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Anthony T - Better Password Masking For Sign-Up Forms

Masking passwords is an old practice that’s commonly implemented in sign-up and log-in forms. It’s used to prevent over-the-shoulder snoopers from catching the user’s password. While masking passwor

Security , ux , Usability

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Nicholas C. Zakas - Why Coding Style Matters

When I was studying computer science in college, I had one extremely tough professor. His name was Dr. Maxey and he taught the more complicated courses like data structures and computer architecture

coding , Css , Javascript

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Daniel Pataki - Utilizing User Roles In WordPress

Roles have been an integral part of WordPress for quite some time now — many functions associated with managing them have been in place since version 2.0.0. Despite this longevity, they are rarely u

wordpress , admin , Techniques (WP)

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Drew Thomas - Looking Beyond Common Media Query Breakpoints

With all the talk about responsive Web design, designers and coders are moving even further from the fixed pixel layouts of design’s print-based history. We’re finally thinking in terms of fluid lay

Responsive Design , mobile , Media Queries , Css

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Niels Matthijs - The Road To Reusable HTML Components

A few weeks ago, I dug up an old article that I wrote for Smashing Magazine, “When One Word Is More Meaningful Than a Thousand.” While I stand firmly behind all of the HTML development principles I

Semantics , coding , HTML

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Rosie Sherry - A Field Guide To Mobile App Testing

Testers are often thought of as people who find bugs, but have you ever considered how testers actually approach testing? Do you ever wonder what testers actually do, and how they can add value to a

mobile , Apps , testing , iphone , ios

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Eoin McGrath - How To Design A Mobile Game With HTML5

The great thing about these titles is that they work equally well on both mobile and desktop using the same code. Could HTML5 finally fulfill the holy grail of “write once, run anywhere”? Getting S

mobile , iphone , Games , html5

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Rian van der Merwe - The Immersive Web And Design Writing

I have an idea for a new product — can I tell you about it? It will take months to develop, and even though this kind of thing is usually given away for free, I’m going to charge for it. Oh, and the

ux , Web Design , Design

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Reza Alizadeh - Windows Phone Design For Developers

There is a prevalent belief amongst developers that design is a skill that can’t be learned — you either have it or you don’t. While much of this can be attributed to the perception that heightened

Windows Phone , mobile , Apps

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Vitaly Friedman - The Brand New Printed Smashing Book: “The Mobile Book”

Update (12.12.2012): The book is now officially released. If you’ve already pre-ordered the book weeks ago, then it’s really only a matter of days! Until then, the complimentary digital version is w

Techniques , Events , Smashing Books

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Chris Coyier - SVG Fallback, Vertical Rhythm, CSS Project Structure

Howdy, folks! Welcome to more Smashing Magazine CSS QA. It works like this: you send in questions you have about CSS, and at least once a month we’ll pick out the best questions and answer them so t

Responsive Design , coding , Css , svg

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Kris Niles - Useful Fireworks Techniques And Features For Large Design Teams

While Fireworks can be a useful and powerful tool for any screen designer, several aspects of it make it really shine in an enterprise environment when used by both small and large design teams. Wh

Fireworks , Techniques , Tools

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Dmitry Fadeyev - How To Avoid The Pitfalls Of Free

Misaligned interests create tension in the design process that can lead to bad, and potentially unethical, design decisions, that result in inferior products. In this article I will examine how the

UX Design , ux , Income

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Tomer Sharon - Lean Startup Is Great UX Packaging

When Albert Einstein was a professor at Princeton University in the 1940s, there came the time for the final exam of his physics class. His assistants passed the exam forms to the hundreds of studen

User Research , ux , Business , Development

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Vitaly Friedman - 10 Thrilling Movie And TV Icons

Today, we present yet another freebie — a free set of icons related to movies and television, designed by Samuray and released for Smashing Magazine and the design community. The icons are available

Icons , Freebies , Inspiration

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Jordan Moore - ’The Semantic, Responsive Navicon’

Icons are scattered throughout our history as a species; early man painted pictures onto stone depicting their triumphs over their hunted prey, Egyptians had an icon-based writing system in their hi

Responsive Design , mobile , Design

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Paul Boag - How To Give Our Clients The Best Deal In Mobile

Are we cheating our clients when it comes to mobile? More precisely, are we allowing our desire for mobile work to get in the way of providing our clients with the best solution for their business n

mobile , Clients , Business

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Ben Gremillion - Hex Color – The Code Side Of Color

The trouble with a color’s name is that it never really is perceived as the exact same color to two different individuals — especially if they have a stake in a website’s emotional impact. Name a co

Color Theory , coding , Colors , Essentials

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Vyacheslav Oliyanchuk - CSScomb: Sorting CSS Properties, The Better Way

*This is our seventh article in a series that introduces the latest useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first

Tools , coding , Css

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: October 2012

This post features free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for October 2012. Many of the wallpapers this month are related to Halloween which seems to have become a tradition on

Wallpapers , Graphics , Halloween

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Andy Clarke - How To Encourage Better Client Participation In Responsive Design Projects

Last week at the fabulous Smashing Conference in Freiburg, I gave a new talk, one I’d written just a few hours prior. I chose not to use slides, but instead to speak about three things that I’m incr

workflow , Clients , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Useful JavaScript Libraries and jQuery Plugins

If you have a problem and need a solution for it, chances are high that a JavaScript library or jQuery plugin exists that was created to solve this very problem. Such libraries are always great to h

coding , jquery , Javascript

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Stefan Klocek - Fixing A Broken User Experience

Unless you’re developing completely new products at a startup, you likely work in an organization that has accumulated years of legacy design and development in its products. Even if the product you

ux , Usability , User Experience , Business

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charles-hannon - Design Patterns: You Already Know How To Use It

In the first television advertisement for the iPad, the narrator intoned, “It’s crazy powerful. It’s magical. You already know how to use it.” This was an astonishing claim. Here was a new, market-d

Interaction Design , ux , Usability , Psychology

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