What does your performance “stack” look like? There are all kind of tools available for measuring page speed, but what data and assumptions do they use to measure performance? And speaking of measuring performance, there’s quite a difference between that and monitoring performance. Let’s dig in! https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/08/running-page-speed-test-monitoring-versus-measuring/
Friction often has a negative connotation in user experience design, but it actually has many benefits. Its best-known use case is mitigating unintended consequences in high-risk scenarios, yet it has a new place in the age of artificial intelligence. Adding strategic friction to interfaces can lead to profound efficiency gains in machine learning algorithms. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/08/friction-feature-machine-learning-algorithms/
In this two-part series of articles, Hannah Milan covers the best practices when using various accessible text over images techniques for designing your web and mobile app content. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/08/designing-accessible-text-over-images-part1/
Liran Cohen and the team at Bookaway, a travel booking service, dramatically improved their site’s performance by auditing Core Web Vitals. In this article, Liran shares his team’s process for auditing and monitoring Web Vitals and the effort it took to dramatically improve Bookaway’s performance — and the benefits that came with it. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/08/optimize-performance-serve-global-audience/
We’re talking about headless content management systems. What are they, and how do they differ from more traditional systems? Drew McLellan talks to Alvin Bryan to find out. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/08/smashing-podcast-episode-64/
In this article, Carie Fisher outlines which CSS media features are available for detecting user preferences and how they are used to design and build more inclusive user experiences. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/08/css-accessibility-inclusion-user-choice/
New month, new wallpapers! In this post, you’ll find unique and inspiring wallpapers for August 2023. Created with love by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy! https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/07/desktop-wallpaper-calendars-august-2023/
Join Temani Afif on experiment with modern CSS features to create an array of colors. The goal is to define a comma-separated list of colors and iterate through them using an index. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/07/define-array-colors-css/
In this article, we’ll explore how to build a chat summarizer using the Cohere API and deploy it as a web application using Gradio. Cohere is an AI platform that provides state-of-the-art natural language processing models for a variety of tasks, including summarization. We’ll cover the steps involved in training the summarizer using sample chat conversations, interacting with the Cohere API to generate summaries, and creating a user-friendly interface using [Gradio](https
The field of language translation has never been more exciting. Explore the evolution of language translation platforms, how we got to where we are today, and what advancements we can look forward to in the coming years. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/07/modern-technology-future-language-translation/