This article highlights non-technical skills like curiosity, observation, empathy, advocacy, visual communication, and collaboration that designers routinely use in their process to make a difference through design. AI can be used to augment designers’ workflow instead of replacing people. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/04/skills-designers-ai-cant-replicate/
With April just around the corner, we have a new collection of desktop and mobile wallpapers waiting for you to celebrate the beginning of the new month. Designed by creatives from all across the globe, the wallpapers come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy! https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/03/desktop-wallpaper-calendars-april-2023/
Workshops are all about people: they involve people, are conducted by people, and aim to close the gaps in people’s communication. Slava Shestopalov shares a checklist with everything you need to keep in mind when running a workshop. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/03/organizing-design-workshops-checklist/
Dealing with sensitive data is an important topic for any app. In this article, you will find out how to handle sensitive or confidential information in your apps and what Row-Level Security means. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/03/access-handling-data-management-row-level-security/
Design handoffs are inefficient and painful. They cause frustration, friction and a lot of back and forth. Can we avoid them altogether? Of course we can! Let’s see how to do just that. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/03/best-handoff-is-no-handoff/
Content matters! Unfortunately, when it comes to informational websites, content quality is often poor. There is no magic answer to fix that. However, there are practical techniques you can use to improve the copy on your websites and ensure your users find the content they are looking for. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/03/overcoming-challenges-content-creation-informational-websites/
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask what is Customer Experience design, and how does it differ from User Experience design? Vitaly Friedman talks to expert Debbie Levitt to find out. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/03/smashing-podcast-episode-58/
Just a few beautiful, well-crafted fonts for headings and body text that you probably haven’t spotted before. Free for personal and commercial use. Enjoy! https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/03/free-fonts-interface-designers/
In this article, Jan Amann, based on an example of a multilingual app that displays street photography images from Unsplash, explores next-intl to implement all internationalization needs in React Server Components.
https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/03/internationalization-nextjs-13-react-server-components/
In this article, William Lyon explores how to build a full stack GraphQL application that takes advantage of the API Routes feature of Next.js API to combine your GraphQL server and front-end React applications into a single framework. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/03/full-stack-graphql-nextjs-neo4j-auradb-vercel/