Links from 2017

No, this is not a broken page or a sneaky landing page. Today marks an important milestone in Smashing Magazine’s life, and this very page is an early preview…

L ast month, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden had a public conversation about democracy, transparency, whistleblowing and more. In the course of it, Snowden –…

In his talk, Baur notes that he got these numbers from talks given by Times graphic editors Gregor Aisch and Archie Tse (you can find Aisch’s talk here and…

‘Reward saving by matching what your child puts aside or agreeing to put something towards it.’Photograph: Beyond Fotomedia GmbH/Alamy 1. Show them the money.…

Our comms team told us we need an image; our legal team told us it needed to be freely licensed. Credit: Carsten Schertzer (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 )…

Enlarge / This image has not been run through Google's new JPEG encoder. But that doesn't make it any less magical. Harry Langdon/Getty Images Share this story…

Let’s say you’re making a blog post layout. Content is entered into a CMS inside a WYSIWYG editor field. You echo that conent to the page. You pull it up on a…

Only 2 out of every 1000 mobile web users ever tap a custom share button—like even once—according to a Moovweb study . We found similarly tiny numbers during…

The past year has seen quite a rise in UI design tools. While existing applications, such as Affinity Designer , Gravit and Sketch , have improved drastically,…

The goal of a UI Engineer at Optimizely is to make it easy to implement high-quality UIs that look and behave consistently. That’s why we’re on the design team…

Make Composable, not Customizable Components Posted on: 02/27/2017 One of the challenges of developing for an open source design system like Fabric React is…

Benefits of design system and how to build it Bypass design system concept In my last article “ How to get a head start on design system ”, I talked about how…

I often spend my spare time surfing the net, looking for useful resources and articles about Sketch–anything that might help improve my design workflow and…

Introducing Craft Screen Design. Supercharged. Craft is a suite of plugins to let you design with real data in mind. Manage them via the new Craft Manager for…

Many teams working with Sketch use a design system to scale their design, boost their productivity, and create consistent, cohesive products. Sharing a design…

In a previous post , we briefly talked about setting up shared styles. We had a primary brand color and a secondary brand color and made them their own styles.…

Thursday, 16 March 2017 The State of Browser Caching, Revisited Filed under: HTTP Caching A long, long time ago, I wrote some tests using XmlHttpRequest to…

In a recent article here on the AxBlog I extolled the virtues of the accrual of technical credit and provided several examples of how we think the strategy has…

0 Tweet 742 Share 0 Share 100 Pin 0 Mail 0 Share Traditional gardening books often tell you to replace the compost or soil in your pots each year. But if you…

The chancellor, Philip Hammond, who was criticised by Tory backbenchers over the national insurance rise.Photograph: Dinendra Haria/Rex/Shutterstock Philip…

We at Nimuno have spent our lives building and creating using LEGO®. As professional designers, we see the creative potential it offers people young and old. In…

There’s an old hack for creating elements with a fixed aspect ratio that involves using a percentage-based padding. You may be familiar with it. It looks…

As a sustainable lifestyle blogger, my job is to make conscious consumerism look good. Over the course of four years Instagramming eco-friendly outfits, testing…

F or years it seems we’ve felt comfortable freely interchanging the words ‘internet’ and ‘web’. Technically speaking, the internet is a global system of…

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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” said Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in the famous scene in which Hamlet…

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Simple implementation of fixed aspect ratio in pure CSS CSS Aspect Ratio This package provides a simple implementation of fixed aspect ratio in pure CSS.It…