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Beyond Tools: How Building A Design System Can Improve How You Work

2018-03-02T14:00:00+00:00

When high potential projects fall apart, it’s often a failure of collaboration and alignment. The tools, the assumptions, the opportunity, and the intentions may line up, but if people don’t communicate or don’t have a clear map to help them move in the same direction, even the best projects falter. Communication failures are human problems, so they’re messy and hard to solve. They involve feelings and a willingness to have uncomfortable conversations.

A Comprehensive Guide To Wireframing And Prototyping

2018-03-01T16:45:00+00:00

(This is a sponsored article.) With the big picture established and your user interface considered, it’s time to start building some prototypes. My sixth article in this series of ten articles dives into the prototyping process. As I’ve stressed before in the earlier articles in this series, the best design follows an iterative process: You undertake research, working with users to identify the underlying user requirements that need to be addressed.

Contributing To WordPress: A Beginner’s Guide For Non-Coders

2018-03-01T12:50:00+00:00

If you’ve been using WordPress for any amount of time, there’s a good chance you’ve come across the following statement: “Free as in speech, not free as in beer.’ If you haven’t, pull up a chair and let’s talk. WordPress is a free and open-source software (also known as FOSS) project. The explanation of that could easily fill up a separate article, but the TL;DR version is that the software is free to download, use, inspect and modify by anyone who has a copy of it.

Exploring New Worlds: March Desktop Wallpapers, Challenge and The Winner

2018-02-28T14:30:00+00:00

Everybody’s an artist. That was the idea behind the Smashing Creativity Challenge which we announced at the beginning of the month. We asked the community to get their creative ideas flowing, and design a desktop wallpaper for March 2018. The only requirement: The wallpaper had to somehow relate to the theme “Exploring New Worlds”. How? Well, only your imagination was the limit. Today, we are happy to present the result of this creative experiment, and the lucky winner, too, of course.

Celebrating Smashing Newsletter #200: The Things We Learned Along The Way

2018-02-27T15:40:00+00:00

When we share our lessons learned, we can’t predict who is going to read them, but it can make all the difference in the world. I still vividly remember that day when I received an email from a school teacher in Johannesburg, South Africa, five or six years ago. Back then, they didn’t have any teaching materials available at their school, and interaction design was often taught on paper with a few outdated books from the 90s.

How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop

2018-02-27T11:45:00+00:00

Europe’s imminent privacy overhaul means that we all have to become more diligent about what data we collect, how we collect it, and what we do with it. In our turbulent times, these privacy obligations are about ethics as well as law. Web developers have a major role to play here. After all, healthy data protection practice is as much about the development side — code, data, and security — as it is about the business side of process, information, and strategy.

A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide (Part 2)

2018-02-26T14:35:00+00:00

In Part 1, I emphasized on the importance of recognizing the purpose of your website, and why planning for the web is just as important as planning for anything else associated with your business. Today, I'd like to go into more detail of evaluating a plan, choosing web professionals, and determining your site structure. Writing The Plan (Or Proposal) Note: The following section is for designers, but everyone ought to understand this part of the process.

Adobe XD Contest: Create An App Prototype With Your City's Best-Kept Secrets

2018-02-26T09:40:00+00:00

(This article is kindly sponsored by Adobe.) Every city has its hidden spots: the best place to see the sunset, a cozy coffee shop that makes excellent espresso, or that impressive building you won’t find in any guidebook. As a visitor, you might stumble across little gems like these by chance, but, well, no one knows a city’s secrets as well as the locals, right? Now’s your opportunity to let fellow creatives see your city through your eyes — and to put your design skills to the test at the same time.

Adding Code-Splitting Capabilities To A WordPress Website Through PoP

2018-02-23T14:30:00+00:00

Speed is among the top priorities for any website nowadays. One way to make a website load faster is by code-splitting: splitting an application into chunks that can be loaded on demand — loading only the required JavaScript that is needed and nothing else. Websites based on JavaScript frameworks can immediately implement code-splitting through Webpack, the popular JavaScript bundler. For WordPress websites, though, it is not so easy. First, Webpack was not intentionally built to work with WordPress, so setting it up will require quite some workaround; secondly, no tools seem to be available that provide native on-demand asset-loading capabilities for WordPress.

From Hobby to Career: Interview with Designer Michael Moodie #1 DOTW

2018-02-23T12:53:00+00:00

Editor’s notes:
This first interview marks the beginning of a new series of interviews on WDL. We want to keep you, our audience, as engaged as possible with the news in the web design field but also give back by featuring our favorite designers in a weekly article.

We’ll feature a new designer every week (hence the name; Designer Of The Week or DOTW) and we want to give you the possiblity to be featured as well. If you think you have something to say to our audience, drop me an email and we can chat some more (andrei.tiburca@gmail.com)

Enjoy.

Interview with Michael Moodie

Michael Moodie is a Canadian designer living in Seattle. His passion for design and lettering has its roots back in the early years of childhood when Michael was writing graffiti and skateboarding. I first encountered him on Instagram where his painstaking work has a consistent fan base. The designer and lettering artist spent the last 7 years working in-house at creative agencies, startups and now at Amazon Video. On his blog, Michael welcomes his visitors with the unconventional “Don’t steal my work, Thanks” and justly he does.

Hereinafter, we invite you to get to know the talented artist and his beautiful work better. Also, do not hesitate to follow Michael on Instagram, Dribble, Behance, and LinkedIn.

Michael, where does your inspiration come from?

I gather a lot of inspiration from what my friends are getting up to and how they are making an impact, also from places I visit and how graphic design influences their culture. When I’m not designing I enjoy mixing drinks, creeping around gallery spaces looking for inspiration and spending time with my good mates.

How would you describe the world of graphic design in your country?

With the emerging industry of User Experience design, Graphic Design has changed to be more of a data-driven process opposed to a subject matter experts (the designers) opinion. Through my experience, Data informed graphic design has given designers the opportunity to take their craft to the next level and lead projects from the customer back to the experience. We are starting to see design led fortune 100 companies to perform at 200%+, and more ownership given to design teams and individual creatives.

What is your favorite piece of work and why?

I change my favorite piece of work every day, I create a lot of my work to be sarcastic and relatable. I generally create all the work I love by hand using pencil, ink, and paper.

What do you think are the most important 3 skills for a designer?

Critical thinking, Humility, and a genuine love for the craft.

How do you stay updated with what is new in the design world?

Design conferences, meetups, online classes such as Skillshare, Reddit/medium, friends.

Have you worked with any major brands?

I have worked with brands such as Warner Brothers, Starbucks, Mattel, McDonald’s, Microsoft, etc. My experience working with large corporations is that the design process is very slow paced with many revisions and restrictions. For me, it is most important to spend most of my time in the planning phases to get a strong understanding from all stakeholders on the artifact we are delivering or collaborating on. In my experience, these brands aren’t big on “surprises”. Document your process and bring your client along for the journey.

Who are your favorite 3 designers?

I couldn’t chop my favorite down to 3, I have many inspirations across many mediums.

What is something new that you have learned as a designer in your past experience (jobs & internships)?

I’ve learned that not everything needs to be perfect, there is a very human element to imperfections and errors that should not be fixed.

What kind of people do you love to work with?

I love to work with big idea thinkers, a visionary per say. A person who sees things that I don’t and understands the lifecycle of the design work we are doing. I love to work with people with purpose, who leave their own flavor on the work.

How do you handle stress and pressure?

I work my best under stress and pressure. I start to feel very competitive with myself and push harder to excel.

Michael, thank you for being so receptive and kind to have answered our questions.

Thanks so much for the opportunity!

Below, we have cataloged some of Michael’s images that highlight the best his versatile, innovative, and done with great care and thoroughness work.

Styling Empty Cells With Generated Content And CSS Grid Layout

2018-02-22T13:00:00+00:00

A common Grid Layout gotcha is when a newcomer to the layout method wonders how to style a grid cell which doesn’t contain any content. In the current Level 1 specification, this isn’t possible since there is no way to target an empty Grid Cell or Grid Area and apply styling. This means that to apply styling, you need to insert an element. In this article, I am going to take a look at how to use CSS Generated Content to achieve styling of empty cells without adding redundant empty elements and show some use cases where this technique makes sense.

Bringing Together React, D3, And Their Ecosystem

2018-02-21T13:30:00+00:00

Since its creation in 2011, D3.js has become the de facto standard for building complex data visualizations on the web. React is also quickly maturing as the library of choice for creating component-based user interfaces. Both React and D3 are two excellent tools designed with goals that sometimes collide. Both take control of user interface elements, and they do so in different ways. How can we make them work together while optimizing for their distinct advantages according to your current project?

A Comprehensive Guide To UI Design

2018-02-21T10:00:00+00:00

(This is a sponsored article.) With the big picture established — mapping user journeys and defining your design’s look and feel — my fifth article in this series of ten articles dives into the details of designing user interface components. UX, IA, UI: All of these abbreviations can be confusing. In reality, as designers, we’ll often be working across these different specialisms: designing the overall user experience (UX), organizing information logically as we consider information architecture (IA), and considering the granular design of the user interface (UI).

6 Streetwear Brands You Should Be Wearing

2018-02-21T02:38:00+00:00

Some fashion brands are better than others. That’s just a fact. And while you might be obsessed with Nike and Under Armour, does that mean they’re the best brands out there? No, it certainly doesn’t. And to be honest, those brands are trash compared to other street style companies that have been around a lot longer and made an actual influence on society. I’m not trying to piss anyone off, but here are the TRUE best streetwear brands in the game right now:

Supreme:

Supreme is by far one of the best streetwear brands out there. This skateboarding shop turned clothing brand, created by James Jebbia, started off as a small company in downtown Manhattan and quickly became a designers dreams. Thanks to collaborations with top luxury/streetwear brands like Louis Vuitton, Nike, and Kermit the Frog, Supreme is the brand people want to be wearing. Even celebrities like; Cara Delevingne and DJ Khaled have been pictured wearing this. Consumers don’t seem to have a problem dropping thousands of dollars if that means they get to rock a Supreme Louis Vuitton Bag (which sells for no less than $4,000, btw) and post a picture of it on Instagram.

The Louis Vuitton x Supreme-$7000-$14500

Supreme Box Logo Hoodie in Heather Grey: $800-$1450

A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide (Part 1)

2018-02-20T15:50:00+00:00

As a veteran designer, developer and project manager on more sites than I can count, I've identified a common problem with many web projects: failure to plan. As the same issues come up repeatedly in my work, I've written this guide in order to help our clients, other designers, businesses and organizations plan and realize successful websites. Who This Guide Is For Written in relatively non-technical language, this guide provides a broad overview of the process of developing a website, from the initial needs assessment through site launch, maintenance and follow up.

Designing A Perfect Responsive Configurator

2018-02-19T12:30:00+00:00

Here’s a little challenge for you. How would you design a responsive interface for a custom car configurator? The customer should be able to adjust colors, wheels, exterior details, interior details and perhaps accessories — on small and large screens. Doesn’t sound that difficult, does it? We have all seen such interfaces before. Essentially, they are just a combination of some navigation, iconography, buttons, accordions and a real-time 3D preview.

Getting Started In Public Speaking: Global Diversity CFP Day

2018-02-19T09:00:00+00:00

A CFP, or Call For Proposals (sometimes also known as a Call For Papers), is a request for speakers to send their proposed talk ideas to a conference. The conference will review the proposals and decide who to ask to speak. Popular conferences can receive hundreds of proposals for a handful of speaking slots, therefore creating a great proposal is an important skill to learn as a speaker. To help encourage people to write and submit to CFPs, Global Diversity CFP Day aims to help underrepresented people submit proposals to speak at conferences.

Monthly Web Development Update 2/2018: The Grown-Up Web, Branding Details, And Browser Fast Forward

2018-02-16T12:37:00+00:00

Every profession is a wide field where many people find their very own, custom niches. So are design and web development today. I started building my first website with framesets and HTML4.0, images and a super limited set of CSS, and — oh so fancy — GIFs and inline JavaScript (remember the onclick="" attribute?) about one and a half decades ago. It took me four days to learn the initial, necessary skills for that.

Designing For User Interfaces: Icons As Visual Elements For Screen Design

2018-02-16T08:45:00+00:00

(This is a sponsored article.) Icons are everywhere. They have been around for a long time, and it’s difficult to imagine a world without icons or symbols today. Only designers will know how much effort and time is needed to not only make them helpful but also simple and expressive. What makes icons particularly special is perhaps the fact that their meaning can be understood without having to add any text or further details.

Best Fashion Apps for Men

2018-02-15T18:54:00+00:00

In this glorious/terrifying digital age we live in, there truly is an app for everything. We’re talking ordering pizza, operating a drone, learning a new language, even checking out what it would look like if we were to merge faces with Danny Trejo (pretty unsettling, FYI).

There are literally millions of downloadables floating around, a handful of which claim to be able to help us refine our style, but which ones are actually worth having?

To save you from cluttering up your smartphone finding out, we’ve compiled a rundown of the apps we think no stylish man should be without.

Instagram

Instagram isn’t just a place to share pictures of your lunch or funny snaps of your dog – this platform is filled with fashion and style inspiration for men of all ages and tastes.

Not only have global brands flocked to the social media network since its inception back in 2010, but the very best menswear bloggers, street style photographers and publications like us can also be found amongst its millions of profiles.

Available free on iPhone and Android.

Depop

eBay is great and all, but for those who find the process of making a listing a tad arduous, Depop might just be your new best mate.

Best summed up as an Instagram version of the auction site, simply take a few quick snaps of the item you want to sell, fill in some basic details, and your clothes will be listed as images in grid form for all to see and buy at the push of a button.

Available free on iPhone and Android.

Learning Framer By Creating A Mobile App Prototype

2018-02-15T12:30:00+00:00

The time of static user interfaces is long gone. Designing interactive prototypes is the best approach to expressing your ideas and explaining them to clients and stakeholders. Or, as Jerry Cao of UXPin puts it: "Nothing brings you closer to the functionality of the final product than prototyping. It is the prototype that brings to life the experience behind user experience." Prototyping is an important part of the modern UX design process.

The Best Website and Page Building Tools You Should Rely on in 2018

2018-02-14T19:31:00+00:00

It’s not difficult to get confused if you set finding the best possible website builder as an objective. It’s hard enough to define what “best” is since there are so many top-quality products on the market. If you’re looking for the best tools that also happen to be free, your search could become even more frustrating.

The good news is, you’ve just come across a post that’s spot-on. It will show you the best tools for your 2018 website-building undertakings. These tools also happen to be free.

These are the most advanced and trusted free web-building products on the market. All you need to do to find the best one is to choose the one that best suits your needs.

Be prepared to be more than a little surprised as to what you’ll find here, versus what you already have.

Mobirise Website Builder

Mobirise is easy to work with, the sites you build with Mobirise are 100% mobile-friendly, and since it’s an offline builder, Mobirise is yours, and you have total control over how you use it. You can publish your website on a local drive, on Google Cloud, on Amazon S3, or elsewhere.

Last, but not least, Mobirise is free; both for commercial and your personal use. Visit the website, look for the Windows and MacOS Download buttons, and away you go!

This website builder is easy to work with since it’s all drag and drop with no coding necessary. You have more than 300 attractive and trendy website blocks and templates to work with in the free version (and, an additional 500 if you opt for a premium version) plus a huge library of icons, Google fonts, and free images.

Thanks to its Google AMP/Bootstrap 4 framework, it’s performance is lightning fast.

We encourage you to keep going down the list; but if you stop here, and download your copy of Mobirise, you’ll still be ahead.

Visual Composer Website Builder

Visual Composer has been around for quite a while in one version or another, but the Visual Composer Website Builder is a completely new animal when it comes to WordPress builders.

Forget everything you knew about WPBakery Website Builder, as this product is not an upgraded version of it. It is a tool that is made entirely from scratch. Like other builders in this list, it comes in both free and premium versions.

The Visual Composer Builder is a drag and drop builder. You design your page layouts by selecting among a set of rich content elements and dragging and dropping them to your page. Coding isn’t necessary, and a selection of professional templates is available to help you get started.

There are plenty of other features as well, plus you can use the Builder with any WordPress theme, you get Google fonts support, special effects, and it’s responsive.

Portfoliobox

Portfoliobox was designed with professional creatives in mind. This includes photographers, artists, designers, and yourself. Since it’s an online tool and is not theme-based, you’re not forced to use a standard theme, and you can in fact use any style you choose for any page; allowing you to create a website and portfolio that genuinely reflects your work, or that of your client’s.

Portfoliobox also offers free and pro plans. With the free plan, you get hosting of up to 30 images, 10 products, and 10 pages. If you decide to move over to the pro plan (it’s recommended that you first try the free plan on for size) you get hosting for more images and unlimited products and pages.

More than 400,000 unique websites have been created with Portfoliobox. Sign up for your free account today!

Elementor Page Builder

Elementor is a free drag-and-drop page builder that’s super-fast with great UX & UI. It is also the easiest way to design WordPress websites. The editor is flexible, easy to use & intuitive. Zero coding is needed, making the design process more enjoyable than ever before.

Create any web page with pixel perfect design, speeding up your workflow with features like mobile editing, template library, import/export templates and more.

5.Themify Builder

Themify Builder’s combination of 40+ pre-designed layouts and comprehensive styling, including the ability to arrange layout grids virtually any way, offers unparalleled flexibility as a website builder. You can also style your layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile, thanks to Responsive Styling feature.

This drag and drop layout tool also features a live preview capability, and the layout parts you create can be saved and reused. With Themify Builder, you also get a collection of 60+ animation effects.

uKit

If you see a need fora small business website on the horizon, whether it’s yours or a client’s, uKitis an ideal pick, especially if that “horizon” is staring you in the face. You can literally have a website up and running in minutes with this super-flexible, responsive, and SEO friendly drag and drop builder. 200+ templates come with the package to get you started. Sign up for a free trial.

Pixpa

While you can use Pixpa for almost any type of website, this all-in-one web-building platform is especially suited for creative professionals in need of a portfolio website. Pixpa also features a built-in eCommerce store, and client-proofing and blogging tools.

With its affordable pricing (you can get started for free), best-in-class hosting, and 24/7 customer support, Pixpa has become the platform of choice for many.

IM Creator

IM Creator is a drag and drop website builder with a twist. While you have 200+ templates to get started, the approach you use involves creating your site by choosing among its selection of stripes and polygons to drag and drop onto your pages.

IM Creator is super-simple to use, it doesn’t require coding, it comes with eCommerce and blogging capabilities, and its fully responsive and Google-friendly.

Conclusion

These 8 website building tools might be described as being “free and easy.” This is aside from their many other features and capabilities.

It isn’t every day you get a chance to select among the best of the best website building tools. So, when you find the one that’s a perfect match for your needs, and it also happens to be free, do not miss a chance.

Make your day by going through the list, and trying one, two, or more of the Best of the Class of 2018.

How To Streamline WordPress Multisite Migrations With MU-Migration

2018-02-14T12:30:00+00:00

Migrating a standalone WordPress site to a site network (or “multisite”) environment is a tedious and tricky endeavor, the opposite is also true. The WordPress Importer works reasonably well for smaller, simpler sites, but leaves room for improvement. It exports content, but not site configuration data such as Widget and Customizer configurations, plugins, and site settings. The Importer also struggles to handle a large amount of content. In this article, you’ll learn how to streamline this type of migration by using MU-Migration, a WP-CLI plugin.

Replacing jQuery With Vue.js: No Build Step Necessary

2018-02-13T16:50:00+00:00

It’s been impossible to ignore all of the hype surrounding JavaScript frameworks lately, but they might not be the right fit for your projects. Perhaps you don’t want to set up an entire build system for some small abstractions you could feasibly do without. Perhaps moving a project over to a build system and thus, different deployment method would mean a lot of extra time and effort that you might not be able to bill to a client.

A Comprehensive Guide To Mobile App Design

2018-02-12T17:00:00+00:00

(This is a sponsored article.) More than ever, people are engaging with their phones in crucial moments. The average US user spends 5 hours per day on mobile. The vast majority of that time is spent in apps and on websites. The difference between a good app and a bad app is usually the quality of its user experience (UX). A good UX is what separates successful apps from unsuccessful ones.

10+ AMP Ready Magento Themes

2018-02-12T14:57:00+00:00

How often do you use your smartphone? Do you remember how helpless you felt the last time when your smart device was left at home? Smartphones have become indispensable parts of our lives. We check out the news feeds in social media at breakfast. We read the latest news on the media portals on the way to work. Also, we chat with friends in messengers each time we have a spare minute. Moreover, we spend hours searching the web on-the-go. Finally, we choose only the fast-loading sites. The ones that make us too long to wait until the content loads are quitted immediately. In order to attract the wider audiences and keep people coming back, the modern day businesses need to take care of the proper performance of their sites on all devices and the screens of mobile phones in particular. Today we’re introducing AMP-ready Magento themes from TemplateMonster Marketplace.

What is AMP?

AMP (or accelerated mobile pages) is a module that is intended to make the content of the websites load quicker on the smaller screens. Having it installed on your site, you will impress the web users with the lightning fast page loading speeds, as well improve your search engines rankings. If you run a Magento-based eCommerce site and want to boost its performance on the handheld devices, then the AMP module is just what you need.

Having the AMP module installed on your site you will have all pieces of content loaded in less than 2 seconds. All documents of this open-source technology contain AMP JS JavaScript Library. The latter delivers the optimal performance by adding a few roles in your markup.

AMP controls the entire load chain. It prioritizes the main content on the web page by loading it first, with the third-party content being loaded afterward.

Top Reasons to Use AMP

With the help of the AMP module added to your website, you can:

accelerate page loading speeds;
bring unique UI and UX to the Category and Product pages;
load images, texts, and widgets faster;
let the users find content on the Google Results page;
make your site compatible with all smartphones and tablets;
make your’s content load for less than 2 seconds;
achieve higher site ranking in the search engines results;
attain up to 10% traffic growth and 52% sales boost.

10+ AMP-ready Magento Themes

TemplateMonster is the first digital marketplace on the market that started to sell AMP-ready Magento themes. At the moment, there are 6 Magento themes that are integrated with the technology. All consecutive Magento 2.2 themes will be loaded with the module also.

Magetique – Premium Responsive Magento 2 Theme

Fine-tune your website design and style using this multipurpose Magento theme that has an aesthetically appealing palette. Magetique is a cool theme created to get fashion, furniture, tools, cars, and other types of projects to the web. Its 100% responsive structure will look perfect on any monitor size. AMP technology will ensure lightning fast page loading speeds. Putting up a web platform is definitely beneficial for advertising these days, and this design can play an important role in the arrangement of your online marketing strategy. Moreover, a lot of template settings can be changed on the fly through the advanced admin panel. Neat and well-organized design of the web template allows you to promote loads of content on one web page, without diminishing its legibility. In addition, buying this particular template you get round-the-clock technical support and detailed guidelines.

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Fashion Slash – AMP Fashion Boutique Magento Theme

Fashion Slash is a fashion and beauty shop theme designed for bringing your website on the net. This theme is an advanced solution for small to large-sized eCommerce projects. Moreover, included blocks of content and widgetized elements make the design of the template clear. Setting up a web resource and granting your prospective customers an opportunity to check out the information concerning your project on the move can be a wonderful method of raising your client base. Additionally, easy-on-the-eyes page layout with the focus on visuals easily catches the attention of site visitors, driving them in.

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Illin.co – Tools & Equipment Magento Theme

The most impressive thing about this template is the design. Well crafted 100% responsive website design with a robust visual impression will wonderfully work for redressing or putting up tools and equipment web stores. Regardless of the gadget, you have to browse the webpage, its interface will display flawlessly because of the built-in AMP technology. Thus, the website visitors will definitely love this navigation and graphic elements that guide them swiftly throughout the site. Create your online resource even more productive with this custom WordPress skin. In the event of any problem with this template, you can contact one of the professional assistance managers and they will resolve the problem of any difficulty for clients.

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Jewelrix Magento Theme

This jewelry Magento theme is a good solution to present any sort of fashion-related eCommerce project. Easy-to-use site navigation and easy-to-browse, responsive and cross-browser compatible design will facilitate the visitors’ interaction with the website based on this theme. SEO-optimized, it can be easily found by the web users whichever search engine they are making use of. Magento is already a powerful option equally for personal and business sites, and with this layout, it will turn out to be twice more effective to launch your eCommerce project. Moreover, responsive design offers an ideal user experience. Furthermore, the website created on the basis of this web template will result in the enjoyable browsing and make buyers interested in your deals.

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Designer Boutique Magento Theme

This designer web template comes with a graphic-heavy layout great for a stunning presentation of your web-based project. This website template is quite suitable to present your photo portfolio, freelance photographer portfolio or fashion photographer on the net. Being integrated with popular social networks platforms, the template shown here can be an ideal tool to get in touch with your clients. Moreover, multipurpose and easy to change, the web layout can be comfortably adjusted to demonstrate your website at its top. Furthermore, this 100% responsive theme is a practical solution with nice typography and well-balanced blocks of content.

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Mobile Store Magento 2 Theme

To convert electronics store site into a progressive and pleasing one, think of this vibrant straightforward Mobile Store Magento 2 Theme. This particular photography portfolio Bootstrap web theme that can be used to get started with an online resource for mobile and tech gear eCommerce projects. Thus, if you want to build a successful online resource with Magento, you have to use a powerful and fully-fledged website template, supporting specific forms and plugins. Intuitive navigation and 100% responsive design of this theme offer the web page visitors a pleasant user experience. AMP module will enhance the performance of the site in all web environments.

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Auto Parts Magento 2 Theme

The Magento 2 web template is a smooth and cutting-edge design for photography auto parts shops. In other words, it is a combo of visual aesthetics and features. SEO-optimized, it can be easily found by Internet users whichever search engine they are making use of. Don’t overlook this theme if you aim at maximizing your web recognition. Responsive layout is one more reason to try this web design for your web store as it performs equally well on any screens including PCs, tablets and mobile phones. And as a result, a lot of people can easily get to your webpage from their handheld gadgets. In addition, a welcoming customer assistance squad is available 24/7 for free. Select this web theme and spread the word of your e-project all over the world.

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Modern Furniture Magento 2 Store

Get your website off to a flying start by using this theme. Pay attention to this template that was tailored to build or redesign your furniture or interior design eCommerce site. Presented blocks of content, widgetized sections make the structure of the theme distinct. Moreover, a lot of template settings can be changed on the fly through the usable admin panel. Make every client feel the delight of surfing your Internet site using this theme. Furthermore, the clients will smoothly browse around a thought-out web page, and view it on numerous mobile devices because of its 100% responsive, cross-browser compatible and SEO-friendly layout. Clean, valid code and comprehensive documentation will aid you in enhancing this web theme the way you desire. Make use of this web layout to persuade prospective web users that they will have a nice time browsing your website!

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Recuidi – Healthy Food Store Magento Theme

This healthy food template is built by a team of qualified designers, therefore it will make any site work to its full potential. This innovative Bootstrap web design has been created to satisfy the needs of food delivery and supermarket sites. Visiting a website page based on this theme users will allocate the necessary content without problems. Moreover, thanks to its fully responsive essence, you will easily reach clients who surf the web on the move, whereas SEO-friendliness will let you boost traffic rates of your online project. Thus, if you want to build a successful online resource with Magento, you have to use a powerful and fully-fledged website template, supporting specific forms and plugins.

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AllyBike – Cycling Supplies Store Responsive Magento Theme

AllyBike is a responsive cycling store web theme that’s been designed to run flawlessly across a wide range of devices and web browsers. Present the inventory in the usable style online to get the clients you were not able to engage in the past. Building a brand new project on the net, you need to ensure that it will stand above the rivals, which is when this theme will come to be useful. Included blocks of content, widgetized elements make the design of the template clear. Moreover, its well-arranged layout is effective for content-rich websites that need to present all specifics in an easy to perceive manner. The theme is also richly documented and provides professional 24/7 support. Start a thriving web resource by means of this web theme and get the gains.

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CompShop – Computer Store Magento Theme

The Computer Store Magento Theme will easily draw the attention of online users to your products and services. This innovative template was created to satisfy the needs of the needs of computers and Internet shops. The content areas help make the design user-friendly. If you’d like to present your webpage effortlessly, this responsive and SEO-friendly website template is going to be a splendid solution. If you want to build a successful online resource with Magento 2, you have to use a powerful and fully-fledged website template, supporting specific forms and plugins. Thus, the great outcomes are achievable due to this theme’s SEO -friendliness, usable features and clear yet catchy design. In the event of any trouble with this website layout, you can get in touch with one of the well-trained support managers and they will solve the problem of any difficulty for you.

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Decorta – Home Deco Responsive Magento 2 Theme

Decorta is a ready-made responsive home decor web template designed to present your products and services in the best way on the net. Advanced and responsive sites are the best way to present professional furniture and home decor services worldwide and boost interest among your target audience. Also, the content areas help make the overall design user-friendly. Being integrated with popular social networks platforms, the template shown here can be an ideal tool to get in touch with your clients. In addition, the vast majority of theme’s settings can be changed immediately through the usable admin panel. This design was developed as lightweight as possible so that your website can certainly load fast.

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Using SSE Instead Of WebSockets For Unidirectional Data Flow Over HTTP/2

2018-02-12T10:30:00+00:00

When building a web application, one must consider what kind of delivery mechanism they are going to use. Let’s say we have a cross-platform application that works with real-time data; a stock market application providing ability to buy or sell stock in real time. This application is composed of widgets that bring different value to the different users. When it comes to data delivery from the server to the client, we are limited to two general approaches: client pull or server push.

Free Adobe XD Icon Sets Made By Legendary Designers

2018-02-09T15:00:00+00:00

(This is a sponsored article.) Our friends at Adobe unveiled a very special goodie at the Awwwards Conference in Berlin today. A goodie which is too good to miss: They asked three renowned designers to create exclusive free icon sets to use in Adobe XD. And, well, we are very happy to feature them here on Smashing Magazine, too. The icon kits were created by design legend Lance Wyman, award-winning design studio Anton & Irene, and the Swiss design group Büro Destruct.

The 9 Ultimate Graphic Design Trends In 2018

2018-02-09T14:31:00+00:00

When it comes to design, although 2017 was a great year, we expect 2018 to be even greater. I’d rather not jump to conclusions right away but believe me; it’s going to be a wild year! And it’s going to inspire us into achieving great things as 2018 will be all about the freedom of expression, about bringing back to life old styles and trends and of course, about dealing with unexpected things as well.

We’re already accustomed with the unexpected, we’re pleased to see old styles coming back to life and we love to let our imagination take us to new highs, conquer new horizons, and contribute to the immense pool of creativity that the liberty of expression allows us to share with the rest of the world. Before getting back to work, however, I invite you all to take a quick look together at some of the most interesting trends we expect to see coming forth during this year.

Let’s enjoy them together:

1. The “Glitch” Effect

Back in the day, no designer would have thought that a “glitch” effect will someday become a trend in this industry. If you would have handed them a similar image, they‘d probably told you that either the photographer was bad, or that the photo has been somehow deteriorated. Nevertheless, anybody would have advice you to avoid such mistakes and maybe, to take a few photography lessons from a professional photographer.

Fast forward to 2018 and we see the same mistake evolving into one of the year’s major trends in graphic design. It has now become a desirable effect, a bohemian reflection of the word “modern”.

Here’s how to create the glitch effect in Photoshop.

2. Double Exposure

Photographers and graphic designer have been working with double exposed images for decades. I’ve seen numerous designs and art exhibits featuring double exposed photographs that came close to what I believed to be perfection in visual imagery. I have also seen designs based on this effect that were nowhere near what they were aiming towards. Double exposure is still a major trend in 2018 but tread softly on this one. It really needs a great eye for details in order to make it work. If you manage to do it, however, you’ll get a great combination of imagination, perspective and in some cases, illusion.

3. Cropped Typography

Typography is and always was an important part of graphic design. Great typography can add style and effect to a banner, a flyer or a poster. A bad choice in fonts however, can ruin an entire design.

When it comes to adding a great visual effect to your copy texts, my mind goes to one of the hottest trends of 2017 that will also be present with us during this year. It’s called cropped typography and it requires some skills to do it without losing in readability. However, if you manage to include it in your designs successfully, you will get them the artistic touch sometimes your clients will ask for, through simplicity and beauty.

4. Chaotic Typography

There’s a certain amount of chaos in our apparently ordered lives. On one hand, we have the chaotic lifestyle of the modern city, on the other hand, the chaos of the modern worker, the constant changes technology triggers in our lives and so on. It would have been sad not to bring some of this chaos into our graphic designs as well. Fortunately, 2018 brings forth a new interesting trend that adds an artistic touch to our designs through chaotic typography.

5. Typography as Real Life Elements

Words have the power to bring ideas and concepts to life. Therefore, why not animating instead the words themselves, through human interaction? Yes, the following images are suggestive for yet another trend I expect to be popular in 2018. Expect to see more of this during the following months.

6. Color Transitions

We got used with color transitions in the past few years. It was a huge and popular trend designers favored until 2007 or so, when everybody seemed to embrace the idea of flat designs. Well, in 2018 I expect to see transitions coming back to life and we can already see the trend developing with iOS, Stripe and Instagram.

7. Illustration over Photos

Nobody likes plain photos. They’re boring. And I believe that there is no designer who did not, at one point, receive one boring photo to work with. Of course, everybody expect you to do miracles with it. You are a designer, isn’t it? You can do it.

Well, if you find the right inspiration, nothing’s impossible. A boring photo can become a piece of art with an artistic touch and the following examples may help you find that inspiration.

This trend combines photos with digital drawings and transforms everyday images into valuable pieces of content, suitable for banners, posters or advertisements.

8. Bold Typography

There are some companies that do not need special artistic designs in order to market their brands. You’d think that this is only available for major brands, such as Microsoft, Google or YouTube but remember the fact that they were not always as big as they are now. Their designs were always based on simple, bold typographies, and yet, they looked powerful and marketable right from the start. Can this continue to be a major trend in 2018 as well?

Well, it can. All you need is to find the right fonts, pair them with the right colors and of course, the right brand.

9. Metallic Textures

If until recently we’ve seen metallic elements as a rather fashion related trend, now, they will step down from the catwalk right into our graphic designs. It’s expected that in 2018 and maybe even the following years, we’ll see more metallic elements incorporated into our typographies and 3D compositions as well. They add style to basic designs and therefore, a positive outcome to even the most otherwise boring visuals that are going to be created from now on.

Conclusion

The digital graphic design is a vast industry that is connected to almost any other industry of today’s economic environment. Each year comes with new trends and each graphical designer chooses whether or not to follow them or come up with something new instead. The examples I chose to share with you today will nevertheless serve as inspiration for the following months and why not, to help you create some of your best designs as well.

Are there any other trends expected to come forth in 2018 that you know about? What do you think about this list?

Native And PWA: Choices, Not Challengers!

2018-02-09T13:00:00+00:00

It’s hard to tell exactly where the rift between “native” and “web” really started. I feel like it’s one of those things that had been churning just below the surface since the early days of Flash, only to erupt more recently with the rise of mobile platforms. Regardless, developers have squared off across this “great chasm,” lobbing insults at one another in an attempt to bolster their own side.

A Comprehensive Guide To User Experience Design

2018-02-09T11:00:00+00:00

(This is a sponsored article.) Having undertaken initial user research and analyzed your research findings, the next phase of the design process is to apply what you’ve learned by developing a series of designs to test your assumptions. In the fourth article in my series for Adobe XD, I’ll be focusing on the initial phase of the design process. Within this overall series of ten articles, this is the first of three that tie together the design process.

77 Hand-Drawn Space Icons That’ll Take You Into Unexplored Territories (Freebie)

2018-02-08T15:30:00+00:00

When you were small, haven’t you ever dreamt of becoming the commander of a space mission? Of exploring outer space and seing the Earth from above? Well, you might not have made it into an actual space shuttle, but maybe you still carry this fascination for everything extraterrestrial inside of you. Great! Because today we want to take you on your very personal trip to space. Buckle up as you’ll become the captain of the command center — and maybe you’ll even make the acquaintance of an actual alien, too.

Submitting Forms Without Reloading The Page: AJAX Implementation In WordPress

2018-02-08T13:00:00+00:00

If you have ever wanted to send a form without reloading the page, provide a look-ahead search function that prompts the user with suggestions as they type, or auto-save documents, then what you need is AJAX (also known as XHR). A behind-the-scenes request is sent to the server, and returning data to your form. Whenever you see a loader animation after you have made some action on the page, it’s probably an AJAX request being submitted to the server.

Live Stream From Awwwards Berlin 2018: Showcasing Trends In UX Design

2018-02-08T08:00:00+00:00

Designing the best experience is a challenge, and every designer and developer has their own way of tackling it. But, well, no matter how different our approaches are, one thing is for sure: We can learn a lot from each other. To give you your dose of UX inspiration, we are happy to announce that our dear friends at Adobe, are streaming live from the Awwwards Conference which will take place in Berlin on February 8th and 9th.

These WP Plugins Will Make Your Site Better in 2018

2018-02-07T14:44:00+00:00

WordPress Plugins are created for a variety of reasons and uses. Some serve to optimize the performance of the websites you build in one way or another. Others provide the necessary functionality. This would be impossible to incorporate without implementing tedious exercises in coding.

In this post, we are presenting 10 of the Top WordPress plugins currently on the market. As you go down the list, it won’t be at all difficult to find the perfect plugin that fits you.

You will see how one or more of them could enable you to build websites that will stand out in the crowd. The same holds true for upgrading your current websites to add functionality. Any of the presented plugins also can improve their performance.

Enjoy!

wpDataTables

With the wpDataTables plugin, you can quickly complete website charts and/or tables without experiencing the pure frustration often encountered in trying to get every detail correct. You’ll also save countless hours, your charts and tables will be responsive, and since they are always front-end editable, it’s easy to maintain them and keep them up to date.

wpDataTables is by far the leading WordPress plugin of its kind. It is in fact, so widely-used and so popular, that more than a few web designers are known to have switched to WordPress simply to be able to use this premier plugin in their work.

wpDataTables accepts data from most common sources, and it works especially well with large MySQL tables involving thousands, or even millions, of rows of data. If your website content features scientific, statistical, or financial data, parts inventories, or large product catalogs, this is the tool for you. No coding is required, as you’ll be building your charts by clicking, or drag and drop. wpDataTables has much more to offer, so be prepared to be amazed!

LayerSlider

Whether they are used as attention-grabbers, or to improve a site’s usability, not all slider apps, addons, or plugins are the same, LayerSlider’s features and capabilities however, make this WordPress plugin stand out from the competition.

What makes LayerSlider different is it does much more than enable you to incorporate standard sliders onto your web pages. LayerSlider acts as a complete animation platform. You can even build a complete website using its animated page blocks and drag and drop visual editor. This plugin even has its own Photoshop-like image editor and versatile layout options. It is, of course, responsive, so you can expect the sliders you create (and the popups too!) to adapt to smartphone and tablet screens as easily as they do on desktop computers.

NextGEN Gallery & NextGEN Pro

NextGEN Gallery is not your typical website gallery plugin. With downloads of this popular WordPress plugin exceeding 1.5 million per year over the past decade, it has become an industry standard.

NextGEN Gallery is open software that comes in 4 flavors, free, and three bundled plugins you can purchase. The free version has most of what you would ever want or need to manage and display everything from simple photo galleries to thousands of images with ease, using numerous gallery display types.

On the free version’s back-end, you get a complete gallery management system, while on the front end you get five gallery display styles (thumbnails and slideshows) and two album styles. Try the free version, and then check out what the NextGEN Pro bundle with its multiplicity of quality extensions offers.

REXPANSIVE – Page Builder for WordPress

Rexpansive is a stand-alone drag and drop page builder plugin that works with any WordPress theme, and lets you create unique layouts, in addition to moving and changing the size of images, including videos, and moving text to wherever you want it without the need to enter any values. Rexpansive is also compatible with most contemporary browsers.

To get a clearer picture of what Rexpansive can do for you, we recommend that you download their free demo, and test it out before you buy.

CSS Hero

The CSS Hero plugin allows you to use an intuitive WYSIWYG live CSS editor to customize a WordPress website’s appearance. This plugin is intended for newbies and pros alike. A popular feature is an ability to preview your site’s display on mobile devices, using either standard or newly-created breakpoints, without having to wait for user testing for verification. CSS Hero also teamed with Unsplash to provide a virtually unlimited source or royalty-free images to update your websites with.

Blog2Social

Blog2Social is a time-saving WordPress plugin that offers solutions to social media workers and marketers, small business owners, agencies, and others who look for ways to cross-promote and share blog posts on social media websites including Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, and others.

One of Blog2Social’s key features is an automated individualized sharing of content – Blog2Social lets you customize the posts to be tailored to each network. Another great function of this plugin is the Social Media calendar. It enables you to manage your posts in the best possible way.

Essential Grid WordPress Plugin

Essential Grid, by ThemePunch is a WordPress grid plugin that offers much more than conventional grid layout options. With this tool, you’ll be able to customize your grid layout schemes to your heart’s content. Essential Grid provides excellent solutions to your gallery, WooCommerce shop, portfolio, and blog layouts, as well as all other sections that make up your website. If you can imagine a grid layout, you can create it!

Helpie Knowledge Base Wiki

Something many, and most likely most, online stores are missing is a comprehensive Knowledge Base that customers can go to for help.

With Helpie, you can improve an online shop’s UX ten-fold, if not more by making information a customer will find helpful and easy to access, without cluttering up your site’s pages. Helpie will make sure that the number of customer support requests is low, as well as that the number of new clients is on the rise.

This Knowledge Base is designed to improve your SEO and the knowledge sharing within your company.

Final Tiles Gallery

One thing that most galleries have in common is a sense of sameness with respect to image size or aspect ratio. That may be fine with some, but if you would like to free yourself from those restrictions, you should give Final Tiles Gallery a close look.

In addition to giving you almost complete freedom with respect to image size and shape, Final Tile Galleries has plenty of other features and effects you’ll find helpful.

Heroic Knowledge Base

Heroic Knowledge Base is another WordPress knowledge base plugin you can use to give users a lightning-fast method of finding the information they’re looking for. You can also collect feedback to pinpoint which articles they are finding helpful, and which could use some improvement.

Users can even be given an option to easily download articles they find especially helpful, making your website even more user friendly than you thought possible.

Conclusion

A good guess might be that you won’t get too far down the list before you find something you really need. You might have stumbled upon a plugin that provides capabilities you haven’t even been aware of.

Is your objective saving time and increasing your web design productivity? Maybe it is to add cool functionality that will drive traffic and keep visitors coming back for more?

Either way, you’ll find plenty to work within this list of Best WordPress plugins for 2018.

Taking A Look At The State Of Progressive Images And User Perception

2018-02-07T11:30:00+00:00

“Progressive Images” is a hot topic these days. We often come across articles explaining techniques on how to avoid showing an empty space where an image will load. Medium and Facebook are examples of websites and mobile apps that apply this pattern. I recently wrote about different ways to use SVG as placeholders, and this year’s PerfPlanet’s Performance Calendar included two posts that further describe SQIP, a technique based on blurred SVGs: Progressive Image Loading using Intersection Observer and SQIP and SQIP — Vague Vectors for Performant Previews.

Mobile App With Facial Recognition Feature: How To Make It Real

2018-02-06T14:30:00+00:00

Imagine an application that can, in real time, analyze a user’s emotional response while they’re interacting with an app or website. Or imagine a home device that recognizes you and tunes in to your favorite TV channel. Yes, today’s article is all about facial recognition technology. We’re going to share our first experience of dealing with this technology and the findings we’ve made. Why Is Facial Recognition On The Rise?

Exploring New Worlds: A Smashing Creativity Challenge

2018-02-06T11:30:00+00:00

Time flies! Did you know that it has been more than nine years already since we first embarked on our wallpapers adventure? Nine years is a long time, and sometimes we all should break out of our comfort zones and try something new, right? We'd love to invite you to a little creativity challenge: Get out your pens, paint brushes, camera, or fire up your favorite illustration tool, and design a desktop wallpaper for March 2018.

Using Media Queries For Responsive Design In 2018

2018-02-05T12:30:00+00:00

Back in July 2010, I wrote an article for Smashing Magazine entitled “How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create A Mobile Version of Your Website.” Almost eight years on, that article still receives a lot of traffic. I thought it would be a nice idea to revisit that subject, now that we have layout methods such as Flexbox and Grid Layout. This article will take a look at the use of media queries for responsive design today, and also have a look at what is coming in the future.

What Is The Best Advice You Have Ever Received? Our Community Speaks.

2018-02-05T09:00:00+00:00

The beginning of a new year seems like a perfect time to think about what we web professionals do, why we do it, how we could do it better and even how we could have more fun doing it. Like everyone, we learn lessons as we make our way through life and work. If we’re lucky, we pick up some good advice along the way, so we thought it might be useful to find out what kind of advice you all have found to be particularly valuable.

How To Make A Dynamic Website Become Static Through A Content CDN

2018-02-02T13:00:00+00:00

Smashing Magazine gave us a little surprise recently: Its website has been completely overhauled, switching away from WordPress to Netlify. One of the several reasons for the move is cost: Netlify allows for a static version of a website, which can be hosted directly on a content delivery network (CDN), reducing the number of web servers that are needed. In addition, because CDNs are located near users, accessing the website becomes faster.

Content Marketing And WordPress: Tips, Plugins, And How To Make An Impact

2018-02-01T12:00:00+00:00

Content marketing is the practice of creating a piece of content (generally digital) that is both useful and valuable to certain members of your target market(s). This piece of content is generally free, though it may be hidden behind a simple email/lead-capture form, and it usually is meant to be found through search or through free/low-budget distribution methods (think social media, low-cost PPC, a small press release). Some might call this permission marketing, the idea being that your target customers have given you permission to market to them by choosing to access your content.

Debugging JavaScript With A Real Debugger You Did Not Know You Already Have

2018-02-01T10:00:00+00:00

console.log can tell you a lot about your app, but it can't truly debug your code. For that, you need a full-fledged JavaScript debugger. The new Firefox JavaScript debugger can help you write fast, bug-free code. Here's how it works. In this example, we'll crack open a very simple to-do app with Debugger. Here's the app, based on basic open-source JavaScript frameworks. Open it up in the latest version of Firefox Developer Edition and then launch debugger.

Think Less, Embrace More: Inspiring Desktop Wallpapers For February 2018

2018-01-31T12:21:00+00:00

Time flies by… The first month of the new year is already behind us, and with February just around the corner, it's time for some fresh inspiration. So how about some wallpapers to tickle your ideas? Wallpapers that are a bit more distinctive as the ones you usually find out there? Well, we've got you covered. As every month since more than nine years already, artists and designers from across the globe once again fired up their favorite illustration tools and got out their paint brushes and cameras to create charming desktop wallpapers that are sure to breathe some fresh life into your desktop.

A Comprehensive Guide To Product Design

2018-01-31T11:00:00+00:00

(This is a sponsored article.) What is a product? Until recently, the term was used only in relation to something material and often found in a retail store. Nowadays, it is coming to mean digital products as well. Apps and websites are modern products. When it comes to building great products, design is the most important “feature.” We’ve moved into the stage where product design dominates — it’s what sets companies apart and gives a real edge over competitors.

A GraphQL Primer: The Evolution Of API Design (Part 2)

2018-01-31T09:50:00+00:00

In Part 1 we looked at how APIs have evolved over the last few decades and how each one gave way to the next. We also talked about some of the particular drawbacks of using REST for mobile client development. In this article, I want to look at where mobile client API design appears to be headed — with a particular emphasis on GraphQL. There are, of course, lots of people, companies, and projects that have tried to address RESTs shortcomings over the years: HAL, Swagger/OpenAPI, OData JSON API and dozens of other smaller or internal projects have all sought to bring order to the spec-less world of REST.

Respect Always Comes First

2018-01-30T17:15:00+00:00

The past years have been remarkable for web technologies. Our code has become modular, clean and well-defined. Our tooling for build processes and audits and testing and maintenance has never been so powerful. Our design process is systematic and efficient. Our interfaces are smooth and responsive, with a sprinkle of beautiful transitions and animations here and there. And after so many years, accessibility and performance have finally become established, well-recognized pillars of user experience.

Automated Browser Testing With The WebDriver API

2018-01-30T15:30:00+00:00

Manually clicking through different browsers as they run your development code, either locally or remotely, is a quick way to validate that code. It allows you to visually inspect that things are as you intended them to be from a layout and functionality point of view. However, it’s not a solution for testing the full breadth of your site’s code base on the assortment of browsers and device types available to your customers.

Enter The Dragon (Drop): Accessible List Reordering

2018-01-30T10:00:00+00:00

Over the years of being a web developer with a focus on accessibility, I have mostly dealt with widely-adopted, standardized UI components, well supported by assistive technologies (AT). For these types of widgets, there are concise ARIA authoring practices as well as great tools like axe-core that can be used to test web components for accessibility issues. Creating less common widgets, especially those that have no widely-adopted conventions for user interaction can be very tricky.

Offboarding In The Online World

2018-01-29T13:00:00+00:00

By now, we’ve all heard about onboarding — the beginning of a relationship between a company and a user — but what about offboarding? Both go hand in hand as being two of the most important interactions you can have with a user, but offboarding gets much less publicity and sometimes is even altogether ignored. So, what exactly is it, and why is it so important? Offboarding is usually described as the interaction between a company and their customer at the end of the customer journey.