Articles by Smashing Magazine from February 2021

Trust is at the heart of a long-term strategy of any product. There are many ways to earn it, and even more ways to lose it. In this article, well go through how you, as a product designer, can make s...

An introduction to building a Discord bot using the Discord.js module. The bot will share random jokes, assign or revoke user roles, and post tweets of a specific account to a Discord channel....

Where to put the label in a web form? In the early days, we talked about left-aligned labels versus top-aligned labels. These days we talk about floating labels. Lets explore why they arent a very goo...

A classic problem in CSS is maintaining the aspect ratio of images across related components, such as cards. The newly supported `aspect-ratio` property in combination with `object-fit` provides a rem...

As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether youre addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google i...

As developers, were constantly learning new languages and frameworks. But how can you structure this learning to ensure maximum benefit while still progressing? Heres how you can devise your own curri...

In this article, we take a look at the topic of context and variables in Hugo, a popular static site generator. Youll understand concepts such as the global context, flow control, and variables in Hug...

DevTools is very advanced and helpful, but can also be very intimidating and overwhelming. Lets fix that. In this article, Vitaly reviews useful features and shortcuts for debugging in Chrome, Firefox...

Adding video to your application can increase customer engagement and satisfaction. But the exact opposite can occur when there are issues with the video playback: video stalls are frustrating and dri...

A couple of weeks ago, we organized a [Form Design Masterclass](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/workshops/adam-silver), an online workshop with Adam Silver alongside 81 friendly and smart pe...

Film credits, brand logos, posters Saul Bass did it all, and the principles that informed his work are just as valuable now as they were 50 years ago....

Headless CMS is a powerful and easy way to manage content and access API. Built on React, Sanity.io is a seamless tool for flexible content management. It can be used to build simple to complex applic...

In this article, Tobias explores some of the less known but very useful features in Git. Youll learn how to recover deleted commits, clean up your commit history, use submodules to manage third-party ...

In this episode, were talking about HTML controls. Why are they so hard to style, and how might that change in the future? Drew McLellan talks to Microsofts Stephanie Stimac and Melanie Richards to fi...

Wrangling z-index values is a difficult task for many developers. Here is an easy-to-implement mini-framework based on existing conventions that brings clarity and confidence to working with z-index....

Remote work is taking over the world, and the biggest obstacle remote teams face is emulating the natural communication that happens at the office. In this article, Obed Parlapiano shares his advice a...

Tooltips are powerful design patterns implemented to enhance the design experience by providing additional information precisely when users need it. Sometimes, however, tooltips are obtrusive, especia...

On your list of places where people might access your web app, Microsoft Teams is probably number not-on-the-list. But it turns out that making your application accessible where your users are already...

The present and future of CSS are very bright indeed and if you take a pragmatic, progressive approach to your CSS, then things will continue to get better and better on your projects, too....

Lets make this February more colorful! Apart from a new collection of wallpapers, we also have a little creativity challenge waiting for you this month. Its the perfect occasion to share your ideas wi...