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Jim Bosveld - The Difference Between Good And Bad Job Requirements

In Web design, as one of the seemingly few markets that is actually growing, job opening postings are common. They’re not all equally convincing, though. In fact, most of them are unpleasant, uninvi

workflow , Teams , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 42 Chunky Pika Style Icons [Freebie]

We have a delicate and useful icon set for you, again. Dutch designers from Dutch Icon created a new set of 42 Pika-style vector icons, released with Smashing Magazine for the Web design community.

Tools , Icons , Freebies

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Vitaly Friedman - Useful Talks And Videos From Web Design Conferences

As a Web professional, you can get great inspiration from a good conference session. While conferences may not bring value to all industries, the Web industry is stacked high with inspirational expe

Videos , Conferences , Inspiration , Events , Design

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Christian Holst - Adaptive Vs. Responsive Layouts And Optimal Form Field Labels

Editor’s note: Welcome to a new column in the UX Design section on Smashing Magazine! Each month we’ll pick a handful of popular questions asked by our readers around good practices in designing sma

ux , Usability , ui

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Daniel Pataki - The Complete Guide To WordPress Custom Post Types

WordPress has been gaining a foothold in the general content management system (CMS) game for a few years now, but the real breakthrough was the custom post type mechanism which allows for the creat

wordpress , Guides , Techniques

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James Young - Retiring The Portfolio Screenshot

The humble screengrab, staple component of a million personal and agency portfolios, can now retire with thanks for years of sterling service showing snippets of work done for a particular client or

Portfolios , Inspiration , Design

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Jeremy Olson - How To Succeed With Your Mobile App

Most apps fail. This cruel reality has led many disillusioned developers to conclude, often subconsciously, that succeeding on the App Store is like striking it rich in the gold rush: you just need

mobile , Apps , Android , Product Strategy , ios , Business

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Damon Dimmick - Fitting Big-Picture UX Into Agile Development

The rapid pace of UX design in the agile world can lead to shortsighted design decisions. Focusing on addressing the immediate needs of particular user stories within the limits of a sprint can lead

ux , Design , Development

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Addy Osmani - How To Write Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript

JavaScript engines such as Google’s V8 (Chrome, Node) are specifically designed for the fast execution of large JavaScript applications. As you develop, if you care about memory usage and performanc

performance , optimization , coding , Javascript

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Steven Bradley - Exploration Of Single-Page Websites

We tend to think of navigating a website as clicking from page-to-page via some kind of global navigation that’s always visible. When it comes to a single page, we often think scrolling is the one a

Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - 284 Carefully Crafted Pictograms: The Entypo Glyph Set For Free

After endless suplications from the design community Daniel Bruce finally finished his update of the Entypo Glyph Set — a free set of universal 284 carefully crafted pictograms for regular design pr

Graphics , Icons , Freebies

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Alastair Johnston - Industrial-Strength Types

The Industrial Revolution gave us a new iron age, one of cast iron, which a devotee of Vulcan told me he thought was the highest achievement of man — or, as he put it, “the hairless ape.” In the 18t

Typography , fonts , Free Fonts

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: November 2012

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. As a m

Wallpapers , Graphics

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Andy Rutledge - Why Should Web Design Be A Profession?

When one goes to the professional, one expects to invest in his expertise. This investment requires no great leap of faith, as it is supported by a trust acknowledged among the general populace and

Web Design , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Rachel Hinman - Motion & Animation: A New Mobile UX Design Material

Growing up, weekends were about worship in the Hinman household. Sunday mornings were reserved for a laborious worship ritual dictated by my parents. It required dressing up in uncomfortable clothes

animation , Graphic Design , mobile , ux

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Ben Dowling - Powerful Command Line Tools For Developers

Life as a Web developer can be hard when things start going wrong. The problem could be in any number of places. Is there a problem with the request you’re sending, is the problem with the response,

Guides , Tools , coding

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Anthony T - Better Password Masking For Sign-Up Forms

Masking passwords is an old practice that’s commonly implemented in sign-up and log-in forms. It’s used to prevent over-the-shoulder snoopers from catching the user’s password. While masking passwor

Security , ux , Usability

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Nicholas C. Zakas - Why Coding Style Matters

When I was studying computer science in college, I had one extremely tough professor. His name was Dr. Maxey and he taught the more complicated courses like data structures and computer architecture

coding , Css , Javascript

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Daniel Pataki - Utilizing User Roles In WordPress

Roles have been an integral part of WordPress for quite some time now — many functions associated with managing them have been in place since version 2.0.0. Despite this longevity, they are rarely u

wordpress , admin , Techniques (WP)

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Drew Thomas - Looking Beyond Common Media Query Breakpoints

With all the talk about responsive Web design, designers and coders are moving even further from the fixed pixel layouts of design’s print-based history. We’re finally thinking in terms of fluid lay

Responsive Design , mobile , Media Queries , Css

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Niels Matthijs - The Road To Reusable HTML Components

A few weeks ago, I dug up an old article that I wrote for Smashing Magazine, “When One Word Is More Meaningful Than a Thousand.” While I stand firmly behind all of the HTML development principles I

Semantics , coding , HTML

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Rosie Sherry - A Field Guide To Mobile App Testing

Testers are often thought of as people who find bugs, but have you ever considered how testers actually approach testing? Do you ever wonder what testers actually do, and how they can add value to a

mobile , Apps , testing , iphone , ios

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Eoin McGrath - How To Design A Mobile Game With HTML5

The great thing about these titles is that they work equally well on both mobile and desktop using the same code. Could HTML5 finally fulfill the holy grail of “write once, run anywhere”? Getting S

mobile , iphone , Games , html5

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Rian van der Merwe - The Immersive Web And Design Writing

I have an idea for a new product — can I tell you about it? It will take months to develop, and even though this kind of thing is usually given away for free, I’m going to charge for it. Oh, and the

ux , Web Design , Design

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