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About The Author Michael is a full stack engineer who is passionate about solving real business problems with code. He is a Lead Software Engineer at The Knot Worldwide as well … More about Michael ↬ Choosing to use a new technology can often bring much desired productivity, security, and efficiency to a project. It […]

About The Author Juggling between three languages on a daily basis, Iris is known for her love of linguistics, arts, web design and typography, as well as her goldmine of … More about Iris ↬ In a new series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Last […]

About The Author Victor is a Philadelphia based researcher, author, and speaker. His book Design for the Mind, is available from Manning Publications. Victor frequently writes … More about Victor ↬ UX practitioners can play an important role in growing the UX maturity of the organizations and products they work with. This article, the second […]

About The Author Akshay Ranganath is a Solution Architect at Cloudinary responsible for bringing customers on-board, helping them create work-flow for media management and media … More about Akshay ↬ How do we get media performance right while staying within performance budgets? Let’s take a look at the recent stats and data around performance budgets, […]

About The Author Front-end developer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He enjoys converting designs into code and building things for the web. More about Timi ↬ Reactivity is the ability for a variable (array, string, number, object, etc) to update when its value or any other variable that it makes reference to is changed after declaration. […]

About The Author Stephanie Eckles is a front-end focused SWE at Microsoft. She’s also the author of ModernCSS.dev which provides modern solutions to old CSS problems as in-depth … More about Stephanie ↬ Eleventy (aka 11ty) is rising in the ranks among static site generators. This Node-based builder is attractive due to its zero-config starting […]

About The Author Aaron Hans makes web applications fast and accessible for all users. Leading the team responsible for the State of California’s public pandemic response … More about Aaron ↬ One of the drivers of the popularity of headless options is that expectations for the quality of user experience are constantly going up. We […]

In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered CSS Auditing Tools and CSS Generators, and this time we look into reliable accessible components: from tabs and tables to toggles and tooltips. Table of Contents Below you’ll find an alphabetical list […]

Wondering what’s happenin’ at Smashing? Well, we’ve been busy. Here’s a little story of how we removed floating labels, improved performance on mobile, and launched a new series of articles. Oh, and how you can contribute to Smashing, too. There is always something happening behind the scenes at Smashing. Over the last months, we’ve been […]

About The Author Stephen Roe writes about web design at Sitejet. When he isn’t plotting world domination with his clients, he’s studying the intersection of culture, … More about Stephen ↬ The secret to growing a successful web design business is thinking of design as a service, not a product. When you focus on recurring […]

About The Author Carmine Zaccagnino is a Flutter and Linux enthusiast, author of the Programming Flutter book with the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Blogs more, tweets less. More about Carmine ↬ Flutter has been transitioning from a cross-platform mobile development SDK for Android/iOS into a tool that allows you to run the same code natively in a […]

About The Author Carie Fisher is a digital accessibility developer and trainer who is passionate about inclusive front-end code and promoting diversity in tech. More about Carie ↬ How do we know which patterns are good, better, best when it comes to accessibility? Is it better to use an established pattern/library or create new ones? […]

About The Author Juggling between three languages on a daily basis, Iris is known for her love of linguistics, arts, web design and typography, as well as her goldmine of … More about Iris ↬ In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. […]

About The Author Victor is a Philadelphia based researcher, author, and speaker. His book Design for the Mind, is available from Manning Publications. Victor frequently writes … More about Victor ↬ We all benefit when we work to increase the overall UX maturity of our organizations. This article explores the concept of UX maturity, and […]

About The Author Juggling between three languages on a daily basis, Iris is known for her love of linguistics, arts, web design and typography, as well as her goldmine of … More about Iris ↬ In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers […]

For a lot of web scraping tasks, an HTTP client is enough to extract a page’s data. However, when it comes to dynamic websites, a headless browser sometimes becomes indispensable. In this tutorial, we will build a web scraper that can scrape dynamic websites based on Node.js and Puppeteer. Let’s start with a little section […]

Meet our new workshops on front-end and UX — on web performance, interface design, psychology and modern CSS. With Lea Verou, Harry Roberts, Stephanie Eckles, Dan Mall and so many others. Jump to all online workshops ↬ There is something magical about people from all over the world coming together, live. Camera on, mic nearby, in […]

About The Author Nwani Victory works remotely as a Fullstack developer from Lagos, Nigeria. After office hours, he doubles as a Cloud Engineer seeking ways to make Cloud … More about Nwani ↬ In the world of serverless applications, Webiny is becoming a popular way to adopt the serverless approach of building applications by providing […]

About The Author Gert Svaiko is a professional copywriter and mainly works with digital marketing companies in the US and EU. More about Gert ↬ To inspire mobile designers, let’s look at how some clever design solutions tackle mobile navigation, confirmation dialogs, animations, and gamifying the waiting experience. It’s no secret that smartphone usage has […]

About The Author Paul is a leader in conversion rate optimisation and user experience design thinking. He has over 25 years experience working with clients such as Doctors … More about Paul ↬ Our lives as UI designers have never been easier with a host of amazing tools at our disposal. In this article, Paul […]

About The Author Arihant Verma is a Software Engineer based in India. He likes to read open source code and help others understand it. He’s a rich text editors fanatic. His … More about Arihant ↬ In this article, we’ll look at how to create an outside focus and click handler with React. You’ll learn […]

About The Author Kelvin is an independent software maker currently building Sailscasts — a platform to learn server-side JavaScript. He is also a technical writer and … More about Kelvin ↬ With mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic these days, leaving your mobile performance unoptimized isn’t really an option. In this article, […]

As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google information, no one has escaped the rules that were introduced in 2018. Last week, I gave you an update on everything that’s happened with GDPR […]

Our wallpapers post this month is a special one: There’s not only a new collection of wallpapers created by creative folks from across the globe waiting for you, but we’ll also award a smashing prize to the best design. More than ten years ago, we embarked on our monthly wallpapers adventure to provide you with […]