Voice is a powerful tool that we can use to communicate with each other. This article covers the most critical aspects of designing for voice user interfaces: designing the conversation and designing visual interfaces. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/voice-user-interfaces-guide/
This installment of Web Design Done Well celebrates weird and wacky websites. Sites with sweet, innocent, sometimes pointless purposes. Are they money makers? Game changers? Not necessarily, but they sure are fun, and in ways only the web could really manage. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/web-design-done-well-perfectly-pointless/
In this article, Steven Hoober shines the spotlight on Fitts’ Law and explains why we should always ask questions and consider what particular guidelines and lessons mean to our users and our products. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/fitts-law-touch-era/
Statoscope is an instrument that analyses your webpack-bundles. Created by Sergey Melukov, it started out as an experimental version in late 2016, which has now become a full-fledged toolkit for viewing, analyzing, and validating webpack-bundles. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/statoscope-course-intensive-therapy-bundle/
While QR codes have many uses and can be leveraged at many touch points, they are just one of dozens of technologies that can improve the customer’s journey. Stanislav Khrustalev shares his advice with a list of things to keep in mind when using QR codes for your business. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/qr-codes-business-best-practices-pitfalls/
In this second part, Noam suggests a few patterns of how to use the web platform directly as an alternative to some of the solutions that are offered by frameworks. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/web-frameworks-guide-part2/
In this article, we’ll look specifically at what we can do to reduce the impact of social media embeds and social sharing widgets — or even some strategies to avoid them altogether. While the spotlight is on reducing the environmental impact, many of these tips will be great for performance too. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/reducing-web-carbon-footprint-optimizing-social-media-embeds/
In this article, Adrian Bece shares more about the benefits and caveats of code-splitting and how page performance and load times can be improved by dynamically loading expensive, non-critical JavaScript bundles. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/javascript-bundle-performance-code-splitting/
It’s shipping! Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces”, our brand-new guide with guidelines and best practices to improve usability and accessibility on mobile. 400 pages. For designers and developers working with mobile UIs. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/touch-design-release/
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for February 2022. https://smashingmagazine.com/2022/01/desktop-wallpaper-calendars-february-2022/