Articles by Smashing Magazine from April 2015

When someone lands on a page of your site what do you want that person to do? Where do you want them to look? What information do you want your visitors to notice and in what order?Ideally, you want p...

  When someone lands on a page of your site what do you want that person to do? Where do you want them to look? What information do you want your visitors to notice and in what order? Ideall...

Foundation for Apps is a new single-page app framework from Zurb that is closely related to Foundation 5 (also known as Foundation for Sites, a widely used front-end framework). Its built around Angul...

  Foundation for Apps is a new single-page app framework from Zurb that is closely related to Foundation 5 (also known as Foundation for Sites, a widely used front-end framework). Its built ...

It’s one thing to create a web application and quite another to create an accessible web application. That’s why Heydon Pickering, both author and editor at Smashing Magazine, wrote an eBo...

  It's one thing to create a web application and quite another to create an accessible web application. That's why Heydon Pickering, both author and editor at Smashing Magazine, wrote an eBo...

Lets say you run a UX team. Better yet, lets say you dont. Lets say you just want to do great work. Youre a consultant. Youre a newbie. Youre an intern. Your position is irrelevant. So is your title. ...

  Lets say you run a UX team. Better yet, lets say you dont. Lets say you just want to do great work. Youre a consultant. Youre a newbie. Youre an intern. Your position is irrelevant. So is ...

WordPress does some pretty amazing things out of the box. It handles content management as well as any other open-source solution out there and better than many commercial solutions. One of the best ...

  WordPress does some pretty amazing things out of the box. It handles content management as well as any other open-source solution out there — and better than many commercial solution...

Things often come full circle in software engineering. The web in particular started with servers delivering content down to the client. Recently, with the creation of modern web frameworks such as An...

  Things often come full circle in software engineering. The web in particular started with servers delivering content down to the client. Recently, with the creation of modern web framework...

When done right, filters enable users to narrow down a websites selection of thousands of products to only those few items that match their particular needs and interests. Yet, despite it being a cent...

  When done right, filters enable users to narrow down a websites selection of thousands of products to only those few items that match their particular needs and interests. Yet, despite it ...

If youre a member of the web or UI design community, its been hard to avoid talking about Sketch over the last year. The launch of this design app shook up an industry dominated by Adobe for more than...

  If youre a member of the web or UI design community, its been hard to avoid talking about Sketch over the last year. The launch of this design app shook up an industry dominated by Adobe f...

If I were to ask you what the leastused default page type in WordPress is, chances are youd say the archive template. Or, more likely, youd probably not even think ofthe archive template at all thats...

  If I were to ask you what the leastused default page type in WordPress is, chances are youd say the archive template. Or, more likely, youd probably not even think ofthe archive template a...

Mobile back end as a service (MBaaS) aims at giving app developers the ability to create seamlessly new feature-complete cross-platform native and web applications. In the first part of this series, I...

  Mobile back end as a service (MBaaS) aims at giving app developers the ability to create seamlessly new feature-complete cross-platform native and web applications. In the first part of th...

Following the market’s demand for minimalistic and consistent UIs, and the growth in modular web development, we tend to pay more and more attention to documentation and the efficiency of design...

  Following the market's demand for minimalistic and consistent UIs, and the growth in modular web development, we tend to pay more and more attention to documentation and the efficiency of ...

There’s more to designing mobile apps than meets the eye. The task requires a deep knowledge of devices, and it often means changing the way we think even if that means leaving behind much of w...

  Theres more to designing mobile apps than meets the eye. The task requires a deep knowledge of devices, and it often means changing the way we think — even if that means leaving behi...

Web scraping is the process of programmatically retrieving information from the Internet. As the volume of data on the web has increased, this practice has become increasingly widespread, and a number...

  Web scraping is the process of programmatically retrieving information from the Internet. As the volume of data on the web has increased, this practice has become increasingly widespread, ...

Testing responsive websites is a laborious task. Until now, implementing a stable and maintainable automated solution for cross-browser and cross-device testing of a responsive layout has been nearly ...

  Testing responsive websites is a laborious task. Until now, implementing a stable and maintainable automated solution for cross-browser and cross-device testing of a responsive layout has ...

Customers and clients cannot physically touch the products that online designers create, nor can they smell, hear or taste them. One of the important factors in a customers decision of whether to use ...

  Customers and clients cannot physically touch the products that online designers create, nor can they smell, hear or taste them. One of the important factors in a customers decision of whe...

Smart “responsive” workflows, effective responsive design/UX patterns and powerful front-end techniques if you need a good book on smart responsive design, our brand new Smashing Book 5 i...

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork, and as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a mat...