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Aral Balkan - Mobile Considerations In User Experience Design: “Web or Native?”

We appreciate your time and your interest, and thank you for your support and love. We are happy to present a yet another sample chapter from the book. In his chapter, Aral Balkan explores what “na

Hybrid , mobile , ux , native , Web Development

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Rachel McCollin - Responsive Images With WordPress’ Featured Images

In this article, we’ll look at how to use WordPress’ built-in featured images capability to deliver different-sized image files to different devices. “Featured images,” sometimes referred to as thum

wordpress , Responsive Design , mobile , Media Queries

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Lyndon Cerejo - User Experience Takeaways From Online Car Shopping

Emergency car shopping is no fun. This past month was the second time I had to shop for a car in a short timeframe without advance warning. Like most informed shoppers, I went online to get a feel f

Design Patterns , ux , Usability , Case Studies , Design

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Zack Grossbart - JavaScript Profiling With The Chrome Developer Tools

Little changes in your code can have gigantic performance impacts. A few lines here or there could mean the difference between a blazingly fast website and the dreaded “Unresponsive Script” dialog.

coding , Browsers , Javascript

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Joshua Bullock - Developing A Design Workflow In Adobe Fireworks

Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and even Web browsers themselves are available to aid us in our work. But with so many choices, how do we determine the right tool to move from concept to functiona

workflow , Fireworks

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Dennis Kardys - How To Sketch A New Mobile Web

The mobile Web has gotten a bum rap. It spends most of its time either in the shadow of the desktop or playing the role of the native app’s frumpy friend. Luckily, we’ve got the tools to change that

Sketching , mobile , ux , Content Strategy

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Rian van der Merwe - Design Patterns: When Breaking The Rules Is OK

We’d like to believe that we use established design patterns for common elements on the Web. We know what buttons should look like, how they should behave and how to design the Web forms that rely o

Interaction Design , ux , Usability , Design

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Paul Tero - Unicode, UTF8 & Character Sets: The Ultimate Guide

This is a story that dates back to the earliest days of computers. The story has a plot, well, sort of. It has competition and intrigue, as well as traversing oodles of countries and languages. Ther

Guides , Typography , coding

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Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser - Why Subtle Typographic Choices Make All The Difference

A strong understanding of how designers control meaning is essential for anyone interested in graphic design or typography. In a previous article,we discussed how sophisticated and complex visual an

Graphic Design , Design Principles , Typography , Web Design

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Cristian Antohe - Front-End Author Listing And User Search For WordPress

At its core, WordPress is a rock-solid publishing platform. With a beautiful and easy to use interface, and support for custom post types and post formats, publishers have the flexibility to do what

wordpress , Shortcodes , plugins

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Paul Boag - Social Media Is A Part Of The User Experience

The term “social media guru” has almost become a dirty word within the Web community. In fact, despite most of us being early adopters of social networks such as Facebook or Twitter, we consider soc

Marketing , Social , ux , Business

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Juhani Lehtimaki - Building, Testing And Distributing Android Apps

When iOS started to gain momentum, soon after the first iPhone launched, many businesses started to pay attention to apps. The number of apps for iOS grew exponentially, and every company, big and s

Design Patterns , mobile , ux , Apps , Android

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Vitaly Friedman - 23 Colorful And Fresh Summer Desktop Wallpaper

We’ve discovered the best one—desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. This creativity mission has been going on for over four years now, and we are very thankful

Wallpapers , Graphics

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Sam Deering - Useful jQuery Function Demos For Your Projects

Every aspiring Web developer should know about the power of JavaScript and how it can be used to enhance the ways in which people see and interact with Web pages. Fortunately, to help us be more pro

coding , Css , jquery , HTML

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Drew Clemens - Design Process In The Responsive Age

You cannot plan for and design a responsive, content-focused, mobile-first website the same way you’ve been creating websites for years—you just can’t. If your goal is to produce something that is n

Responsive Design , ux , Process , Wireframing

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Paul Scrivens - MUD: Minimum Usable Design

There is a paradox that fits my life. Doesn’t matter what aspect of my life I am talking about because it always seems to apply. Even more so when I think about this paradox and the design of this w

Web Design , Psychology

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Kevin Muldoon - How To Log In To WordPress Using A Social Network

WordPress has a fairly straightforward registration system. To register, you only need to submit a user name and your email address. A password is then emailed to you and you can log in. This regist

wordpress , Social Media

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Daniel Sternlicht - Develop A One-Of-A-Kind CSS / JS-Based Game Portfolio

A portfolio is a must-have for any designer or developer who wants to stake their claim on the Web. It should be as unique as possible, and with a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you could have a o

coding , Css , HTML , Javascript

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Vitaly Friedman - The First Smashing Conference: A Community Event For Web Designers

This very spirit is the driving force behind our daily work at Smashing Magazine, and this spirit is what has prompted us to organize the very first Smashing Conference: a friendly, valuable and ins

Smashing Events , Events

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Chen Blume - Blueprints For The Web: Specctr Adobe Fireworks Plugin

There is an aspect to Web design that no one likes to talk about: spec’ing. We all do it, we all hate it, but we also understand that specs are vital to both designers and developers. For those who

Fireworks , Freebies , extensions

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Marc Gayle - How To Get Started With Ruby

Ruby is an object-oriented language. What does that even mean? It has unique quirks and characteristics that we’ll explain clearly. This article assumes that you have no programming experience, not

coding , Ruby on Rails

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Rachel McCollin - Creating Mobile-Optimized Websites Using WordPress

“Mobile Web design.” Unless you’ve been hiding under a bush for the last 18 months, you’ll know that it’s one of the hottest topics in the industry at the moment. Barely a week goes by without new t

wordpress , Responsive Design , mobile

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Mads Soegaard - The History Of Usability: From Simplicity To Complexity

The story of usability is a perverse journey from simplicity to complexity. That’s right, from simplicity to complexity—not the other way around. If you expect a “user-friendly” introduction to usa

ux , Usability , Design

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Taavi Vaimel - Best Newspaper Themes For WordPress

We haven’t included “news magazine” themes, but we’ll get to those in our upcoming article on magazine-style themes. The themes are categorized a bit differently than what you may be use

wordpress , Themes

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