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Andy Budd - The Feature Trap: Why Feature Centricity Is Harming Your Product

Most product teams think in terms of features. Features are easy to brainstorm and write requirement docs for, and they fit nicely into our backlogs and ticketing systems. In short, thinking in term

Best Practices , User Experience , Product Strategy , Design , Business

Dan Redding - The Beauty of London in Design

Here is a look at the visual personality of London, based on visits to the city’s major art museums, attendance at the 2009 London Design Festival, and interviews with artists and designers who call

Graphic Design , Art , Inspiration

Lee Munroe - The Ultimate Guide To Push Notifications For Developers

I’ve spent the past several years building messaging tools — for more than three years now I’ve been leading the design team at OneSignal, a customer engagement platform that enables developers and

Guides , mobile , Apps , User Experience

Steven Snell - 35 Free High-Quality E-Commerce Templates

For website owners who are evaluating e-commerce solutions, there are several good options for powering websites and shopping carts. Regardless of which option you chose, deciding on a design brings

templates , Themes , coding , E-Commerce , Resources

Preethi Sam - SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at SerpApi, who make search result extraction easy with their real-time API. Thank you! SerpApi leverages the power of search engi

API , Tools , Research

Matt Cronin - 10 Principles Of Readability And Web Typography

Readability is one of the more important aspects of Web design usability. Readable text affects how users process the information in the content. Poor readability scares readers away from the conten

Showcases , Typography , Readability , Design

Tom Giannattasio - The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing

Enter anti-aliasing: the next best thing to a world of higher-resolution monitors. The concept of anti-aliasing is fairly simple: add semi-transparent pixels along the edges of letterforms to smooth

Photoshop , Graphics , Typography , fonts , Design

Daniel Yuschick - Switching It Up With HTML’s Latest Control

The web is no stranger to taking HTML elements and transforming them to look, act, and feel like something completely different. A common example of this is the switch, or toggle, component. We woul

Techniques , coding , Design , HTML

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Penpot’s Flex Layout: Building CSS Layouts In A Design Tool

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Penpot whose mission is to provide an open-source and open-standards platform to bring collaboration between designers and developers

Tools , Css , Design

Sergey Chikuyonok - PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques

This post is a second part of the article Clever PNG Optimization Techniques that we posted last week. As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-f

optimization , Techniques , png , Design

Victor Yocco - Unmasking The Magic: The Wizard Of Oz Method For UX Research

New technologies and innovative concepts frequently enter the product development lifecycle, promising to revolutionize user experiences. However, even the most ingenious ideas risk failure without

User Research , ux , Design

Sean Hodge - Photoshop Rainbow, Light, and Glow Effect Tutorials

Lighting and glow effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails

Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics

Dan Mayer - Design Legacy: A Social History Of Jamaican Album Covers

Mention Jamaican music to someone who isn’t a fan and you can bet that a fairly predictable image pops into the head of your listener. Chances are this image looks something like the cover of Bim Sh

Graphic Design , Covers , Inspiration , Design

Paras Chopra - The Ultimate Guide To A/B Testing

People just aren’t as aware of it. They don’t completely understand what it is or how it could benefit them or how they should use it. This article is meant to be the best guide you will ever need f

workflow , testing , Design

Julia May - 50 Beautiful and Creative Blog Designs

The most recent collection of creative blog designs was featured here on Smashing Magazine back in July. Only three months have passed and we’ve got a new dose of inspiration for you. Beautiful and

Showcases , Inspiration , Blogging

Frederick O’Brien - How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Multimedia Writing

Prior to the World Wide Web, the act of writing remained consistent for centuries. Words were put on paper, and occasionally, people would read them. The tools might change — quills, printing presse

Inspiration , Content , MDX

Jad Limcaco - Ask the Expert: Design Discussion With James White

His personal art and design ambitions has landed him in many worldwide creative publications such as Computer Arts magazine, Computer Arts Projects, Advanced Photoshop magazine, Wired UK and the spa

Interviews , Discussions , Opinion Column

Kat Neville - How To Create A Great Web Designer Résumé and CV?

The economy is bad. No one’s job is really 100% safe, so it’s time we all bucked up and got our recession bags packed (just in case!). Your portfolio is already gorgeous, but have you created a droo

Portfolios , Career , Design , Business

Louis Lazaris - The Case Against Vertical Navigation

In a recent article about unusable and superficial beer and alcohol websites, I made the claim that using left-hand vertical navigation is an out-of-date method in modern web design. In the comments

Navigation , Web Design , Design

Luis Ouriach - Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 1)

Design systems are on the tip of every designer’s tongue, but the narrative in the industry mainly focuses on why you need a design system and its importance rather than the reality of endless maint

Design System , Figma , Design

Sven Lennartz - 30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes

Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, you can present them in a variety of ways. On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails galle

coding , Galleries , Resources