One of the things people always ask me when they realize I'm a freelancer is "how do you know what to charge?" Honestly, I don't always have the right answer. As any seasoned freelancer knows, estimated rates can sometimes be a game of chance with some jobs bringing in handsome sums while others end up […]

Your website’s search function could be damaging your conversion rates. And if it’s not acting as a bane to your conversion rates, it could be doing something almost as bad:... The post Common On-Site Search Mistakes and How to Fix Them appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.

10 worst Design Failures of All time. Google Wave, Macintosh TV, Windows Mobile, Windows 8 shutdown system...to mention few. Design failures will give you a lesson The post 10 Worst Design Failures of All Time appeared first on Studio by UXPin.

Google has announced the release of a new forecasting and anomaly detection API that intends to leverage the massive amount of event-driven data that businesses are generating via both online and offline channels. The new Timeseries Insights API joins the company's Google Cloud Storage and Google Cloud PubSub platforms and is designed around efficiency and scalability.

We asked the Smashing community what podcasts they listened to, aiming to compile a shortlist of current podcasts for web designers and developers. We had what can only be called a very strong response — both in number and in passion. First, we winnowed out the podcasts that were on a broader theme (e.g. creativity, mentoring, leadership), on a narrower theme (e.g. on one specific WordPress theme) or on a completely different theme (e.

Angular.JS is a popular web development tool that gained momentum over the past few years. It is one of the most acceptable JavaScript frameworks that Google created back in 2009 to assist web development. This tool aimed to make front-end development much simpler and more accessible for the development company. Many top companies like Netflix, PayPal, Upwork, and similar reputed brands are using this framework. Angular.JS also ranked the third most frequently used technology in 2020, after NodeJS.

I got to talk with Lea Rosema this week! She’s an incredibly talented digital artist and front-end developer. She does quite a bit of art with some of the trickiest web technology out there: shaders! But rather than just learn it and use it, she helps other people learn and get more out of it. […] The post 368: Lea Rosema appeared first on CodePen Blog.

Caffeinated beverages have always helped web designers power through projects and, ironically, they can also fuel the learning process, as these snippets demonstrate. The post 8 Caffeine-Powered CSS and JavaScript Snippets appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

As the number of website visitors and shoppers grows on mobile, it's important to consider how small additions to your design will encourage them to do more than just research and browse. One of the elements I think mobile designers — for PWAs and mobile websites — need to do more with is the sticky bar. What exactly do I mean by "more"? Well, I mean using the fixed navigation bar at the top or bottom of a mobile site for more than just navigation or branding.