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Designing Web Design Documentation โ Smashing Magazine
Words alone arenโt enough to safeguard best practices in the world of web design and development. Web design documentation must be like its medium โ interactive and constantly evolving.
Creating Accessible UI Animations โ Smashing Magazine
Animation and accessibility are often seen as two separate powers at odds with one another. How is it possible to strike a balance between elements that move and the possible negative effects they…
Addressing Accessibility Concerns With Using Fluid Type โ Smashing Magazine
The CSS `clamp()` function is often paired with viewport units for โfluidโ font sizing that scales the text up and down at different viewport sizes. As common as this technique is, several voices warn…
In Search Of The Ideal Privacy Icon โ Smashing Magazine
Icons are capable of enhancing the content that surrounds them, but they have to be self-explanatory for that to happen. We have icons for things we like (a thumbs up), things we can share (a box…
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Stop Designing For Only 85% Of Users: Nailing Accessibility In Design
As designers, we like to think we are solution-based. But whereas we wouldnโt hesitate to call out a museum made inaccessible by a lack of wheelchair ramps, many of us still remain somewhat oblivious…
Accessibility In Chrome DevTools โ Smashing Magazine
This article will demonstrate some useful features in DevTools which can help you improve the accessibility of your website.
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Using Automated Test Results To Improve Accessibility โ Smashing Magazine
In this article, Noah Mashni and Mark Steadman share their approach to how to leverage the automated test results from the accessibility checks to drive change and reach sustainable digital…
Color Theory for Designers: The Meaning of Color
Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal preference, and other times due to cultural background. Color theory is a science in itself. Studying how colors affect different people, either individually or as a group, is something some people build their careers on. And there's a lot to it. Something as simple as changing the exact hue or saturation of a color can evoke a completel
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How To Create Advanced Animations With CSS โ Smashing Magazine
In this article, Yosra Emad explains how to create a rollercoaster path that a ball follows using cubic beziers and CSS transitions. Youโll also learn how the cubic-bezier function in CSS works in…
Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS Youโve Never Heard Of
Have you ever wanted to use a particular CSS feature but didnโt because it **wasnโt fully supported in all browsers**? Or, worse, it was supported in all browsers, but the support was buggy, inconsistent or even completely incompatible? If this has happened to you โ and Iโm betting it has โ then you should care about [Houdini](https://wiki.css-houdini.org/). Houdini is a new W3C task force whose ultimate goal is to make this problem go away forever. It plans to do that by introducing a new set o
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A Showcase Of Lovely Little Websites โ Smashing Magazine
Instead of spending your coffee break scrolling through your social feeds, how about a lovely little website instead? We came across some fantastic ones that are just too good not to be shared. But be…
Organizing Design Workshops
Workshops are all about people: they involve people, are conducted by people, and aim to close the gaps in peopleโs communication. Slava Shestopalov shares a checklist with everything you need to keep…
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Top Front-End Tools Of 2022 โ Smashing Magazine
Who doesnโt love a good front-end tool? In this roundup, youโll find a nice list of useful front-end tools that were popular last year but are still bound to help you speed up and enhance your…
Smashing Magazine ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ on Javascript
A Guide To Audio Visualization With JavaScript And GSAP (Part 1) โ Smashing Magazine
What started as a case study turned into a guide to visualizing audio with JavaScript. Although the output demos are in React, Jhey Tompkins isnโt going to dwell on the React side of things too much.…
Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting โ Smashing Magazine
In this article, Adrian Bece shares more about the benefits and caveats of code-splitting and how page performance and load times can be improved by dynamically loading expensive, non-critical…
«Password checking is not critical for page render. Its functionality is required only when the user interacts with the password input. So, letโs code-split zxcvbn into a separate bundle, dynamically import it and load it only when the password input value changes, i.e. when the user starts typing their password.»
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Writing CSS In 2023: Is It Any Different Than A Few Years Ago? โ Smashing Magazine
CSS is evolving faster than ever. With all of the new features that are now available โ and forthcoming โ since we got Flexbox and Grid years ago, the way we write CSS is evolving, too. In this…
Revealing Imagesย Withย CSS Maskย Animations โ Smashing Magazine
Letโs play with images and experiment with CSS masks. The idea is fairly simple: take a single `` tag and harness the power of CSS to accomplish complex hover transitions. Through different demos, you…
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Designing The Perfect Mobile Navigation UX โ Smashing Magazine
When designing navigation on mobile, we donโt have to rely on slide-in-menus or nested accordions. We can also use the curtain design pattern, and show multiple levels of navigation at once.
Product Reviews And Ratings UX
How do we design effective reviews and ratings? With a distribution chart, decimal scores, tags, recommendation score and unedited product photos.
«Is there a perfect score, by the way? Well, as long as your productโs score is somewhere between 4.5 and 4.89 โ with a high enough (75+) number of reviews, you probably shouldnโt be worrying too much about its competitiveness.»
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Designing A Better Pricing Page โ Smashing Magazine
In this [series of articles](/category/design-patterns/), we highlight design patterns and techniques to design better interfaces. You can find more examples in [โSmart Interface Design…
You Donโt Need A UI Framework โ Smashing Magazine
Developers often reach for UI frameworks like Bootstrap or Material UI, hoping that theyโll save a bunch of time and quickly build a professional-looking app. Unfortunately, things rarely work out…
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Useful DevTools Tips and Tricks โ Smashing Magazine
Letโs discover the most popular DevTools tips that can boost your productivity and revolutionize your debugging workflow.
What Leonardo Da Vinci Can Teach Us About Web Design โ Smashing Magazine
Perhaps more than any other person in history, Leonardo da Vinci showed the kind of magic that can happen in the overlap between art and science, where much of web development lives. His methods and…
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Rethinking Authentication UX โ Smashing Magazine
How to improve authentication UX, with magic links, 2FA, better password recovery and relaxed rules for secure, accessible and usable passwords.
The Realities And Myths Of Contrast And Color โ Smashing Magazine
In this article, Andrew Somers, a 35-year veteran of the Hollywood film and television industry, shares his experience about the hard-fought battles and lessons learned designing for illuminated…
Those HTML Attributes You Never Use โ Smashing Magazine
In this article, Louis Lazaris describes and demonstrates some interesting HTML attributes that you may or may not have heard of and perhaps find useful enough to personally use in one of your…
Designing Better Inline Validation UX โ Smashing Magazine
Inline validation in web forms is useful when it works, but frustrating when it fails. Too often it leads to an endless stream of disruptive error messages or dead-ends without any chance of getting…
Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores โ Smashing Magazine
Identify, compare, analyze and fix your Core Web Vitals scores to boost web performance of your sites. These tools will help you to do just that.
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