Articles by Smashing Magazine from September 2015

It was the summer of 2013 and I was working on a project for my employer, Box. I had just finished wiring up JSDoc as a nightly build using a plugin to detect T3 patterns in our code and document them...

  It was the summer of 2013 and I was working on a project for my employer, Box. I had just finished wiring up JSDoc as a nightly build using a plugin to detect T3 patterns in our code and d...

Did you know you have a superpower? No, Im not talking about super-strength, sticking to walls or pushing metal claws out of your forearms (although you might have those as well, for all I know). If y...

Today were happy to release a new Smashing freebie: 18 lovely world landmark icons such as the London Eye, the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building. The icons are detailed enough to show architec...

  Did you know you have a superpower? No, Im not talking about super-strength, sticking to walls or pushing metal claws out of your forearms (although you might have those as well, for all I...

  Today were happy to release a new Smashing freebie: 18 lovely world landmark icons such as the London Eye, the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building. The icons are detailed enough to s...

What’s happening in the industry? What important techniques have emerged recently? What about new case studies, insights, techniques and tools? Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann is keeping track ...

  What's happening in the industry? What important techniques have emerged recently? What about new case studies, insights, techniques and tools? Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann is keeping ...

Those of us who consider ourselves developers, including me, are very task-oriented. We like to be guided towards optimal results, and we find ourselves uncomfortable when there is no clear path to fo...

The command-line interface (CLI) has always been popular in the world of developers, because it provides tools that boost productivity and speed up the development process. At first sight, it might se...

  Those of us who consider ourselves developers, including me, are very task-oriented. We like to be guided towards optimal results, and we find ourselves uncomfortable when there is no clea...

  The command-line interface has always been popular in the world of developers, because it provides tools that boost productivity and speed up the development process. At first sight, it mi...

Its 2015 and your choice of browser has proven to be as important as your choice of operating system. Dedicated apps may be competing against browsers on mobile devices, but that is hardly the case in...

  Its 2015 and your choice of browser has proven to be as important as your choice of operating system. Dedicated apps may be competing against browsers on mobile devices, but that is hardly...

Cross-OS mobile app development is often excruciating, between the multiple languages, the different expectations from users about interactions and the sheer development time. Our goal was to cut thro...

  Cross-OS mobile app development is often excruciating, between the multiple languages, the different expectations from users about interactions and the sheer development time. Our goal was...

Since we started plodding around on this rock in space, human beings have always been dissatisfied with their environment which is (mostly) a good thing. Otherwise we might still live in caves, fearf...

  Since we started plodding around on this rock in space, human beings have always been dissatisfied with their environment which is (mostly) a good thing. Otherwise we might still live in ...

What’s happening in the industry? What important techniques have emerged recently? What about new case studies, insights, techniques and tools? Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann is keeping track ...

  What's happening in the industry? What important techniques have emerged recently? What about new case studies, insights, techniques and tools? Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann is keeping ...

The web is moving toward using HTTPS encryption by default. This move has been encouraged by Google, which announced that HTTPS would be a ranking signal. However, moving your website to HTTPS is good...

  The web is moving toward using HTTPS encryption by default. This move has been encouraged by Google, which announced that HTTPS would be a ranking signal. However, moving your website to H...

For many months, your entire team has worked their butts off to create an awesome mobile app. Finally, with your team exhausted and excited, its showtime! But then, your dream app turns into the ultim...

  For many months, your entire team has worked their butts off to create an awesome mobile app. Finally, with your team exhausted and excited, its showtime! But then, your dream app turns in...

What if I told you there was an image format like GIF, but it worked with vectors? What if I said it was possible to reverse the direction of its animation? What if you could take one base image and a...

  What if I told you there was an image format like GIF, but it worked with vectors? What if I said it was possible to reverse the direction of its animation? What if you could take one base...

What’s happening in the industry? What important techniques have emerged recently? What about new case studies, insights, techniques and tools? Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann is keeping track ...

  What's happening in the industry? What important techniques have emerged recently? What about new case studies, insights, techniques and tools? Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann is keeping ...

The word anticipatory comes from the Latin anticipare, which means “taking care of ahead of time.” We normally associate it with something that happens, is performed or felt in anticipatio...

  The word anticipatory comes from the Latin anticipare, which means "taking care of ahead of time." We normally associate it with something that happens, is performed or felt in anticipatio...

Interactive maps are a fantastic way to present geographic data to your visitors. Libraries like Google Maps and Open Street Maps are a popular choice to do this and they excel at visualizing street-l...

  Interactive maps are a fantastic way to present geographic data to your visitors. Libraries like Google Maps and Open Street Maps are a popular choice to do this and they excel at visualiz...

Exactly 9 years ago we published the very first article on this very website. Many things changed since then, but one thing remained the same: our obsession for publishing valuable, practical quality ...

Ah, these mystery riddles never stop, do they? To celebrate our ninth birthday, weve prepared yet another riddle, and this time it will require a bit more teamwork. We’ve hidden secret keys in d...

Ah, these mystery riddles never stop, do they? To celebrate our ninth birthday, weve prepared yet another riddle, and this time it will require a bit more teamwork. We’ve hidden secret keys in d...

  Exactly 9 years ago we published the very first article on this very website. Many things changed since then, but one thing remained the same: our obsession for publishing valuable, practi...

  Ah, these mystery riddles never stop, do they? To celebrate our ninth birthday, weve prepared yet another riddle, and this time it will require a bit more teamwork. We've hidden secret key...

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) is a free WordPress plugin that replaces the regular custom fields interface in WordPress with something far more powerful, offering a user-friendly interface for complex ...

  Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) is a free WordPress plugin that replaces the regular custom fields interface in WordPress with something far more powerful, offering a user-friendly interface ...

What’s happening in the industry? What important techniques have emerged recently? What about new case studies, insights, techniques and tools? Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann is keeping track ...

  Hey, welcome back again to this weeks web development reading list. Its great to see your support and the still growing list of subscribers. If you love to read WDRL, please do recommend i...

Visual effects in games define their overall look and feel, and gameplay. Players are attracted to high visual quality, which generate more traffic and reach. Its key for creating successful games and...

  Visual effects in games define their overall look and feel, and gameplay. Players are attracted to high visual quality, which generate more traffic and reach. Its key for creating successf...

There are reasons youre still saying the same thing after all these years still talking about how it always seems like design gets tacked on to the end of the process. You should be at the concept me...

  There are reasons youre still saying the same thing after all these years — still talking about how it always seems like design gets tacked on to the end of the process. You should b...

There is no winner in the battle between iOS and Android, and we all know that. If a product succeeds on one platform, it will undoubtedly be ported to the other. Sometimes app developers dont even bo...

  There is no winner in the battle between iOS and Android, and we all know that. If a product succeeds on one platform, it will undoubtedly be ported to the other. Sometimes app developers ...

As designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration, but, well, sometimes the best inspiration lies right in front of us. With that in mind, we embarked on a special creativity mission se...

  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...