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Paul Hanaoka wrote

How Should Designers Learn To Code? The Terminal And Text Editors (Part 1)

For the purpose of this two-part series of articles, we’re going to assume the answer for “Should designers code?” is “It depends.” If you’ve started and never finished courses in some online coding school — or if you’ve finished the courses but found it difficult to apply this style of learning in your day-to-day work, these two articles will provide a few different learning methods and will highlight different opportunities for their everyday application. In this first part of the series, we’ll take a look at getting comfortable with the command line and text editors. Read more…

Suzanne Scacca wrote

How Indigo.Design Usability Testing Takes The Guesswork Out Of Web Design

There isn’t a ton of mystery when it comes to what makes for an attractive and modern-looking design these days. What’s not always clear, however, is the usability aspect of it. In other words, have the pathways you’ve designed for users intuitive enough? The truth is, it’s all really just a guessing game unless you start getting user feedback early on. Thankfully, Indigo.Design has a usability testing solution to help us out. Read more…

Chidi Orji wrote

Implementing Infinite Scroll And Image Lazy Loading In React

HTML is getting better at providing nice APIs for implementing cool features. In this tutorial, Chidi Orji is going to show you how to use the HTML Intersection Observer API to implement infinite scrolling and image lazy loading in a React functional component. In the process, we’ll learn how to use some of React’s hooks and how to create Custom Hooks. Let’s get started! Read more…

Iris Lješnjanin wrote

Stay Calm And Read Smashing Magazine

It’s that time of the month! Join us as we share the latest news and highlight the things we’ve been working on and have also enjoyed reading over the past month.

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Carie Fisher wrote

Accessible SVGs: Inclusiveness Beyond Patterns

We are fortunate to have robust patterns to choose from when optimizing accessibility in SVGs — but most people stop there, focusing on code compliance and not actual users and their needs. If true inclusiveness lies beyond patterns — what other factors should we consider when designing and developing accessible SVGs? Read more…

Darshan Somashekar wrote

Creating Secure Password Flows With NodeJS And MySQL

Reset password functionality is table stakes for any user-friendly application. It can also be a security nightmare. Using NodeJS and MySQL. Today, Darshan Somashekar demonstrates how to successfully create a secure reset password flow so you can avoid these pitfalls. Darshan will be using NodeJS and MySQL as the base components. If you’re writing using a different language, framework, or database, you can still benefit from following the general “Security Tips” outlined in each section. Read more…

Leonardo Losoviz wrote

Building An E-Commerce Site With October CMS And Shopaholic

The Laravel-powered October CMS enables to extend the functionality of the application through the use of plugins. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will do a tour around October CMS: You will first see how to install it, then check some of its coding and usability features in a bit more detail, and finally get your hands dirty implementing an e-commerce website through one of its most popular plugins, Shopaholic. Read more…