Articles by Smashing Magazine from June 2019

Its hard to overstate the importance of web search. Searching is as old as the Internet itself, and by some measures, even older. A well-designed search benefits both you and your users; it increases ...

A Progressive Web App (PWA) is a site that uses modern technology to deliver app-like experiences on the web. Its an umbrella term for new technologies such as the web app manifest, service worker, an...

I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didnt know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for...

Theres a disconnect. If youve been in business for enough time youve definitely felt it. Teams are pulling companies in different directions with internal processes and specialized frameworks for abso...

The digital and technological landscape is constantly changing — new products and technologies are popping up every day. Designers have to keep track of what is trending and where creative oppor...

I find it interesting that Google has pushed so hard for web designers to shift from designing primarily for desktop to now designing primarily for mobile. Googles right but why only focus on designin...

We love pushing the boundaries on the web, and so weve decided to try something new. You probably have heard of JAMstack — the new web stack based on JavaScript, APIs, and Markup — but wha...

Its fair to say Google Fonts are popular. As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and its easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 ...

Many web applications have the requirement of giving the user the ability to download something in PDF format. In the case of applications (such as e-commerce stores), those PDFs have to be created us...

(This is a sponsored article.) Last year, a comprehensive introduction to the basic use of SVGator was published here on Smashing Magazine. If youd like to learn about the fundamentals of SVGator, set...

Ive been working on the creation and maintenance of the main library of our design system, Lexicon. We used the Sketch app for the first year and then we moved to Figma where the library management wa...

Last week I read about the web turning into a dark forest. This made me think, and Im convinced that theres hope in the dark forest. Lets stay positive about how we can contribute to making the web a ...

I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Of course, owning a business meant I had to keep working, but staying motivated and offering my best thinking t...

A code review is a moment in the development process in which you (as a developer) and your colleagues work together and look for bugs within a recent piece of code before it gets released. In such a ...

(This is a sponsored article.) One of the cool things about accessibility is that it forces you to see and think about your application beyond the typical sighted, mouse-based user experience. Users w...

If you search for how to style apps for the web, youll come across many different approaches and libraries, some even changing day by day. Block Element Modifier (BEM); preprocessors such as Less and ...

Haben Girma, disability rights advocate and Harvard Laws first deafblind graduate, made the following statement in her keynote address at the AccessU digital accessibility conference last month:I defi...

A slow website is everyones concern. Not only that it chases visitors away but it also affects your SEO. So trying to keep it in shape is definitely one of the main items to tick when you run a busine...

When it comes to showing the transition, interaction and animation of elements in the user interface, a prototyping tool like Framer X can make a difference in the way you communicate your vision to t...

Workshops are interactive group activities and exercises cohesively designed to meet a goal. Generally, workshops are in-person with a facilitator guiding participants. They take people out of their n...

Design systems have been around for quite some time. Weve even published a book on design systems, yet just as they can be difficult to maintain, how do we know when we actually need one in the first ...

No matter if June means the beginning of summer for you, that monsoon season is here, or that winter is just around the corner, our new wallpapers are bound to sweeten the beginning of the month with ...