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Vitaly Friedman - Download A Free Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD

Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD, designed by Hike and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The PSD will speed up the process of creating p

Facebook , Freebies , PSD

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Jeff Gothelf - 5 Interaction Design Tactics For Visual Designers

Anyone designing Web-based properties today requires a basic understanding of interaction design principles. Even if your training is not formally in human-computer interaction, user experience desi

Graphic Design , Interaction Design , ux , Usability , Design , ui

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Jeremy Hixon - An Introduction To LESS: LESS vs Sass

I’ve been using LESS religiously ever since I stumbled upon it months ago. CSS was never really a problem for me, in and of itself, but I was intrigued by the idea of using variables to create somet

css3 , Frameworks , Preprocessors , coding , Css

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Lea Verou - Help The Community! Report Browser Bugs!

You’re developing a new website and have decided to use some CSS3 and HTML5, now that many of the new specifications are gaining widespread support. As you’re coding the theme and thinking of how mu

Bugs , coding , Css , Browsers , Javascript

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Eran Galperin - Getting Started With The PayPal API

PayPal is the most popular platform for receiving online payments today. The ease of opening a PayPal account and receiving payments compared to opening a merchant account with a traditional payment

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Catalina Naranjo-Bock - How To Design Global Applications For Children

The entire process of designing digital applications comes with many challenges and decisions. For the majority of projects, you will be designing in somewhat familiar territory. But what happens wh

Graphic Design , User Research , Usability

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Addy Osmani - Reliable Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Internet Explorer

In a perfect world, cross-browser testing would be straightforward. We would download a legacy version of a browser, run it, and be able to instantly test our pages and scripts without a single care

testing , coding , Browsers , Internet Explorer

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Simon Schmid - Elements Of A Viral Launch Page

Google+, Hipster, Connect.me and Instagram! They all hit a gazillion users in no time at all — and you can even read all about it in everyday media today. This is every product creator’s dream. Ok,

Marketing , Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: September 2011

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 , Downloads , Freebies

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Rian van der Merwe - The Consequences Of Working In Isolation

If you’ve ever worked at a company of any size, you’ve experienced it. Isolation. That feeling of being utterly alone in what you do. Some people love it: the determination that comes from being a

Productivity , ux , Process , Web Development , Designers

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Sergey Chikuyonok - How To Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas

Images have always been the heaviest component of websites. Even if high-speed Internet access gets cheaper and more widely available, websites will get heavier more quickly. If you really care abou

optimization , coding , Responsive Images , html5

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Dan Rose - The Lost Art Of Design Etiquette

Endless layers in Photoshop. Overstuffed image folders. That jQuery plug-in that has 12 files associated with it. Hundreds or thousands of individual pieces go into making a website. No wonder we go

Photoshop , workflow , Graphics , Web Design , Design

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Harry Roberts - How To Write CSS For Others

I think a lot of us CSS authors are doing it wrong. We are selfish by nature; we get into our little bubbles, writing CSS (as amazing as it may be) with only ourselves in mind. How many times have y

Maintenance , coding , Css

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Des Traynor - Taking A Customer From Like To Love: The UX Of Long-Term Relationships

“What do you mean ‘improve’? I charged him correctly, didn’t I?.” My manager looked at me, disappointed: “Yes, Des, you charged him correctly. But a vending machine can do that, too. They show up

Customer Experience , ux

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Paul Boag - How To Become A Web Design Expert

Have you ever wanted to take a client by the collar, shake them around vigorously, and demand that they take you seriously because you are the expert? Why We All Want To Be Seen As An Expert Many

Productivity , Career , Business

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James Young - Design Is About Solving Problems

Recently, a couple of things happened in my design career that have made me sit down and reflect a bit on where I’m at and how I can improve what I deliver to my clients and their users. I’d noticed

Discussions , Opinion Column , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Freebie: Responsive jQuery Slider Plugin Flexslider

When it comes to responsive design, it’s not just about fluid images or adaptive layouts. It’s also about the responsive methodology behind the entire design process. In responsive design, we are c

Frameworks , Responsive Design , mobile , Freebies , jquery

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Tyler Tate - The Semantic Grid System: Page Layout For Tomorrow

CSS grid frameworks can make your life easier, but they’re not without their faults. Fortunately for us, modern techniques offer a new approach to constructing page layouts. But before getting to th

Semantics , Grids , Layouts , coding , Css

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Luke Wroblewski - New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms

For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine. In fact, we probably do it so often that we’ve stopped having to think about how it’s done… that is, until something goes wrong:

Forms , ux , Usability , ui

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Jason Gross - The Dangers Of Designing For Context

In case you haven’t noticed, there is a growing excitement around mobile or device oriented web design. This excitement is fueled mostly by the high adoption rates of devices that come equipped with

Web Design , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Ros Hodgekiss - How To Optimize Email Newsletters With CSS

HTML email has a reputation for being a particularly tough design medium. So tough, in fact, that many designers regard coding and testing even the simplest email design to be almost as bad as fixin

Newsletters , Responsive Design , mobile , Emails , Css , Content Strategy

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Laura Klein - Breaking The Rules: A UX Case Study

I read a lot of design articles about best practices for improving the flow of sign-up forms. Most of these articles offer great advice, such as minimizing the number of steps, asking for as little

ux , Usability , Case Studies

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Vitaly Friedman - Web Design Elements: Examples And Best Practices

This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful and popular Smashing Magazine’s articles featuring various building blocks of a website and published here over all th

Guides , Tools , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Portfolio Web Design Showcases

This is an overview of the best Portfolio Web design showcases we have published on Smashing Magazine over all the years. 69 Sexy Portfolio Designs To Inspire You Today designing a unique, compell

Best Practices , Round-Ups , Tools

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