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Andy Budd - How To Become A Better Speaker At Conferences

During my time curating the UX London and Leading Design events, I used to watch a few hundred presentations each year. I’d be looking at a range of things, including the speaker’s domain experience

Guides , Conferences , Career , Events

Dan Redding - The Overlooked Importance of Professional Journalism

The Web is a galaxy of information that is rapidly expanding. Blogs and online magazines are helping shape the future of this Information Age that we live in. Those of us who read, write and design

Inspiration , Content , Business

Lee Munroe - The Ultimate Guide To Push Notifications For Developers

I’ve spent the past several years building messaging tools — for more than three years now I’ve been leading the design team at OneSignal, a customer engagement platform that enables developers and

Guides , mobile , Apps , User Experience

Steven Snell - The Ultimate Collection Of Custom Photoshop Shapes

Photoshop users are able to benefit from the vast amount of high-quality resources that are freely available to the community. Brushes get a lot of attention, but Photoshop shapes are also extremely

Photoshop , Graphics , Downloads , Freebies

Preethi Sam - The Things Users Would Appreciate In Mobile Apps

Remember the “mobile first” mantra? The idea was born out of the early days of responsive web design. Rather than design and build for the “desktop” up front, a “mobile-first” approach treats small

mobile , Web Design , User Experience , ui

Matt Cronin - Drawing Inspiration From Creative Logos

Below we present a showcase of 50 beautiful, clever and creative logo designs that will hopefully inspire you. If you take a closer look at the showcase below, you will notice many trends. Some of t

Showcases , Graphics , Inspiration , Logo Design

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

Daniel Yuschick - Keys To An Accessibility Mindset

How many times have you heard this when asking about web accessibility? “It’s something we’d like to do more of, but we don’t have the time or know-how.” From a broad perspective, web accessibility

Accessibility , User Experience , Design

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Integrating Design And Code With Native Design Tokens In Penpot

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Penpot, whose mission is to provide an open-source and open-standards platform to bring collaboration between designers and developer

Design Systems , Design , ui

Sergey Chikuyonok - PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques

This post is a second part of the article Clever PNG Optimization Techniques that we posted last week. As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-f

optimization , Techniques , png , Design

Victor Yocco - Embracing Introversion In UX

I place myself firmly in the category of being an introvert when it comes to my role as a UX researcher. I love the process of planning and executing research. I have never felt a need to be the lou

workflow , ux , Design

Sean Hodge - Photoshop Rainbow, Light, and Glow Effect Tutorials

Lighting and glow effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails

Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics

Dan Mayer - Design Legacy: A Social History Of Jamaican Album Covers

Mention Jamaican music to someone who isn’t a fan and you can bet that a fairly predictable image pops into the head of your listener. Chances are this image looks something like the cover of Bim Sh

Graphic Design , Covers , Inspiration , Design

Paras Chopra - Multivariate Testing 101: A Scientific Method Of Optimizing Design

In a previous article on Smashing Magazine, I described A/B testing and various resources related to it. I have also covered the basics of multivariate testing in the past, yet in this post I’ll go

testing , Usability , Design

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

Frederick O’Brien - Designing Web Design Documentation

As an occasionally competent software developer, I love good documentation. It explains not only how things work but why they work the way they do. At its best, documentation is much more than a gui

workflow , Best Practices , Web Design , Design Systems

Jad Limcaco - The Benefits of Experimentation

"The true method of knowledge is experiment." - William Blake I spend a fair amount of time working on web design. After a full day at the office, it’s not uncommon for me to come home and work on

workflow , Creativity , Inspiration , Web Design , Skills

Kat Neville - How To Design Style Guides For Brands And Websites

A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio.One way to help those who take over your projects is

Branding , Style Guides , Design , Logo Design

Louis Lazaris - Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers

Because this industry moves so quickly, learning new skills is a regular thing for most of us. Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and app

Round-Ups , Css , Javascript

Luis Ouriach - Ten Tips For Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 2)

Since you’re probably coming from Part 1, you may already know that I’ve been living and breathing user interface and product design for just over a decade now and had no one (or to be more exact, v

workflow , Portfolios , Inspiration , Career , Design

Sven Lennartz - Online Converters

Online converters always come in handy. Once you need to perform some operation with your files, they can save your time achieving the same results online, without installing some specific software.

workflow , Tools