Articles by Smashing Magazine from February 2020

We all have a role to play in the building of a website. Designers create beautiful and interactive interfaces. Copywriters create messaging that gets visitors to take notice and action. Developers br...

Handling digital media assets such as audio and video in your application can be tricky because of the considerations that have to be made server-side (e.g. networking, storage and the asynchronous na...

After years of talk, experimentation, and plateauing smartphone sales, foldable devices are finally entering the market. Samsung, Huawei, and Motorola have all released phones with foldable screens, a...

In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, were talking about Ethical Design. What does it mean for a design to be ethical, and how do we make improvements in our own projects? I speak to Trine Falbe an...

In the dispensation of CSS libraries and frameworks, a ton of awesome libraries have been built to simplify the work of a developer in the quest to create intuitive interfaces. However, quite a lot of...

The unprecedented rise of cryptocurrencies, and their underpinning blockchain technology, have taken the world by storm — from the humble beginnings of being an academic concept over a decade ag...

On Friday, January 2007 the world shrank into our palms as three revolutionary products—the iPod, a phone, and a breakthrough internet communicator—were unified to create the smartphones w...

The drag-and-drop API is one of the coolest features of HTML. It helps us implement drag-and-drop features in web browsers.In the current context, we will be dragging files from outside the browser. O...

Before consumers sat in front of mobile devices for hours every day, there were numerous browsers and operating systems web designers had to contend with. So, its not like the concept of cross-browser...

There are a number of reasons why businesses decide to use mascots to represent their brands:They want there to be a friendly and reliable face to welcome visitors to the site. They know they need som...

An important part of our job is staying up to date, and we know how difficult it can be. Technologies dont really change that fast — coding languages take a long time to be specified and impleme...

An important part of our job is staying up to date, and we know how difficult it can be. Technologies dont really change that fast — coding languages take a long time to be specified and impleme...

In the era of SPA and the JAMstack, there has always been a separation of concern between the APIs and front-end development. Almost all JavaScript projects that can be found out in the wild interact ...

When using CSS Grid Layout, you can always place items from one grid line to another. However, there is an alternate way of describing your layout, one that is visual in nature. In this article, we wi...

When it comes to running a service-based business online, scheduling appointments with prospects and clients is critical. The downside of that, of course, is that it takes a lot of time to manage appo...

As a developer myself, one of the things that I like about UI frameworks is that they often come with default styling, but is that something that we should be relying on in projects? Simply using the ...

We are so excited to be bringing SmashingConf to a new city this year. Were bringing you SmashingConf Austin and we have a fantastic line-up of speakers.Check out this post, where we introduce our new...

Grasping information from a CSV or a JSON file isnt only complicated, but is also tedious. Representing the same data in the form of visual aid is simpler. In this article, were going to represent the...

There are two types of websites: static and dynamic. Django is a framework for developing dynamic websites. While a static website is one that solely presents information, there is no interaction (bey...

What are the chances your next client will use the word interactive while introducing their project? In my experience, the answer is 100%, so Im always looking for robust CSS techniques to help me del...

Over the past twenty years, user privacy has become merely a commodity on the web: there, but hardly ever respected and often swiftly discarded. No wonder ad-blockers have gained traction, browsers h...

In the first article of this series, we walked through Smashing Magazines journey from WordPress to the JAMstack. We covered the reasons for the change, the benefits that came with it, and hurdles tha...

SmashingConf is coming to Austin, and in this post, we bring you an interview with one of our speakers, Zach Leatherman, who will be talking about type and font performance....

What will you make of the extra day that February has in store for us this year? Visit an old friend, explore a new place, or use it to get stuff done you have put off for so long? Whatever you might ...