In today’s article, let’s explore how we can use Flex Layout and see how it empowers designers with greater control over their work while saving everyone’s time. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/penpot-flex-layout-building-css-layouts-design-tool/
The Wikipedia team shipped a redesign of the ubiquitous and one of the most visited websites on the web. Alex Hollendar and Jon Robson led the work and generously discussed the effort with us in a thorough, wide-ranging interview that covers the design, development, and processes that went into the project. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/behind-curtains-wikipedia-redesign/
Dive into an article where you will build an app that evaluates audio files for positive and negative sentiments. The idea is that you will create an interface for uploading an audio file, then transcribe the contents into text before analyzing the text and assigning it a positive or negative score for how the tone is perceived. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/ai-detect-sentiment-audio-files/
Visual editing is beginning to make its way into headless architecture and the early results look promising. We’ll look at a few headless CMSs that currently support visual editing in this article. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/visual-editing-headless-cms/
Part 2 of the series concentrates on implementing internationalization (i18n) on a Gatsby website, an essential feature on any multilingual website that can be quite a bit of trouble if incorrectly implemented, creating more problems than it solves. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/gatsby-headaches-i18n-part-2/
One way of getting a more behind-the-scenes experience of any Smashing event is to apply as a volunteer, and Ren did just that! The SmashingConf team organized a conference in good ol’ San Francisco this year, and here’s pretty much how it went down. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/smashingconf-sanfrancisco2023-recap/
Codux is a new visual IDE brought to you by the fine folks over at Wix. It’s got a lot of low-code features that level the playing field for app development but is really designed for React developers. How so, you ask? That’s what we’re going to explore in this article. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/codux-react-visual-editor-improves-developer-experience/
SvelteKit is a framework for building apps using Svelte. In this article, Sriram shows you how to build a server-side rendered (SSR) SvelteKit application and deploy it to Netlify by following this step-by-step guide. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/build-server-side-rendered-svelte-apps-sveltekit/
In this episode of The Smashing Podcast, we ask what is a design manager? What does it take and how does it relate to the role of Designer? Vitaly talks to Slava Shestopalov to find out. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/smashing-podcast-episode-62/
In this first part of a two-part hands-on guide, Juan Rodriguez explains how to use several i18n plugins for Gatsby and reviews some others. https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/gatsby-headaches-i18n-part-1/