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Vitaly Friedman - 50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools

These are great times for front-end developers. After months of exaggerated excitement about HTML5 and CSS3, the web design community now starts coming up with CSS techniques that actually put newly

Techniques , coding , Css , Resources

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Christian Heilmann - Local Storage And How To Use It On Websites

Storing information locally on a user’s computer is a powerful strategy for a developer who is creating something for the Web. In this article, we’ll look at how easy it is to store information on a

coding , HTML , html5

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Angie Bowen - Retro Video/DOS Games For The Weekend

Now you’re ready to take some time off and unplug, let’s stroll down memory lane, the gaming way. Focusing on the days of the old DOS-based games, we sourced some emulators so that you could revisit

Videos , Inspiration , Weekend , Games

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The Smashing Newsletter Team - Five Useful Design Techniques and Coding Solutions For Web Designers

As designers, we have to create an intuitive user experience, solve design problems and provide a beautiful and functional user interfaces. Unlike print design, we don’t have the luxury of designing

Techniques , coding

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Robert Bowen - How To Convince The Client That Your Design Is Perfect

As designers who deal with clients, we all have to face one situation, no matter how difficult and uncomfortable, and that is guiding the client to accept that your design is perfect. Now, you alrea

Clients , Communication , Business

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Ben Gremillion - Test Usability By Embracing Other Viewpoints

As Web technology improves, users expect Web-based widgets to be useful, content to be relevant and interfaces to be snappy. They want to feel confident navigating a website and using its functional

ux , testing , Usability

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Jacob Gube - What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources

Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry’s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a one-way static medium has evolved into a very rich an

Tools , ux , Usability

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Julia May - The Art Of Film Title Design Throughout Cinema History

Have you ever thought of what makes you remember a certain movie or TV show? Of course, it’s the story being told, you’ll say. But what about movies such as Goldfinger, Seven and Snatch? What’s the

Graphic Design , Art , Inspiration , Design

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Goce Mitevski - How To Create Graphs In Illustrator

Office applications are getting very advanced these days offering all sorts of fancy features for data visualization. Graph generation is a standard feature in desktop applications like Microsoft Ex

Illustrator , Tutorials , Graphics , Visualizations

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Speider Schneider - Breaking Down Doors: Promoting Yourself To Dream Clients

There’s a saying that the School of Visual Arts in New York City once used in its ads: “To be good is not enough when you dream of being great.” We all have dream clients that we would like to add t

Clients , Business

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Katrín Eyþórsdóttir - Funny, Clever, Original Signs Part 2

This gallery presents the collection of photos submitted for the World Of Signage Photo Contest by the readers of Smashing Magazine. We received over 2,500+ photos from our readers across the globe,

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Katrín Eyþórsdóttir - Graffiti and Hand-Written Signs Part 2

This gallery presents the collection of photos submitted for the World Of Signage Photo Contest by the readers of Smashing Magazine. We received over 2,500+ photos from our readers across the globe,

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Katrín Eyþórsdóttir - Hotel, Restaurant and Diner Signs Part 1

This gallery presents the collection of photos submitted for the World Of Signage Photo Contest by the readers of Smashing Magazine. We received over 2,500+ photos from our readers across the globe,

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Katrín Eyþórsdóttir - Advertising and Promotional Signs Part 2

This gallery presents the collection of photos submitted for the World Of Signage Photo Contest by the readers of Smashing Magazine. We received over 2,500+ photos from our readers across the globe,

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Katrín Eyþórsdóttir - Funny, Clever, Original Signs Part 3

This gallery presents the collection of photos submitted for the World Of Signage Photo Contest by the readers of Smashing Magazine. We received over 2,500+ photos from our readers across the globe,

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Katrín Eyþórsdóttir - Graffiti and Hand-Written Signs Part 1

This gallery presents the collection of photos submitted for the World Of Signage Photo Contest by the readers of Smashing Magazine. We received over 2,500+ photos from our readers across the globe,

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Katrín Eyþórsdóttir - Advertising and Promotional Signs Part 1

This gallery presents the collection of photos submitted for the World Of Signage Photo Contest by the readers of Smashing Magazine. We received over 2,500+ photos from our readers across the globe,

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Katrín Eyþórsdóttir - Abstract and Weird Signs Part 2

This gallery presents the collection of photos submitted for the World Of Signage Photo Contest by the readers of Smashing Magazine. We received over 2,500+ photos from our readers across the globe,

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Alex Komarov - iPhone App Designs Reviewed: Critique Board and Lessons Learned

The only condition to get free criticism from us is that you agree for it to be made public, which is why I am able to share several case studies with Smashing’s readers right now. It’s hard to imag

Design Patterns , mobile , Apps , iphone

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Alma Hoffmann - Finding Alternative Sources Of Typographic Layout In Our Surroundings

The Framework Of Sources For Typographic Layout According to Wucius Wong in his book Principles of Form and Design (page 42), point, line and plane can be considered conceptual design elements beca

Typography , Layouts , Inspiration , Design

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Fran Melo and Angie Bowen - Expressive Web Typography: Useful Examples and Techniques

Wherever we turn online, typography jumps out at us — sometimes literally, with the assistance of some clever coding. And now more than ever, we are seeing greater focus on this design element and i

Showcases , Typography , Web Design , Design

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Robert Bowen - What Is The Worst Design or Programming Mistake You’ve Ever Made?

Mistakes are made every day in the design and development world. It’s nothing to be ashamed of; it happens. In fact, mistakes are one of the most powerful learning tools at our disposal. Our mistake

Community , Errors , workflow , Security , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Lisa Valuyskaya - Designing and Producing Creative Business Cards: Techniques and Details

Plenty of creative business card showcases are available out there. Many of these are beautifully done and well thought out, and they serve as inspiration for those who would like their business car

CMYK , Print , Inspiration , Business Cards , Design , Business

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Sarah & Adrienne Kahn - Showcase of Interesting Navigation Designs

Three points to consider in any navigation scheme are consistency, user expectations and contextual clues. If page is long and provides different levels of navigation, will users be able to find th

Showcases , Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design

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