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Jad Limcaco - 100 Years of Movie Title Stills

I’m always observing graphic design in different things. The other day, while I was watching something on TV, the design of the title screen caught my attention. I figured that this would be a great

Creativity , Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Cool Javascript Examples And CSS3 Tricks

Although the browser support of CSS 3 is limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and

Techniques , coding , Css , Resources , Javascript

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Francisco Inchauste - UX Storytelling For A Better User Experience (Part One)

Stories have defined our world. They have been with us since the dawn of communication, from cave walls to the tall tales recounted around fires. They have continued to evolve with their purpose rem

Storytelling , ux , Emotional Design

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Cameron Chapman - Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color

There are few things in design that are more subjective—or more important—than the use of color. A color that can evoke one reaction in one person may evoke the opposite reaction in another, due to

Graphic Design , Color Theory , Design Principles , Colors , Design

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Jad Limcaco - Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien From the Eyes of Designers

The past couple of weeks, the media has been in a frenzy. When news that Conan O’Brien was getting the boot from NBC, there suddenly was an uproar. Everyone was defending Conan, including designers.

Creativity , Inspiration , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Book: Already Got Yours?

Many things have been happening with and around The Smashing Book in recent weeks. You must have read or heard that it would fall apart immediately upon being opened (okay, that’s a bit of an exagge

Events , Smashing Books

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Tom Walker - Indispensable Browser Based Apps

There are browser based alternatives to almost every traditional piece of software you frequently use, whether it’s for word processing, image editing, listening to music, screen sharing, storing fi

Tools , Apps , Resources

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Aygul Zagidullina - Showcase Of Web Design In Germany

German design is certainly worthy of respect and a delight to the eye of anyone who takes the time to observe it. For years, we have accumulated knowledge, upheld eternal principles of style, simpli

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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ZURB - The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects

Previously in this series on CSS3, we talked not only about how to create scalable and compelling buttons but about how to effectively use new CSS3 properties to speed up development and quickly cre

css3 , coding , Css

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Melissa Scroggins - Don’t Forget The Small Stuff This Year

Whether a designer, developer, blogger, or freelancer, you surely have a to-do list on which certain items slowly inch their way down. These forgotten items add up fast! Think of all the items that

workflow , Productivity , Design , Business

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Julia May - 35 Beautiful E-Commerce Websites

Despite any financial recession and economic stress, online purchasing continues to grow. Expansion of the market and evolving technology that simplifies our daily lives help to set the pace of e-co

Showcases , Inspiration , E-Commerce

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Christian Heilmann - Find The Right JavaScript Solution With A 7-Step Test

As Web developers and designers, we are spoilt for choice right now. To build a complex Web application or even just spice up a website with some highly interactive interface element, we have hundre

testing , coding , Javascript

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Ilie Ciorba - Create a Cute Little Tiger in Illustrator

The tiger is one of the coolest animals in the earth. It’s a very powerful, dangerous, yet fascinating animal. In this tutorial, we will be drawing the tiger, but we will be doing it a little bit di

Illustrator , Tutorials

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Tom Giannattasio - Photoshop Secrets: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers

We all have shortcuts that are essential to our daily workflow. A majority of them are staples such as Copy (Command + C) and Paste (Command + V), but occasionally we stumble upon a shortcut we wish

Photoshop , Graphics , Time Savers

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Mathew Patterson - Design And Build HTML Newsletter Without Losing Your Mind

“We really love this new website you’ve built! Now we’d like to send out an email to all of our customers, friends and anyone, and it should look exactly like the website except with a spinning mail

Newsletters , Guides , Content Strategy

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Jad Limcaco - Letterhead Fonts: Typography Eye Candy

The other day, while I was sorting out and organizing my bookmarks, I ran across this site called Letterhead Fonts. I had completely forgotten about this site and the moment I saw it, I knew I had t

Typography , Inspiration

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Andrea Austoni - The Legacy Of Polish Posters

Before the era of globalized entertainment made movie posters look the same in every country, Polish artists were creating their own versions for the internal market. What resulted was a whole schoo

Graphic Design , Inspiration , Posters

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Christian Heilmann - Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?

Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate t

php , Security , coding , Javascript

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Richard Glover - Principles of Great Design: Craftsmanship

I love beautiful things. There’s very little in the world that takes my breath away quite like an object that was lovingly crafted, built with care and passion, and presented with the sort of pride

workflow , Inspiration , Web Design

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Janine Coover, Nick Gould - Shopping For Bedsheets: How Hard Could It Be? (Usability Study)

Online shopping is a great way to economize and reduce the stress of shopping, but shopping online for certain types of products can be harder than shopping in person. Recently, I looked at how well

ux , Usability

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Vitaly Friedman - 45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript–Techniques

CSS and JavaScript are extremely powerful tools for designers and developers. However, sometimes it’s difficult to come up with the one excellent idea that would solve a problem that you are facing

Techniques , coding , Css , Javascript

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Robert Bowen - Creatively Handling the Admin Side of Freelancing

And for the most part, a creative mind fits well in this freelance environment because they ultimately call all the shots and are bound by very few restraints — for the most part. This road, howeve

workflow , Productivity , Business

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Louis Lazaris - The Case Against Vertical Navigation

In a recent article about unusable and superficial beer and alcohol websites, I made the claim that using left-hand vertical navigation is an out-of-date method in modern web design. In the comments

Navigation , Web Design , Design

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Callum Chapman - Showcase Of Beautiful Vintage and Retro Signage

To celebrate the beauty of vintage and retro typography, we have compiled a showcase of vintage and retro signage to inspire you: a great excuse to take five minutes out to admire the styles, whethe

Showcases , Typography , Inspiration

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