Articles by Smashing Magazine from September 2019

Weve been running SmashingConf since 2012, when we held our very first conference in Freiburg, Germany. Since then, weve continued to experiment and improve on our conference experience. Our aim is th...

In this article, well be putting all the theory to the test by performing step-by-step migration of an application, following the recommendations from the previous part. To make things straightforward...

Migration, according to Oxford Learners Dictionary, is the slow or gradual movement of something from one place to another. This term describes many things and phenomena in our world — both with...

In this tutorial, we will talk about how tables can be created in Figma by using components and Atomic Design methodology. We will also take a look at the basic elements of the table layout and how co...

(This is a sponsored article.) Mobile devices can be problematic for displaying complex tables and charts that would otherwise stretch the entire width of a laptop or desktop screen. This may leave so...

Its very easy to start a business these days. But succeeding in that business is another story. There are just too many people who want to escape the 9-to-5, do something with their big idea and make ...

In my book Experience Required, I encourage in-house UX professionals to leave companies who refuse to advance their UX intelligence and capability. There are far too many companies these days who und...

Have you heard of the French artist Marcel Duchamp? One of his most famous works is the fountain which was created from an ordinary bathroom urinal. In simply renaming this common object, Duchamp succ...

Back in 2016, Vitaly Friedman asked me to design the cover and layout for a printed version of Smashing Magazine, a magazine for web designers and developers. The design I created back then for the co...

(This is a sponsored post.) Errors, bugs and other issues are bound to arise in web development. Even if they arent outright errors, clients often have feedback about how something was designed, where...

Editors note: Please note that this is the last Monthly Web Development Update in the series. You can still follow the Web Development Reading List on Anselms site at https://wdrl.info. Watch out for ...

If you write JavaScript youre likely familiar with ES2015 and all the new language standards that were introduced. One such standard that has seen incredible popularity is destructuring assignment. Th...

I’m one of those people who can’t live without their Bash terminal. This sole fact has made it difficult for me to do frontend work on Windows. I work at Microsoft and I’m on a Mac. ...

(This is a sponsored article.) Time-to-market plays a crucial role in modern web design. Most product teams want to minimize the time required to go from the idea to a ready-to-use product without sac...

Machine learning often feels like it belongs to the realm of data scientists and Python developers. However, over the past couple of years, open-source frameworks have been created to make it more acc...

This week, Smashing Magazine turned thirteen years old. The web has changed a lot since Vitaly posted his first article back in 2006. The team at Smashing has changed too, as have the things that we b...

Before writing Art Direction for the Web, I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. I was drawn to his precision, in particular, the way Brodovitch ...

CSS is designed to keep your content readable. If you consider an HTML document that is marked up with headings and paragraphs (with no CSS applied), it displays in the browser in a readable way. The ...

(This is a sponsored article.) Managing the deployment of a website used to be easy: It simply involved uploading files to the server through FTP and you were pretty much done. But those days are gone...

For the past year, every time I got frustrated with Sketch, a colleague of mine suggested I try Figma. Then, when I wrote an article about building our design system in Sketch, I got a bunch of feedba...

Lush green slowly turning into yellows, reds, and browns in the Northern hemisphere; nature awakening from its slumber in the Southern part of the world: September is a time of change. A chance to lea...