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Andy Budd - How To Become A Better Speaker At Conferences

During my time curating the UX London and Leading Design events, I used to watch a few hundred presentations each year. I’d be looking at a range of things, including the speaker’s domain experience

Guides , Conferences , Career , Events

Dan Redding - Inside Google’s User Experience Lab: An Interview With Google’s Marcin Wichary

Marcin Wichary’s fascination with the relationship between humans and machines began at an early age. As a boy in Poland, he was mesmerized by the interaction between arcade patrons and the video ga

workflow , Interviews , ux , Inspiration , Opinion Column

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 - The Ultimate Collection Of Custom Photoshop Shapes

Photoshop users are able to benefit from the vast amount of high-quality resources that are freely available to the community. Brushes get a lot of attention, but Photoshop shapes are also extremely

Photoshop , Graphics , Downloads , Freebies

Preethi Sam - How To Animate Along A Path In CSS

Let’s talk about progress indicators — or loaders. It’s true that there are so many tutorials about them and even more examples floating around CodePen. There was a time just a couple of years ago w

Techniques , Css , Design

Matt Cronin - Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

Web design has come a long way since its beginning, especially in terms of styling. Take a look at a website from 10 years ago and compare it to one from today. The differences are enormous. One of

Showcases , Backgrounds , Inspiration , Web Design

Tom Giannattasio - Photoshop Secrets: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers

We all have shortcuts that are essential to our daily workflow. A majority of them are staples such as Copy (Command + C) and Paste (Command + V), but occasionally we stumble upon a shortcut we wish

Photoshop , Graphics , Time Savers

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

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Penpot’s Flex Layout: Building CSS Layouts In A Design Tool

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

Tools , Css , Design

Sergey Chikuyonok - PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques

This post is a second part of the article Clever PNG Optimization Techniques that we posted last week. As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-f

optimization , Techniques , png , Design

Victor Yocco - The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design

UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. Without some type of user input guiding our process, w

Product Design , testing , User Experience

Sean Hodge - Professional Web Design Forums

Web design-related forums are a place where you interact with other designers, exchange ideas or discuss your first drafts. When you have a problem, you can post the issue, and then receive feedback

Community , Tools , coding , Web Design

Dan Mayer - Examining The Design Process: Clichés And Idea Generation

Where do good ideas come from? It’s a question that matters a great deal to designers, yet seems to be curiously discounted in the common perception of graphic design. Any time I talk with, say, an

Ideas , Ideation , ux , Process , Design , Business

Paras Chopra - In Defense Of A/B Testing

Recently, A/B testing has come under (unjust) criticism from different circles on the Internet. Even though this criticism contains some relevant points, the basic argument against A/B testing is fl

testing , Design

Julia May - Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With Style

Modern Web-building technologies allow designers to realize their most daring and creative ideas. Enhanced interactivity and a remarkable visual appearance can be achieved by means of such tools as

Inspiration , Web Design , Games , Design

Frederick O’Brien - Svelte 5 And The Future Of Frameworks: A Chat With Rich Harris

Svelte occupies a curious space within the web development world. It’s been around in one form or another for eight years now, and despite being used by the likes of Apple, Spotify, IKEA, and the Ne

Techniques , Frameworks , Tools , coding

Jad Limcaco - 32 Stunning Outer Space Science Fiction Photoshop Tutorials

Here are some amazing outer-space tutorials for your learning. I’m sure that you have seen some of these tutorials before, but hopefully, you will find a few that are totally new. So what are you wa

Tutorials , Drawing , Creativity

Kat Neville - Invoice Like A Pro: Design Examples and Best Practices

Your invoice should be prim and proper, so that you can get paid by your clients efficiently. While invoicing is not a fun task, it’s a necessary one: by keeping clients informed of your expectation

Contracts , Invoicing , Clients , Inspiration , Design , Business

Louis Lazaris - CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer

Experienced developers understand that CSS3 can be added to new projects with progressive enhancement in mind. This ensures that content is accessible while non-supportive browsers fall back to a le

css3 , coding , Css , Internet Explorer

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 2008

2008 was a successful year for us and for Smashing Magazine. Reviewing what has happened on Smashing Magazine over the last year, we could have told a couple of impressive stories that happened here

Highlights , Events , Smashing

Vitaly Friedman - Data Vs. Findings Vs. Insights In UX

In many companies, data, findings, and insights are all used interchangeably. Slack conversations circle around convincing data points, statistically significant findings, reliable insights, and eme

ux , Web Design , Design