Articles by Smashing Magazine from July 2015

Often within a project, the presentation of our content changes based on certain needs. We see this when we use media queries to change our styles based on the user device. CSS quantity queries follow...

  Often within a project, the presentation of our content changes based on certain needs. We see this when we use media queries to change our styles based on the user device. CSS quantity qu...

_When it comes to CSS techniques, nobody is more stubborn and smart enough to find solutions to any problems than Lea Verou. Recently, Lea has written, designed and published CSS Secrets, a truly fant...

  When it comes to CSS techniques, nobody is more stubborn and smart enough to find solutions to any problems than Lea Verou. Recently, Lea has written, designed and published CSS Secrets, a...

Ive often heard there are four stages along the road to competence: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence. Most of us begin our careers unc...

  Ive often heard there are four stages along the road to competence: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence. Most of us begin our...

In UX design, few things are more intricate than time and personal time management only a good arsenal of mobile design patterns and information architecture principles can save you. This is the stor...

  In UX design, few things are more intricate than time and personal time management — only a good arsenal of mobile design patterns and information architecture principles can save yo...

  The waiting is over. Smashing Book #5 is here, it's smashing, and it's shipping worldwide in fact, all pre-orders have just been dispatched. Think of it as a reliable playbook to master al...

As UX professionals, we know the value of conducting usability research. But UX research initiatives even when designed well are not perfect. A lab study to test a website, for example, would never ...

  As UX professionals, we know the value of conducting usability research. But UX research initiatives — even when designed well — are not perfect. A lab study to test a website,...

If youre a designer, youll know that grids are your friends. More often than not, theyre the vital architecture that holds a beautiful design together; they create rhythm, structure your page, lead th...

  If youre a designer, youll know that grids are your friends. More often than not, theyre the vital architecture that holds a beautiful design together; they create rhythm, structure your p...

In the first part of the case study about Mail.Ru Group product design unification, I described our first approach a mobile web framework. Aside from creating a unified visual style and interaction p...

  In the first part of the case study about Mail.Ru Group product design unification, I described our first approach a mobile web framework. Aside from creating a unified visual style and i...

Today we’re happy to release yet another freebie: a set of 60 lovely workspace illustrations of items that many web and graphic designers use every day: tablet and desktop computers, Apple Watch...

  Today we're happy to release a yet another freebie: a set of 60 lovely workspace illustrations of items that many web and graphic designers use every day: tablet and desktop computers, App...

Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it: create a table of items. Each item should span a third of the content area, with the fourth item starting on a new row, much like floats. However,...

  Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it: create a table of items. Each item should span a third of the content area, with the fourth item starting on a new row, much like floa...

  We love experiments, and trying things out. So what if we published our lovely Smashing Email Newsletter, with thoroughly collected, written and edited little articles on useful tips'n'bit...

Podcasting has experienced a renaissance in the last couple of years. According to RawVoice, which tracks 20,000 shows, the number of unique monthly podcast listeners has tripled to 75 million, up fro...

  Podcasting has experienced a renaissance in the last couple of years. According to RawVoice, which tracks 20,000 shows, the number of unique monthly podcast listeners has tripled to 75 mil...

The command line is increasingly becoming a part of every web developer’s workflow. With tools like Grunt, Gulp and Bower leveraging the increase in productivity that comes with working in the c...

  The command line is increasingly becoming a part of every web developer's workflow. With tools like Grunt, Gulp and Bower leveraging the increase in productivity that comes with working in...

In this article Ill be taking a look at how to build a simple yet robust workflow for developing sites that require PHP and MySQL. Ill show you how to use Vagrant to create and run a web server on you...

  In this article Ill be taking a look at how to build a simple yet robust workflow for developing sites that require PHP and MySQL. Ill show you how to use Vagrant to create and run a web s...

It’s always great to have a little toolbox with just the right tools waiting for you when you need them. What if you are about to start working on a new project which should apply the material d...

Every now and then we see discussions proclaiming a profound change in the way we design and build websites. Be it progressive enhancement, the role of CSS or, most recently, web design itself being d...

  It's always great to have a little toolbox with just the right tools waiting for you when you need them. What if you are about to start working on a new project which should apply the mate...

  Every now and then we see discussions proclaiming a profound change in the way we design and build websites. Be it progressive enhancement, the role of CSS or, most recently, web design it...

Has web design lost its soul? And is responsive design to blame? These questions, posed by my friend and colleague Noah Stokes, are provocative to say the least. After all, the responsive web has made...

  Has web design lost its soul? And is responsive design to blame? These questions, posed by my friend and colleague Noah Stokes, are provocative to say the least. After all, the responsive ...

Today, we’re happy to release a very large icon set: the freebie contains 500 icons in four editable variants: outlined, solid, webby and flat, covering all sorts of various categories. The icon...

  Today, we're happy to release a very large icon set: the freebie contains 500 icons in four editable variants: outlined, solid, webby and flat, covering all sorts of various categories. Th...

People have many tough decisions to make; whether they should use your application or website to accomplish a task shouldnt be one of them. Your design team can take advantage of our knowledge of the ...

  People have many tough decisions to make; whether they should use your application or website to accomplish a task shouldnt be one of them. Your design team can take advantage of our knowl...

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...

  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 inspirati...