I have failed many technical interviews. Year after year would pass and I would slowly progress in my technical interviewing skills. It wasn’t until I received my dream job offer from Spotify and had passed the Google technical interviews that I realized how much I had learned over the preceding years. Finally, my studying had […]
READ MOREIn part 1, we explained how to use a monthly recurring revenue (MRR) model to grow your web design business. In this second part, we’ll explain how to use proven sales techniques to keep scaling your business profitably. If you’re an agency owner, you know that you need customers to grow. No matter how big […]
READ MORENot many people know that the entire Smashing Family is a very small team with just 15 wonderful people working day-to-day on everything from magazine and books to front-end and design. At times it might feel like that’s quite a bit of work, but we do our best to be well-organized and be productive, while […]
READ MOREIf you’re a front-end developer, you may have come across horizontal scrollbar issues, especially on mobile. Because there are many causes of scrollbar problems, there is no straightforward solution. Some issues can be fixed quickly, and some need a little debugging skill. What Is an Overflow Issue? Before discussing overflow issues, we should ascertain what […]
READ MOREVideos work with streams. This means that instead of sending the entire video at once, a video is sent as a set of smaller chunks that make up the full video. This explains why videos buffer when watching a video on slow broadband because it only plays the chunks it has received and tries to […]
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READ MOREThis series of articles presents tactics UX practitioners can use to promote the growth of UX maturity in their organizations or product teams. In part 1, I covered the importance of finding and utilizing UX Champions and showing the ROI/value of UX. In part 2, I focused on knowledge sharing and mentorship. In this third, […]
READ MOREThe typical process for working as a product designer in a company or startup could be familiar to you: a new product is being developed for which to provide a design solution. Then you work on some design proposals and you pitch them in front of 1–3 people to gather feedback. Sometimes this process works […]
READ MOREThere is a fable that I think about a lot these days. The fable was told to me as a child. It’s called “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” by Aesop. It is about a boy who tends the sheep of his village. He gets bored and pretends that a wolf is attacking the flock, calling […]
READ MOREWith many options comes many decisions, and it is easy to drown in all the many and various stated benefits of the different systems. So how do you approach evaluating these options? Two weeks ago, Aaron Hans shed light on the use cases of going headless and what it is good for here on Smashing […]
READ MOREEvery now and again we have to deal with legacy code, wading through dark and eerie sides of the code base, often with a vague, ambiguous and unsettling documentation — if any is provided at all. In such cases, refactoring the component seems inevitable. Or perhaps you need to manage dates and arrays, or manipulate […]
READ MOREDisposability is a tricky term to handle in the digital world. So many things are changing so quickly — programming languages, frameworks, and design trends to name but a few — that it often feels inevitable that the things we make will be outdated almost as soon as we finish making them. This is in […]
READ MORETwo decades ago, as we embarked on our voyage from the comfortable, predictable shores of print design to the fluid and ever-changing open seas of the World Wide Web, John Allsopp encouraged the acceptance of “the ebb and flow of things”. Ten years later, Ethan Marcotte coined the term “responsive web design”, kickstarting a seismic […]
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