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12:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 29, 2020
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Smashing Meets Gives A Sneak Preview Of What To Expect At Live!
Last week we had our first Smashing Meets event. A free event across two days and many timezones, with three speakers each day and plenty of chance for attendees to chat and ask questions of the speak...
11:00 am GMT - Fri, May 29, 2020
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Mirage JS Deep Dive: Understanding Factories, Fixtures And Serializers (Part 2)
In the previous article of this series, we understudied Models and Associations as they relate to Mirage. I explained that Models allow us to create dynamic mock data that Mirage would serve to our ap...
10:00 am GMT - Fri, May 29, 2020
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How To Run The Right Kind Of Research Study With The Double-Diamond Model
Product and design teams make a lot of decisions. Early on in the development of a product, they will be thinking about features — such as what the product should do, and how each feature should...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, May 28, 2020
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How To Create Better Angular Templates With Pug
As a developer, I appreciate how Angular apps are structured and the many options the Angular CLI makes available to configure them. Components provide an amazing means to structure views, facilitate ...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, May 27, 2020
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Equivalent Experiences: What Are They?
If you spend enough time interacting with digital accessibility practitioners, you may encounter the phrase equivalent experience. This saying concisely sums up a lot of the philosophy behind accessib...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 26, 2020
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How To Feel More Energized Even When Youre Stuck At A Desk All Day
Let me tell you a little story.I used to work for a translation agency. It was my job to copy-and-paste translations from one document into another and then to review the writing for errors. I worked ...
09:00 am GMT - Tue, May 26, 2020
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Getting Started With Axios In Nuxt
Nuxt.js provides an Axios module for easy integration with your application. Axios is a promise-based HTTP client that works in the browser and Node.js environment or, in simpler terms, it is a tool f...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, May 25, 2020
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Building Reusable React Components Using Tailwind
In this post, well look at several different ways you can build reusable React components that leverage Tailwind under the hood while exposing a nice interface to other components. This will improve y...
10:30 am GMT - Fri, May 22, 2020
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How To Design A Brand Logo (With Ease)
As a web designer, you may find yourself in a position where a client wants you to design their brand logo. If youre feeling up to the task, there are some things you need to know first.For instance:H...
09:00 am GMT - Fri, May 22, 2020
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Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication
Years ago, I wished I could work on advertising projects for household names because I thought that above-the-line work would bring creative satisfaction. Ive been lucky to work with many well-known b...
10:30 am GMT - Thu, May 21, 2020
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Understanding Machines: An Open Standard For JavaScript Functions
As developers, we always seek ways to do our job better, whether by following patterns, using well-written libraries and frameworks, or what have you. In this article, Ill share with you a JavaScript ...
10:30 am GMT - Wed, May 20, 2020
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How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts
Performance degradation is a problem we face on a daily basis. We could put effort to make the application blazing fast, but we soon end up where we started. Its happening because of new features bein...
11:30 am GMT - Tue, May 19, 2020
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Can Data Visualization Improve The Mobile Web Experience?
It can be tough to prioritize the mobile experience when it often feels like a compromise. Dont include as much text. Remove some of your images. Stay away from features that get in the mobile visitor...
05:00 am GMT - Tue, May 19, 2020
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Smashing Podcast Episode 16 With Ben Frain: How Can I Optimize My Home Workspace?
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, were talking about shaping our physical spaces when working from home. What can you do to take a step up from working at your kitchen table? I spoke to workspa...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 18, 2020
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How To Create A Mobile App In Expo And Firebase (For iOS And Android)
Maybe youve heard of or worked with React, the JavaScript framework developed by Facebook. The social media company took it even further by releasing React Native, which quickly became the most popula...
02:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 15, 2020
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Learning Resources In Challenging Times: Online Workshops, Meetups And Events
In these current strange times of isolation and social distancing (with almost all events and conferences being cancelled), it can be quite difficult to feel connected to family, friends and colleague...
09:30 am GMT - Fri, May 15, 2020
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Accessible Images For When They Matter Most
When it comes to informing the public about critical health issues, timing is everything. The information you consume today could save your life tomorrow. And with more than 65% of the population bein...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 14, 2020
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Smashing Meets! Free Online Meetups On May 18th And 19th 2020
Were having a meetup! Join us for Smashing Meets — two free online meetups with speakers, activities, and plenty of chances to make new friends. Just like a real meetup, though youll need to bri...
10:00 am GMT - Thu, May 14, 2020
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Styling Components In React
Styling React components over the years has improved and become much easier with various techniques and strategies. In this tutorial, were going to learn how to style React components using four major...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 13, 2020
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How To Convince Others Not To Use Dark Patterns
You are a smart, well-informed person. After all, you are reading Smashing Magazine so you must be. That means you are probably already convinced that you should avoid dark patterns. Maybe you have ev...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, May 12, 2020
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Meet Click!: Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks
The web has become a noisy place with millions of companies trying to get users’ attention. No wonder many of them apply increasingly desperate techniques to encourage users to act on their webs...
10:30 am GMT - Tue, May 12, 2020
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Micro-Typography: How To Space And Kern Punctuation Marks And Other Symbols
This article is for anyone who works with typography, in any medium, and it is especially for those designers who are keen to give users the best reading experience possible.Jeffrey Zeldman once said:...
10:30 am GMT - Mon, May 11, 2020
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Setting TypeScript For Modern React Projects Using Webpack And Babel
In this era of software development, JavaScript can be used to develop almost any type of app. However, the fact that JavaScript is dynamically typed could be a concern for most large enterprise compa...
11:00 am GMT - Fri, May 8, 2020
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How To Build A Vue Survey App Using Firebase Authentication And Database
In this tutorial, youll be building a Survey App, where well learn to validate our users form data, implement Authentication in Vue, and be able to receive survey data using Vue and Firebase (a BaaS p...
10:30 am GMT - Thu, May 7, 2020
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Reducing Design Risk
Lean, agile, do more with less. Again, and again, design culture urges us to move quickly and trim research and design operations to the point where design becomes a mere thread in the larger corporat...
10:30 am GMT - Wed, May 6, 2020
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A Complete Guide To Mechanical Keyboards
About six years ago, a colleague Ill call Tom, because thats his name, forwarded me a link to the ‘WASD CODE’; a keyboard focused on the needs of programmers, designed with the help of Sta...
12:50 pm GMT - Tue, May 5, 2020
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Meet SmashingConf Live: Our New Interactive Online Conference
In these strange times when everything is connected, its too easy to feel lonely and detached. Yes, everybody is just one message away, but there is always something in the way deadlines to meet, Sla...
05:00 am GMT - Tue, May 5, 2020
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Smashing Podcast Episode 15 With Phil Smith: How Can I Build An App In 10 Days?
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, were talking about building apps on a tight timeline. How can you quickly turn around a project to respond to an emerging situation like COVID-19? Drew McLella...
10:30 am GMT - Mon, May 4, 2020
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An Introduction To React With Ionic
The Ionic Framework is an open-source UI toolkit for building fast, high-quality applications using web technologies with integrations for popular frameworks like Angular and React. Ionic enables cros...
11:30 am GMT - Fri, May 1, 2020
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Readability Algorithms Should Be Tools, Not Targets
The web is awash with words. Theyre everywhere. On websites, in emails, advertisements, tweets, pop-ups, you name it. More people are publishing more copy than at any point in history. That means a lo...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, April 30, 2020
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Join Our New Online Workshops On CSS, Accessibility, Performance, And UX
It has been a month since we launched our first online workshop and, to be honest, we really didnt know whether people would enjoy them — or if we would enjoy running them. It was an experiment,...
09:30 am GMT - Thu, April 30, 2020
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Mirage JS Deep Dive: Understanding Mirage JS Models And Associations (Part 1)
Mirage JS is helping simplify modern front-end development by providing the ability for front-end engineers to craft applications without relying on an actual back-end service. In this article, Ill be...
07:20 am GMT - Thu, April 30, 2020
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Brighten Up Someones May (2020 Wallpapers Edition)
May is here! And even though the current situation makes this a different kind of May, with a new routine and different things on our minds as in the years before, luckily some things never change. Li...