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Author Smashing Magazine , Christian Krammer
If you’re designing for the web today, you are probably using Sketch. We do, too, so we created The Sketch Handbook: our brand new Smashing book, filled with many practical examples and tutorials in 12 jam-packed chapters. This book will help you master all the tri....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Smashing Magazine , Heydon Pickering
We make inaccessible and unusable websites and apps all the time, but it’s not for lack of skill or talent. It’s just a case of doing things the wrong way. We try to build the best experiences we can, but we only make them for ourselves and for people like us.This ....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Smashing Magazine
For a lot of people, WordPress is the entry into web development. And a lot of them don’t stop there. They want more control over their WordPress site, so customizing design and functionality is the next logical step. If WordPress got you hooked, and you want to ge....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Author Smashing Magazine
The Mobile Book Addendum provides insights into design and development for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, as well as introduces developing and debugging techniques for advanced HTML5 Web applications and explore UX patterns on these platforms. Show and....
Release Date 2015/12 -
How To Create Selling E-Commerce Websites, Vol. 2
Author Smashing Magazine
With more and more people reaching out for their smartphones and tablets to shop online, mobile e-commerce is set to reach $86 billion by 2016 — a development that brings along entirely new demands on e-commerce websites. After our first e-commerce eBook was publis....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Content Strategy, Vol. 2: Planning, Producing And Maintaining Quality Content
Author Smashing Magazine
A brilliant design deserves brilliant content. Content that is intuitive, compelling and flexible. With the help of this eBook, you will learn to face the content challenge. Take it as your guide through the critical phases of content planning, production and maint....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Practical Approaches For Designing Accessible Websites
Author Smashing Magazine
We design with viewports in mind, keep track of loading times, and hunt down even the smallest browser bugs — all to create the best possible user experience. But despite all these efforts to constantly improve our products, there’s still one aspect that, unfortuna....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design
Author Smashing Magazine
Responsive design is a default these days, but we are all still figuring out just the right process and techniques to better craft responsive websites. That’s why Smashing Magazine created a new book — to gather practical techniques and strategies ....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Typography: Practical Considerations And Design Patterns
Author Smashing Magazine
Typography is a very powerful design element. Whenever we have a typographic system in place, we can use it to structure content, communicate ideas and even enhance meaning. However, employing it in a way that masters that delicate balance between being unobtrusive....
Release Date 2015/06 -
A Field Guide To User Research
Author Smashing Magazine
User research is an effective strategy to gain a deeper understanding of your target audience — a crucial step in order to choose efficient design solutions and build smart products. But what has to be considered when conducting user research? What methods have pro....
Release Date 2015/04 -
A Career On The Web: On The Road To Success
Author Smashing Magazine
There comes a time in everyone's career when changing jobs is the natural next step. Perhaps you’re looking for a new challenge or you feel like you’ve hit a wall in your current company? Either way, you’re standing at a crossroad, with an overwhelming amount of p....
Release Date 2015/03 -
A Career On The Web: Assuming Leadership
Author Smashing Magazine
Taking the step from being a member of a digital team to becoming a leader can be quite overwhelming. Having proven that you excel in the technical aspects of your job is most probably beyond question, but a leadership position will naturally confront you with enti....
Release Date 2015/03 -
The Web In Motion: Practical Considerations For Designing With Animation
Author Smashing Magazine
Animation is not about mere decoration, but (when used sparingly) can turn out to be a catalyst for making the interaction with a website more intuitive and memorable. So, what is the current state of animation on the web? Where is it heading? And how can you tackl....
Release Date 2015/02 -
WordPress Maintenance: Keeping Your Website Safe And Efficient
Author Smashing Magazine
Since its emergence back in 2003, WordPress has evolved from a humble blogging platform to a sophisticated CMS which today powers the websites of some of the world’s largest companies. However, with security flaws making the news every once in a while, many may sti....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author Smashing Magazine
Web design is more than a job. It’s a passion. However, keeping up with the immense pace at which the web industry is moving can feel quite intimidating at times and stress or even a burnout can strike all of us someday. With this eBook, we want to raise awareness ....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Unlocking Innovation: How To Generate And Realize Great Ideas
Author Smashing Magazine
Some of us feel super creative while lying awake at 4.30 in the morning, while others generate idea after idea in the shower, or while taking a walk outside. How we find and feed inspiration is different from person to person, but we all have something in common: o....
Release Date 2014/11 -
Author Smashing Magazine
HTML email has the reputation of being a particularly tough design medium. Buggy email clients stripping out your CSS or the spammy image that one-to-many emails not seldomly partake of, i.e. building compelling emails is quite a challenge for designers. With openi....
Release Date 2014/11 -
Performance Optimization: Techniques And Strategies
Author Smashing Magazine
Slow loading times break the user experience of any website — no matter how well crafted it might be. In fact, it only takes three seconds until users lose their interest in a site if they don't get a response immediately. If another site happens to be 250ms faste....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Navigation & Interaction, Vol. 2
Author Smashing Magazine
While users expect content to be unique and exciting, they also prefer clear, predictable patterns when it comes to navigation. After all, navigation is merely a means to an end: consuming content without hassle and not spending too much time looking for it. The fo....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Making It Right: Product Management For A Startup World
Author Rian van der Merwe , Smashing Magazine
Product management is one of the most exhausting, exhilarating, stressful, and rewarding careers out there. It’s not for the faint of heart. It’s for people who want to move mountains. It swallows some whole, but others derive endless invigoration and passion from ....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Responsive Web Design: Solutions For Responsive Images
Author Smashing Magazine
With the limitations that the tag brings along, images have long been a major obstacle when wanting to create truly responsible, fast, responsive websites. Luckily, the upcoming element and srcset/sizes are about to finally change this. However, even in the meant....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Apps For All: Coding Accessible Web Applications
Author Heydon Pickering , Smashing Magazine
Accessibility is not just about addressing specific disabilities, but making sure as many people as possible have access to the same information. There’s rarely a good reason to lock people out when openness is a foundational principle of the web. Web a....
Release Date 2014/06 -
Clients: Friends You Never Had
Author Smashing Magazine
A fruitful and balanced cooperation with clients is the dream of every designer. However, to bring this dream to reality, designers constantly need to prepare for the various challenges that different clients tend to bring along. But what can you do to generally im....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Inside Creative Minds: Workflows, Habits And Strategies
Author Smashing Magazine
The key to successful projects and products are the people behind them. Have you ever found yourself wondering how these thinkers and creators of the Web actually work, and how they tackle their projects? Where do they seek inspiration, and what are the lessons the....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Better Backbone Applications with MarionetteJS
Author Joseph Zimmerman , Smashing Magazine
Backbone.js is a growing, popular library for building JavaScript-based web applications in a well-structured, organized and maintainable way, using patterns similar to MVC. If you already have a working knowledge of Backbone, it's now time to take your appli....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Smashing Magazine , Paul Boag
The web has changed the rules of business. The best practices of the industrial economy no longer apply in the digital age. What was once safe ground is no longer so, and organizations need to adapt.Sector after sector have been transformed by the new digital econo....
Release Date 2014/02 -
Author Smashing Magazine
Responsive Web Design has evolved rapidly in the last few years and considering recent growth of mobile, the demands for responsive solutions are growing further. To help you prepare for the challenges of a more diverse device landscape as well as a growing number ....
Release Date 2014/02 -
Behind The Scenes Of Real-Life Projects
Author Smashing Magazine
Is there anything more insightful than learning about the workflows from fellow designers and developers, and what techniques they use? What made their projects a stunning success, and how do they overcome missteps? With this eBook, we’ll take a closer look at the ....
Release Date 2013/12 -
Smashing Book #4 — New Perspectives on Web Design
Author Smashing Magazine
Written by well-respected designers and developers, the 4th Smashing Book contains lots of actionable takeaways that will help you in your daily routine. Think of it as a reliable playbook for issues that keep following you in every project. This book is for you be....
Release Date 2013/11 -
Author Smashing Magazine
Taming CSS Complexity is a collection of 11 CSS-packed chapters that are all about performance- and developer-friendly coding. In order to achieve a well-rounded coding experience, the Smashing Magazine authors have explored the complexity of CSS from different per....
Release Date 2013/10