Optimizing Google Fonts Performance Optimizing Google Fonts Performance Danny Cooper 2019-06-20T11:00:16+02:00 2019-06-20T12:36:29+00:00 It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it’s easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on…
How To Create A PDF From Your Web Application How To Create A PDF From Your Web Application Rachel Andrew 2019-06-19T14:00:59+02:00 2019-06-19T12:35:42+00:00 Many web applications have the requirement of giving the user the ability to download something in PDF format. In the case of applications (such as e-commerce stores), those PDFs have to be created…
Unleash The Power Of Path Animations With SVGator Unleash The Power Of Path Animations With SVGator Mikołaj Dobrucki 2019-06-18T13:30:59+02:00 2019-06-18T12:37:15+00:00 (This is a sponsored article.) Last year, a comprehensive introduction to the basic use of SVGator was published here on Smashing Magazine. If you’d like to learn about the fundamentals of SVGator, setting up your…
Building A Component Library Using Figma Building A Component Library Using Figma Emiliano Cicero 2019-06-17T14:00:16+02:00 2019-06-17T12:34:59+00:00 I’ve been working on the creation and maintenance of the main library of our design system, Lexicon. We used the Sketch app for the first year and then we moved to Figma where the library management was different in…
Monthly Web Development Update 6/2019: Rethinking Privacy And User Engagement Monthly Web Development Update 6/2019: Rethinking Privacy And User Engagement Anselm Hannemann 2019-06-14T14:30:00+02:00 2019-06-15T12:35:23+00:00 Last week I read about the web turning into a dark forest. This made me think, and I’m convinced that there’s hope in the dark forest. Let’s stay positive about how…
Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine Andrew Clarke 2019-06-13T12:30:16+02:00 2019-06-13T12:35:26+00:00 I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Of course, owning a business meant I had to keep working, but staying motivated and offering my best thinking to clients became…
Bringing A Healthy Code Review Mindset To Your Team Bringing A Healthy Code Review Mindset To Your Team Sandrina Pereira 2019-06-12T13:30:59+02:00 2019-06-12T12:34:55+00:00 A ‘code review’ is a moment in the development process in which you (as a developer) and your colleagues work together and look for bugs within a recent piece of code before it…
UX Optimizations For Keyboard-Only And Assistive Technology Users UX Optimizations For Keyboard-Only And Assistive Technology Users Aaron Pearlman 2019-06-11T14:00:59+02:00 2019-06-12T12:34:55+00:00 (This is a sponsored article.) One of the cool things about accessibility is that it forces you to see and think about your application beyond the typical sighted, mouse-based user experience. Users who navigate via…
Styling In Modern Web Apps Styling In Modern Web Apps Ajay NS 2019-06-10T14:00:59+02:00 2019-06-11T12:35:15+00:00 If you search for how to style apps for the web, you’ll come across many different approaches and libraries, some even changing day by day. Block Element Modifier (BEM); preprocessors such as Less and SCSS; CSS-in-JS libraries, including JSS and styled-components;…
Web Accessibility In Context Web Accessibility In Context Be Birchall 2019-06-07T12:00:59+02:00 2019-06-07T12:37:38+00:00 Haben Girma, disability rights advocate and Harvard Law’s first deafblind graduate, made the following statement in her keynote address at the AccessU digital accessibility conference last month: “I define disability as an opportunity for innovation.” She charmed and impressed the audience, telling us…
