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Not sure how to remove the code debt that bloats and weighs down your site? Here are specific ways mobile performance impacts your site and page speed results. It’s time to change our mindset.
Ever find yourself writing the same code over and over again? In this article, Jonathan Saring shares his and his team’s lessons learned from their own journey towards simple and effective code sharing.
Creating a team who can work well together across different disciplines can be hard. Rachel Andrew solicits some suggestions from the speakers at our upcoming SmashingConf in Toronto.
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Explore features → Already have an account? Sign in!Join us at SmashingConf Freiburg and explore failures as well as lessons learned from real-life web projects. With Aarron Walter, Tammy Everts, Seb Lee-Delisle, Josh Clark, and many others. Happening September 10–11: Mark your calendars!
Project goals, processes, and responsibilities should be clear to everyone on your team. In this article, Boyan Kostov shares his story and lessons learned from redesigning a digital interior design shop.
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.
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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Val Head has been moving things around for quite some time. Over the decade, she’s been writing, speaking and teaching about motion and web animation and how to apply them properly in user interfaces. Val is the author of Designing Interface Animation and she curates the UI Animation Newsletter. Val currently works as a design advocate at Adobe, and she goes by @vlh on Twitter. Thanks for keeping the web in motion, dear Val — your efforts are much appreciated!
Wakamai Fondue answers exactly that question. Drag and drop your font file, and the tool will tell you about the features of the font. It will also generate all the CSS you’ll need to use the features in your web projects.
How far can you ride scrolling gestures in a design? Jose Virgil Almeda tested scrolling interactions in three designs and wrote up the do’s and don’ts, pros and cons about incorporating scrolling.
For screenreader users, headings provide an outline and important means of navigation, so getting heading levels right is essential. Heydon Pickering wrote up what you need to consider heading-wise when working with patterns and components in a design system.
Visual Studio Code can do much more than you think. Don’t believe it? Sarah Drasner and Burke Holland share all the best things about VS Code that nobody ever bothered to tell you.
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.
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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