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Marketing Secrets For Web Designers
Author Smashing Magazine
Marketing is an essential part of Web design and knowing its 101 helps designers see their design decisions in a broader context. As jumping in at the deep edge and simply starting off marketing can be quite delicate, "Marketing Secrets For Web Designers" is a comp....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Smashing Magazine
Even the most thought-out and best-planned user experience can get lost when attention to certain details falls short. To raise awareness for those little things that add up to an ideal user experience, we have put together "Designing Better UX".The practical appro....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Smashing Magazine
In "Rethinking UX", various UX professionals share their lessons learned and provide practical advice from their very own personal experience. The eBook is packed with interesting thoughts and concepts that let us reflect on our own practices. Every designer has th....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Smashing Magazine
Writing for the Web has many facets and uses. As one of the most sought-after and needed skills, it has often become an exercise of bringing together a brand with a voice. This eBook takes a look at many different aspects of copywriting in the online sector. F....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Creativity Lessons For Web Designers
Author Smashing Magazine
"Creativity" is a term that often partakes of something mysterious and nearly magical — something that we are blessed with, something like an ambivalent, secret power that one moment strikes us unexpectedly, and then puts us on hold when we desperately try to come ....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Smashing Magazine
What is it that makes a website stand out from the crowd? What makes it memorable and meaningful? This eBook wants to approach these questions. It's in no means a step-by-step guide to follow, but rather a collection of thoughts to give you some general impulses a....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Designing Mobile Apps — Tips And Techniques
Author Smashing Magazine
This eBook provides you with some useful tips and tricks, regardless of whether you're taking your first steps in app design or looking to adopt some best practices from industry pros. To help you broadly position your future app, our authors cover the three bigge....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Responsive Web Design: Getting The New Baseline In Web Design Right
Author Smashing Magazine
With the advent of responsive techniques, design patterns and off-the-shelf components, responsive Web design has become more than a technique — but rather a new mindset that requires us all to rethink and extend our practices. Responsive design is also about perfo....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Author Smashing Magazine
This eBook featuring some of the most memorable and useful articles that have been published on Smashing Magazine in the last few years — all of them carefully selected and thoroughly edited. Ranging from heavily discussed topics such as responsive Web d....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Business Considerations In WordPress Economy
Author Smashing Magazine
WordPress is an economy in its own right. To really understand this, one has to know its history. In this eBook, you can find out about the economy that developed around this revolutionary CMS. The authors will introduce you to WordPress development, show you ....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Useful Tricks And Techniques For WordPress
Author Smashing Magazine
As one of the leading forms of content management on the Web, WordPress offers users and developers a lot of options, yet its versatility is often underestimated. These authors will help you understand more of what WordPress is capable of. You'll learn simple....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Author Smashing Magazine
Web design is not just about a flamboyant or simply beautiful website appearance. This book is about small — but crucial — details, in a specialty that is all about details. Whether you're interested in determining the right paragraph layout or typographic details....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Author Smashing Magazine
Typography is everywhere. If you walk out the door, you will be hard pressed to find any element of our daily lives that doesn't involve or rely on typography. The prevalence of typography is not limited only to the analog world. This eBook introduces histori....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Author Smashing Magazine
If content is king, then the art of messaging is what will drive your product, business or idea forward. This comprehensive eBook delves into the world of content, providing beginners as well as communications professionals with a fundamental understanding of ....
Release Date 2013/03 -
Understanding Advanced JavaScript
Author Smashing Magazine
This book is an exploration of popular advanced JavaScript concepts for those who already have a grasp on the basics. "Understanding Advanced JavaScript" is a comprehensive manual and how-to guide about all things JavaScript. Learn to design better APIs, use t....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Practical JavaScript Techniques
Author Smashing Magazine
Present across millions of websites and growing in popularity, JavaScript is an essential and practical for all programmers, designers and coding aficionados. "Practical JavaScript Techniques" offers expert instruction, tips and methodologies relevant for all ....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Author Smashing Magazine
Whether you're creating a game or a website, a lasting bond with users is more often than not the result of emotional attachment. Knowing the ins and outs of emotional design will enable you to imbue your creation with personality and to shape the user's per....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Author Smashing Magazine
The foundations of good UX design lie in transparent navigation and interaction patterns and systems. A solid understanding of the rules is as important as knowing when to break them. How should you set up menus for optimal usability? Does mobile UX design fol....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Author Smashing Magazine
When it comes to mobile, there are more open questions than definitive answers. Due to its fragmentation, it's not so easy to understand how mobile market looks and works in general. How to pick the right mobile strategy and select the right approach for your webs....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Author Smashing Magazine
With an interface similar to other creative software from Adobe, Fireworks allows Web Designers to create interfaces and prototypes for their websites. It's especially helpful to see whether your application works properly before moving onto the development s....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Author Smashing Magazine
One of the most beloved vector graphic softwares among Web Designers is Adobe Illustrator. But getting to know all of its tools and features can be time-consuming. With this eBook we try to ease the learning process for you. You'll get to learn how to create graph....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Author Smashing Magazine
Like most elements (such as typography, color, layout and content), photography is a crucial component on interfaces and for websites. This is one of the reasons why new tools are created by heavy users of Photoshop. This eBook "Mastering Photoshop, Vol. 3" of....
Release Date 2012/09 -
User Experience: Practical Techniques, Vol. 2
Author Smashing Magazine
By now, all good designers and developers realize the importance of Usability for their work. Usable websites offer great user experience, and great user experience lead to happy customers. This eBook features 6 selected articles on user interface engineering ....
Release Date 2012/05 -
A Field Guide To Usability Testing
Author Smashing Magazine
Testing both Usability and User Experience are vital for creating a successful website – even more so if it's an e-commerce website, a complex app, or any another complex website. Unlike interviews or focus groups (that attempt to get users to accuratel....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Smashing Book #3⅓ — The Extension
Author Smashing Magazine
Smashing Book 3⅓, otherwise known as "The Extension", presents practical applications of storytelling to Web design, reviews emerging navigation design patterns and helps you understand how to meaningfully employ content strategy in your websites.With Web design, w....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Practical Approaches For Designing Usable Websites
Author Smashing Magazine
The User Centered Design process is based on various steps, and for each of these steps there are appropriate methods. These methods can help improve the usability (and usefulness) of your website. This eBook provides you several techniques that will help make....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Author Smashing Magazine
The number of online solutions provided for JavaScript is growing every day. However, the workflow of Web developers and designers frequently culminates to confusion and disorientation due the information overflow. In order to organize this information and pro....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Author Smashing Magazine
jQuery is well-known for being a concise JavaScript library that helps simplify HTML document traversing, event handling, creating animations and Ajax interactions for rapid Web development. Choosing the right plugins, creating bookmarklets, setting patterns o....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Author Smashing Magazine
These eBooks are the long-awaited digital version of our bestselling printed book about best practices in modern Web design. They share valuable practical insight into design, usability and coding, provide professional advice for designing mobile applications ....
Release Date 2011/03