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Avi Itzkovitch - Creating An Adaptive System To Enhance UX

In computer science, the term “adaptive system” refers to a process in which an interactive system adapts its behavior to individual users based on information acquired about its user(s), the contex

Interaction Design , ux , ui

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Rachel McCollin - Introducing New iOS6 Features In Mobile Safari

If you’ve had half an eye on the tech press over the last few weeks, you’ll be aware of the update to iOS, or at least of its replacement of Google maps with the new iOS Maps app. Stories of parks

mobile , Apps , ios

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Indra Kupferschmid - Being Fogged in Font Aversion Hinders Sight

Yesterday we published the article “Why Won’t Helvetica Go Away” in which Alastair Johnston discussed the evolution of Helvetica, the reasons for its popularity as well as his thoughts on why design

Typography , Tools , fonts

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Alastair Johnston - Why Won’t Helvetica Go Away?

Update: Hours after the publication of this article Indra Kupferschmid published an article in which she corrected some of the facts presented in the original article and provided an opposite view o

Typography , Tools , fonts

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Vitaly Friedman - Exclusive Videos And Interviews (Part 1)

In September 2012 we ran the very first Smashing Conference — friendly, valuable and inspiring community event — in a beautiful medieval building in our home town Freiburg, Germany. The conference w

Community , Interviews , Inspiration , Events

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Lars Kappert - Client-Side Templating

Using templates in the browser is becoming more and more widespread. Moving application logic from the server to the client, and the increasing usage of MVC-like patterns (model–view–controller) ins

templates , coding , Browsers , HTML , Javascript

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Siobhan McKeown - How To Become A Top WordPress Professional

First, let’s set a few things straight: becoming a top WordPress [ developer professional] is hard work — very hard work. It’s going to take a lot of time, energy and determination. If you’re lo

wordpress , Techniques (WP)

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Anastasios Karafillis - When You Shouldn’t Use Fitts Law To Measure User Experience

The key statement of Fitts’s Law is that the time required to move a pointing device to a target is a function of the distance to the target and its size. In layman’s terms: the closer and larger a

Navigation , ux , Interfaces

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Ivo Mynttinen - Design Cutting Edge iOS Apps With Adobe Fireworks

Since the release of iPhone 4 and the iPad 3 (known as “The new iPad”), Apple has doubled the resolution of the displays, which are now 640 x 960 pixels (iPhone 4 and 4s), 1536 x 2048 pixels (iPad 3

workflow , Fireworks , ios

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Esther Arends - Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers For iPhone And iPad

Geez! It’s already Christmas time? Yes, it is! The streets and houses of our cities are decorated with lights and trees, and hundreds of Moravian stars. We are dreaming again — of wonderful gifts, l

Wallpapers , Christmas , Downloads , iphone , ipad

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: December 2012 (Christmas Edition)

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. This

Wallpapers , Christmas , Graphics

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Joseph McDermott - Introducing The Magento Layout

In this tutorial, we introduce the Magento layout by creating a simple module that will add some custom HTML content to the bottom of every customer-facing page, in a non-intrusive manner. In other

Frameworks , php , Magento , coding

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Marc Thomas - Making Advertising Work In A Responsive World

Advertising has always had an uneasy relationship with the media because of ethical considerations on both sides of the printing press. On the one hand, journalists are reluctant, quite rightly, to

Marketing , Advertising , Responsive Design , mobile , Product Strategy , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - Introducing The Smashing eBook Library

We are proud to announce our new undertaking, a little extra that will help us make your reading experience on Smashing Magazine better, cleaner and more valuable in every way. Meet The Smashing eBo

Accessibility , Smashing eBooks , Events

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Jason Mark - Transform A Tablet Into An Affordable Kiosk For Your Clients

Twenty minutes after unboxing my first iPad, I realized this device’s potential to revolutionize the world of kiosks. Ten years ago, my team and I worked with Honda to develop touchscreen kiosks for

mobile , Clients , Devices , ios , ipad , Business

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Jeremy Girard - How To Build Long-Term Client Relationships

Much attention is given to how you kickoff projects, or how best to design and develop websites. But the final stages of the Web design process are never discussed as much as those early and middle

Clients , Income , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 34 Splendid Art Professions Icons For Free

This week we have a beautiful icon freebie for you. BanzaiTokyo designed this art related icon set. Their collection of 34 icons are an homage to the creative professions. The icons are available as

Icons , Freebies

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Sabina Idler - How To Add A Personal Touch To Your Web Design

The Web is technical by nature. Different scripts and pieces of code are linked together through hyperlinks, forming an endless net of interwoven, encrypted information — data that is accessible onl

ux , Content , Psychology , ui

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Tim Wright - Building A Relationship Between CSS & JavaScript

jQuery, Prototype, Node.js, Backbone.js, Mustache and thousands of JavaScript microlibraries all combine into a single undeniable fact: JavaScript is popular. It’s so popular, in fact, that we often

Techniques , coding , Css , Javascript

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Maggie Macnab - Design Language: The Mystery Of Organic Ambigram

The ambigram is one of the few modern letterforms that engage both your intellect and intuition simultaneously. It reads as a word while also communicating a deeply familiar pattern. This is somethi

Typography , Design

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Paul Boag - An Organizational Structure That Supports Your Digital Presence

Which category does your organization’s Web presence fall into? Over- or under-managed? When it comes to the Web, few organizations have found the Goldilocks zone. Their online activities are either

workflow , Teams , Business

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Sameer Borate - How To Create An Embeddable Content Plugin For WordPress

You may have a need to share advertisements, product information or, if you are a designer, your photo gallery. Whatever the reason, this article will show you a way to create an embeddable content

wordpress , Techniques (WP) , plugins , Widgets

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Matt Curtis - Using The Texture Panel In Adobe Fireworks

Currently in Fireworks, you can apply textures (which are pulled from your “Textures” folder) to whatever vector shape you’re working on. Unfortunately, the way Fireworks lists textures isn’t as int

Tutorials , Fireworks , extensions

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Christian Heilmann - The Vanilla Web Diet

Editor’s note: *This is an introductory article about a book idea to be published by Smashing Magazine with Chris Heilmann. Check out what we propose as an idea — explaining a way to reconsider how

performance , Tools , coding

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