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Alexander Charchar - Feeling Stuck? Design What You Don’t Know

Where is it?! It has to be here somewhere. It use to be so easy. What happened? Somewhere, somewhere, somewhere. That idea is somewhere. It’s here, it has to be. This is where I’ve always found it.

workflow , Mental Health , Design

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Paul Boag - You Are Not A Machine. You Are Not Alone.

It was pouring with rain and I found myself driving. I didn’t know where I was going. I just needed out of the house. I needed to escape. After what felt like an age I found myself parked outside my

Community , Mental Health , Career

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James Deer - How To Run A Content-Planning Workshop

Content is hard. It takes a lot of planning, collaboration and governance to produce high-quality content that meets business needs, speaks in an authentic way and targets an audience effectively.

workflow , Clients , Content , Content Strategy

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Keir Whitaker - Reducing Abandoned Shopping Carts In E-Commerce

In March 2014, the Baymard Institute, a web research company based in the UK, reported that 67.91% of online shopping carts are abandoned. An abandonment means that a customer has visited a website,

ux , E-Commerce , Product Strategy , Income , Business

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Cathy O' Connor - Color Contrast And Why You Should Rethink It

When you browse your favorite website or check the latest version of your product on your device of choice, take a moment to look at it differently. Step back from the screen. Close your eyes slight

Color Theory , Accessibility , ux , Colors

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Patrick Rudolph - Hybrid Mobile Apps: Providing A Native Experience With Web Technologies

According to a recent report, HTML is the most widely used language for mobile app developers. The main reasons among developers for selecting web technologies are cross-platform portability of code

mobile , ux , Apps , Development

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Pierre Croft - Card Sorting Beginner’s Guide: Improving Your Information Architecture

In this article, we’ll discuss card sorting, a tried and true technique for doing just that. We’ll go through some practical tips for running a card-sorting session, and also cover some examples. I

ux , User Interaction , Content Strategy

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Alexander Charchar - Be A Better Designer By Eating An Elephant

I can’t imagine any other industry in which so much change happens so quickly. If you stop paying attention for a week, it can feel like you’ve not been listening for a year. There’s so much to lear

Creativity , Inspiration , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Vitaly Friedman - Let’s Travel The World: 100 Trendy Touristic Icons [Freebie]

Icons are a lot like real monuments — they can both be easily recognized. Today’s icon set consists of a set of vector icons that represent monuments across the globe, so they can be literally used

Icons , Freebies , templates

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Krasimir Tsonev - CSS-Only Solution For UI Tracking

The web is growing up. We are building applications that work entirely in the browser. They are responsive; they have tons of features and work under many devices. We enjoy providing high-quality co

Techniques , Analytics , Tools , coding , Css , Data Visualization

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Karsten Bruns - Ready For Retina HD: Create Pixel-Perfect Assets For Multiple Scale Factors

The 6 Plus is the first iPhone that sports a “Retina HD” display — the sharpest display Apple has ever made. It forces designers to provide an additional set of image resources to developers to matc

Vectors , Photoshop , Tutorials , mobile , Graphics , Icons , svg

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Jan Constantin - Taking A Closer Look At Tech Conferences: The Nitty Gritty Details (A Study)

As I was flying back from the Smashing Conference in New York, I wondered whether it was a success. This wasn’t an original thought. We are always wondering what makes a conference good and what ele

Conferences , Studies , Events , Resources

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Dennis Kardys - Wayfinding For The Mobile Web

When designing mobile first, navigation takes a back seat to content, and ruthless editing paves the way for more focused experiences. The pursuit of simplicity, combined with the tight spatial cons

mobile , Navigation , ux , Devices

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Melanie Lang - Cat Noone From Liberio On eBook Creation And Publishing

More and more designers and developers in our industry are making the leap into becoming entrepreneurs by starting their very own products. One of these aspiring designers is Cat Noone, co-founder o

Interviews , Inspiration , Smashing eBooks , General

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Vitaly Friedman - Freebie: Icons Of Autumn (50 Icons, EPS)

There are icons that you can find quite easily, and icons that are difficult to come across. With Icons of Autumn, we are humbled to release a set of 50 free autumn-themed EPS icons illustrated in a

Icons , Freebies , templates

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Dmitriy Fabrikant - A Front-End Developer’s Ode To Specifications

In the physical world, no one builds anything without detailed blueprints, because people’s lives are on the line. In the digital world, the stakes just aren’t as high. It’s called “software” for a

workflow , Techniques , Graphics , Tools , ux , coding , Design

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Greg Nudelman & Daria Kempka - Mobile Design Pattern: Inventory-Based Discrete Slider

Sliders are cool. When they’re done well, customers love to interact with them. When they’re not done well, they can cause a lot of frustration (not to mention lost sales) by standing between your c

Design Patterns , Best Practices , mobile , ux , User Interaction , Android , Web Design

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Sébastien - An Introduction To Unit Testing In AngularJS Applications

AngularJS has grown to become one of the most popular single-page application frameworks. Developed by a dedicated team at Google, the outcome is substantial and widely used in both community and in

angular , testing , coding , Javascript

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Laura Busche - The Skeptic’s Guide To Low-Fidelity Prototyping

Designer Paul Rand once said, “An understanding of man’s intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the

workflow , ux , Prototyping

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John Clifford - Icons Of Digital Design - Who Shaped Modern Design?

Apple launched the Macintosh personal computer in 1984. It was more user-friendly than other PCs at that time — and, with its desktop publishing software, graphical user interface and mouse (all nov

Graphic Design , Graphics , Inspiration , Design

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Ville-Veikko Helppi - What Every App Developer Should Know About Android

In today’s fast-paced mobile market, consumers have no patience for mobile apps that compromise their experience. “Crashes” and “Not working” are the most common feedback on Google Play for unstable

performance , mobile , Devices , Apps , Android

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: October 2014

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a m

Wallpapers , Graphics , templates

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Vitaly Friedman - “There Are More Bugs In Mobile Than… Particles In The Universe!”

Mobile is a difficult, unpredictable beast. If you run into technical problems in mobile, then you’ll know how annoying fixing them can be. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Peter-Paul Koch to create

mobile , Events

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Laura Franz - Size Matters: Balancing Line Length And Font Size In Responsive Web Design

As we refine our methods of responsive web design, we’ve increasingly focused on measure (another word for “line length”) and its relationship to how people read. The popularization of the “ideal m

mobile , Typography , fonts , Readability , Design

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