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  • Reasons Your Mobile App Retention Rate Might Be So Low

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  • Live Accessibility And Performance Audits At SmashingConf Toronto

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  • Photoshop Workflows And Shortcuts For Digital Artists

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  • Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers

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  • Designing Experiences To Improve Mental Health

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  • Saving Grandma’s Recipes With Xamarin.Forms

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  • Meet “Form Design Patterns,” Our New Book On Accessible Web Forms — Now Shipping!

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  • Form Design Patterns Book Excerpt: A Registration Form

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  • Getting Started With Gutenberg By Creating Your Own Block

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  • Practical Suggestions To Improve Usability Of Landing Pages With Animation From Slides

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  • SmashingConf Toronto Videos

    SmashingConf Toronto VideosSmashingConf Toronto Videos The Smashing Editorial 2018-10-05T18:00:35+02:002018-10-05T18:29:59+00:00This year, many of your favorite speakers were featured at our conference in Toronto, however, things were quite different this time. The speakers had been asked to present without slides. Yep, and it was brilliant! In this pairing of videos from SmashingConf Toronto, discover sketching with Eva-Lotta […]

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  • Taming this In JavaScript With Bind Operator

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  • Use Cases For Flexbox

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  • How To Build A News Application With Angular 6 And Material Design

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  • How To Build A Website With The WP Page Builder Plugin

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  • The New Framer X: Initial Impressions

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