Mobile Navigation For Smashing Magazine: A Case Study

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September 21, 2015 — Since we started plodding around on this rock in space, human beings have always been dissatisfied with their environment — which is (mostly) a good thing. Otherwise we might still live in caves, ... Read More…

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Rachel Andrew wrote

HTTPS Everywhere With Nginx, Varnish And Apache

September 17, 2015 — The web is moving toward using HTTPS encryption by default. This move has been encouraged by Google, which announced that HTTPS would be a ranking signal. However, moving your website to HTTPS is good for other reasons, too. Rather than debate those reasons, this article … Read More…

Heydon Pickering wrote

Creating Cel Animations With SVG

September 14, 2015 — What if I told you there was an image format like GIF, but it worked with vectors? What if I said it was possible to reverse the direction of its animation? What if you could take one base image and animate different parts of it separately, at different speeds? Well, the … Read More…

Chris Youderian wrote

A Guide To Building SVG Maps From Natural Earth Data

September 9, 2015 — Interactive maps are a fantastic way to present geographic data to your visitors. Libraries like Google Maps and Open Street Maps are a popular choice to do this and they excel at visualizing street-level data. However, for small-scale maps, SVG maps are often a better … Read More…

Mikołaj Stolarski & Tomasz Grajewski wrote

Principles Of HTML5 Game Design

September 4, 2015 — Visual effects in games define their overall look and feel, and gameplay. Players are attracted to high visual quality, which generate more traffic and reach. It’s key for creating successful games and providing a lot of fun for players. In this article I want to present a … Read More…

Alex Komarov wrote

How We Designed And Built Our First Apple Watch App

August 27, 2015 — One sunny morning in the summer of 2014, I was sitting in a café having just finished an hour-long call with my remote team. Scheduling that call had been a messy exercise: we live in different time zones and it was hard to find a time that worked for everyone. I wanted to … Read More…

Dean Hume wrote

Understanding Critical CSS

August 13, 2015 — The web is slow, yet there are a few simple strategies to make websites faster. One of them is inlining critical CSS into the <head> of your pages, yet how exactly do you do it if your site contains hundreds of pages, or even worse, hundreds of different templates? You … Read More…

Hamza Siddiqui wrote

Keynote Animation – How To Prototype UI

August 3, 2015 — Whether it’s playful refresh states, subtle icon movements or complex transitions, beautiful animation is all around us. Once considered an aesthetic luxury, animation is now used so commonly in modern web and mobile applications that entire websites are dedicated to UI … Read More…

Lea Verou wrote

Designing A Flexible, Maintainable CSS Pie Chart With SVG

July 28, 2015 — Pie charts have traditionally been anything but simple to create with web technologies, despite being incredibly common for information ranging from simple stats to progress indicators and timers. Read More…

Günther Beyer & Nino Rapin wrote

Making Time: Redesigning A Calendar Experience For Android

July 24, 2015 — In UX design, few things are more intricate than time and personal time management — only a good arsenal of mobile design patterns and information architecture principles can save you. This is the story of redesigning the UX for a popular calenda tool on Android: Business … Read More…