Penpot helps designers and developers work better together by offering a free, open-source design tool based on open web standards. Today, let’s explore its newly released Penpot Plugin System. So now, if there’s a functionality missing, you don’t need to jump into the code base straight away; you can create a plugin to achieve what you need. And you can even serve it from localhost! https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/11/open-source-meets-design-tooling-penpot/
It’s the end of the year, and as we look at our inventory, we thought, “Let’s help everyone in our community get ready for the year ahead!” Get friendly pricing on bundles of books and workshops to dive deep into the subjects you care about most. Let’s bundle up and save! https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/11/bundle-up-and-save/
Thomas Bohm rethinks technical illustrations and data visualizations, sharing interesting and uncommon examples of how to present data and information. Bar graphs and pie charts are great, but there’s so much more to explore! https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/11/alternatives-typical-technical-illustrations-data-visualisations/
Feeling good with your Lighthouse score of 100%? You should! But you should also know that you’re only looking at part of the performance picture. Learn how Lighthouse scores are measured differently than other tools, the impact that has on measuring performance metrics, and why you need real-user monitoring for a complete picture. https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/11/why-optimizing-lighthouse-score-not-enough-fast-website/
November is just around the corner and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Created with love by the community for the community, they are available in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy! https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/10/desktop-wallpaper-calendars-november-2024/
There are many myths revolving around Gen Z and how they use tech. Time to take a look at actual behavior patterns that go beyond heavy use of social media. Part of Smart Interface Design Patterns by yours truly. https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/10/designing-for-gen-z/
Victor Ayomipo experiments with the CSS min() function, exploring its flexibility with different units to determine if it is the be-all, end-all for responsiveness. Discover the cautions he highlights against dogmatic approaches to web design based on his findings.
https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/10/css-min-all-the-things/
Design decisions shouldn’t be a matter of personal preference. We can use reliable design KPIs and UX metrics to guide and shape our design work and measure its impact on business. Meet How To Measure UX and Design Impact, our new video course that helps with just that. https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/10/new-video-course-how-to-measure-ux-design-impact/
In this third part of the series, you are looking at two models that handle all three modalities — text, images or videos, and audio — without needing a second model for text-to-speech or speech recognition. https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/10/using-multimodal-ai-models-applications-part3/
RSS is a classic technology that fetches content from websites and feeds it to anyone who subscribes to it with a URL. It’s based on XML, and we can use it to consume the feeds in our own apps. Karin Hendrikse demonstrates how to do exactly that with a static site you can use as your personal RSS reader. https://smashingmagazine.com/2024/10/build-static-rss-reader-fight-fomo/