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Rian van der Merwe - How To Sell Your UX Design Solution To Clients

How do you convince clients to trust you with their valuable and much-loved product? In my experience, the best way to sell work to clients is to apply user-centered design not only to the work we p

Clients , ux , Guidelines , Business

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Louis Lazaris - Using White Space For Readability In HTML And CSS

Right up front, I’ll offer some simple advice: In production, your code should be as performance-friendly as possible. This means, Gzip’ing, concatenating and minifying as many assets as possible, t

coding , Readability , Css , HTML

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Marko Dugonjić - Designing For The Reading Experience

With the rise of web fonts as well as affordable hosted web font services and ready-made kits, typography is reclaiming its title as design queen, ruler of all graphic and web design. At the same t

Graphic Design , Typography , fonts , Readability , Design

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Loren Baxter - How To Design Outstanding Feedback Loops

The products we build are full of feedback loops, whether we know it or not. People who study human behavior agree that feedback loops play a critical role in what we do. From biofeedback to the qua

Interaction Design , ux , Process

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Shlomo Goltz - iOS Prototyping With Adobe Fireworks And TAP (Part 3)

In the previous parts of this tutorial (part 1 and part 2, we looked in detail at the building blocks of our design in Fireworks (pages, shared layers, symbols, styles), and we started to make a dem

Tutorials , Fireworks , Prototyping , ios

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Francisco Inchauste - Designing For A Multi-Device World

When I think about where we are with the Web in comparison to other media in history, pinpointing it is really hard. Is it like when the Gutenberg Press was just invented and we’re experimenting wit

Responsive Design , Process , Opinion Column , Design

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Drew Thomas - Why Responsive Web Design Has To Win Out

When considering a mobile Web strategy and weighing responsive Web design against a separate mobile website, the most important metric is how functional the website is for the user. This goes beyond

Responsive Design , mobile , Content

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Laura Franz - How To Set Weights And Styles With The @font-face Declaration

If people are on your website, they’re probably either skimming quickly, looking for something, or they’ve found what they’re looking for and want to read it as easily as possible. Either way, keepi

Techniques , Typography , coding , Essentials

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Zack Grossbart - How To Design An Open-Source iPhone Game

This article is the first in a series that will walk through iOS programming using this game as an example. This first article gives you an overview of the game and of iOS programming in general. We

mobile , Apps , iphone , ios , Games

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David Březina - A Critical Approach To Typefaces

I’ve always wondered, “What is it that makes a typeface or any other design good?” However simplistic this question may seem to typographers, it is a legitimate question many of us are trying to ans

Graphic Design , Typography , fonts , Inspiration , Web Design

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Paul Boag - How To Use Email To Alienate Your Users

Spam! Monty Python may love it, but the rest of us are not so convinced. But what is spam? Are you spamming users without realizing it? And is there any place in the world for email marketing? Most

Marketing , Clients , Inspiration , Emails , Business

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Joseph Zimmerman - A Thorough Introduction To Backbone.Marionette (Part 1)

To help you tap the full potential of Marionette, we’ve prepared an entire eBook full of useful hands-on examples which is also available in the Smashing Library. — Ed. Backbone.js is quickly becom

Frameworks , coding , Javascript

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Alex Denning - How To Get The Most Out Of A Premium WordPress Theme

There has quite probably never been a better time to be a premium theme user. While a huge increase in the supply of quality premium themes hasn’t particularly driven down prices, it has promoted a

wordpress , Themes , Techniques (WP)

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Jose Martinez Salmeron - If You Love Your Brand, Set It Free

The practice of branding is undergoing a deep transformation — a change brought about by our kaleidoscopic postmodern culture, the development of communication technology and rapid globalization. I

Branding , Inspiration , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 16 Lovely St. Valentine’s Day ? Icons For Free

Today, it is our great pleasure to present to you a fantastic St. Valentine’s icon set  —  exclusively designed by our illustrator Ricardo Gimenes for Smashing Magazine and its loyal readers. The ic

Valentine , Icons , Freebies

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Christian Holst - Account Creation, Standalone Mobile Websites, And Dealing With Non-UX Designers

Editor’s note: Welcome to Smashing Magazine UX Design QA. It works like this: you send in questions you have about UX Design, and each month we’ll pick a handful of questions asked by our readers ab

Interaction Design , mobile , ux , Process

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Joseph McDermott - How To Create An Affiliate Tracking Module In Magento

We will be covering the following topics: Capturing URI request data, Saving to and retrieving values from cookies, Adding custom content to the checkout success page, Adding module config

Frameworks , Magento , coding

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Vitaly Friedman - Welcome To The Smashing UX Design Section!

There has been a slight change in the UX Design editorial team. Unfortunately, Francisco Inchauste is stepping down from the UX Editor role to pursue new opportunities. We’d like to introduce you to

UX Design , ux , Design

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Austin Gunter - Building Something That Your Users Will Actually Want To Buy

How do you make sure all the software products you spend time building are something that your customers will actually want to buy? It’s one thing to spend a few weeks coding your next big idea. But

workflow , ux , Inspiration , Design , Business

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Nathan Carnes - Removing Interface Elements: Should You Ask The User Or Their Browser?

The history of the Internet has been a steady march towards websites that are richer, bigger and more interactive. As websites have become more robust, we — as designers and developers — have often

Techniques , ux , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - 48 Pleasant Polaris UI Kit + Linecons Icons For Free

Today we are pleased to feature the Polaris UI icon set that includes useful UI components and 48 beautiful icons. As usually, you can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any r

Tools , Icons , Freebies

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Greg Nudelman - A Definitive Guide To The Android Carousel Design Pattern

One of the best patterns for browsing a small collection of featured products is the carousel. Unfortunately, many mobile app implementations do not offer an engaging or satisfying carousel experien

Design Patterns , mobile , Android

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Siobhan McKeown - The WordPress Community Offers Advice To Beginners

We’ve all been total newbies. In fact, I spend most of my time still feeling like one. So researching this article was a great opportunity for me to do some more learning, and to share all of that g

Community , wordpress , Accessibility

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: February 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 , Inspiration

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