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Vitaly Friedman - Meet SmashingConf New York 🇺🇸 (Oct 10–13)

We’re so happy to be back after all these years! Let’s brush up our front-end and design skills, together —at the wonderful SmashingConf New York, with plenty of practical sessions and hands-on work

SmashingConf , Events

Vitaly Friedman - Understanding Privacy: A New Smashing Book Is Here

To many of us, privacy might feel like a complex, abstract concept. We can’t hold privacy in our hands, we can’t touch it, we can’t explore its volume or shape with our eyes or our fingertips. Surel

Privacy , Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - Designing Navigation for Mobile: Design Patterns and Best Practices

When it comes to complex navigation on mobile, we often think about hamburger menus, full-page overlays, animated slide-in-menus, and a wide range of nested accordions. Not all of these options perf

Design Patterns , Navigation , ux

Vitaly Friedman - It’s Here! “Understanding Privacy,” A New Smashing Book Is Shipping Now

What is privacy? What exactly does it mean? How do we consider, manage and maintain privacy? And how dow do we design and build experiences that have privacy at their heart? That’s exactly what Unde

Privacy , Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - The State Of Usability In 2023 🎊

Many projects start with assumptions. We assume that users understand hamburger icons and how mega-menus work; that they understand how to deal with disabled buttons; that they safely store password

Design Patterns , ux

Vitaly Friedman - Designing for Accessibility: Best Practices for Closed Captioning and Subtitles UX

When we think about closed captioning, we often think about noisy environments, be it busy restaurants, shopping malls, or airport lounges. There, consuming content via audio is difficult, and so ca

Design Patterns , Accessibility , ux , Web Design

Vitaly Friedman - Product Reviews And Ratings UX: A Designer’s Guide

When we make purchasing decisions, we often rely on expertise from people like us who happen to have purchased that item already. And so we seek user reviews, often looking for a high enough average

Guides , Design Patterns , ux

Vitaly Friedman - Chocolate, Waffles And Fries: Meet SmashingConf Antwerp 2023 🇧🇪

We’ve been passionate about design UX for years. We’ve written about design systems and usability, inclusive design and product design, UX research and enterprise UX. And now it’s time to bring it

SmashingConf , Events

Vitaly Friedman - The Best Handoff Is No Handoff

Many companies organize their workflows around projects and departments. Especially in large companies, work often travels from one place to another, often getting stuck between emails and Slack mes

workflow , Teamwork , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Accessible Target Sizes Cheatsheet

Rage taps are annoying and frustrating. These wonderful occurrences in our interface when we need to tap twice or sometimes three times to continue our journeys. Of course, sometimes they happen bec

mobile , Navigation , ux

Vitaly Friedman - Designing Sticky Menus: UX Guidelines

We often rely on sticky headers to point user’s attention to critical features or calls to action. Think of sidebar navigation, CTAs, sticky headers and footers, “fixed” rows or columns in tables, a

Guides , Navigation , ux

Vitaly Friedman - Meet Success At Scale, A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani

Today, we are very happy to announce our new book: Success at Scale, a curated collection of best-practice case studies capturing how production sites of different sizes tackle performance, accessib

Privacy , Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - What’s The Perfect Design Process?

Design process is messy. You might be following a structured approach, but with all the last-minute changes and overlooked details, too often, it takes a life of its own. And before you know it, you

ux , Process , Design

Vitaly Friedman - A Guide To Designing For Older Adults

Today, one billion people are 60 years or older. That’s 12% of the entire world population, and the age group is growing faster than any other group. Yet, online, the needs of older adults are often

Guides , Design Patterns , Accessibility , ux

Vitaly Friedman - A Practical Guide To Designing For Children

Children start interacting with the web when they are 3–5 years old. How do we design for children? What do we need to keep in mind while doing so? And how do we meet the expectations of the most de

Design Patterns , Accessibility , ux , Design

Vitaly Friedman - A Practical Guide To Designing For Colorblind People

Too often, accessibility is seen as a checklist, but it’s much more complex than that. We might be using a good contrast for our colors, but then, if these colors are perceived very differently by p

Design Patterns , Accessibility , ux , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Success At Scale: Last Chance For Pre-Sale Price

We love practical books that focus on failures and success stories. And we’ve finally sent our latest book, Addy Osmani’s Success at Scale is at the printer. That means you’ll soon have another wond

Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - Now Shipping: Success At Scale, A New Smashing Book by Addy Osmani

Building at scale is hard. With legacy, fragile systems, large impact and complex front-end architecture, making big changes to an existing site or app might feel nothing short of daunting. We might

Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - F-Shape Pattern And How Users Read

We rarely read on the web. We mostly scan. That’s a reliable strategy to quickly find what we need in times when we’re confronted with more information than we can handle. But scanning also means th

Design Patterns , ux , Design

Vitaly Friedman - How To Run UX Research Without Access To Users

UX research without users isn’t research. We can shape design ideas with bias, assumptions, guesstimates, and even synthetic users, but it’s anything but UX research. Yet some of us might find ourse

UX Research , User Experience , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Why Designers Aren’t Understood

As designers, especially in large enterprises, we often might feel misunderstood and underappreciated. It might feel like every single day you have to fight for your users, explain yourself and defe

UX Research , User Experience , Business

Vitaly Friedman - Hidden vs. Disabled In UX

Both hiding and disabling features can be utterly confusing to users. And for both, we need very, very good reasons. Let’s take a closer look at what we need to consider when it comes to hiding and

Design Patterns , ux , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Decision Trees For UI Components

How do you know what UI component to choose? Decision trees offer a systematic approach for design teams to document their design decisions. Once we’ve decided what UI components we use and when, we

User Experience , Design , ui

Vitaly Friedman - 2-Page Login Pattern, And How To Fix It

Why do we see login forms split into multiple screens everywhere? Instead of typing email and password, we have to type email, move to the next page, and then type password there. This seems to be i

ux , User Experience , Design