
Software development without a roadmap is akin to driving off a cliff — an undertaking that seriously jeopardizes your product’s life. Here’s how to develop a business technology roadmap that ensures your project safely reaches its final destination. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/develop-business-technology-roadmap/

Useful Figma plugins that will help you fix all the little slowdowns and boost your productivity. From color management and image assets to SVG shapes and animation. That’s our new guide to Figma. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/Figma-tools-plugins-resources/

How do we build and establish a successful, bulletproof design system? What’s the state of HTML Email? And what are new, smart interface design patterns we could use? Let’s find out. With our brand new online workshops on front-end & design — to help us all boost skills online. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/new-smashing-online-workshops-aug-oct-2021/

Often you need two different sets of navigation stacks for pre and post user authentication. Usually, to see more content, you have to be authenticated in some way. Let’s look at how to mount and unmount navigation stack based on a met condition in React Native. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/mounting-unmounting-navigation-routes-react-native/

Embedding code examples with third-party scripts often leads to tracking or cookies. We always wanted to have a simple website with a good UX, so setting cookies for no reason wasn’t an option for us. Now, with Indiepen, we are proud to introduce a privacy-friendly alternative. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/cookieless-alternative-embed-html-css-js-code-examples/

In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Drew McLellan talks to expert Eva PenzeyMoog to find out. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/smashing-podcast-episode-41/

What exactly is HTTP/3? Why was it needed so soon after HTTP/2 (which was only finalized in 2015)? How can or should you use it? And especially, how does this improve web performance? Let’s find out. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/http3-core-concepts-part1/

VS Code can be supercharged wuth hundreds of VS Code extensions. In this article, Leonardo shares four useful extensions that help him in his daily work. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/useful-vscode-extensions-web-developers/

How can we make disabled buttons more inclusive? When do they work well, and when do they fail on us? And finally, when do we actually need them, and how can we avoid them? Let’s find out. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/frustrating-design-patterns-disabled-buttons/

In this article, we’ll discuss and learn about the use case of iterating over React children
and the ways to do it. In particular, we will deep dive into one of the utility methods, React.Children.toArray
, that React gives us, which helps to iterate over the children in a way which ensures performance and determinism.
https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/react-children-iteration-methods/