What happened in the web dev world in the past four weeks? In his final monthly reading list, Anselm summarized everything you need to know to stay on top of things.

Let’s face it: it’s never easy to deal with client feedback. Requests may be vague (“the form is broken”), too subjective (“the page doesn’t load fast enough”), or difficult to assess without seeing it yourself (“the page still isn’t updated”). You could…

We’ve just released Smashing Magazine Print, with the very first pilot issue dedicated to ethics and privacy. In this post, Veerle, the illustrator of the issue, sheds some light into her design process and decisions made along the way.

Climate change is a complex problem that cannot be solved with a swift flick of a biodegradable, magic wand. But certain environmental issues can be solved with the right code. That’s where you come in.

Every job comes with its own set of “things I wish I’d known before I started working here.” For this piece, veteran UX leader and author Robert Hoekman Jr looks back on 20 years in the profession to craft a counter-punch: a set of “things we should ask every…

Social proof comes in a variety of forms. This guide will show you how to build social proof into the mobile experience the right way.

We don’t have any excuse for creating poor experiences today. Here’s what you need to know about designing complex tables for your mobile visitors in WordPress.

This is a detailed guide for those who are struggling with tables in Figma. Today, Sasha Belichenko will show you how to create a table using components, so that later on you could save a lot of time on scalability and edits. Moreover, you’ll be able to easily…

What if you spend the unproportionate amount of time to support an outdated system?
The typical answer to such a problem is the migration of the application. However, all of the front-end frameworks are different. In this article, Denys Mishunov will show…

Before reading, you might want to first get back to [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/09/frankenstein-migration-framework-agnostic-approach-part-1/) because it will help you to follow along in this second part of the article.

It’s official! Next year, we’ll be organizing a SmashingConf in each of these cities: San Francisco, Freiburg, New York and Austin! We’re planning to build on the success and the things we have learned in 2019, so that we can bring you a practical two days…

Get ready for October and the upcoming Halloween season with a fresh batch of wallpapers. Created with love by the community for the community.

We had a lovely time at SmashingConf Freiburg. This post wraps up the event and also shares the video of all of the Freiburg presentations.

Design is increasingly becoming more complex. Design processes require having a tight cross-functional collaboration between all teams involved in the creation of the product. Having a shared design language empowers teams to collaborate more effectively.…

In this article, we will use speech-to-text to draft transcripts of podcasts and interviews for publication. We’ll also evaluate the overall accuracy of these format-transformation technologies by running a few samples through round-trip transcriptions.

In this fifth installment of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will teach you about Bea Feitler, who directed Harper’s Bazaar throughout the 1960s and has been described as “the pioneering female art director you’ve never heard of.” Andy will teach you…

By naming lines when setting up our CSS Grid layouts, we can tap into some interesting and useful features of Grid — features that become even more powerful when we introduce subgrids. In this article, Rachel Andrew is going to demonstrate an approach to…

Design systems can improve usability, but they can also limit creativity or fall out of sync with actual products. In this article, we’ll explore how designers and developers can create more robust design systems by building a culture of collaboration.

If you like writing object-oriented and easy-to-read code, then this article is for you. You’ll learn how to write your own plugin and why October may be a good choice for your next project.

PWAs are supposed to provide visitors with a better experience than a mobile website. But just because PWAs will use sticky navigation the way that native apps do, that doesn’t make them as easy to get around. If you’re worried that your PWA is going to be…