A Case Study: The Art Of Storytelling Around An App
Every app tells a story. Apps like Pandora tell the story of music; apps like Tip N Split tell a story of a calculator; and apps like Temperature tell the story of weather. Then we have storybook...
View ArticleMaking Your Site Responsive: Mastering Real-World Constraints (A Case Study)
As UI designers, we’re always interested in learning, reading user research, understanding best practices and keeping up to date on all the latest approaches and tactics for building websites and...
View ArticleCase Study: Typographic Design Patterns And Current Practices (2013 Edition)
Good typography has always been a defining aspect of effective Web design, and this holds true especially for websites in which the emphasis is on presenting a large amount of content —...
View ArticleBuilding The New Financial Times Web App: A Case Study
When the mockups for the new Financial Times application hit our desks in mid-2012, we knew we had a real challenge on our hands. Many of us on the team (including me) swore that parts of interface...
View ArticleGone In 60 Frames Per Second: A Pinterest Paint Performance Case Study
Today we’ll discuss how to improve the paint performance of your websites and Web apps. This is an area that we Web developers have only recently started looking at more closely, and it’s important...
View ArticleAdapting To A Responsive Design (Case Study)
This is the story of what we learned during a redesign for our most demanding client — ourselves! In this article, I will explain, from our own experience of refreshing our agency website, why we...
View Article“This Is How We Built It” Case Studies
Unlike many other industries, the Web design community is all about sharing knowledge and experience. Each of us is very lucky to be part of such a great and useful learning environment, and it is...
View ArticleAddressing The Responsive Images Performance Problem: A Case Study
Five-inch mobile devices are on the market that have the same screen resolution as 50-inch TVs. We have users with unlimited high-speed broadband as well as users who pay money for each megabyte...
View ArticleA Case Study: How Your Product Can Benefit From User Feedback
Like many great ideas, ours was born of a problem. When I was a graduate student at MIT, I sat next to a classmate who is visually impaired. He would whisper to me to ask the time, even though he...
View ArticleSo We Wanted To Build A File Uploader… (A Case Study)
One day I discovered that I needed to design an API that would upload files from a client to a server. I work on the Russian Web mail provider at Mail.Ru and deal with JavaScript in all its aspects....
View ArticleBuilding The Web App For Unicef’s Tap Campaign: A Case Study
Since a smartphone landed in almost everyone’s pocket, developers have been faced with the question of whether to go with a mobile website or a native app. Native applications offer the smoothest...
View ArticleNigeria Confirms Second Ebola Case
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian authorities say they have confirmed a second case of Ebola in Africa’s most populous country, an alarming development after a man who flew by plane to the country died of...
View ArticleMobile Navigation For Smashing Magazine: A Case Study
Since we started plodding around on this rock in space, human beings have always been dissatisfied with their environment — which is (mostly) a good thing. Otherwise we might still live in caves,...
View ArticleHow To Run A Side Project: Screenings Case Study
Did you know you have a superpower? No, I’m not talking about super-strength, sticking to walls or pushing metal claws out of your forearms (although you might have those as well, for all I know)....
View ArticleGuide To Using WebP Images Today: A Case Study
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But online, a picture can be worth a thousand kilobytes or more! HTTP Archive shows that images make up 64% of a web page’s total size on average. Given...
View ArticleFlexbox For Interfaces All The Way: Tracks Case Study
The days of floats and margin trickery are finally behind us, as CSS furnishes developers with new and improved properties perfect for those delicate layouts. Layout features such as vertical...
View ArticleLessons Learned In Big App Development, A Hawaiian Airlines Case Study
Having spent over two years making it, we just pressed the “Ship” button on the new Hawaiian Airlines website. It has been the biggest project of my career, and I’ve worked with the most talented...
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