Let’s welcome July with some fresh desktop wallpapers. Designed by artists and designers from around the world, they are available with and without a calendar. Enjoy! https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/desktop-wallpaper-calendars-july-2021/
Static Generation is great for performance, but not until the app gets too big and build-times go through the roof. Today, we’ll have a look at how Netlify’s fresh On-Demand Builders can fix that. Additionally, we pair it up with Next.js’ Incremental Static Regeneration for the best user and developer experience. And, of course, benchmark those results! https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/breaking-down-bulky-builds-netlify-nextjs/
In this episode, we’re talking about Chakra UI. What is it and how can it help with your React projects? Drew McLellan talks to expert Mike Cavalier to find out. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/smashing-podcast-episode-40/
In this article, Manuel explains why Emmet is one of his favorite productivity tools for writing HTML and CSS, and how you can create custom Emmet snippets in Visual Studio Code to help you improve your front-end workflows even more. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/custom-emmet-snippets-vscode/
This article explains how we can connect different types of content in a Next.js application. With this technique, we can add any kind of one-to-one, one-to-many, or even many-to-many relationship to our projects. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/creating-multi-author-blog-nextjs/
This article is a case study of how a UX audit affects a UI. It explains how a famous educational platform can be analyzed edX against Jakob Nielsen’s usability guidelines. To get started, Mark Lankmiller shares all of the criteria and metrics he used for his UX audit. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/ux-audit-edtech-platform-case-study/
In the dynamic and unpredictable environments in which we work, even the most carefully crafted solutions can have a short shelf life. When we accept that our work is impermanent and our problem-solving abilities are limited, our goal can shift from delivering full solutions to developing tools that empower our users to adaptively design for themselves. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/design-thinking-problem-solving-strategy/
Frontend and design are remarkably complex these days. That’s why we invite kind, smart folks from the community to run online workshops for all of us to learn together. And we have new ones coming up, and we’d like to kindly welcome you to join in. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/new-smashing-online-workshops-frontend-ux-design/
Automated testing is an important part of any software project, including testing for accessibility. There are already tools for linting and integration testing accessibility, but what about end-to-end testing with real assistive technology? Since I hadn’t seen this before, I set out to build Auto VO, a driver for the VoiceOver screen reader. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/automating-screen-reader-testing-macos-autovo/
After years of innovation in both tools and processes, the struggle between design and development is still real. This article focuses on the best practices for improving the design to development processes and how cutting-edge solutions, such as UXPin powered by Merge technology, can help in facilitating the change. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/design-code-modern-approach-development-challenges/