How Should Designers Learn To Code? The Terminal And Text Editors (Part 1) How Should Designers Learn To Code? The Terminal And Text Editors (Part 1) Paul Hanaoka 2020-03-18T12:30:00+00:00 2020-03-18T12:35:08+00:00 As a designer with many years of experience, I often encourage my colleagues and reports to pick up some coding skills. While many are open…
How Indigo.Design Usability Testing Takes The Guesswork Out Of Web Design How Indigo.Design Usability Testing Takes The Guesswork Out Of Web Design Suzanne Scacca 2020-03-17T12:30:00+00:00 2020-03-18T12:35:08+00:00 Usability is critical for a website’s success, but it can be difficult to nail down in early design and development stages without a little help. It’s not as though…
Implementing Infinite Scroll And Image Lazy Loading In React Implementing Infinite Scroll And Image Lazy Loading In React Chidi Orji 2020-03-16T12:00:00+00:00 2020-03-16T12:35:36+00:00 If you have been looking for an alternative to pagination, infinite scroll is a good consideration. In this article, we’re going to explore some use cases for the Intersection Observer API in the…
Stay Calm And Read Smashing Stay Calm And Read Smashing Iris Lješnjanin 2020-03-13T12:30:00+00:00 2020-03-14T12:35:33+00:00 For all the times we asked folks about Smashing, most still seem to believe that we’re some sort of large publishing company situated somewhere in the United States — both of which are wrong. It all started in Freiburg, Germany, and…
Rescheduling SmashingConf SF And Looking Out For Each Other Rescheduling SmashingConf SF And Looking Out For Each Other Rachel Andrew 2020-03-12T20:00:00+00:00 2020-03-13T12:35:50+00:00 We have all been looking forward to our SmashingConf in San Francisco, and are so sad to have to announce that the conference is being postponed until 10th–11th November 2020. If you have…
Accessible SVGs: Inclusiveness Beyond Patterns Accessible SVGs: Inclusiveness Beyond Patterns Carie Fisher 2020-03-12T11:30:00+00:00 2020-03-12T12:35:50+00:00 Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) became a W3C open standard in 1999 — back when the new tech hotness was the Blackberry phone, Napster first invaded college dorms, and the Y2K bug sparked fear in us all. Fast forward to our modern…
Creating Secure Password Flows With NodeJS And MySQL Creating Secure Password Flows With NodeJS And MySQL Darshan Somashekar 2020-03-11T11:30:00+00:00 2020-03-11T12:36:06+00:00 If you’re anything like me, you’ve forgotten your password more than once, especially on sites you haven’t visited in a while. You’ve probably also seen, and/or been mortified by, reset password emails that contain your…
Make Honest Design Work For Digital Business, With “Ethical Design Handbook” Make Honest Design Work For Digital Business, With “Ethical Design Handbook” Vitaly Friedman 2020-03-10T12:17:00+00:00 2020-03-10T12:41:34+00:00 Many business models thrive on ingeniously deceptive and manipulative digital products. Not because they have to; mostly because dark patterns have become such an accepted norm. But what happens…
Smashing Podcast Episode 11 With Eduardo Bouças: What Is Sourcebit? Smashing Podcast Episode 11 With Eduardo Bouças: What Is Sourcebit? Drew McLellan 2020-03-10T11:30:00+00:00 2020-03-10T12:41:34+00:00 In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about an interesting open-source tool called Sourcebit. How can it help our content workflow with JAMstack sites? I spoke to developer Eduardo…
Setting Height And Width On Images Is Important Again Setting Height And Width On Images Is Important Again Barry Pollard 2020-03-09T11:30:00+00:00 2020-03-09T12:34:31+00:00 Web performance advocates have often advised to add dimensions to your images for best performance to allow the page to be laid out with the appropriate space for the image, before the image…
