When I showed up, I realized our local watering hole had recently optimized its experience. These changes brought some good UX tips to my attention, and I bet you can apply them to your work as well. Here they are in no particular order.

In 2019, Smashing Magazine adopted a static site architecture, resulting in a 6× improvement in page speed but sacrificing some writing and editing bells and whistles that come with a bona fide content management system. Now, with the recent integration of TinaCMS, Smashing Magazine enjoys the best of both worlds — the performance benefits of static assets and the writing experience that helps streamline the editing process. This article is…

iOS 17 makes iPhone even more personal and intuitive with major updates to communication apps; StandBy, a new way to experience iPhone when it is charging; easier sharing with AirDrop; and more intelligent input that improves the speed and accuracy of typing. iOS 17 is available today as a free software update.

News aggregator SmartNews is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help to combat the anxiety associated with regularly consuming negative news — something often referred to as “doomscrolling.”

The WordPress community is ending two days of heated discussions that rapidly descended into a mire of unbridled emotional confrontations across multiple social channels, following a tweet from John Blackbourn that raised concerns about WordPress.com plugin listings outranking WordPress.org on Google Search.

New technologies have long promised to make human software engineers redundant. But developers have only gotten more important over time.

This week, Adobe announced the public release of Adobe Firefly, the company’s generative artificial intelligence platform, and updates to Premiere Pro. Adobe has also announced a price hike for Creative Cloud subscription plans and record revenue for its third fiscal quarter this year.

From a captivating portrait to the perfectly balanced design elements in a graphic or even the harmonious layout of a website—the Rule of Thirds empowers you to create visuals that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also emotionally compelling.

Google is rolling out its third iteration of the Helpful Content Update that was first introduced in August, 2022. The update’s main goal is to classify content as either “written for search engines” or “written for people”, Google does this using their own proprietary machine learning algorithms.

A great programming font is legible, attractive, and personalizes the editor you use every day. It needs to be good given the hours you spend at your screen, but there are plenty of fabulous programming fonts to choose from…