Articles by Smashing Magazine from March 2020

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.— Steve Jobs Like written words are to language, fonts, colors, shapes and icons are to visual design. An effective v...

Sharing the things we have learned is at the heart of everything we do at Smashing. That goes for the team as well as our authors, and Vitaly has been working on a set of checklists to accompany his w...

Git was released almost 15 years ago. In that time it has gone from underdog to unbeaten champion, git init is often the first command run on a new project. It is undoubtedly an important tool that ma...

For e-commerce designers, its easy to focus on designing the home page, individual product pages as well as the checkout experience because theyre obvious stepping stones along the mobile shoppers jou...

Literally, tomes have been written on version control. Nevertheless, I will start by sharing a brief explanation and other introductory content to whet your appetite for further study.Version control ...

Please note that dates are subject to change due to COVID-19, so it would be best to check the websites for further information regarding their conference dates and schedules.Were putting our heart an...

In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, were talking about the user experience around converting site visitors into customers. Can our selling techniques leave customers feeling cheated? And how can ...

We had to postpone our SmashingConf in San Francisco until 10th–11th November 2020 and, like so many of you, our team will be staying firmly put at home for the next month or more. However, we k...

For the past few years, books about HTML and CSS have almost vanished from my studio bookshelves. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design.Recently, I was browsing a ...

For the past few years, books about HTML and CSS have almost vanished from my studio bookshelves. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design.Recently, I was browsing a ...

For e-commerce designers, its easy to focus on designing the home page, individual product pages as well as the checkout experience because theyre obvious stepping stones along the mobile shoppers jou...

Table sorting has always been a pretty hard issue to get right. Theres a lot of interactions to keep track of, extensive DOM mutations to do and even intricate sorting algorithms, too. Its just one of...

It takes a long time for a new CSS feature or improvement to progress from an initial draft to a fully-supported and stable CSS feature that developers can use. JavaScript-based polyfills can be used ...

As a designer with many years of experience, I often encourage my colleagues and reports to pick up some coding skills. While many are open to the idea, others balk at the notion. I usually hear some ...

Usability is critical for a websites success, but it can be difficult to nail down in early design and development stages without a little help.Its not as though the research and preparation you do fo...

If you have been looking for an alternative to pagination, infinite scroll is a good consideration. In this article, were going to explore some use cases for the Intersection Observer API in the conte...

For all the times we asked folks about Smashing, most still seem to believe that were some sort of large publishing company situated somewhere in the United States — both of which are wrong. It ...

For all the times we asked folks about Smashing, most still seem to believe that were some sort of large publishing company situated somewhere in the United States — both of which are wrong. It ...

We have all been looking forward to our SmashingConf in San Francisco, and are so sad to have to announce that the conference is being postponed until 10th–11th November 2020. If you have ticket...

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) became a W3C open standard in 1999 — back when the new tech hotness was the Blackberry phone, Napster first invaded college dorms, and the Y2K bug sparked fear in...

If youre anything like me, youve forgotten your password more than once, especially on sites you havent visited in a while. Youve probably also seen, and/or been mortified by, reset password emails th...

Many business models thrive on ingeniously deceptive and manipulative digital products. Not because they have to; mostly because dark patterns have become such an accepted norm. But what happens when ...

Many business models thrive on ingeniously deceptive and manipulative digital products. Not because they have to; mostly because dark patterns have become such an accepted norm. But what happens when ...

In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, were talking about an interesting open-source tool called Sourcebit. How can it help our content workflow with JAMstack sites? I spoke to developer Eduardo Bou...

October CMS is flourishing: With over 9000 stars in its GitHub repo, 2000 forks and 300 contributors, it is becoming a major force in the CMS space. It won the popular vote as the Best Flat-File CMS f...

In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, were talking about an interesting open-source tool called Sourcebit. How can it help our content workflow with JAMstack sites? I spoke to developer Eduardo Bou...

October CMS is flourishing: With over 9000 stars in its GitHub repo, 2000 forks and 300 contributors, it is becoming a major force in the CMS space. It won the popular vote as the Best Flat-File CMS f...

Web performance advocates have often advised to add dimensions to your images for best performance to allow the page to be laid out with the appropriate space for the image, before the image itself ha...

Googles multi-language input method, known as Google Input Tools is a good example of a web app that uses transliteration to input non-English characters. The basic idea is to have a text box, in whic...

Like most developers, I have a bad tendency to over-complicate my workflow, especially if theres some new hotness on the horizon. Why use CSS when you can use CSS-in-JS? Why use Grunt when you can use...

There has been some discussion recently about whether there should be a CSS4, as in a defined “next version” of CSS. In this article, I take a look at the discussions around this, the pros...

Like most developers, I have a bad tendency to over-complicate my workflow, especially if theres some new hotness on the horizon. Why use CSS when you can use CSS-in-JS? Why use Grunt when you can use...

Design is about solving problems. No matter what product we work on, we always try to provide the best possible solution to our users. Product research, ideation, prototyping, and testing are essentia...

Although I was born in North West England, I grew up in Corby, a steel working town in the middle of the country. From the 1930s, Corby had grown to rely on steel production, with working-class famili...

March is here! With the days getting noticeably longer in the northern hemisphere, the sun coming out, and the flowers blooming, we are fueled with fresh energy. And even if spring is far away in your...