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Paras Chopra - Multivariate Testing 101: A Scientific Method Of Optimizing Design

In a previous article on Smashing Magazine, I described A/B testing and various resources related to it. I have also covered the basics of multivariate testing in the past, yet in this post I’ll go

testing , Usability , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2011

We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration. This post features 35 free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for April 2011. Both versions with a calendar and wi

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Richard Shepherd - How To Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes

CSS3 is a wonderful thing, but it’s easy to be bamboozled by the transforms and animations (many of which are vendor-specific) and forget about the nuts-and-bolts selectors that have also been added

css3 , coding , Css , Essentials

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James Gardner - Designing For The Future Web

Designing for the future Web. That’s a big subject. Where do we start when we’re talking about something thatisn’there yet? In this article, we’ll look at what the future Web might look like and ho

mobile , Opinion Column

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Chris Blunt - Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded

In the first part of this tutorial series, we built a simple brew timer application using Android and Eclipse. In this second part, we’ll continue developing the application by adding extra function

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Dirk Metzmacher - Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop

Here is a short overview of the techniques we’ll be covering in this follow-up: Defining Colors Controlling Folders Split-Toning Effect Flexible Vignette Skin Retouching In Camera Raw

Photoshop , Techniques , Graphics

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Douglas Bonneville - How To Choose A Font — A Step-By-Step Guide!

Choosing a font can be tricky. The beauty and complexity of type, combined with an inexhaustible supply of options to evaluate, can make your head spin. But don’t be baffled — and don’t despair. Whi

Guides , Typography , fonts , Design

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Paul Tero - Speeding Up Your Website’s Database

However, the focus of the discussion is generally on minimizing file sizes, improving server settings and optimizing CSS and Javascript. The discussion glosses over another important factor: the sp

Speed , performance , coding

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Vitaly Friedman - Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone?

Our established set of design and coding practices is more comprehensive than it has ever been before. Our designs are becoming more usable, our code more scalable, our layouts more responsive. In f

Community , Web Design , Communication , Opinion Column , Design

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Thierry Koblentz - Styling Elements With Glyphs, Sprites and Pseudo-Elements

Today, on the shoulders of giants, we’ll try to push the envelope. We’ll discuss how you can style elements with no extra markup and using a bidi-friendly high-contrast proof CSS sprite technique. T

Techniques , Typography , coding , Css

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Suzanne Ginsburg - Are Touchscreen Tablets Effective Design Tools?

Regardless of the final platform — desktop, tablet, mobile — most designers start their explorations on paper. Depending on the designer’s preference, the paper may be bound or unbound, lined or unl

workflow , Sketching , Tablets , Design

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Lisa Valuyskaya - InDesign Tips I Wish I’d Known When Starting Out

I love Adobe InDesign. For multi-page documents, it’s the most flexible and complete application out there. Yet I remember how counter-intuitive some things were when I was learning it for the first

InDesign , CMYK , Graphics , Publishing

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Robert Bowen - Web Design Tips for Beginners – Everything I Wish I Knew When I Started

There was such a variety of fine responses that distilling them into a single comprehensive post was difficult, but we managed to do just that (for the most part). So, take a look at some of the bes

Community , workflow , Interviews , Inspiration , Career

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Robert Bowen - The Design Community Offers Its Favorite Bits of Advice

We, members of the design community, are on an ongoing quest for knowledge and learning opportunities—anything we can find to enhance our skills and share the precious pearls of wisdom we’ve held cl

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Helge Fredheim - Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed

A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. Us

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Harry Roberts - Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques

Editor’s Note: This article is a bit out of date — please proceed reading with caution. The Web is 95% typography, or so they say. I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites lar

Techniques , Typography , coding , Css

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Christian Heilmann - Syncing Content With HTML5 Video

One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few of the boundaries that browsers have been confined to. Instead of restricting user interaction to text, links,

Videos , Techniques , coding , HTML , html5

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Dirk Metzmacher - Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching

I’ll be covering some of the useful techniques and tricks which I’ve learned from my experience. You may know some of them, but hopefully not all of them. All images used in this article were purcha

Photoshop , Techniques , Graphics , Retouching

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Dave Donaldson - 10 Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know

Having written several plugins myself, I’ve come to learn many (but certainly not all) of the ins-and-outs of WordPress plugin development, and this article is a culmination of the things I think ev

wordpress , php , Techniques (WP) , plugins , Essentials

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Jeff Gothelf - Lean UX – Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business

User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, content invent

ux , Usability

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David Bushell - In Search Of The Best CAPTCHA

CAPTCHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, exist to ensure that user input has not been generated by a computer. These peculiar puzzles are commonly us

CAPTCHA , Techniques , coding , Essentials

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Ralf Hermann - The @Font-Face Rule And Useful Web Font Tricks

The possibility of embedding any font you like into websites via @font-face is an additional stylistic device which promises to abolish the monotony of the usual system fonts. It surely would be all

Typography , fonts

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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2011

We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration for the next 12 months. Created by artists across the globe for March 2011. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can b

Wallpapers , Graphics

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Robert Bowen - Why Wait For The Opportunity? Create Your Own!

As many people who work in a creative field like design and development may already know, sometimes our clients just do not understand what it is that we are trying to achieve. The boundaries that w

workflow , Career , Business

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