Aug 09 2010

Julia May - Business Card Design Starter Kit: Showcase, Tutorials, Templates

Professionals in any field should always keep business cards on them because you never know when you’ll meet a potential client, partner or like-minded person. Despite their small size, business car

Print , Showcases , Inspiration , Business Cards , Design , Business

Nov 18 2025

Frederick O’Brien - Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. This gives us

Inspiration , User Experience , Content Strategy , Design

Sep 07 2010

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

Oct 06 2008

György Fekete - 7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design

It’s hard to define design. We have a broad range of definitions to choose from: design refers not only to graphic design, but to design strategy, too. It is used in a variety of industries, such as

Principles , Graphics , Corporate , Web Design , Logo Design

Aug 18 2010

Jeremy Girard - Giving Users Some Credit

Websites are designed to be used by people of varying backgrounds, educations and technical levels. One of the challenges we face when designing for the Web is finding a way to create sites and appl

Content , Web Design , Content Strategy , Business

Oct 21 2011

Paul Scrivens - Web Designer, Be Your Best Promoter

Have you ever had someone flirt with you and they did nothing but demean themselves the whole time? Did that make you attracted to them? Doubtful. Yet, this is how so many individuals seem to handle

Marketing , workflow , Business

Feb 13 2010

Lee Munroe - The Definitive Guide To Styling Links With CSS

So without links, we’d be lost. We look for them on the page when we want to venture further. Sure, we pause to read a bit, but inevitably we end up clicking a link of some sort. Further Reading on

seo , Web Design , Design

Mar 26 2008

Sean Hodge - Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques

Grid systems bring visual structure and balance to site design. As a tool grids are useful for organizing and presenting information. Used properly, they can enhance the user experience by creating

Techniques , Grids , Layouts , Web Design , Design

Feb 04 2009

Matt Cronin - The Web Design Navigation Menu - Articles And A Beautiful Showcase

This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful and popular Smashing Magazine’s articles related to Web Design navigation and published here over all the years. The

Showcases , Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design

Jan 04 2010

Jacob Gube - Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends

The navigation menu is perhaps a website’s single most important component. Navigation gives you a window onto the website designer’s creative ability to produce a functional yet visually impressive

Showcases , Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design

May 28 2009

Dmitry Fadeyev - 12 Tips For Designing an Excellent Checkout Process

Shopping online can be a great experience. You don’t have to leave the comfort of your home and you can quickly compare and read about all the competing products in order to pick the best one for yo

ux , Usability , E-Commerce