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Data tells us that there are more mobile than desktop web visits. However, mobile conversion rates are still lagging behind those on desktop. This article will dig into why your mobile visitors are willing to ditch their purchases altogether.
Not all developers are aware of how useful React Native actually is. Here are some tips on how to create an audio and video recording app by using Expo development tools.
We asked the Smashing community what podcasts they enjoy listening to and which ones they’d recommend. A shortlist of current podcasts for web designers and developers that are bound to inspire you.
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Explore features → Already have an account? Sign in!Creating personas based on actual user data is a great way to build internal consensus, improve your product’s UX, and make your design team more effective. Learn how to create and use data-driven personas to improve your design process.
In some ways, we are all still so new to CSS Grid Layout. A lot of folks keep asking about best practices that are available out there. Rachel Andrew ran a survey and shares the results as well as her thoughts in this article.
Anselm Hannemann summarized what has happened in the web community in the past four weeks. From browser news and useful tools to hot topics and the things we should talk about more often.
Live sessions exploring how experts design, build, debug and think. With Dan Mall, Lea Verou, Sara Soueidan, Seb Lee-Delisle etc. A different kind of conference. It doesn’t get more practical than that.
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Nobody likes slow websites, and Addy Osmani has made it his mission to not just make the web faster, but also provide tooling for developers to build faster and resilient experiences. Addy has been writing, speaking and building open source tools for years, most recently working on Workbox.js, a JavaScript library for adding offline support to Progressive Web Apps. Thanks for your fantastic efforts, Addy — they are very much appreciated. Don't let 'em slow you down!
Everybody loves a good font freebie, right? Paul Slab is a fresh and minimalist slab serif that works well as a display font just like for body copy. It can be used for free in personal projects.
Your webpack skills could need some polishing? The Webpack Learning Academy is there to help. It offers two free, self-paced online courses that’ll teach you everything you need to know to get to grips with webpack.
Calibre is known for making it easy to identify performance bottlenecks. Now its new command line interface Calibre CLI makes improving and automating performance monitoring even more straightforward. Ben Schwarz wrote up in detail what CLI can do for you.
No matter how much effort you put into centering or aligning objects in your designs, sometimes they might still look “a bit off”. Anton Lovchikov shares some optical adjustments that are bound to cater for more harmonious results.
To help you find out, Adrian Roselli provides a baseline of what can be considered a good example so you can either polish up your own site or assess if other sites are worth being recognized or awarded something.
With their unique characters, lighthouses have something fascinating to them. And although he has never seen one in real life, illustrator Al Power has made it his personal project to illustrate lighthouses from around the world. Eye candy.
Is your pattern library up to date today? Alla Kholmatova has just finished a fully fledged book on Design Systems and how to get them right. With common traps, gotchas and the lessons she learned. Hardcover, eBook. Just sayin'.
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Imagine you wrote a beautiful song and nobody discovered it.
That would make any cat sad. Don't let that happen!
