Articles by Smashing Magazine from February 2016

Preload (spec) is a new web standard aimed at improving performance and providing more granular loading control to web developers. It gives developers the ability to define custom loading logic withou...

Its interesting to see how user experience design advances now that we managed to understand what it means. I think artificial intelligence will become a huge part of user experience over time and tha...

  Preload is a new web standard aimed at improving performance and providing more granular loading control to web developers. It gives developers the ability to define custom loading logic w...

  Its interesting to see how user experience design advances now that we managed to understand what it means. I think artificial intelligence will become a huge part of user experience over ...

On Dribbble, brand designers are in the minority. The greater part of the Dribbble community comprises those who deal with interfaces, UX and animations. So when traveling to Gdask, Poland last July t...

Augmented reality is generally considered to be very hard to create. However, it’s possible to make visually impressive projects using just open source libraries. In this tutorial we’ll ma...

  As logo and brand designers, our work starts long before the first concept sketches, and finishes long after the last perfectly placed pixel. Our work requires so much more than just creat...

  Augmented reality is generally considered to be very hard to create. However, it's possible to make visually impressive projects using just open source libraries. In this tutorial we'll ma...

Free icons are a great way to spice up your work with small effort. While some of them are plain useful, others give a project a fun twist. The following collection of free icon sets offers both paym...

Noah was concerned. He was the “UX guy” for the corporate office of a regional Quick Service Restaurant (a fast food chain) that was in the process of creating a mobile app to allow patron...

  Free icons are a great way to spice up your work with small effort. While some of them are plain useful, others give a project a fun twist.The following collection of free icon sets offers...

  Noah was concerned. He was the "UX guy" for the corporate office of a regional Quick Service Restaurant (a fast food chain) that was in the process of creating a mobile app to allow patron...

Flexbox gives us a new kind of control over our layouts, making coding challenges that were hard or impossible to solve with CSS alone straightforward and intuitive. It provides us with the means to b...

Its not exactly a new subject, but lately Ive had reason to revisit the skill of content modeling in my teams work. Our experience has reached a point where the limitations of how we practice are star...

  Flexbox gives us a new kind of control over our layouts, making coding challenges that were hard or impossible to solve with CSS alone simple and intuitive. It provides us with the means t...

  Flexbox gives us a new kind of control over our layouts, making coding challenges that were hard or impossible to solve with CSS alone straightforward and intuitive. It provides us with th...

  Its not exactly a new subject, but lately Ive had reason to revisit the skill of content modeling in my teams work. Our experience has reached a point where the limitations of how we pract...

What’s your responsive design process like? Do you feel that it’s efficient? The following article is an excerpt from Ben Callahans chapter Responsive Process, first published in the eBook...

  What's your responsive design process like? Do you feel that it's efficient? The following article is an excerpt from Ben Callahans chapter Responsive Process, first published in the Smash...

Its Friday again, and I found some interesting articles for you to read over the upcoming weekend. In projects, developer, manager and product leaders still try to put pressure on the people who work ...

  Its Friday again, and I found some interesting articles for you to read over the upcoming weekend. In projects, developer, manager and product leaders still try to put pressure on the peop...

  Its Friday again, and I found some interesting articles for you to read over the upcoming weekend. In projects, developer, manager and product leaders still try to put pressure on the peop...

2017 WordPress passed the 27% mark, running more than a quarter of all websites and for good reason. It has a loyal user base and scores of dedicated developers who bring better features to the syste...

Maxwell is a researcher at a design firm that is working on a mobile payment app. He wants to learn more about how users currently interact with point-of-sale terminals. Maxwell contacts a local groce...

  Earlier this year WordPress passed the 24% mark, running almost a quarter of all website and for good reason. It has a loyal user base and scores of dedicated developers bringing better f...

  Maxwell is a researcher at a design firm that is working on a mobile payment app. He wants to learn more about how users currently interact with point-of-sale terminals. Maxwell contacts a...

Photoshop is still a favorite among a lot of web designers, and the right tools make it even more powerful than it already is. To help you boost productivity, save time and (obviously) nerves, we have...

Cross-browser testing is time-consuming and laborious. However, developers are lazy by nature: adhering to the DRY principle, writing scripts to automate things we’d otherwise have to do by hand...

  Photoshop is still a favorite among a lot of web designers, and the right tools make it even more powerful as it already is. To help you boost productivity, save time, and, obviously, nerv...

  Cross-browser testing is time-consuming and laborious. This, in turn, makes it expensive and prone to human error so, naturally, we want to do as little of it as possible. This is not a st...

As I was leading my course in responsive web design between 2011 and 2012, I kept stumbling over the process of wireframing. My students tended to focus on the wireframe as being the end game in the p...

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the protocol that governs the connection between your server and the browsers of your websites visitors. For the first time since 1999, we have a new version ...

  As I was leading my course in responsive web design between 2011 and 2012, I kept stumbling over the process of wireframing. My students tended to focus on the wireframe as being the end g...

  The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the protocol that governs the connection between your server and the browsers of your websites visitors. For the first time since 1999, we have a ...

In May of 2015, Facebook unveiled its new in-app publishing platform, Instant Articles. A month later, Apple declared that the old Newsstand experience (essentially a fancy folder full of news apps) w...

  In May of 2015, Facebook unveiled its new in-app publishing platform, Instant Articles. A month later, Apple declared that the old Newsstand experience (essentially a fancy folder full of ...

I often think about our responsibility as web developers. I compare our job to a health worker, to a craftsman, and I realize that we have a pretty easy job in most cases. Usually, nobodys life will b...

  I often think about our responsibility as web developers. I compare our job to a health worker, to a craftsman, and I realize that we have a pretty easy job in most cases. Usually, nobodys...

  I often think about our responsibility as web developers. I compare our job to a health worker, to a craftsman, and I realize that we have a pretty easy job in most cases. Usually, nobodys...

  I often think about our responsibility as web developers. I compare our job to a health worker, to a craftsman, and I realize that we have a pretty easy job in most cases. Usually, nobodys...

Typography can make all the difference. However, if your project has to get along on a very limited budget and you need to rely on free fonts, good ones are never easy to find. Luckily, we stumbled ac...

Reviews, testimonials and word of mouth are winning the war in branding. A sea of research is out there about social proof and what to do and what not to do about soliciting customer reviews. Its over...

  Typography can make all the difference. However, if your project has to get along on a very limited budget and you need to rely on free fonts, good ones are never easy to find. Luckily, we...

  Reviews, testimonials and word of mouth are winning the war in branding. A sea of research is out there about social proof and what to do and what not to do about soliciting customer revie...

Guess what: those tricky mystery riddles are never easy to design. The idea has to be evaluated and brought into life, just to be crushed by painful user tests and then adjusted over and over again un...

Guess what: those tricky mystery riddles are never easy to design. The idea has to be evaluated and brought into life, just to be crushed by painful user tests and then adjusted over and over again un...

Mark Zuckerberg once said, The biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native because it just wasnt there. And its not that HTML5 is bad. Im actually, lo...

  Guess what: those tricky mystery riddles are never easy to design. The idea has to be evaluated and brought into life, just to be crashed by painful user tests and then adjusted over and o...

  Guess what: those tricky mystery riddles are never easy to design. The idea has to be evaluated and brought into life, just to be crashed by painful user tests and then adjusted over and o...

  Guess what: those tricky mystery riddles are never easy to design. The idea has to be evaluated and brought into life, just to be crashed by painful user tests and then adjusted over and o...

  Mark Zuckerberg once said, The biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native because it just wasnt there. And its not that HTML5 is bad. Im ...

The first time I became aware of brand inconsistency was four, maybe five years ago. Companies were extending their appearances to apps, social media and other digital channels. And so did the bank I ...

  The first time I became aware of brand inconsistency was four, maybe five years ago. Companies were extending their appearances to apps, social media and other digital channels. And so did...

  The first time I became aware of brand inconsistency was four, maybe five years ago. Companies were extending their appearances to apps, social media and other digital channels. And so did...

When it comes to web projects, real estate and home appliances go well together, so today we’re happy to release a lovely free icon set with 72 related icons. The set includes icons in 4 sizes a...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled the Internet to reach beyond the browser. Made up of electronically networked devices, these things are able to interact with the physical world via sensors th...

  When it comes to web projects, real estate and home appliances go well together, so today we're happy to release a lovely free icon set with 72 related icons. The set includes icons in 4 s...

  The Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled the Internet to reach beyond the browser. Made up of electronically networked devices, these things are able to interact with the physical world vi...

In many projects, responsive images arent a technical issue but a strategic concern. Delivering different images to different screens is technically possible with srcset and sizes and <picture> ...

  In many projects, responsive images arent a technical issue but a strategic concern. Delivering different images to different screens is technically possible with srcset and sizes and <...

Nothing is perfect on the web. We can’t make sure that our websites always work as intended, but we can try our best to design resilient and flexible websites that aren’t that easy to brea...

This week I mostly spent time on fixing bugs, improving a deployment workflow and on getting another new front-end project structured. One major takeaway from this was that its good to have a proper d...

  Nothing is perfect on the web. We can't make sure that our websites always work as intended, but we can try our best to design resilient and flexible websites that aren't that easy to brea...

  This week I mostly spent time on fixing bugs, improving a deployment workflow and on getting another new front-end project structured. One major takeaway from this was that its good to hav...

Sam Loyd (18411911), American chess player and puzzle maker, created the sliding tiles puzzle in the 1870s. The puzzle is represented by an mn grid, where m is number of columns and n is number of row...

Smashing Magazine is known for lengthy, comprehensive articles. But what about something different for a change? What about shorter, concise pieces with useful tips and bits that you could easily read...

  Sam Loyd (18411911), American chess player and puzzle maker, created the sliding tiles puzzle in the 1870s. The puzzle is represented by an mn grid, where m is number of columns and n is n...

  Smashing Magazine is known for lengthy, comprehensive articles. But what about something different for a change? What about shorter, concise pieces with useful tips that you could easily r...

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to work digitally on an image you draw by hand. You will learn two entirely different ways to work with the illustration: through the Live Trace Tool and the Pen...

  In this tutorial, I will teach you how to work digitally on an image you draw by hand. You will learn two completely different ways to approach the image: through the Live Trace Tool and t...

Are you excited to take advantage of new JavaScript language features but not sure where to start, or how? You’re not alone! I’ve spent the better part of the last year and a half trying t...

Are you excited to take advantage of new JavaScript language features but not sure where to start, or how? You’re not alone! I’ve spent the better part of the last year and a half trying t...

  Are you excited to take advantage of new JavaScript language features but not sure where to start, or how? You're not alone! I've spent the better part of the last year and a half trying t...

Theres no shortage of boosterism or excitement about the fledgling service worker API, now shipping in some popular browsers. There are cookbooks and blog posts, code snippets and tools. But I find th...

  Theres no shortage of boosterism or excitement about the fledgling service worker API, now shipping in some popular browsers. There are cookbooks and blog posts, code snippets and tools. B...

Since seven years, we welcome the new month with a collection of unique desktop wallpapers. And its not any different this time around. Created by designers and artists from across the globe, they are...

  Since seven years, we welcome the new month with a collection of unique desktop wallpapers. And its not any different this time around. Created by designers and artists from across the glo...