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Collaborating on office documents is a solved problem. Collaborating on code is still a pretty difficult thing to do. That’s because sharing just code isn’t enough. In order to really collaborate, a developer needs to be able to share their whole …
Over the summer, Adobe XD released two great prototyping features: fixed elements and overlays. When you work with prototypes and want them to be more interactive, functions like these will be very helpful.
The web is evolving at such a fast pace that it can be hard to stay on top of things. To give you an overview of what happened in the web dev world in the past few weeks, Anselm once again compiled his monthly update.
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Explore features → Already have an account? Sign in!Smashing Book 6 is now shipping, with front-end and UX techniques to tackle the new challenges on the web today. No theory, just things that actually worked in practice.
Automated accessibility tests are a great resource to have, but they can’t automatically make your site accessible. Use them as one step of a larger testing process.
Learn about the basics of animation in After Effects by animating one of the most famous type characters and the state of the iMessage App Store in 2018 when it comes to stickers.
The hunt for shiny front-end & UX treasures has begun! Performance, PWA, Vue.js, Webpack to Design Workflow, DesignOps and Variable Fonts. With Monica Dinculescu, Dan Mall, Jason Grigsby, Sara Soueidan and many others.
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Hui Jing Chen (@hj_chen) is a self-taught designer, developer, author, and speaker based in Singapore. She’s passionate about CSS and reducing lines of code in her web projects makes her extremely happy. Hui Jing used to play basketball professionally — in fact, she launched her web career during downtime between training sessions. She’s also the co-organizer of Talk.CSS, a meetup around all things CSS. Thank you for your contributions, dear Hui Jing!
When done right, background videos can draw attention and lead to users taking positive action. Jeremy Frank shares guidelines and best practices to help you make the most out of your background videos.
A handy accessibility tool: The Lyft design team is open-sourcing ColorBox, the color algorithm they used to create their accessible color system.
Coined by Phil Walton, Idle Until Urgent is a strategy that helps you solve advanced performance issues. Clever tips that you can use right away.
Scott Vinkle built a bookmarklet that helps determine which element currently has focus by logging it to the JavaScript console. Great for debugging accessibility issues.
A Design Sprint provides a framework to enable product teams to get answers quickly and efficiently. Richard Banfield’s free eBook Enterprise Design Sprints helps you deliver on that promise.
What does it mean to truly be designing for the web — a medium that reveals the page slowly, from inside a viewport frame? Jen Simmons shares some inspiring thoughts on the topic.
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.
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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!
