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Vitaly Friedman - The State Of Usability In 2023 🎊

Many projects start with assumptions. We assume that users understand hamburger icons and how mega-menus work; that they understand how to deal with disabled buttons; that they safely store password

Design Patterns , ux

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Sara Dholakia - A Guide To Getting Data Visualization Right

Data visualizations are everywhere; from the news to the nutritional info on cereal boxes, we’re constantly being presented with graphical representations of data. Why? Data visualization is a metho

Guides , ux , Design , Data Visualization

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Eric Burel - Understanding Authentication In Websites: A Banking Analogy

There is a strange ritual that web developers around the world have been perpetuating from the dawn of computers to modern days. Without this ritual, the web application cannot really exist. It is n

API , HTTP , Security , Privacy

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Shane Hudson - Making Your Collaboration Problems Go Away By Sharing Components

This article is kindly powered by our friends at UXPin, a UI design and prototyping tool that gives your prototypes the superpowers they deserve: states, JS expressions, variables, conditional in

workflow , Teams , Tools , Design Systems

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Vitaly Friedman - Designing for Accessibility: Best Practices for Closed Captioning and Subtitles UX

When we think about closed captioning, we often think about noisy environments, be it busy restaurants, shopping malls, or airport lounges. There, consuming content via audio is difficult, and so ca

Design Patterns , Accessibility , ux , Web Design

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Louis Lazaris - Top Front-End Tools Of 2022

Over the past 12 months, we continue to see new free and open-source projects shared around the developer community. In my newsletter, Web Tools Weekly, I feature more than two dozen tools every wee

workflow , Techniques , Tools

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Eloïse Martin - Optimizing The Image Element LCP

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. LCP measures the time it takes for the

performance , optimization , Techniques

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Atila Fassina - Code Documentation, Streamlined

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Swimm who have built the first code knowledge management tool that helps developers easily understand code. Thank you! Everythi

Techniques , Tools , coding

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Cosima Mielke - Figma Auto Layout Masterclass: An Online Workshop To Support Ukraine 🇺🇦

Auto layout is driving you bananas? You’re scared about what will happen with your design in the browser? Then our deep-dive Figma Auto Layout Masterclass with Christine Vallaure is for you. Monday,

Events , Smashing

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Pratik Joglekar - How To Design Better UX With Introverted Design

Living in a highly extroverted world, everyone is expected to outshine the rest to succeed and grow. Meeting people, talking, and generally being an outspoken person will be noticeable. However, we

workflow , Guides , User Experience

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Daniel Yuschick - The Key To Good Component Design Is Selfishness

When developing a new feature, what determines whether an existing component will work or not? And when a component doesn’t work, what exactly does that mean? Does the component functionally not do

react , User Experience , typescript , ui

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Stephanie Eckles - Level Up Your CSS Skills With The :has() Selector

Using :has() gives us the ability to “look ahead” with CSS and style a parent or ancestor element. Then, we can broaden the selector to target one or more siblings or children. By considering elemen

workflow , Tools , Css , Browsers

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Drew McLellan - Smashing Podcast Episode 55 With Tejas Kumar: Is Technology Making Us Redundant?

In this episode, we ask whether technology is making us redundant; will we all soon be replaced with AI? Vitaly Friedman talks to Tejas Kumar to find out. Show Notes Tejas Kumar on Twitter

Smashing Podcast

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Peter Ramsey - Copying Designs Doesn’t Work, And Here’s Why

There’s a type of cognitive dissonance that haunts designers: the genuine desire to be truly innovative and original whilst simultaneously trawling the web for inspiration and design ideas. I doubt

Inspiration , User Experience , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Product Reviews And Ratings UX: A Designer’s Guide

When we make purchasing decisions, we often rely on expertise from people like us who happen to have purchased that item already. And so we seek user reviews, often looking for a high enough average

Guides , Design Patterns , ux

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Suzanne Scacca - Better ROI For Your Digital Products: Why Continuous Research Is Key

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Maze, a continuous product discovery platform that empowers product teams to collect and consume user insights, continuously. Thank y

Techniques , User Research , Tools , Product Strategy

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Brecht De Ruyte - Creating A High-Contrast Design System With CSS Custom Properties

Design should never be a trade-off when it comes to creating an accessible web. There are many features coming to the web that will make creating contrast a lot easier. But even though CSS functions

Techniques , Tools , Accessibility , Css

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Renaissance Rachel - How To Build Strong Customer Relationships For User Research

Nurturing connections with your customers is one of the most effective ways to gain valuable insight into their experiences with your product and make informed decisions that fuel growth and success

User Research , Communication , User Experience , Business

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Adrian Bece - Easy SVG Customization And Animation: A Practical Guide

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) have been a staple in Web Development for quite some time, and for a good reason. They can be scaled up or down without loss of quality due to their vector properties.

animation , Guides , coding , svg

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Paul Boag - How B2B Sales Help Us Understand Our Role As UX Designers Better

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Gong who are passionate about unlocking reality to help people and companies reach their full potential. Thank you! Perhaps thi

UX Design , Wokflow , Business

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Cosima Mielke - The Magic Of February (2023 Wallpapers Edition)

As designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration, and, well, sometimes the best inspiration lies right in front of us. With that in mind, we embarked on our wallpapers adventure more

Wallpapers

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Atila Fassina - Understanding App Directory Architecture In Next.js

Since Next.js 13 release, there’s been some debate about how stable the shiny new features packed in the announcement are. On “What’s New in Next.js 13?” we have covered the release announced and es

react , Guides , Apps , next.js

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Leonardo Losoviz - How To Host A WordPress Site On Amazon Lightsail

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at AWS who offer reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Thank you! A good chunk of all websites out there r

wordpress , Tools , plugins

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Nefe Emadamerho-Atori - Comparing React Form Libraries: SurveyJS, Formik, React Hook Form, React Final Form And Unform

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at SurveyJS. A product suite of open-source JavaScript client-side components designed to simplify the creation of a full-cycle form man

react , Javascript , ui

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