Earlier today, Motherboard reported on what had been rumoured for some time, namely that Dropbox had been hacked. Not just a little bit hacked and not in that "someone has cobbled together a list of credentials that work on Dropbox" hacked either, but proper…

Six brand new logos for six brand new companies. So how did the designers do?

We all love a good wallpaper to polish up our desktops. So to provide you with fresh artwork on a regular basis, we embarked on our [desktop wallpapers mission](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/tag/wallpapers/) eight years ago. Each month we challenge you…

Design education should be universal and free for everyone.

In 1996, I was an 18 year old web designer. Fresh out of high school, I was a bit shy and not very eloquent when expressing myself verbally. My first...

AccessLint runs accessibility tests in your CI suite and alerts you of WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 violations, before you release to production.

Web performance is vital, but lately I’ve felt that the topic has only been brought up by front-end developers, and only becomes a point of discussion at t

Bundler, a great resource for managing dependencies in your Ruby projects, helps verify compatible versions of your gem dependencies.

Support for responsive images was added to WordPress core in version 4.4 to address the use case for viewport-based image selection, where the browser requests the image size that best fits the layout for its particular viewport.

With a performance-first design optimized for modern CPUs, Facebook's new compression algorithm translates directly to faster data transfer and smaller storage requirements.

We uncover a few strategies creative professionals can use to quickly do away with all those bad design ideas, and move on to the good ones.

You’ve done it – your development sprint has ended. Code that solved a specific problem was tested and shipped. Your designs are out in the wild, in the hands of...

I like to periodically visit the personal sites of design heroes, colleagues, industry friends, and look at the way they talk about their work in t...

“Are you sure you need to hire a content strategist?” asks Jennifer Bassett. Maybe, maybe not! Let a strategist help you decide.

You asked, he answered! Ruby on Rails Creator and founder/CTO of Basecamp, David Heinemeier Hansson has responded to questions submitted by Slashdot readers. Read on for his answers....

This week’s reading list consists of a lot of little, smart details that you can use on websites. From tweaking the user’s reading experience during page load to pure JavaScript functions and verifying the integrity of external assets. And finally, we see…

News and insights on Google platforms, tools, and events.

So you’ve maneuvered through the initial offer conversation. You’ve lined up counteroffers from other companies. Now it’s time to enter the…

How often do you have to explain the purpose of a study, objectives, goals or **measurements within your company**? Maybe you need to prepare a presentation or a brief overview of what next steps should be taken, or maybe you simply need to build a shiny…