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Hello, my name is Rob King. I have been a full-stack developer for over 25 years here in Wellington. The majority of my career has been in the .Net but I have dabbled in various backend and frontend f

Understanding CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) Timi Mar 17 #performance #webdev #cdn #fronte

A seamless user experience is one of the biggest factors in determining whether users stick with your app or abandon it. One underrated technique that helps achieve this is retry policy. What is a Ret

Dropdowns often work perfectly until they’re placed inside a scrollable panel, where they can get clipped, and half the menu disappears behind the container’s edge. Godstime Aburu explains why this ha

How to choose between modals and pages, when to avoid modals, and how to determine the right level of interruption or navigation. Brought to you by Smart Interface Design Patterns, a **friendly video

Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively at Piccalilli. This post is an excerpt from the course taken specifically from a chapter all about

Design is about pacing and feelings as much as pixels and patterns. Alan Cohen explores Emotion in Flow and Emotion in Conflict, showing how anime like Dan Da Dan and superhero films like James Gunn’s

For this issue we have random(), folded clip-path corners, anchored container queries, customizable select, scroll-triggered animations, and more. What’s !important #7: random(), Folded Corners, Ancho

Tailwind is really great for making layouts and there are many reasons why. Zell Liew looks at four specific examples of common use cases. 4 Reasons That Make Tailwind Great for Building Layouts origi

The way JavaScript handles time has evolved significantly, from the built-in `Date` API to Moment.js and now Temporal. The new standard fills gaps in the original `Date` API while addressing limitatio

For years, developers have been hacking around the limitations of `border-radius`, using clip-path, SVG masks, and fragile workarounds just to get anything other than round corners. The new `corner-sh

Let’s go over a few demos using the new customizable feature that may be wild, but also give us a great chance to learn new things in CSS. Abusing Customizable Selects originally published on CSS-Tri

Some forms stay UI, while others quietly become rule engines. Here’s why these two different approaches exist and how to choose between them.

How we look at the stacking order of our projects, how we choose z-index values, and more importantly, the implications of those choices. The Value of z-index originally published on CSS-Tricks, which

Many product teams still lean on usability improvements and isolated behavioral tweaks to address weak activation, drop-offs, and low retention – only to see results plateau or slip into shallow gamif

UX design is entering a new phase, with designers shifting from makers of outputs to directors of intent. AI can now generate wireframes, prototypes, and even design systems in minutes, but UX has nev

Sure, we can select the element in CSS with, you know, a simple element selector, html. But what other (trivial and perhaps useless) ways can we do it? The Different Ways to Select in CSS originally

Our newest Smashing Book, “Accessible UX Research” by Michele Williams, is finally shipping worldwide — and we couldn’t be happier! This book is about research, but you’ll also learn about assistive t

Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job, but they don’t! After a bit lots of research, I discovered that the Popover API and Dialog API are wildly

What happens if you rebuild a single tooltip using the browser’s native model without the aid of a library? The Popover API turns tooltips from something you simulate into something the browser actual