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The average website is offline for 3 hours per month due to web hosting downtime. Here’s a case study that compares web hosting services and their average uptime in 2018.
In this mobile-first world, there is no such thing as designing a website near-perfectly the first time around. While we know that more experiences with websites begin on mobile, converting those users continues to be problematic. With proper A/B …
It’s important to understand that all decisions involve emotions. In this article, Susan Weinschenk explains how you can make your users feel confident of their decisions and why it’s a bad idea to provide more than four options to choose from.
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Explore features → Already have an account? Sign in!Tables frequently appear on the web but aren’t easy to design and code. This illustrated guide explains the table anatomy and how to build a table, keeping in mind its future elaboration.
Good performance is critical to delivering a good user experience, and iOS users often have high expectations of their apps. A slow and unresponsive app might make users give up on using your app or, worse, leave a bad rating.
It can be frustrating when you want to use a feature and discover that it is not supported or behaves differently across browsers. In this article, Rachel Andrew explains how CSS is evolving to make it easier to deal with them.
Creating a dashboard with API data is often a complex affair. Choosing your tech stack, integrating APIs, selecting the right charts and beautifying with CSS styles can become tricky. This tutorial is a step-by-step guide on how to help you create a …
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See all upcoming episodes → Already have an account? Sign in!Better estimates and pricing, applying psychology to UX, design workflow, refactoring, moving to a static site setup, CSS Grid techniques, performance and deployment patterns for HTTP/2.
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Shirley Wu is a freelance software engineer who combines her love of art, math, and code into interactive, award-winning data visualizations. Together with Nadieh Bremer, she runs Data Sketches, an ongoing project where they build a data visualization of a new topic every month and document the trials and successes they faced wrangling the data, sketching, and coding the visualization. You can watch Shirley live-code on Twitch, chat with fellow data visualizers in her video series Shirley Chats, or find her speaking at conferences around the world. She goes by @sxywu on Twitter. Thank you for sharing your inspiring work, dear Shirley!
A glass of water and a lemon might not sound like anything spectacular. However, they are, if they are turned into a still life only with pure CSS, as Ben Evans did it.
Can’t Unsee is a great little game to put your design skills to the test. The challenge: select the design that looks “most correct”.
Gabe Ragland’s React Hook Recipes provide useful and easy-to-understand code examples to show how React Hooks work.
A yet another overview of Sketch plugins, but a good one. With batch renaming layers, style removal, merge duplicate symbols, and symbol organizer to tidy up your files.
Which third-party scripts are most responsible for excessive JavaScript execution on the web? Patrick Hulce put together an extensive list.
If you’re running workshops, giving presentations or meetings that tend to take too long, the fullscreen countdown timer Big Timer helps you stick to the program.
Meet Design Systems, a recent Smashing book in which Alla Kholmatova explores how to set up an effective design system to create great digital products. With common traps, gotchas and lessons learned.
Table of Contents ↬Imagine you wrote a beautiful song and nobody discovered it.
That would make any cat sad. Don't let that happen!
