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08:54 pm GMT - Fri, July 29, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #147: Security Guidelines, Accessible UI Components, And Content-First Design
When working in a team, its important to stick to rules. A common challenge is to build all your projects with a similar or the same toolset and coding guidelines. Only yesterday I discussed how we co...
05:46 pm GMT - Fri, July 29, 2016
Smashing Magazine Cross-Platform Native Apps With A Single Code Set Using Telerik NativeScript
Mobile applications are now a critical part of most enterprises, and there are many ways to create them, but what are the differences between these options and how do you choose between them? Do you c...
12:54 pm GMT - Fri, July 29, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #147: Security Guidelines, Accessible UI Compontens, And Content-First Design
  When working in a team, its important to stick to rules. A common challenge is to build all your projects with a similar or the same toolset and coding guidelines. Only yesterday I discuss...
12:54 pm GMT - Fri, July 29, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #147: Security Guidelines, Accessible UI Components, And Content-First Design
  When working in a team, its important to stick to rules. A common challenge is to build all your projects with a similar or the same toolset and coding guidelines. Only yesterday I discuss...
09:46 am GMT - Fri, July 29, 2016
Smashing Magazine Cross-Platform Native Apps With A Single Code Set Using Telerik NativeScript
  Mobile applications are now a critical part of most enterprises, and there are many ways to create them, but what are the differences between these options and how do you choose between th...
06:40 pm GMT - Thu, July 28, 2016
Smashing Magazine Getting Practical With Microcopy
The first question clients and stakeholders seek answers to with any digital product and/or service today and rightly so is how to establish an effective user experience. We, as designers, however, ...
10:40 am GMT - Thu, July 28, 2016
Smashing Magazine Getting Practical With Microcopy
  The first question clients and stakeholders seek answers to with any digital product and/or service today and rightly so is how to establish an effective user experience. We, as designer...
04:16 pm GMT - Wed, July 27, 2016
Smashing Magazine How To Create Icons In Adobe XD
Released in March this year, Adobe Experience Design (XD) is a new all-in-one tool that lets you design and prototype websites and mobile apps. It is bound to provide a fast and efficient way to creat...
08:16 am GMT - Wed, July 27, 2016
Smashing Magazine How To Create Icons In Adobe XD
  Released in March this year, Adobe Experience Design is a new all-in-one tool that lets you design and prototype websites and mobile apps. for websites and mobile apps. XD is still in beta...
05:57 pm GMT - Tue, July 26, 2016
Smashing Magazine The Illusion Of Life: An SVG Animation Case Study
With flat design becoming the ever visible trend of 2016, its clear why theres been a resurgence in SVG usage. The benefits are many: resolution-independence, cross-browser compatibility and accessibl...
09:57 am GMT - Tue, July 26, 2016
Smashing Magazine The Illusion Of Life: An SVG Animation Case Study
  With flat design becoming the ever visible trend of 2016, its clear why theres been a resurgence in SVG usage. The benefits are many: resolution-independence, cross-browser compatibility a...
05:44 pm GMT - Mon, July 25, 2016
Smashing Magazine Testing Credit-Card Numbers In E-Commerce Checkouts (Cheat Sheet)
As a developer, I work a lot with e-commerce websites and, as a result, with a lot of payment gateways. Im fortunate that I get to work on many different projects for different clients, each with its ...
09:44 am GMT - Mon, July 25, 2016
Smashing Magazine Testing Credit-Card Numbers In E-Commerce Checkouts (Cheat Sheet)
  As a developer, I work a lot with e-commerce websites and, as a result, with a lot of payment gateways. Im fortunate that I get to work on many different projects for different clients, ea...
06:50 pm GMT - Fri, July 22, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #146: Peermaps, Passive Event Listener Note, And A Shift Of Focus
So, what do we have this week? Well, its quite a lot actually. For example, theres now a deal that might make Operas browser a Chinese business, leaving all privacy and security efforts that have rece...
04:05 pm GMT - Fri, July 22, 2016
Smashing Magazine ProcessWire CMS A Beginners Guide
Systems for managing content are more often than not rather opinionated. For example, most of them expect a certain rigid content structure for inputting data and then have a specific engraved way of ...
10:50 am GMT - Fri, July 22, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #146: Peermaps, Passive Event Listener Note, And A Shift Of Focus
  So, what do we have this week? Well, its quite a lot actually. For example, theres now a deal that might make Operas browser a Chinese business, leaving all privacy and security efforts th...
08:05 am GMT - Fri, July 22, 2016
Smashing Magazine The Aesthetic Of Non-Opinionated Content Management: A Beginners Guide To ProcessWire
  Systems for managing content are more often than not rather opinionated. For example, most of them expect a certain rigid content structure for inputting data and then have a specific engr...
09:08 pm GMT - Thu, July 21, 2016
Smashing Magazine Connecting Children With Nature Through Smart Toy Design
Did you know that by the time a teen in the US reaches 16 years of age, they are spending less than seven hours a week in nature, and these trends are worldwide. Parents are as concerned about their c...
03:55 pm GMT - Thu, July 21, 2016
Smashing Magazine Freebie: Olympics Sports Icon Set (45 Icons, EPS, PDF, PNG, SVG)
This year, there will be 42 different sports and over 300 events taking place at the Olympics. Perhaps you have a project related to these upcoming games, or maybe youll be working on a project which ...
01:08 pm GMT - Thu, July 21, 2016
Smashing Magazine Connecting Children With Nature Through Smart Toy Design
  Did you know that by the time a teen in the US reaches 16 years of age, they are spending less than seven hours a week in nature, and these trends are worldwide. Parents are as concerned a...
07:55 am GMT - Thu, July 21, 2016
Smashing Magazine Freebie: Olympics Sports Icon Set (45 Icons, EPS, PDF, PNG, SVG)
  This year, there will be 42 different sports and over 300 events taking place at the Olympics. Perhaps you have a project related to these upcoming games, or maybe youll be working on a pr...
06:03 pm GMT - Wed, July 20, 2016
Smashing Magazine How To Use ES6 Arguments And Parameters
ECMAScript 6 (or ECMAScript 2015) is the newest version of the ECMAScript standard and has remarkably improved parameter handling in JavaScript. We can now use rest parameters, default values and dest...
10:03 am GMT - Wed, July 20, 2016
Smashing Magazine How To Use Arguments And Parameters In ECMAScript 6
  ECMAScript 6 (or ECMAScript 2015) is the newest version of the ECMAScript standard and has remarkably improved parameter handling in JavaScript. We can now use rest parameters, default val...
05:59 pm GMT - Tue, July 19, 2016
Smashing Magazine Axure 8: A Comprehensive Review
Behind every great invention lie dozens of sacrificed prototypes. It took Michele Ferrero almost five years to perfect the spherical wafer within the famous chocolates that bear his name. No great pro...
09:59 am GMT - Tue, July 19, 2016
Smashing Magazine A Deep Dive Into Axure 8: A Comprehensive Review
  Behind every great invention lie dozens of sacrificed prototypes. It took Michele Ferrero almost five years to perfect the spherical wafer within the famous chocolates that bear his name. ...
06:19 pm GMT - Mon, July 18, 2016
Smashing Magazine Conversational Interfaces: Where Are We Today? Where Are We Heading?
Computers and human beings dont speak the same language. So, to make interaction possible, we rely on graphical user interfaces (GUIs). But GUIs come with a natural barrier: People have to learn to us...
10:19 am GMT - Mon, July 18, 2016
Smashing Magazine Conversational Interfaces: Where Are We Today? Where Are We Heading?
  Computers and human beings dont speak the same language. So, to make interaction possible, we rely on graphical user interfaces (GUIs). But GUIs come with a natural barrier: People have to...
06:49 pm GMT - Fri, July 15, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #145: Font Loading Strategies, Scaling SVGs And Infinite Scrolling Done Right
I love articles that specifically focus on tiny little details within web development. For example, this week I stumbled upon an article featuring all the fine details about scheduling in requestAnima...
10:49 am GMT - Fri, July 15, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #145: Font Loading Strategies, Scaling SVGs And Infinite Scrolling Done Right
  I love articles that specifically focus on tiny little details within web development. For example, this week I stumbled upon an article featuring all the fine details about scheduling in ...
08:29 pm GMT - Thu, July 14, 2016
Smashing Magazine Grab Your Sunglasses: 40 Vibrant Icons To Welcome Summer
You deserve a vacation, dont you think? Now, you might need icons on your website to indicate that you’re away, or even use some for your auto-reply. For whatever reason you decide to use today&...
04:29 pm GMT - Thu, July 14, 2016
Smashing Magazine Keeping Your Business And Clients Safe With Digital Policies
Digital workers, especially web designers and developers, need to recognize that policy influences their products online much as it does offline. Whatever the scale of our enterprise whether a large ...
12:29 pm GMT - Thu, July 14, 2016
Smashing Magazine Freebie: Summer Icon Set (40 Icons, PNG, PDF, PSD, EPS, AI, SVG)
  You deserve a vacation, dont you think? Now, you might need icons on your website to indicate that you're away, or even use some for your auto-reply. For whatever reason you decide to use ...
08:29 am GMT - Thu, July 14, 2016
Smashing Magazine Keeping Your Business And Clients Safe With Digital Policies
  Digital workers, especially web designers and developers, need to recognize that policy influences their products online much as it does offline. Whatever the scale of our enterprise ̵...
10:42 pm GMT - Wed, July 13, 2016
Smashing Magazine How To Make And Maintain Atomic Design Systems With Pattern Lab 2
The benefits of UI design systems are now well known. They lead to more cohesive, consistent user experiences. They speed up your teams workflow, allowing you to launch more stuff while saving huge am...
07:03 pm GMT - Wed, July 13, 2016
Smashing Magazine Building A Cross-Platform WebGL Game With Babylon.js
Heres a challenge for you: what about building a 3D game over the weekend? Babylon.js is a JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL and Web Audio, built by yours truly and the Baby...
02:42 pm GMT - Wed, July 13, 2016
Smashing Magazine Making And Maintaining Atomic Design Systems With Pattern Lab 2
  The benefits of UI design systems are now well known. They lead to more cohesive, consistent user experiences. They speed up your teams workflow, allowing you to launch more stuff while sa...
11:03 am GMT - Wed, July 13, 2016
Smashing Magazine Building A Cross-Platform WebGL Game With Babylon.js
  Heres a challenge for you: what about building a 3D game over the weekend? Babylon.js is a JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL and Web Audio, built by yours truly ...
06:57 pm GMT - Tue, July 12, 2016
Smashing Magazine How We Started Releasing Features Twice As Fast (Case Study)
When businesses rely on your app for their day-to-day work, you have to be agile enough to quickly address their needs. If you dont, others definitely will. In the unforgiving world of SaaS, delaying ...
10:57 am GMT - Tue, July 12, 2016
Smashing Magazine How We Started Releasing Features Twice As Fast (Case Study)
  When businesses rely on your app for their day-to-day work, you have to be agile enough to quickly address their needs. If you dont, others definitely will. In the unforgiving world of Saa...
06:23 pm GMT - Mon, July 11, 2016
Smashing Magazine Element Queries, And How You Can Use Them Today
For some time, weve run up against the limits of what CSS can do. Those who build responsive layouts will freely admit the frustrations and shortcomings of CSS that force us to reach for CSS preproces...
10:23 am GMT - Mon, July 11, 2016
Smashing Magazine The Search For The Holy Grail: How I Ended Up With Element Queries, And How You Can Use Them Today
  For some time, weve run up against the limits of what CSS can do. Those who build responsive layouts will freely admit the frustrations and shortcomings of CSS that force us to reach for C...
04:51 pm GMT - Fri, July 8, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #144: CSP Mistakes, JS Debugging And Failure Testing
Every week is a learning week and this week I was reminded that viewport units are not all good to use. Also, choosing the right HTTP status code can be difficult and may not even be supported by the ...
08:51 am GMT - Fri, July 8, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #144: CSP Mistakes, JS Debugging And Failure Testing
  Every week is a learning week and this week I was reminded that viewport units are not all good to use. Also, choosing the right HTTP status code can be difficult and may not even be suppo...
09:23 pm GMT - Thu, July 7, 2016
Smashing Magazine Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration For July
With the summer holidays coming up, Id like to share a couple of inspirational illustrations and photos which I hope will help you daydream and relax. There’s no doubt that there are a lot of gr...
04:20 pm GMT - Thu, July 7, 2016
Smashing Magazine How To Make WordPress Hard For Clients To Mess Up
WordPress is a wonderfully powerful CMS that ships with many versatile features giving it the flexibility to work out of the box for a wide range of users. However, if you are a professional building ...
01:23 pm GMT - Thu, July 7, 2016
Smashing Magazine Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration (July 2016)
  With the summer holidays coming up, Id like to share a couple of inspirational illustrations and photos which I hope will help you daydream and relax. There's no doubt that there are a lot...
08:20 am GMT - Thu, July 7, 2016
Smashing Magazine How To Make WordPress Easy To Maintain For Your Clients
  WordPress is a wonderfully powerful CMS that ships with many versatile features giving it the flexibility to work out of the box for a wide range of users. However, if you are a profession...
08:20 am GMT - Thu, July 7, 2016
Smashing Magazine Client-proofing WordPress
  WordPress is a wonderfully powerful CMS that ships with many versatile features giving it the flexibility to work out of the box for a wide range of users. However, if you are a profession...
08:20 am GMT - Thu, July 7, 2016
Smashing Magazine How To Protect WordPress Websites From User Errors
  WordPress is a wonderfully powerful CMS that ships with many versatile features giving it the flexibility to work out of the box for a wide range of users. However, if you are a profession...
08:20 am GMT - Thu, July 7, 2016
Smashing Magazine How To Make WordPress Hard For Clients To Mess Up
  WordPress is a wonderfully powerful CMS that ships with many versatile features giving it the flexibility to work out of the box for a wide range of users. However, if you are a profession...
08:18 pm GMT - Wed, July 6, 2016
Smashing Magazine Quick UX Prototyping With Adobe XD Shortcuts (PDF Cheat Sheet)
Every designer has their favorite prototyping tools. However, when it comes to UX wireframing and prototyping, there is often more than one tool involved. Sooner or later, you find yourself switching ...
04:05 pm GMT - Wed, July 6, 2016
Smashing Magazine 10 Requirements For Making Home Page Carousels Work For End Users (If Needed)
Are home page carousels actually helpful to users? Or are they simply popular because they are an easy tool for solving internal discussions in large organizations about who gets to put their banner o...
12:18 pm GMT - Wed, July 6, 2016
Smashing Magazine Quick UX Prototyping With Adobe XD Shortcuts (PDF Cheat Sheet)
  Every designer has their favorite prototyping tools. However, when it comes to UX wireframing and prototyping, there is often more than one tool involved. Sooner or later, you find yoursel...
08:05 am GMT - Wed, July 6, 2016
Smashing Magazine Ten Requirements For Making Home Page Carousels Work For End Users (If Needed)
  Are home page carousels actually helpful to users? Or are they simply popular because they are an easy tool for solving internal discussions in large organizations about who gets to put th...
08:01 pm GMT - Tue, July 5, 2016
Smashing Magazine A Lean Approach To Product Validation
One of the biggest risks of building a product is to build the wrong thing. Youll pour months (even years) into building it, only to realize that you just cant make it a success.At Hanno, we see this ...
04:32 pm GMT - Tue, July 5, 2016
Smashing Magazine Improving User Flow Through Page Transitions
Any time a users experience is interrupted, the chance of them leaving increases. Changing from one page to another will often cause this interruption by showing a white flash of no content, by taking...
12:01 pm GMT - Tue, July 5, 2016
Smashing Magazine A Lean Approach To Product Validation
  One of the biggest risks of building a product is to build the wrong thing. Youll pour months (even years) into building it, only to realize that you just cant make it a success. At Hanno,...
08:32 am GMT - Tue, July 5, 2016
Smashing Magazine Improving User Flow Through Page Transitions
  Any time a users experience is interrupted, the chance of them leaving increases. Changing from one page to another will often cause this interruption by showing a white flash of no conten...
06:06 pm GMT - Mon, July 4, 2016
Smashing Magazine Front-End Challenge Accepted: CSS 3D Cube
Do you like challenges? Are you willing to take on a task that youve never come across before, and do it under a deadline? What if, in carrying out the task, you encounter a problem that appears unsol...
10:06 am GMT - Mon, July 4, 2016
Smashing Magazine Front-End Challenge Accepted: CSS 3D Cube
  Do you like challenges? Are you willing to take on a task that youve never come across before, and do it under a deadline? What if, in carrying out the task, you encounter a problem that a...
06:07 pm GMT - Fri, July 1, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #143: The Referrer Header, Third-Party Scripts, And Color Psychology
Hey! I dont have a lot of links for you this week, but I feel that the ones that I selected are particularly useful to read. I learned about how to break Google captchas, the Referrer header, color ps...
10:07 am GMT - Fri, July 1, 2016
Smashing Magazine Web Development Reading List #143: The Referrer Header, Third-Party Scripts, And Color Psychology
  Hey! I dont have a lot of links for you this week, but I feel that the ones that I selected are particularly useful to read. I learned about how to break Google captchas, the Referrer head...
07:55 pm GMT - Thu, June 30, 2016
Smashing Magazine Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: July 2016
To help you start into July freshly inspired, artists and designers from across the globe challenged their artistic abilities and created desktop wallpapers for you to indulge in. This monthly creativ...
05:36 pm GMT - Thu, June 30, 2016
Smashing Magazine Accessibility Matters: Meet Our New Book, Inclusive Design Patterns (Pre-Release)
  Accessibility has always been a slightly unsettling realm for web developers. Surrounded with myths, misunderstandings and contradicting best practices, it used to be a domain for a small ...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 30, 2016
Smashing Magazine Lessons Learned From WordPress Plugin Support
A year and a half ago I released my first premium WordPress plugin, Advanced Ads. Its true that once the plugin was out, my most important task was support. Support is a crucial element that determine...
11:55 am GMT - Thu, June 30, 2016
Smashing Magazine Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: July 2016
  To help you start into July freshly inspired, artists and designers from across the globe challenged their artistic abilities and created desktop wallpapers for you to indulge in. This mon...
08:05 am GMT - Thu, June 30, 2016
Smashing Magazine Lessons Learned From Plugin Support
  A year and a half ago I released my first premium WordPress plugin, Advanced Ads. Its true that once the plugin was out, my most important task was support. Support is a crucial element th...