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Stress isn’t just something that makes people feel uncomfortable. It stimulates the urge to “fight” or “flight”. The very last thing you want is to design a website that stresses visitors out, leading them to dread the experience or abandon it entirely. There are many things that might invoke this response from your visitors, including the design. In the following guide, we’re going to look at som
Several months ago, I realized that I had a lot of sensitive files on my computer (my diary, if you must know) that I was afraid of losing, but I didn’t feel comfortable putting them in something like Google Drive or Dropbox. Introducing UtahFS.
I discovered CSS about a decade ago while trying to modify the look of a blog I had created. Pretty soon, I was able to code cool things with more
To make the move from “site” to app, we’ll need to dive into the world of “app-generated” content. In this article, Bryan Robinson will get you started in this world with the power of serverless data. He’ll start with a simple demo by ingesting and posting data to FaunaDB and then extend that functionality in a full-fledged application using Auth0, FaunaDB’s Token system and User-Defined Functions
Right questions don’t simply roll off the tongue, but it’s a handy skill everyone can train. The following pieces of advice will help you to formulate questions that foster reliable answers from your users and clients. Slava Shestopalov will talk about 12 kinds of questions explained with examples. The first part includes six frequent mistakes and how to fix them. The second part presents six ways
There's some interesting CSS trickery in Jason Pamental's latest Web Fonts & Typography News. Jason wanted to bring swipeable columns to his digital book
We can use JavaScript to get the value of a CSS custom property. Robin wrote up a detailed explanation about this in Get a CSS Custom Property Value with
Here’s a fantastic case study where Ivan Akulov looks at the rather popular writing app Notion and how the team might improve the performance in a variety of
In this tutorial, Shedrack Akintayo is going to learn about higher-order components, the syntax of higher-order components, as well as use cases for them. In the process, you will build a higher-order component from an existing React component. By the end of this tutorial, you will understand the basics of higher-order components and how to build them.
I'm excited to announce the upcoming launch of Cloudflare TV. A 24x7 live television broadcast, streamed globally via the Cloudflare network. You can tune in to the pre-broadcast station and check out the upcoming schedule at: cloudflare.tv
A walkthrough on how we are improving the reliability of our management services running in each data center by using Nomad for dynamic task scheduling.
Constructing an equivalent experience may mean changing the way you think about development and design, and potentially reevaluating your existing work. In this article, Eric Bailey will discuss learning how to embrace an equivalent, inclusive mindset. He will also provide practical, robust ways to improve your websites and web apps by providing solutions to common, everyday barriers cited by the
We stand firmly behind the Black Lives Matter movement. We have always stood strongly behind introducing a wide range of voices to Smashing publications and conferences. Positive change is difficult, but it’s possible. It takes work, time, and dedication. We are fully committed as a team to see it through.
Getting a client or stakeholder to approve a design concept can be challenging. However, testing can make it easier, as well as ensuring you have the right solution. In this post, Paul Boag will explore some of the advantages testing design concepts can provide to us as designers, and demonstrate that you can do it cheaply and without slowing down the delivery of the overall project. Let’s begin!
There's a series of questions I’ve struggled with for as long as I can remember. The questions have to do with design systems work: Where should we document
Why you shouldn't mock fetch or your API Client in your tests and what to do instead.
If you’re a React developer who’d like to learn how you can start consuming APIs in your React applications, then this article is for you. Consuming REST APIs in a React Application can be done in various ways, but in this tutorial, Shedrack Akintayo will be discussing how we can consume REST APIs using two of the most popular methods known as Axios and Fetch API. You will learn what a REST API is
As we’ve often seen in the past, real world protest and violence is usually accompanied by attacks on the Internet. This past week has been no exception.
If you’ve ever wanted to add a pause between each iteration of your CSS @keyframes animation, you’ve probably been frustrated to find there’s no built-in way
Fresh from the Jetpack team at Automattic, today, comes Jetpack Scan. Jetpack Scan scans all the files on your site looking for anything suspicious or
How to use a hierarchical query, which is an SQL query that handles model data such as the structure of organizations - find out more
This is an archive of an old pseudonymously written post from the 90s from someone whose former pseudonym seems to have disappeared from the internet. I see that Star Trek: Voyager has added a new character, a Borg. (From the photos, I also see that they're still breeding women for breast size in the 24th century.) What ticked me off was the producer's comment (I'm paraphrasing), "The addition of
I want to show you a little of what this sea-of-nodes graph data structure looks like and how it works, and I think it’s worth doing this for this for a couple of reasons.
Whether we are designers, marketers, entrepreneurs, or product owners, we are all in the same boat. We want to give users a good experience, but we also need them to take action. Meet “Click!”, our new practical guide on how to build trust, increase conversion and boost business KPIs effectively — without alienating people along the way. Written by Paul Boag. Jump to table of contents and get the
