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Laura Franz - Dear Web Font Providers

When you buy something, I bet you want it to work. Heck, even if you use something for free — maybe borrowed from a friend — I bet you want it to work. No one prefers hiking boots that are too tight

Graphic Design , Typography , fonts , Web Design

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Vitaly Friedman - BlendMe.in: Accessing Vector Icons Without Leaving Photoshop

Update (10.10.2013): Please note that the ZIP file has been updated after this article has been published. In case Photoshop should crash on your end, please rename your Photoshop settings folder to

Graphics , Freebies , templates

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Daniel Pataki - Powerful WordPress Tips And Tricks

I’ve been working with WordPress since the dawn of time, and even though I peek at the source code regularly, I still discover new tips and tricks. I’ve compiled my own list of 21 techniques that ar

wordpress , workflow , Techniques

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Yoav Weiss - Responsive Image Container: A Way Forward For Responsive Images?

The aim of republishing the original article by Yoav is to raise awareness and support the discussion about solutions for responsive images. We look forward to your opinions and thoughts in the comm

Responsive Design , mobile

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Ashley Moreno - Data-Driven Design In The Real World

After more than five years helping content and design teams capture, measure and understand website performance data (client-side at Bazaarvoice and now at Volusion), I’ve learned a lot about connec

Graphic Design , ux , Usability , Case Studies

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David Sherwin - A 5-Step Process For Conducting User Research

Imagine that this is what you know about me: I am a college-educated male between the ages of 35 and 45. I own a MacBook Pro and an iPhone 5, on which I browse the Internet via the Google Chrome bro

User Research , Tools , ux , Guidelines

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Ashish Bogawat - Optimizing The Design Workflow With Fireworks Extensions, Part 2

In my previous article on Smashing Magazine, I discussed seven excellent extensions that could fundamentally change your Web design workflow in Adobe Fireworks. The extensions expand Fireworks’ capa

workflow , Fireworks , extensions

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Vitaly Friedman - Good Content Is Too Valuable To Die

When I started developing websites back in the day, I was lucky to have hundreds of valuable, practical articles that would help me become better at what I did. I could learn day and night, and when

Community , Discussions

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Marcus Wendt - Building An Online Magazine App For Windows 8, Part 1: The HTML5 App

Back in 2010, Microsoft shifted its focus from propriety Web technology to open Web technology. The first fruits of this refocus materialized a few years later — in Internet Explorer, the Windows op

windows , Techniques , mobile , Apps , html5

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JD Graffam - Introducing Responsive Web Typography With FlowType.JS

*It’s our great pleasure to support active members of the Web design and development community. Today, we’re proud to present FlowType.JS that allows a perfect character count per line at any screen

workflow , coding , jquery , Javascript

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Dean Hume - Land Your Next Web Development Job: The Interview Process

During my career as a software developer and manager, I have been involved in many interviews. Whether the interviewer or interviewee, I have always paid special attention to the interview process.

Human Resources , Interviews , Career

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Jason Demeuse - Introduction To Polygonal Modeling And Three.js

When the third dimension is introduced into an entertainment medium, it forever changes the way that medium is presented and consumed. The photorealism of the CGI dinosaurs in Jurassic Park opened t

Techniques , Tools , coding , Javascript

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Anders Andersen & Tobias Järlund - Addressing The Responsive Images Performance Problem: A Case Study

Five-inch mobile devices are on the market that have the same screen resolution as 50-inch TVs. We have users with unlimited high-speed broadband as well as users who pay money for each megabyte tra

performance , Responsive Design , mobile , Case Studies

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Vitaly Friedman - 33 Tempting E-Commerce Icons [Freebie]

Today we are happy to feature a set of 33 flat e-commerce icons that were exclusively designed and created for Smashing Magazine by the team at Responsive. The icons are ideally suited to e-commerce

Icons , Freebies , E-Commerce

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Sam Wright - Designing The Words: Why Copy Is A Design Issue

The relationship between copy and design has been covered many times on Smashing Magazine. Working in a content-focused industry, we need to keep this issue pretty close to heart; creating great cop

Content , Copywriting , Design

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Jon Rundle - Responsive Navigation On Complex Websites

Central to a solid user experience is a well-structured, simple navigation system. Over the past few months, I’ve been involved in launching two large institutional websites with complex navigation

Techniques , Responsive Design , mobile , Navigation , Css

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Veerle Pieters - How To Create A Water Lily In Illustrator

Water lilies are beautiful flowers and ideal tutorial material. To get to our result, we’ll be doing a lot of clever actions, mostly rotating and duplicating, and we’ll have a lot of room for experi

Illustrator , Tutorials , Graphics , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - The Seven Years That Changed Everything

Today is the day when it all started — the day when this little website launched back in 2006. Today, we celebrate our seventh anniversary, and you, dear readers, are the ones who have made it possi

Events , Smashing

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Adrian Taylor - Flat Design And Thin Is In

In the last several years, we’ve seen a rapid shift in software and app interface design, from 3-D and skeuomorphic to flat and minimal. Although this trend has become nearly ubiquitous, let’s take

ux , User Interaction , Web Design , Design

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Jake Archibald - Progressive Enhancement Is Faster

The aim of republishing the original article by Jake is to raise awareness and support the discussion about the role of progressive enhancement within the community. We look forward to your opinions

Tutorials , coding , Opinion Column

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Dudley Storey - Designing For Emotion With Hover Effects

Of the many factors that must be considered in Web design, emotional interaction is an important, but frequently neglected, component. In the real world, we experience the sensual interaction of des

coding , Emotional Design , Css , jquery , HTML , Javascript

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: September 2013

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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Shavaughn Haack - Original And Innovative Web Layouts

The layout is the foundation of your website. It guides the user through the sections and tells them what is most important. It also sets the aesthetic of the website. Therefore, you need to careful

Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design

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Jesse Friedman - On Creative Leadership

I have spent nearly a decade experimenting with a single goal in mind: to create scalable, predictably insightful, inspirational environments. I have led creative teams in these environments, and I’

workflow , Creativity , Inspiration , Opinion Column , Design

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