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Steven Bradley - Designing For A Hierarchy Of Needs

Is this true? Or could a design that’s hard to use still succeed because it makes users more proficient or meets certain creative needs? Do you have to get all of the low-level needs exactly right b

Web Design , Design

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Aurimas Adomavicius - How To Successfully Educate Your Clients On Web Development

As designers, our core purpose is to solve business challenges for our clients. No, I haven’t forgotten you Mac-loving, single-mouse-button-fanatic designers. A business solution includes an applica

Clients , Communication , Business

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Nick Burd - Choosing Your First Full Time Position Wisely

Being a web developer or designer is a great job. Working full-time doing the things you love and having the ability to work freelance on the side is a plus. But being a college student looking for

workflow , Career , Skills , Business

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Edgar Leijs - Showcase Of Web Design In The Netherlands

The Netherlands, also known as the “Low Countries,” is a small, crowded, muddy piece of land through which a few big important rivers fortunately run. In this country, you can find coffee shops, woo

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Scott Belsky - How I Make Ideas Happen - 5 Tips

Some creative people and teams are able to defy the odds and make their ideas happen, time and again. In my work, I have spent the better part of five years meeting these exceptional people and chro

Ideas , Innovation , Design

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Christian Heilmann - 7 JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career

I’ve been writing JavaScript code for much longer than I care to remember. I am very excited about the language’s recent success; it’s good to be a part of that success story. I’ve written dozens of

Career , coding , Javascript

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Jacob Gube - Showcase Of Beautiful Vertical Navigation Designs

Go to any website and you’re guaranteed to find one thing: a navigation menu. Navigation menus enable visitors to move from page to page; without them, we would have no way to conveniently explore w

Showcases , Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design

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Juliya Izgiyeva - The Beauty of Knitting, Sewing and Crochet

This showcase is supposed to provide you with some creative ideas for knitting, sewing and crochet. We want you to get inspired for handcraft and creative arts. After going through this showcase fol

Art , Inspiration

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Aurimas Adomavicius - The Designer Who Delivers

Determining Factors In Number Of Mock-Ups To Deliver As the owner of a small business, I have watched our company grow from a part-time, basement-dwelling, under-the-radar operation to a small busi

workflow , Communication , Business

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Jen Gordon - Useful Design Tips For Your iPad App

Design For People Apps will define the iPad, it’s true. But in developing your app idea, which comes first, the idea or the device? Good news: neither. It’s people! When brainstorming and researchi

mobile , Apps , ios , Design , ipad

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Christian Heilmann - PHP: What You Need To Know To Play With The Web

You won’t come out a professional PHP developer, but you’ll be well on your way to building a small page that uses Web services. You can find a lot of great PHP info on the Web, and most of the time

php , coding

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Vitaly Friedman - 750 Web Designer Icons [Freebie]

Over the last 1.5 years, Oliver Pitsch was designing and preparing an “ultimate web designer icon set” exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Today we release the third, final version of

Icons , Freebies , PSD

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Julia May - What If Oscars Were Given To Movie Websites?

Most modern movie websites are built in Flash, even when it’s totally unjustified. The websites often lack usability standards and require users to click through splash pages and introductions in or

Movies , Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Mel Ndiweni - Meeting Your Client for the First Time

When I first started out as a freelancer and got my first client – the prospect of meeting him was daunting to say the least. Over time, my confidence grew which led me to write a short overview of

workflow , Clients , Business

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Andrew Maier - The Path To Advertising Nirvana

With advertising, a curious thing happens: most people want its benefits but are rarely willing to put up with its hassles. Those who run websites and applications have enough on their plates withou

Advertising , ux , Usability

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Brad Cooper - The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites

In the current landscape of technology and accessing the Internet through devices such as picture frames, netbooks, cell phones and televisions, the benefits of Web standards outweigh those of Flash

performance , Flash , Standards , Web Design , Games , Design

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Christopher Butler - Holistic Web Browsing: Trends Of The Future

The future of the Web is everywhere. The future of the Web is not at your desk. It’s not necessarily in your pocket, either. It’s everywhere. With each new technological innovation, we continue to b

Trends , future , Inspiration , Web Design , Personalization

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Robert Bowen - Dealing With Clients Who Refuse To Pay

As a designer, you will eventually have to face a couple of unfortunate truths in your career. Number one: just because you wear a bathrobe for most of your “business” hours does not actually make i

Contracts , Clients , Income , Business

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Steven Snell - Web Designer’s Guide To Professional Networking

Professional networking is a critical component to a successful career as a designer. Whether it be for finding new clients or identifying opportunities for growth and improvement, a strong network

Teams , Clients , Networking , Business

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Francisco Inchauste - The Dying Art Of Design

Taking a close look at the current state of design, we can see that sometimes modern design tools and processes do more harm than good. Please note that in preparing this article, we presented basic

Art , Web Design , Design

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Brett Davis - The Basics of Business Card Design

A business card in some cases is the most important marketing piece that a company will have. It has the potential to make or break business deals, and is just as important as the way you present yo

workflow , Inspiration , Business Cards , Design , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - Imperial Porcelain: Free Icon Set

Today we are glad to release Imperial Porcelain Icons Set, a set with 5 beautiful original icons in .png (160×160px). This set was designed by Roman Khramov and released especially for Smashing Maga

Downloads , Icons , Freebies

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Kari Patila - The Sad State Of The Web Design Community

Editor’s Note This article is the first in our new series of “opinion columns,” in which we give people in the Web design community a platform to raise their voice and present their opinion on some

Community , Opinion Column , General

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Christian Heilmann - Progressive Enhancement And Standards Do Not Limit Web Design

Lately I have been getting bored and annoyed with people getting up in arms against Web standards and the ideas of progressive enhancement, claiming that they hold us back from creating a rich, beau

Process , Web Design , Discussions , Opinion Column , Design

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