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Andy Budd - The Feature Trap: Why Feature Centricity Is Harming Your Product

Most product teams think in terms of features. Features are easy to brainstorm and write requirement docs for, and they fit nicely into our backlogs and ticketing systems. In short, thinking in term

Best Practices , User Experience , Product Strategy , Design , Business

Julia May - Business Card Design Starter Kit: Showcase, Tutorials, Templates

Professionals in any field should always keep business cards on them because you never know when you’ll meet a potential client, partner or like-minded person. Despite their small size, business car

Print , Showcases , Inspiration , Business Cards , Design , Business

Dan Redding - The History Of Logos And Logo Design

We live in a Brand Era, where branding is in, and for some, aspiring to the Paul Rand style of logo craftsmanship is about as hip and contemporary as writing your invoices with a quill. Yes, logo de

Graphic Design , Graphics , Branding , Design , Logo Design

Lee Munroe - The Ultimate Guide To Push Notifications For Developers

I’ve spent the past several years building messaging tools — for more than three years now I’ve been leading the design team at OneSignal, a customer engagement platform that enables developers and

Guides , mobile , Apps , User Experience

Steven Snell - Newspaper Website Design: Trends And Examples

News websites can be intriguing to examine from a design perspective. Regardless of what type of news they cover, they all face the challenge of displaying a huge amount of content on the home page,

Newspapers , Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

Preethi Sam - How To Draw Radar Charts In Web

I got to work with a new type of chart for data visualization called a radar chart when a project asked for it. It was new to me, but the idea is that there is a circular, two-dimensional circle wit

Techniques , Css , Data Visualization

Matt Cronin - 40 Excellent Illustrations In Web Designs

In website design, there are an endless amount of possibilities, styles and techniques that can be used to make a beautiful design that flows with the content. One of these styles is an illustration

Showcases , Inspiration , Illustrations

Daniel Yuschick - Manage Accessible Design System Themes With CSS Color-Contrast()

There’s certainly no shortage of design systems available to use when building your next project. Between IBM’s Carbon, Wanda and Nord, there are plenty of terrific design systems to choose from. Ye

Accessibility , Css , Design Systems , Design

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Penpot’s CSS Grid Layout: Designing With Superpowers

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Penpot whose mission is to provide an open-source and open-standards platform to bring collaboration between designers and developers

workflow , Graphics , Tools , Apps , ui

Sergey Chikuyonok - Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code

In this post we present a new speedy way of writing HTML code using CSS-like selector syntax — a handy set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. It was developed by our author Sergey Chikuyon

Tools , coding , Css , HTML

Victor Yocco - Embracing Introversion In UX

I place myself firmly in the category of being an introvert when it comes to my role as a UX researcher. I love the process of planning and executing research. I have never felt a need to be the lou

workflow , ux , Design

Sean Hodge - Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques

Grid systems bring visual structure and balance to site design. As a tool grids are useful for organizing and presenting information. Used properly, they can enhance the user experience by creating

Techniques , Grids , Layouts , Web Design , Design

Jad Limcaco - My Favorite Free Icon Sets

I’ve been receiving a few emails lately asking me for some of the web design resources that I personally use. Well, I’d like to start sharing my resources with our readers so today, I’ve gathered up

Icons , Freebies , Resources

Frederick O’Brien - An Ode To Side Project Time

There seemed to be a hot minute when the tech industry understood the value of idle tinkering and made a point of providing ‘side project time’ as an explicit working perk. The concept endures — I’m

workflow , Inspiration , Career , Opinion Column

Kat Neville - What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies?

Ah, the dreaded cover letter. Boring to write, difficult to get right, and you’re usually preoccupied by other things (such as the portfolio and resume, which are also really important). Unfortunate

Graphic Design , Clients , Interviews , Career , Design , Business

Louis Lazaris - Website Maintenance Tips for Front-End Developers

One of the biggest advantages of online media over print is the ability to change, update, and enhance online media at virtually anytime, with virtually no negative side effects. In fact, if a websi

Bugs , Maintenance , Security , Documentation , Web Design , Design , Business

Luis Ouriach - Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 1)

Design systems are on the tip of every designer’s tongue, but the narrative in the industry mainly focuses on why you need a design system and its importance rather than the reality of endless maint

Design System , Figma , Design

Sven Lennartz - Smashing Highlights 2007

Although Smashing Magazine is quite young, a number of things happened in 2007. Aside from dozens of articles, we’ve organized few contests, re-designed our weblog and we also have released two Word

Highlights , Events , Smashing