In UX, we can use navigation queries, evaluation journeys, A-Z index and tap-ahead autocomplete to help users get where they want to be, faster. Let’s find out how. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/designing-better-navigation-ux-queries/
Who doesn’t love a good timesaver? In this post, we compiled useful productivity tips and tools that help you speed up routine tasks, enhance your development workflow, and stay organized. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/productivity-tips-tools/
In this article, Ekene Eze shares his thoughts about the direction of the web in 2022, and what solutions we can expect to see come up in the ecosystem to significantly improve the Jamstack experience. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/jamstack-rendering-patterns-evolution/
What are the benefits of using push notifications and what can you use them for? In this article, Lee Munroe explains how to implement them and which practices are best to follow. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/guide-push-notifications-developers/
Storytelling is a powerful tool for any UX designer. It helps create a product and understand the people who use it. In this article, Marli Mesibov takes a real-life example of an app she helped to build in 2017 and explains five steps you can use to help you build a story into your user experience. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/use-storytelling-ux/
WWhether you work in-house or run a digital agency, there are occasions when you will consider hiring freelancers to supplement your team. Today, we’ll take a look into a platform known as Upwork and the best ways in finding the the right freelancers as well as integrating them into your team. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/upwork-freelancers-organization/
Carousels don’t have a good reputation, and rightfully so. But we can make them more useful. Best practices and guidelines to improve the carousel design with honest scrolling direction, labels, thumbnails and grouped prev/next-buttons. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/designing-better-carousel-ux/
Like many things, a design system isn’t ever a finished thing — it’s a journey. How we go about that journey can affect the things we produce along the way. Before diving in and starting to plan anything out, be clear about where the benefits and the risks might lie. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/artifacts-design-systems/
This new attribute will enable us to fine-tune relative resource priority, improve LCP performance, deprioritize JavaScript fetch calls, and much more. Let’s check out fetchpriority and explore some potential use cases. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/boost-resource-loading-new-priority-hint-fetchpriority/
Data is among the most important things that make up a web application or a conventional native app. We need data to be able to see and perhaps understand the purpose of an application. In this article, we’ll look at another approach to obtaining data in an application that requires authentication or authorization using Next.js. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/dynamic-data-fetching-authenticated-nextjs-app/