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Neville Brody on Navigating the Shifting Identity of Graphic Design
eyeondesign.aiga.org Mar 4, 2021
Creating An Outside Focus And Click Handler React Component
smashingmagazine.com Mar 3, 2021
Oftentimes we need to detect when a click has happened outside of an element or when the focus has shifted outside of it. Some of the evident examples for this use case are fly-out menus, dropdowns, tooltips and popovers. Let’s start the process of...
The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters
smashingmagazine.com Mar 2, 2021
Things have changed quite a bit over the last decade when we just started exploring what we could do on a tiny, shiny mobile screen. These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic, it’s fair to assume that the very first...
State Of GDPR In 2021: Cookie Consent For Designers And Developers
smashingmagazine.com Mar 1, 2021
Last week, I gave you an update on everything that’s happened with GDPR since 2018. (TL;DR: A lot has changed.) In this article, we’ll look at cookie consent: specifically, the paradox where marketers are heavily reliant on Google Analytics cookie...
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...
7 Essential Content Marketing Tips To Grow Your Brand in 2021
justcreative.com Feb 25, 2021
There’s no question that content is vital to attaining your business goals nowadays. Whether you’re writing blog posts, recording podcasts, creating courses, or developing TikTok lenses, you’re moving in the right direction. After all, people don’t...
Building A Discord Bot Using Discord.js
smashingmagazine.com Feb 25, 2021
Team communication platforms are getting popular day by day, as more and more people work from home. Slack and Discord are two of the most popular team communication platforms. While Discord is focused on gamers, some functionality, such as the...
Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed
smashingmagazine.com Feb 24, 2021
I’ve been designing forms for over 20 years now, and I’ve tested many of them for large organizations like Boots, Just Eat and Gov.uk. One topic that comes up a lot with forms is: where to put the label. In the early days, we talked about...
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....
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...
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...
How to Create Cinematic Photos For Social Media
justcreative.com Feb 10, 2021
Making your brand’s photos stand out on social media is a constant challenge, as is creating attractive imagery for your blog and website. This guide will provide you with a wealth of ideas for making your photos cinematic and engaging, tapping...
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,...
Smashing Podcast Episode 35 With Stephanie Stimac & Melanie Richards: What’s Next For HTML Controls?
smashingmagazine.com Feb 9, 2021
In this episode, we’re talking about HTML controls. Why are they so hard to style, and how might that change in the future? Drew McLellan talks to Microsoft’s Stephanie Stimac and Melanie Richards to find out. Drew McLellan: My first guest is a...
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