Articles by Smashing Magazine from April 2017

We all have fears and doubts. Its not different for you than for me. Over the last weeks, well-known people on Twitter started to share mistakes they made in life or their careers. I think its very he...

  We all have fears and doubts. Its not different for you than for me. Over the last weeks, well-known people on Twitter started to share mistakes they made in life or their careers. I think...

Ive been a long time Photoshop and Illustrator user. Both programs are really useful and powerful, and theyll remain a key part of any digital artists or designers toolset, including mine. However, fo...

  Ive been a long time Photoshop and Illustrator user. Both programs are really useful and powerful, and theyll remain a key part of any digital artists or designers toolset, including mine....

Sometimes you have to step back and ask why a tradition exists. In mobile-first design, serving an image in three sizes one for smartphones, one for tablets and one for desktops using media queries ...

  Sometimes you have to step back and ask why a tradition exists. In mobile-first design, serving an image in three sizes — one for smartphones, one for tablets and one for desktops &#...

When you develop a game, you need to sprinkle conditionals everywhere. If Pac-Man eats a power pill, then ghosts should run away. If the player has low health, then enemies attack more aggressively. I...

  When you develop a game, you need to sprinkle conditionals everywhere. If Pac-Man eats a power pill, then ghosts should run away. If the player has low health, then enemies attack more agg...

As a designer, you will be facing more demands and opportunities to work with digital systems that embody machine learning. To have your say about how best to use it, you need a good understanding abo...

  As a designer, you will be facing more demands and opportunities to work with digital systems that embody machine learning. To have your say about how best to use it, you need a good under...

Bots and Artificial Intelligence are probably the most hyped concepts right now. And while some people praise the existing technologies, others claim they dont fear AI at all, citing examples where it...

Jekyll is gaining popularity as a lightweight alternative to WordPress. It often gets pigeonholed as a tool developers use to build their personal blog. Thats just the tip of the iceberg its capable ...

  Bots and Artificial Intelligence are probably the most hyped concepts right now. And while some people praise the existing technologies, others claim they dont fear AI at all, citing examp...

  Jekyll is gaining popularity as a lightweight alternative to WordPress. It often gets pigeonholed as a tool developers use to build their personal blog. Thats just the tip of the iceberg ...

No matter whether you are designing a whole design system or just a couple of screens, symbols in Sketch will help you keep your file organized and will save you a lot of time in the long run. In this...

  No matter whether you are designing a whole design system or just a couple of screens, symbols in Sketch will help you keep your file organized and will save you a lot of time in the long ...

Today, CSS preprocessors are a standard for web development. One of the main advantages of preprocessors is that they enable you to use variables. This helps you to avoid copying and pasting code, and...

To say that responsive web design has changed our industry would be an understatement at best. We used to ask our clients which resolutions and devices they wanted us to support, but we now know the a...

  Today, CSS preprocessors are a standard for web development. One of the main advantages of preprocessors is that they enable you to use variables. This helps you to avoid copying and pasti...

  To say that responsive web design has changed our industry would be an understatement at best. We used to ask our clients which resolutions and devices they wanted us to support, but we no...

In the first article of this series, we walked through how to put together the hardware board and all of its additional components into a single rig. I also gave you a glimpse of the decision-making p...

  In the first article of this series, we walked through how to put together the hardware board and all of its additional components into a single rig. I also gave you a glimpse of the decis...

Looking at recent discussions, I feel that more and more people are starting to think about ethically and morally correct work. Many of us keep asking themselves if their work is meaningful or if it m...

For the past few months, Ive been building a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, and throughout the development process Ive realized what a powerful tool Slack (or team chat in general) can be t...

  Looking at recent discussions, I feel that more and more people are starting to think about ethically and morally correct work. Many of us keep asking themselves if their work is meaningfu...

  For the past few months, Ive been building a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, and throughout the development process Ive realized what a powerful tool Slack (or team chat in gener...

Big news from Google: Within a few months, the infamous search engine will divide its index to give users better and fresher content. The long-term plan is to make the mobile search index the primary ...

  Big news from Google: Within a few months, the infamous search engine will divide its index to give users better and fresher content. The long-term plan is to make the mobile search index ...

The world is constantly evolving with frameworks, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and virtual reality (VR). These and many others are opening opportunities to rethink how we approach prototyping:...

  The world is constantly evolving with frameworks, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and virtual reality (VR). These and many others are opening opportunities to rethink how we approach ...

The landscape for the performance-minded developer has changed significantly in the last year or so, with the emergence of HTTP/2 being perhaps the most significant of all. No longer is HTTP/2 a featu...

  The landscape for the performance-minded developer has changed significantly in the last year or so, with the emergence of HTTP/2 being perhaps the most significant of all. No longer is HT...

From time to time, we need to take some time off, and actually, Im glad that this reading list is a bit shorter as the ones youre used to. Because one thing that really stuck with me this week was Eri...

  From time to time, we need to take some time off, and actually, Im glad that this reading list is a bit shorter as the ones youre used to. Because one thing that really stuck with me this ...

Did you know that bandwidth overage charges are (still) a problem and most users prefer not to rely on a developer? Well, I talked to 917 (real-life) users and created a guide to help others find the ...

  Did you know that bandwidth overage charges are (still) a problem and most users prefer not to rely on a developer? Well, I talked to 917 (real-life) users and created a guide to help othe...

  Did you know that bandwidth overage charges are (still) a problem and most users prefer not to rely on a developer? Well, I talked to 917 (real-life) users and created a guide to help othe...

  Did you know that bandwidth overage charges are (still) a problem and most users prefer not to rely on a developer? Well, I talked to 917 (real-life) users and created a guide to help othe...

(This is a sponsored post). In today’s article, we’ll create a JavaScript extension that works in all major modern browsers, using the very same code base. Indeed, the Chrome extension mod...

  In today's article, we'll create a JavaScript extension that works in all major modern browsers, using the very same code base. Indeed, the Chrome extension model based on HTML, CSS and Ja...

On days when things don’t seem to go as you’d like them to and inspiration is at its lowest, it’s good to take a short break and go outside to try and empty your mind. That always se...

Regression testing is one of the most time-consuming tasks when developing a mobile Android app. Using myMail as a case study, I’d like to share my experience and advice on how to build a flexib...

  On days when things don't seem to go as you'd like them to and inspiration is at its lowest, it's good to take a short break and go outside to try and empty your mind. That always seems to...

  On days when things don't seem to go as you'd like them to and inspiration is at its lowest, it's good to take a short break and go outside to try and empty your mind. That always seems to...

  Regression testing is one of the most time-consuming tasks when developing a mobile Android app. Using myMail as a case study, I'd like to share my experience and advice on how to build a ...

Web applications, be they thin websites or thick single-page apps, are notorious targets for cyber-attacks. In 2016, approximately 40% of data breaches originated from attacks on web apps the leading...

  Web applications, be they thin websites or thick single-page apps, are notorious targets for cyber-attacks. In 2016, approximately 40% of data breaches originated from attacks on web apps ...

What a busy week! To stay on top of things, lets review what happened in the web development world the last few days from browser vendors pushing new updates and building new JavaScript guidelines an...

Time is running! The first quarter of the year lies already behind us and a new season is in full swing. But no matter if April means blooming colors and embracing the warmer weather in your part of t...

  What a busy week! To stay on top of things, lets review what happened in the web development world the last few days from browser vendors pushing new updates and building new JavaScript g...

  Time is running! The first quarter of the year lies already behind us and a new season is in full swing. But no matter if April means blooming colors and embracing the warmer weather in yo...