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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: March 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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Mark Cossey - Why Transitions Are Important

Life and nature are one big transition. The sun slowly rises to mark a new day and then slowly sets to mark the end of the day and the beginning of night. We are created in the womb and from small c

Interaction Design , ux

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James Young - Is There Ever A Justification For Responsive Text?

Depending on who you follow and what you read, you may have noticed the concept of “responsive text” being discussed in design circles recently. It’s not what you might imagine — resizing and alteri

Responsive Design , mobile , Content

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Jeremy Girard - A Fun Approach To Creating More Successful Websites

But one goal we have for all of our projects is that we want them to make an impression on people — we want the websites that we create to be memorable. A fun experience is often an enjoyable one a

Personality , Showcases , Web Design , Design

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Jason Gross - Redefining Hick’s Law

Hick’s Law has always been a popular reference point for designers. You’ll find it cited in the endless lists of basic laws and principles that all designers should be familiar with. Given our assum

Graphic Design , ux , Usability

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Kevin Muldoon - 25 Social Media Plugins For WordPress

After search engines, social media services are the second biggest source of traffic. Facebook, Twitter and Google+ have established themselves as the most heavily used social sharing websites, with

wordpress , Social Media

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Zack Grossbart - Web-Drawing Throwdown: Paper.js Vs. Processing.js Vs. Raphael

Before drawing anything in a browser, ask yourself three questions: Do you need to support older browsers? If the answer is yes, then your only choice is Raphaël. It handles browsers all the way

coding , Javascript

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Anthony T - Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes

In darts, hitting thebulls-eyeis harder to do than hitting any other part of the dartboard. This is because the bullseye is the smallest target. This same principle can also apply to touch targets o

ux , Usability

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Spyros Zevelakis - Beautiful Covers: An Interview With Chip Kidd

The work of Chip Kidd spans design, writing and, most recently, rock ’n’ roll. He definitely has the charisma to get ahead in that third field. He is best known for his unconventional book jackets,

Interviews , fonts , Inspiration

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Jonathan Wold - Stop Writing Project Proposals

After several grueling days I had finally finished the proposal. I sent it off and waited for a response. Nothing. After a few weeks, I discovered that they were “just looking”. Despite the urgency

workflow , Project Management , Clients , Business

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Matthew Ogston - How To Recruit A UX Designer

The Web has entered an era of user-centricity. If businesses are to attract new customers and retain existing ones, they must create websites and apps that deliver intuitive and tailored experiences

Teams , ux , Business

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Gennady Kovshenin - Inside WordPress Actions And Filters

When WordPress 1.2 rolled out back in 2004, a new plugin architecture was introduced that is now commonly referred to as actions and filters, hooks, and the Plugin API. WordPress’ core has been c

wordpress , Techniques (WP)

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Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Book #3: All Good Things Come In Threes

Update (30.04.2012): The Smashing Book #3 has finally arrived to our storage facilities. The printed Smashing Book #3 will be sent out on the 3rd of May 2012 at the latest. Due to logistical reasons

Events , Smashing Books

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Rian van der Merwe - How To Stop Designing For Ourselves

Have you ever looked at a bizarre building design and wondered, “What were the architects thinking?” Or have you simply felt frustrated by a building that made you uncomfortable, or felt anger when

ux , Process , Usability , Design

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Jeremy Hixon - Progressive And Responsive Navigation

Developing for the Web can be a difficult yet rewarding job. Given the number of browsers across the number of platforms, it can sometimes be a bit overwhelming. But if we start coding with a little

coding , Css , jquery , HTML , html5

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Robin Rendle - Why Should We Design Emotional Systems?

Before the very first page of a book has been read, you’ve already analyzed it in countless ways without even noticing. The paper stock, the thickness of the binding, the aroma, the color of the typ

Inspiration , Content , Web Design , Emotional Design

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Ben Howdle - A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients

The goal of today’s tutorial is to create a simple Web app for grabbing movie posters from TMDb. We’ll use jQuery and the user’s input to query a JSON-based API and deal with the returned data appro

API , Ajax , coding , jquery , Javascript

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Siobhan McKeown - Smashing Special: WordPress Theme Trends For 2012

This special is the first in our series of Smashing Specials — extended articles and studies dedicated to a specific topic. The special features current WordPress theme trends for 2012, covering pas

wordpress , Trends , Themes

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Siobhan McKeown - Smashing Special: WordPress Theme Trends For 2012: Development

This special is the first in our series of Smashing Specials — extended articles and studies dedicated to a specific topic. The special features current WordPress theme trends for 2012, covering pas

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Siobhan McKeown - Smashing Special: WordPress Theme Trends For 2012: Design

This special is the first in our series of Smashing Specials — extended articles and studies dedicated to a specific topic. The special features current WordPress theme trends for 2012, covering pas

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Kyle Soucy - Collaging: Getting Answers To The Questions You Don’t Know To Ask

When conducting user research, we all know that asking the right questions is just as important as how you ask them, but how do you know exactly what questions to ask? What if the discussion topic i

Art , User Research , ux , Psychology

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Joshua Dodson - How To Use Custom Post Types To Organize Online Marketing Campaigns

As an Internet marketer and analyst, I need to be able to organize online marketing campaigns in a way that is trackable in Google Analytics. This is the perfect task for WordPress custom post types

wordpress , Techniques , plugins

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Vitaly Friedman - 10 Free St. Valentine’s Day Icons ???

Every now and then, we release useful freebies for all of our highly valued readers. Today, it is our pleasure to present to you Cuberto’s fantastic St. Valentine’s icon set  —  exclusively designed

Valentine , Icons , Freebies

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Julie Stanford - 10 Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App

Like most well-designed things, the magic of an iPad app comes from a union of usefulness, usability and meaning. Games aside, the app must be useful by solving a problem that people actually have t

ux , Apps , Usability , Design , ipad

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