In this article, Sara Dholakia breaks down the most common visualization types to help guide you through selecting the best choice for your specific needs and shares her tips for creating a stellar data visualization.Data visualizations are everywhere; from the…
Meet “Understanding Privacy”, our brand new Smashing Book to make sense of privacy, and learn how to create inclusive, safe and privacy-aware digital experiences. eBook now available, print shipping in early December. Jump to details and get the book.To many…
Welcome to our annual guessing game of what the next twelve months will bring. As ever, the design world isn’t isolated from the world in which it exists, so when events shape our lives, they impact our work, the work…
In this article, Patrick Brosset gives an update on the most impactful new features that are now available in DevTools, across Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Edge.I can’t believe it’s already been nine months since I last wrote about the new…
That’s how people behave on the web in 2023. Some observations from real usability testing on what people do and what they don’t do on the web. From disabled copy-paste to magic link sign-in.Many projects start with assumptions. We assume…
In this article, Sacha Greif tries to anticipate future CSS trends and takes a look at some far-fetched and futuristic CSS features that might one day make their way to the browser.I run the yearly State of CSS survey, asking…
The annual survey for anyone who writes CSS, State of CSS, is nearing the end of its response period for 2022. The survey is available in many different languages and all questions are optional. Join in the survey — it…
In this article, Alma Hoffmann discusses six basic variables to establish a typographic hierarchy, explains how to look at each differently, and in turn, designs pieces by intentionally modifying each variable to create a typographic hierarchy effectively.Simply defined, the concept…
If you’ve ever wanted to build a web app that you can control with hand gestures as if by magic, this article is for you. With a couple of APIs and some JavaScript, you can build apps that behave like…
In this article, Yosra Emad explains how to create a rollercoaster path that a ball follows using cubic beziers and CSS transitions. You’ll also learn how the cubic-bezier function in CSS works in detail and how to stack multiple simple…