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Vitaly Friedman - Behind The Scenes: What It Takes To Publish A Smashing Article

In this series of articles dedicated to our upcoming 10th anniversary (mid-September 2016), we’d love to shed some light on our editorial process, explain our workflow and introduce the people behin

workflow , Career , Events

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: August 2016

Since eight years, our monthly desktop wallpapers challenge is a Smashing favorite that wouldn’t be possible without the tireless efforts of talented designers and artists from across the globe. On

Wallpapers , Graphics , templates

Vitaly Friedman - Freebie: Olympics Sports Icon Set (45 Icons, EPS, PDF, PNG, SVG)

This year, there will be 42 different sports and over 300 events taking place at the Olympics. Perhaps you have a project related to these upcoming games, or maybe you’ll be working on a project whi

Icons , Freebies , templates

Vitaly Friedman - Grab Your Sunglasses: 40 Vibrant Icons To Welcome Summer

You deserve a vacation, don’t you think? Now, you might need icons on your website to indicate that you’re away, or even use some for your auto-reply. For whatever reason you decide to use today’s i

Icons , Freebies , templates

Vitaly Friedman - Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration For July

With the summer holidays coming up, I’d like to share a couple of inspirational illustrations and photos which I hope will help you daydream and relax. There’s no doubt that there are a lot of great

Inspiration , Illustrations , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: July 2016

To help you start into July freshly inspired, artists and designers from across the globe challenged their artistic abilities and created desktop wallpapers for you to indulge in. This monthly creat

Wallpapers , Graphics , templates

Vitaly Friedman - 12 Colorful Months And Seasons Illustrations [Freebie]

Time goes by fast, so today we’d like to share a colorful freebie to remind ourselves to appreciate each and every month of the year. Have you stopped to smell the pink blooming trees in March, or p

Wallpapers , Freebies , templates

Vitaly Friedman - How To Roll Out New Features Without Hurting Loyal Users

“Be agile; release early; release often.” We know the drill. But is it strategically wise to keep rolling out features often? Especially once a product you’re building reaches a certain size, you pr

workflow , Guides , Best Practices , testing , Strategy , Design , Business

Vitaly Friedman - Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration (June 2016)

There’s no doubt that simple design is hard, since it requires much more thought and inspiration. It’s about understanding exactly what your users need. Colors play a major role, and today I’d like

Inspiration , Illustrations , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: June 2016

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting and unique artwork, and as designers, we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fac

Wallpapers , Graphics , templates

Vitaly Friedman - Smart Responsive Design Patterns, Or When Off-Canvas Isn’t Good Enough

Design patterns often have a bad reputation. They are often considered to be quick, lazy, off-the-shelf solutions that are applied blindly without consideration of the context of a problem. Solution

Design Patterns , Best Practices , Responsive Design , ux , coding , Web Design , ui

Vitaly Friedman - 40 Otherworldly Space Icons [Freebie]

We’ve featured a lot of different icon sets in the past, but we still haven’t had one dedicated to rockets, satellites and solar systems (well, don’t forget supernatural aliens as well). There’s so

Icons , Freebies , templates

Vitaly Friedman - Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration (May 2016)

Today we’ll be looking at eye candy that will undoubtedly help you start the new week with your creativity freshly nurtured. Grab your cup of coffee or tea, and let these designs shine on you with t

Inspiration , Illustrations , Design

Vitaly Friedman - On Design Systems: Sell The Output, Not The Workflow

So how do you sell a design system to the client? How do you establish a shared commitment within the company to put a pattern library on the roadmap? As designers and developers, we often know and

workflow , Design Patterns , Best Practices , Responsive Design , Design Systems , Business

Vitaly Friedman - 39 Tuneful Musical Instruments Icons [Freebie]

Music plays an important part in all cultures and comes in many forms. It’s a great way to stimulate our thinking and our creativity, and music instruments often even support therapy and healing. D

Graphics , Icons , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: May 2016

We always try to challenge your artistic abilities and create some interesting and inspiring artwork. As a matter of fact, we discovered the best source for inspiration: desktop wallpapers that are

Wallpapers , Graphics , templates

Vitaly Friedman - Freebie: Hotel And Spa Icon Set (55 Icons PNG, SVG)

Our daily routine can be quite challenging at times. The more roadblocks we experience in fulfilling the demands of our workplace, the more we look forward to a seamless holiday experience to break

Graphics , Icons , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration (April 2016)

As designers, we have our good and bad days. Some days ideas come naturally. Other days we struggle or have moments where we are really stuck. We are in urgent need of inspiration. Let me help you g

Inspiration , Illustrations , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: April 2016

Since eight years, we start into the new month with a collection of desktop wallpapers — the best way to fuel some fresh inspiration, as we find. And it’s not any different this time around. Designe

Wallpapers , Graphics , templates

Vitaly Friedman - Printed Smashing Books

We care about quality content and work hard to support and spread best practices, innovative techniques and forward-thinking ideas. Our printed Smashing Books are crafted to deliver in-depth knowled

Guides , Events , Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - Useful WordPress Tools, Themes And Plugins

If you’re looking for some great ways to improve your WordPress workflow, read on for a massive collection of free themes, plugins, tools and tutorials. These resources were all linked via the Smash

wordpress , Tools , Freebies , Themes , plugins

Vitaly Friedman - Dirty Tricks From The Dark Corners Of Front-End (Slides, PDF)

You know how it works: you spend hours trying to find a workaround for a problem that you have encountered, just to realize that it doesn’t quite work in, you know, that browser. Finding little tech

Responsive Design , mobile , coding , Css , Javascript

Vitaly Friedman - Monday Morning Design Inspiration

Some people seem to have a magic touch when it comes to digging up design goodness. Veerle Pieters is one of them. As she explores print and web design, photography, art and type, she uncovers a lot

Inspiration , Illustrations , Design

Vitaly Friedman - A Never-Ending Story On Ad-Blockers

Desperate times call for desperate measures. In attempts to fight back against the growing adoption of ad-blockers, many publishers and ad-dependent websites adopt all kinds of techniques from intro

Advertising , ux , Income , Business