About The Author Rachel Andrew is not only Editor in Chief of Smashing Magazine, but also a web developer, writer and speaker. She is the author of a number of books, including … More about Rachel Andrew …[1] This week we celebrate the 14th birthday of Smashing Magazine. We didn’t quite have the year that we planned though! I took a look back at some memories from this year and previous years — with the help of the...
We must effectively design to gain and hold users’ attention in order to have them use our digital products. In this article, Victor Yocco covers specific tactics with supporting research that are bound to help you design for attention. He also discusses the need to understand why we want to gain users’ attention as well as what our users’ needs are. We face many competing interests for users’ time and attention. If we factor in perceptions of...
About The Author Blessing Krofegha is a Software Engineer Based in Lagos Nigeria, with a burning desire to contribute to making the web awesome for all, by writing and building … More about Blessing …[1] GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP) is a set JavaScript functions that let you tween a value/attribute/CSS property over time and insert these tweens into a timeline for more complex animations. In this article, Blessing explains how GSAP plays well with the React library by...
In this article, Aleem Isiaka explains what GraphQL query constructs are, and how they can be used to interact with the data access layer of a Gatsby website. Let’s take a look at some of the advanced use cases of GraphQL within a Gatsby website by using matching data from different sources. Before the release of GraphQL in 2015, Representational State Transfer (REST)[1] was the main way to interface with an API. The introduction of GraphQL was...
About The Author Adebiyi Adedotun Lukman is a UI/Frontend Engineer based in Lagos, Nigeria who also happens to love UI/UX Design for the love of great software products. When … More about Adebiyi …[1] Among others, Next.js[2] has dubbed itself: The React Framework for Static Websites. But just like every other framework whose goal is to help you build what matters by abstracting common, redundant tasks, you’re often required to learn something new and opinionated. With Next.js, one...
Image credit[1] Having a functional, usable, and super fast website doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. As a web designer, you can use a few pieces of code or some minor tweaks to ensure a much faster and better appealing web design. Without having to fork out thousands of dollars to a designer, and without having to change the underlying infrastructure of your website, here are four simple web design hacks that can enhance your website...
New month, new wallpapers! In this post, you’ll find inspiring wallpaper calendars for September 2020. Created with love by the community for the community. September is just around the corner and, well, that means it’s time for some new wallpapers! Since more than nine years already, our monthly wallpapers series[1] is the perfect opportunity for artists and designers from all across the globe to challenge their creative skills and dive into a little project just for fun....
About The Author Front-end developer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He enjoys converting designs into code and building things for the web. More about Timi …[1] Vue Router is the official router for Vue that is mostly used for creating multiple pages living on different routes (/home, /profile) in your application but has some features that some people do not know about. In this tutorial, we’re going to learn about some amazing features the Vue Router has and how...
About The Author A software developer, technical writer and problem solving enthusiast based in Lagos, Nigeria. When he’s not writing or solving problems on LeetCode, he is … More about Abdulazeez …[1] In this article, you will learn how to build and test react components in isolation using Storybook[2]. You will also learn how to use the knobs addon to modify data directly from the storybook explorer. Storybook is a UI explorer that eases the task of testing components...
About The Author Remote freelance UI/UX designer and front-end developer. Creator of Screely. Chosen one of the most promising young talents in the Dutch tech industry by The … More about Jurn …[1][2] Figma is a design tool that is rapidly gaining popularity and becoming more common in companies around the world. Unlike most design software, Figma is free and browser-based so developers can easily access the full design files making the developer handoff process significantly smoother. This...