17, 2019
Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. The browser doesn’t know much about our site or application as a whole, though, and often the best insights...
The User’s Perspective: Using Story Structure To Stand In Your User’s Shoes — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 16, 2019
Every user interaction with your website is part of a story. The user—the hero—finds themselves on a journey through your website on the way to their goal. If you can see this journey from their perspective, you can better understand what they need...
Privacy UX: Better Cookie Consent Experiences — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 10, 2019
With the advent of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, the web has turned into a vast exhibition of consent pop-ups, notifications, toolbars, and modals. While the intent of most cookie-related prompts is the same — to get...
Monotype redesigns Helvetica for the digital age
www.creativebloq.com Apr 9, 2019
Thanks to its clean and straightforward design, Helvetica has become one of the most ubiquitous typefaces on the planet. The Swiss typeface, which was originally created in 1957 by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann, has been updated various times...
Understanding Subresource Integrity — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 9, 2019
If you’ve ever used a CDN-hosted version of a JavaScript library, you may have noticed a strange looking integrity attribute on the script tag. This attribute contains seemingly endless alphanumeric junk that you may be tempted to strip out in the...
Font types: A designer's guide
www.creativebloq.com Apr 8, 2019
Figuring out the different font types can be confusing. In this guide, we'll go through the categories you need to know, the defining features you should be looking out for, and how to use them. It might seem like there are loads of different font...
How We Used WebAssembly To Speed Up Our Web App By 20X (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 5, 2019
If you haven’t heard, here’s the TL;DR: WebAssembly is a new language that runs in the browser alongside JavaScript. Yes, that’s right. JavaScript is no longer the only language that runs in the browser! But beyond just being “not JavaScript”, its...
Privacy UX: Common Concerns And Privacy In Web Forms — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 4, 2019
Many conversations in our industry tend to circle around strong opinions and universal answers. Choosing a shiny new technical stack or sticking to an old-school paradigm; betting on a trendy framework or building a custom light framework of your...
Going Serverless With Cloudflare Workers — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 4, 2019
(This is a sponsored article.) It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a website in pursuit of success must be in want of speed. And so, it goes serverless. At its core, serverless is a strategy for a website’s architecture, based on deploying...
Mid-century modern graphic design: a designer's guide
www.creativebloq.com Apr 3, 2019
The enduring attraction of mid-century modern design is one trend that doesn’t seem to be going away. But while we all know mid-century modern furniture – the iconic Eames’ chairs; George Nelson’s lighting – what about mid-century modern graphic...
8 great creative hobbies to start in 2019
www.creativebloq.com Apr 3, 2019
When you’ve spent all day working,  in the evenings, you just want to put your feet up and veg out in front of Netflix, right? The last thing you fancy doing is pushing your creative muscles even further. But actually, taking up a creative hobby...
How To Use Spaces In Web Design With Gestalt Principles — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Apr 1, 2019
Human brains are hardwired to connect the dots and make sense out of everything the eyes see. Design is a creative field where forms and space intermingle to lend us a variety of experiences. Whatever design we come across, our brains are hardwired...
Rundown Of Gen Z: What Does This Mean For Mobile Designers? — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Mar 29, 2019
Just a few years ago, design blogs were all abuzz with tips on how to build websites for the millennial consumer. At this point, however, that’s old news. We know what millennials want from the online experience and have, for the most part, been...
How To Align Things In CSS — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Mar 28, 2019
We have a whole selection of ways to align things in CSS today, and it isn’t always an obvious decision which to use. However, knowing what is available means that you can always try a few tactics if you come across a particular alignment problem....
Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Mar 28, 2019
(This is a sponsored article.) In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? My guess is that it’s not something your clients give much thought to, waving it...
Disrupt your design thinking
www.creativebloq.com Mar 25, 2019
Remember when you decided you wanted to be a designer? It sounded like a dream job. You’d be able to express yourself. Originate new and exciting ideas. Craft bold, game-changing visions. How’s that working out for you? It’s all too easy to feel...
How To Find And Make The Most Of The Unplanned User Journey — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Mar 25, 2019
Fallbacks can be defined as an alternative plan that may be used, and in the context of user journeys, they would be an alternative path to the expected or planned user behavior. So, when we think about our sites and apps, we build them with a...
SVG Circle Decomposition To Paths — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Mar 22, 2019
This article starts with a confession: I like to hand-code SVG. It’s not always the case but often enough it could seem peculiar to people who do not share my predilection. There are a good number of benefits in being able to write SVG by hand,...
How To Make A Speech Synthesis Editor — Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Mar 21, 2019
When Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh in 1984, it said “Hello” to us from the stage. Even at that point, speech synthesis wasn’t really a new technology: Bell Labs developed the vocoder as early as in the late 30s, and the concept of a voice...
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