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Louis Lazaris - CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. As of this wri

testing , coding , Css , Essentials , Internet Explorer

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Jacob Gube - Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices

How can we create effective call to action buttons that grab the user’s attention and entice them to click? We’ll try to answer this question in this post by sharing some effective design techniques

Buttons , Showcases , Inspiration , Conversion

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Marc Edwards - Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development

Most people who have designed websites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aim

Photoshop , Tutorials , RGB , CMYK , Graphics , iphone

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Paul Boag - How To Persuade Your Users, Boss Or Clients

Like many in the Web design industry, I have a strange job. I am part salesperson, part consultant and part user experience designer. One day I could be pitching a new idea to a board of directors,

Clients , Communication , Business

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Jen Gordon - iPhone App Design Trends

However, some designers invest a lot of time and efforts into creating usable and original user interfaces (yes, there are usable and creative UIs). Further Reading on SmashingMag: How To Cre

Design Patterns , Trends , Showcases , mobile , iphone

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Cameron Chapman - 15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design

There are tons of mistakes that online retailers make every day, all of them avoidable with a little careful planning. And even if you’re already committing some of these mistakes, most of them are

ux , Usability , E-Commerce

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Tyler Tate - Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces

Clean. Easy to use. User-friendly. Intuitive. This mantra is proclaimed by many but often gets lost in translation. The culprit: complexity. How one deals with complexity can make or break an applic

ux , Usability , ui

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Robert Bowen - How To Draft A Freelance Contract

In the world of freelancing, the entrepreneur has to take on a number of tasks for themselves that would normally be handled by a separate department at a bigger company. Most of these tasks are not

Contracts , templates , Business

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Soh Tanaka - Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started

If you are getting your feet wet with CSS, this is the perfect time to fire up your favorite text editor and follow along in this tutorial as we cover the most common and practical uses of CSS. We’

coding , Css , Essentials

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Callum Chapman - The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials

Below we present 25 useful print design tutorials as well as a collection of inspirational links at the bottom of the post to improve your skills and get your imagination running wild. These tutoria

Tutorials , CMYK , Print , Graphics , Business Cards

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Andrew Follett - How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism

Whether you’re getting feedback from your boss or a client, having a proper perspective on criticism and a sound understanding of how to use it effectively is important. Unfortunately, not many peo

workflow , Teams , Clients , Business

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Cameron Chapman - 40+ Desert Island Web Development Tools

What would you do if you were suddenly stranded on a desert island in the middle of nowhere, with only a USB drive, a dial-up internet connection, and a barebones computer with no software outside t

Invoicing , Software , Tools , Gimp , Design , Time Savers

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Louis Lazaris - Search Results Design: Best Practices and Design Patterns

If you’ve been assigned to design or provide the architecture for a large e-commerce project or other information-heavy website whose success depends on content findability, it is vital that the des

Showcases , Search , Inspiration , Web Design

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Adeel Raza - Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone

Over the last couple of years, mobile devices have managed to gain mainstream popularity. With iPhone, making mobile Web applications finally usable by broad masses, web design can now be applied to

Design Patterns , mobile , Inspiration , iphone , ios

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Vailancio Rodrigues - Beautiful Examples of Kinetic Photography

When you hear the word ‘kinetic’ for the first time, probably the first thing that comes to your mind is motion. Kinetic Photography, also known as ‘camera tossing’, is a technique of shooting photo

Photography , Graphics

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Dmitry Fadeyev - 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines

Here are 10 useful usability findings and guidelines that may help you improve the user experience on your websites. 1. Form Labels Work Best Above The Field A study by UX Matters found that the i

User Research , ux , Usability , Psychology , Guidelines

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Melissa Scroggins - 40 Excellent Illustrator Tutorials

Learning is a process which continues throughout the life of an artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. Along the way, designers find the task of mastering Adobe Illustrator a large obstacle whic

Illustrator , Tutorials , Graphics , Drawing

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Cameron Chapman - Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources

CSS Font stacks are one of those things that elude a lot of designers. Many stick to the basic stacks Dreamweaver auto-recommends or go even more basic by just specifying a single web-safe font. Bu

Typography , coding , Css , Essentials

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Luke Wroblewski - Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface

But sometimes, it makes sense to think of the real world as an interface. To design user interactions that make use of how people actually see the world -to take advantage of first person user inter

ux , Interfaces , Usability , ui

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Steven Snell - Showcase of Case Studies in Design Portfolios

In this post we will be featuring more than 30 portfolio sites to show how they are using case studies from their own design projects to communicate with potential clients. Not all of them are refer

Portfolios , Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Christopher Fernandez - Urban Art Tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator

As we go through constructing this image, I encourage you to experiment with the skills you learn, applying them to your own style. Final Preview Illustration: Final As we go through constru

Illustrator , Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics

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Saud Khan - Effective Twitter Backgrounds: Examples and Current Practices

Smashing Magazine has been on Twitter for about a year now (@smashingmag), and it turned out to be a great medium to communicate with our audience, build connections, discuss design-related topics a

Twitter , Backgrounds , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns and Current Practices

Following the requests of our readers, we have carefully selected 55 design agencies and Web development agencies, analyzed their portfolio websites and identified popular design patterns. The main

Portfolios , Studies , Web Design , Design

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Paul Andrew - Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets

If you are designing a set, the actual design becomes a lot harder, the designer has to face two initial challenges: each icon they design has to be individual and distinctive from the other, and, t

Vectors , Graphics , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

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