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Luca Leone - How Do You Design Interaction?

If you have to design an interface it’s almost obvious to think to begin the process by drawing. But is this the best way? I once casually started by writing an imagined human-computer conversation,

Interaction Design , ux

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Vitaly Friedman - The Mystery #4 Is Resolved: Chirpy Birds, Lost Numbers and Pretty Slow Wheels

Experiments and side projects are wonderful ways to challenge yourself and explore areas that you wouldn’t usually consider exploring. That’s what Smashing Mystery Riddles are for us: little experim

Mystery Riddles , Web Design , Design

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Michel Bozgounov - Useful Adobe Fireworks Resources: Extensions (Part 1)

Fireworks is an excellent UI design tool; however, Adobe decided to feature-freeze it back in 2013 and (at the same time) did not offer any replacement tool to its users. Nevertheless, since Firewor

workflow , Fireworks , extensions

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Maxim Shirshin - Scaling Down The BEM Methodology For Small Projects

Front-end development is no longer about individual frameworks. Tools are available — we merely have to choose. To make the right choices for your project, you need to start with a general approach,

Techniques , coding , Css , jquery , html5 , Javascript

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Nathan Barry - How to Sell Digital Products Successfully — Part 2

This is the second and final article on how to sell and profit from digital products. Inpart 1,we covered many of the benefits of digital products over physical goods as well as the marketing philos

Product Strategy , Income , Design , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Mystery Riddle #4: Have You Figured It Out Yet?

Ah, these mystery riddles never stop, do they? To celebrate the launch of the SmashingConf Whistler, our very first conference in Canada, we’ve prepared a yet another riddle, and of course this time

Mystery Riddles , Web Design , Design

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Tom Maslen - Prioritizing Devices: Testing And Responsive Web Design

My Android Galaxy smartphone is so sweet. It plays games, has a lovely screen and lets me check all of my favorite websites while I’m commuting to and from work. And my new iPad is even better; it’s

Responsive Design , mobile , Devices , testing

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Vitaly Friedman - The New Smashing Mystery Riddle: Have You Figured It Out Yet?

Ah, these mystery riddles never stop, do they? To celebrate the launch of the SmashingConf Whistler, our very first conference in Canada, we’ve prepared a yet another riddle, and of course this time

Mystery Riddles , Web Design , Design

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Kevin Holesh - A Roadmap To Becoming An A/B Testing Expert

A/B testing, also known as split testing, is the method of pitting two versions of a landing page against each other in a battle of conversion. You test to see which version does a better job of lea

User Research , ux , testing , Design

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Nathan Barry - How To Profit From Selling Digital Products (Part 1)

At the end of 2012, I was talking with a good friend of mine who runs a small custom woodworking company. We were discussing business over the last year and a few things we learned. While his busine

Product Strategy , Income , Design , Business

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Heydon Pickering - The WAI Forward

It’s one thing to create a web application and quite another to keep it accessible —independent of the device that the user is using and its capabilities. That’s why Heydon Pickering, now the access

Responsive Design , mobile , Accessibility , coding , Smashing eBooks

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Obinwanne Hill - Breakpoints And The Future Of Websites

When the iPhone came out in 2007, the demonstration of its web browser by the late great Steve Jobs gave the not-so-subtle impression that Apple wasn’t too perturbed about its users pinching to zoom

Responsive Design , mobile , Media Queries , Layouts , Css , Javascript

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Stephen Petrany - Techniques For Creating Custom Textures In Photoshop

Textures are everywhere — the concrete of a sidewalk, the fabric on your chair, even the glass (or plastic) surface of the screen you’re staring at right now. It’s natural that textures appeal to us

Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics , textures

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Jonathon Morgan - Don’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming

Functional programming is the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms. Originally relegated to the annals of computer science academia, functional programming has had a recent renaissance that

Techniques , coding , Javascript

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Jon Arne Sæterås and Luca Passani - Server-Side Device Detection With JavaScript

There are many strategies to choose from when developing a modern, device independent website nowadays. How should capabilities of the device or browser be determined? Should the presentation logic

mobile , Devices , Javascript

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Carolyn Chandler - Facing Your Fears: Approaching People For Research

When working on a project, have you ever felt that you and the rest of the team were making a lot of decisions based on assumptions? Having to make choices with limited information is not unusual —

User Research , ux , Communication

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Krzysztof Rakowski - How To Communicate Effectively In IT Projects

One of the most important factors in the success or failure of any IT project is communication. Communicating effectively can be quite difficult, especially when a project involves many people with

workflow , Teams , Communication , Business

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Joshua Mauldin - A Better Way To Request App Ratings

No one really wants to be interrupted, much less for something silly while they’re in the middle of doing a billion things. So, why do app ratings follow this pattern? And why don’t developers attem

mobile , ux , Apps , Design , Business

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Marcus Taylor - How To Speed Up WordPress

A few months ago, I ran an experiment to see how much faster I could make one of my websites in less than two hours of work. After installing a handful of WordPress plugins and fixing a few simple e

wordpress , Tools , Techniques (WP)

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Natasha Postolovski - What Is The Most Underrated Word In Web Design?

An “affordance” is a perceived signal or clue that an object may be used to perform a particular action. A chair sits at around knee height and appears to provide support. It affords sitting. A toot

Graphic Design , ux , User Interaction

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Maksim Chemerisuk - CSS-Driven Internationalization In JavaScript

Writing front-end code often requires developers to address the problem of internationalization at some level. Despite the current standard, which introduces a bunch of new tags, simply adding suppo

Techniques , coding , Css , Javascript

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Paul Boag - Take A Digital Health Check

Have you ever wondered how digitally healthy the organization where you work at really is? If you’re a freelancer or work at an agency, well, have you thought about the health of your clients? I’m

workflow , Teams , Clients , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 36 Beautiful Rounded Icons - Meet The Ballicons 2 [Freebie]

The value of icons lies in their ability to support content in web design and communicate with users in more intuitive and effective ways. Most users are known to first scan a page for visually inte

Graphics , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

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Julian Shapiro - Faster UI Animations With Velocity JS

From amotion design perspective, Facebook.com is phenomenallystatic. It’s purposefullydumbed down for the broadest levels of compatibility and user comfort. Facebook’s iOS apps, on the other hand, a

Techniques , coding , Css , Javascript

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