Articles by Smashing Magazine from May 2019

If youve been following along this little article series, youve now learned how to put together your very own validation library. It can handle almost any challenge you can throw at it, and it even he...

I recently was on Jeff Bullas website when I encountered a pop-up promoting an ebook. Nothing about that seemed too out of the ordinary. However, what struck me as odd was that the CTA wasnt an Email ...

(This is a sponsored article.) A design system enables a product team to create a product faster by making the design reusable. But quite often, despite everyones best intentions, all the effort that ...

Some of you might have heard of JAMstack, and perhaps even about how to switch from WordPress to Hugo, but is JAMstack a viable option for any kind of project?I spoke with Phil Hawksworth, a front-end...

Today, we are going to take a look at what happens when we use display: grid and how we might use the new subgrid value of grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows to allow for grids all the way d...

Implementing a validation library isnt all that hard. Neither is adding all of those extra features that make your validation library much better than the rest.This article will continue implementing ...

(This is a sponsored article.) Is privacy an issue on the web? According to this ConsumerMan piece from NBC News a few years back, it is:The Internet has become a serious threat to our privacy.—...

When WordPress 5 was released, I was excited about making use of the Gutenberg editor to create custom blocks, as posts on my personal blog had a couple of features I could turn into a block, making i...

Reactive JavaScript Frameworks (such as React, Vue.js, and Angular) are all the rage lately, and its no wonder that they are being used in more and more websites and applications due to their flexibil...

In this video, we are pleased to feature Jenny Shen who is a UX Consultant and has worked with numerous startups and brands including Neiman Marcus, Crate&Barrel, eBuddy, IBM, TravelBird and Rands...

This week, I was at the amazing beyondtellerrand conference once again, and every single time I come home from such an event, I try to understand our industry and our society better. Theres so much in...

Ive always thought form validation libraries were pretty cool. I know, its a niche interest to have — but we use them so much! At least in my job — most of what I do is constructing more o...

So, we already have ways of dynamically loading a menu of SVG icons made to react by loading panels if we so desire, but the icons were not actual components. We were able to use a simple trick of bri...

So, we already have ways of dynamically loading a menu of SVG icons made to react by loading panels if we so desire, but the icons were not actual components. We were able to use a simple trick of bri...

Within the last nine years, almost every designer I used to work with expressed their frustration to me about them frequently having to spend days giving feedback to developers to correct spacings, fo...

The web is wonderfully diverse and unpredictable because of wonderfully diverse people shaping it. In this new series of short interviews, we talk to interesting people doing interesting work in our i...

In this tutorial, Im going to show you how to create a beautiful cover design inspired by the 1950s. Specifically, the cover will be for a childrens book, so were going to create a well-known characte...

You want your clients website to become the go-to destination for their target audience. So, you design them to look great, work perfectly and rank well in search. Is that enough? It could be, though ...

The IoT market is still in its early stages, but gathering steam. We are at a cusp in the history of IoT. Markets are quadrupling in the course of five years, 2015 to 2020. For web developers, this Io...

(This is a sponsored article.) Take a look around at the apps and software you interact with on a regular basis. Each has its own unique design, right? And, yet, theres something similar about each of...

In the past few weeks, you might have heard or read about native lazy loading, which is coming to Chromium 75 in the upcoming months.Yeah, great news, but well have to wait until all browsers support ...

A good understanding of SVG is a rare skill. Surprisingly often, SVG is treated as just another image format. We use SVG because of its scalability and smaller file size, but in reality, SVG is so muc...

(This article is kindly sponsored by Adobe.) Voice-enabled interfaces are challenging the long dominance of graphical user interfaces and are quickly becoming a common part of our daily lives. Accordi...

This is the second in a short series of articles about the display property in CSS. You can read the initial article in the series at “The Two Values Of Display”. The display specification...

We always try our best to challenge your creativity and get you out of your comfort zone. A great occasion to do so is our monthly wallpapers challenge which has been going on for nine years already. ...

This year, SmashingConf took place at the Fort Mason Center which has superb views of the Bay and Golden Gate Bridge. The weather was very kind to us making it a very pleasant location to spend a few ...