Let’s say you want to reach out to a business. What would be the first thing you would do? Probably you would look up their website to search for answers to your questions or simply any contact details you can find. With no doubt, the first impression of any website is now more important than ever. There are more than 1.8 billion websites on the Internet right now, and the number is growing. What makes your website stand out? In order to make sure your website is a success, it’s important to keep the big picture in mind.
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SmashingConf is heading back to New York! SmashingConf NYC 2018 will explore how new web technologies, findings and emerging front-end/UX techniques can make us all better designers and developers. Today, Vitaly Friedman invites you to join us for two days full of front-end adventures and UX practices — highly practical techniques and strategies that you can apply to your work right away.
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UX researchers can learn a lot from hospital patients through empathetic interviews — but that alone is not enough. Instead, you need to pay particular attention to how your users’ clinical context influences their perceptions, trust, and the care they receive. If you are a UX researcher about to embark on a project with hospitalized patients and you want to avoid missing out on deep concerns and problems of users, then maybe this article can help you strengthen your awareness for particular challenges of clinical UX.
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Today we have a real choice in terms of the layout methods we use in CSS to develop our sites, which means we often need to make a choice as to which approach to take. Whether you’re fairly new to CSS or an experienced developer from elsewhere in the stack who wants to make sure your understanding of layout today is up to date, this guide covers everything you need to know about CSS Layout today. In this article, Rachel Andrew will run through the various layout methods that you have available to you by explaining the basics of how they are used and what they are used for.
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Good plugin development and support lead to more downloads. More downloads mean more money and a better reputation. In this article, Jakub Mikita will share his five years of experience developing WordPress plugins. He’s written around 40 plugins for his clients, from really small ones to one that have been maintained for over a year now. Read on to learn how you can develop good-quality products with these seven golden rules!
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The modern solution to developing for both modern and legacy browsers is feature queries. They allow us to write CSS that is conditional on browser support for a particular feature. In this article Ire Aderinokun explains how she developed the Feature Queries Manager. Find out how this tool can help you suport older browsers, and also how to create your own DevTools extensions.
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Design is a constantly evolving discipline. A lot of things might change during each iteration. Designers will introduce changes, and developers will dive into the code to adjust the design. While jumping into code to solve an exciting problem might be fun, doing it to resolve a minor issue is the exact opposite. The process of content management should be as easy as possible for everyone involved. In this article, Nick Babich Introduces Elementor, a tool that offers flexibility to visually design an entire website.
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Design’s role in companies is becoming less about visual appeal and more about hitting business goals and creating value for users. Therefore, the need to build teams with diverse perspectives is becoming imperative. This article is for people who are part of a design team (or any team) that makes crucial business decisions with stakeholders and how they might go about building a diverse team through the use of the Competing Values Framework evaluation.
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Looking for an icon set that’ll take you on a journey through AR and VR technology? Augmented and virtual reality are changing the way we experience and interact with the world around us — from the way we consume media and shop to the way we communicate and learn. And today, Vitaly Friedman has got your back with these funky icons and illustrations brought to you by the Vexels team.
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What has happened in the web community in the past four weeks? Anselm Hannemann summarized everything that’s new and important in one handy reading list.
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