A Test Driven Development Primer

A team must be able to respond quickly to feedback on their product from clients, project managers and developers. A style guide ensures that your project doesn’t encounter serious problems when you implement the initial design. In this article, Nick Babich…

One of your most powerful personal marketing tools is your resume. If you follow the essential rules for creating an outstanding resume, you can create a compelling story about yourself...

Back-to-school ads used to be easy to make and boring to watch. But that’s all changed now, as these ads show.

Pixel art is one of those lost art forms that have been overshadowed by super crisp, high resolutions images. I stumbled on some pixel art while surfing

Before you write a single line of code, you must wear your Business Analyst hat and create a requirement specification for the solution you intend to impleme...

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...