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Pete Rojwongsuriya - How I Built The One Page Scroll Plugin

Scrolling effects have been around in web design for years now, and while many plugins are available to choose from, only a few have the simplicity and light weight that most developers and designer

Programming , coding , plugins , jquery , Javascript

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Jon Bernbach - Ways To Avoid Overwhelming Users: Lessons Learned From My High-School Teachers

High school. I won’t lie: I did not have the highest grades in my graduating class. Some classes and lessons were so poorly designed and delivered that I would frequently become frustrated and fatig

ux , User Interaction , Content Strategy

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Ros Hodgekiss - What 22 Billion Newsletters Tell Us About Designing For Mobile Email

Do you know which platforms and email clients to focus on when creating an email newsletter for yourself or a client? Using the data from over 22 billion email subscribers, we determined what design

Marketing , Newsletters , Frameworks , Responsive Design , mobile , Emails

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Alok Jain - Off To The Races: Getting Started With Design Sprints

Many modern software development best practices draw on influences from the industrial era and concepts like specialization, where individuals with specialized skills worked in an assembly line to m

workflow , Techniques , ux , Design , Development

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Mattan Griffel - Tips For Mastering A Programming Language Using Spaced Repetition

Since first hearing of spaced repetition a few years back, I’ve used it for a wide range of things, from learning people’s names to memorizing poetry to increasing my retention of books. Today, I’l

Techniques , Programming , Tools , coding

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Christian Holst - The Current State Of E-Commerce Search

When e-commerce search works, it’s fast, convenient and efficient. It’s no wonder that so many users prefer searching over clicking categories. Unfortunately, our recent large-scale usability study

ux , E-Commerce

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Zach Inglis - How To Plan And Run A Great Conference Experience

Our industry is a great one. It’s filled with a lot of awesome people building a lot of inspiring things and constantly seeking out ways to express just how much they love doing so. We’ve had blogs

Community , Conferences , Inspiration , Communication

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Tim Jensen - Targeting Mobile Users Through Google AdWords

“Know your audience” has stood as a fundamental marketing principle since long before the web. When advertising online, you need to take into account one of the most basic factors of the audience yo

Marketing , Advertising , mobile , Devices , Business

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Shlomo Goltz - A Closer Look At Personas: A Guide To Developing The Right Ones (Part 2)

How can designers create experiences that are custom tailored to people who are unlike themselves? As explained in part 1 of this series, an effective way to gain knowledge of, build empathy for and

workflow , ux , User Interaction

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Donovan Hutchinson - How To Create A Helpful And Better 404 Page

A lot of funny 404 pages have been shared recently: carefully crafted memes, funny GIFs, even the odd interactive game. But if the 404 doesn’t help your visitors, then what’s the point? A visitor c

Errors , Maintenance , coding , 404

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Germaine Satia - Mobile Onboarding: A Beginner’s Guide

Nowadays, displaying onboarding screens to first-time users has become a common practice in mobile apps. The purpose of these onboarding screens — also referred to as walkthroughs — is to introduce

workflow , Techniques , mobile , ux

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Rafiq Elmansy - Learning More About Creativity And Innovation From LEGO

Many companies and design agencies tend to look at the design and creativity stage from a narrow perspective. Usually, the design team is locked inside the ideas room with no contact with the rest o

Teams , Creativity , Inspiration , Business

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Michel Bozgounov - Useful Adobe Fireworks Resources: Tutorials, Articles And Freebies (Part 2)

A few weeks ago, I mentioned some of the best extensions that are currently available for Fireworks. Today, I’ll cover some of the best tutorials and articles, as well as many freebies (styles, temp

workflow , Fireworks , extensions

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Shlomo Goltz - A Closer Look At Personas: What They Are And How They Work | 1

In my experience as an interaction designer, I have come across many strategies and approaches to increase the quality and consistency of my work, but none more effective than the persona. Personas

workflow , ux , User Interaction

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Richard Knight - Design Responsive Websites In The Browser With Webflow

This article is the first part of a series of articles on emerging responsive design tools. Today, Richard Knight explores the advantages of Webflow and how you can use it today to build responsive

Techniques , Responsive Design , mobile , Design

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Brian Graves - How To Improve Your Email Workflow With Modular Design

Whether you’re in a Fortune 500 company or part a two-person team launching your first web app, email is one of the most important tools for reaching your customer base. But with the ever-growing nu

HTML Emails , Marketing , workflow , Modular Design , Emails , coding , Design Systems

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Barry Clark - Build A Blog With Jekyll And GitHub Pages

I recently migrated my blog from WordPress to Jekyll, a fantastic website generator that’s designed for building minimal, static blogs to be hosted on GitHub Pages. The simplicity of Jekyll’s themin

workflow , jekyll , Generators , cms , Static Generators

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: August 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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Scott Reynen - Declarative Programming And The Web

Like most web developers, I spend my days giving instructions to computers. These instructions generally involve some input (a request for a web page), some logic (get the right content from a datab

Programming , API , coding

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Trevan Hetzel - How To Sell The Value Of The Web To Small-Town Clients

Selling your services as a freelancer or a small shop is tough enough as it is. Selling to a small-town business that might not even see the need for a website adds an extra level of difficulty in t

Marketing , Clients , Income , Business

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Ben Johnson - How Limitations Led To My Biggest App Store Success and Failure

Look at your calendar. If you’re anything like me, all you see are meetings, places to go, things to do, people to meet and not a lot of white space. Few people love their calendar. So, my team and

mobile , Apps , Case Studies , ios

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Victor Yocco - Social Identity Theory – How To Incorporate Social Influence Into Design

No person is immune from the influence of the people and groups they encounter. As much as we would like to think that every thought we have is original, that every opinion we express is informed by

User Research , ux , Psychology

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Vitaly Friedman - “Making It Right”: Product Management For A Startup World

You’ve seen this happen a thousand times. An organization struggles with a high level of internal enthusiasm and creative chaos that team leaders don’t know how to handle any more. To bring order in

Web Design , Events , Smashing Books

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Maximiliano Firtman - You May Be Losing Users If Responsive Web Design Is Your Only Mobile Strategy

You resize the browser and a smile creeps over your face. You’re happy: You think you are now mobile-friendly, that you have achieved your goals for the website. Let me be a bit forward before getti

performance , Responsive Design , mobile , ux

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