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Vailancio Rodrigues - Beautiful Examples of Kinetic Photography

When you hear the word ‘kinetic’ for the first time, probably the first thing that comes to your mind is motion. Kinetic Photography, also known as ‘camera tossing’, is a technique of shooting photo

Photography , Graphics

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Dmitry Fadeyev - 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines

Here are 10 useful usability findings and guidelines that may help you improve the user experience on your websites. 1. Form Labels Work Best Above The Field A study by UX Matters found that the i

User Research , ux , Usability , Psychology , Guidelines

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Melissa Scroggins - 40 Excellent Illustrator Tutorials

Learning is a process which continues throughout the life of an artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. Along the way, designers find the task of mastering Adobe Illustrator a large obstacle whic

Illustrator , Tutorials , Graphics , Drawing

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Cameron Chapman - Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources

CSS Font stacks are one of those things that elude a lot of designers. Many stick to the basic stacks Dreamweaver auto-recommends or go even more basic by just specifying a single web-safe font. Bu

Typography , coding , Css , Essentials

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Luke Wroblewski - Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface

But sometimes, it makes sense to think of the real world as an interface. To design user interactions that make use of how people actually see the world -to take advantage of first person user inter

ux , Interfaces , Usability , ui

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Steven Snell - Showcase of Case Studies in Design Portfolios

In this post we will be featuring more than 30 portfolio sites to show how they are using case studies from their own design projects to communicate with potential clients. Not all of them are refer

Portfolios , Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

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Christopher Fernandez - Urban Art Tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator

As we go through constructing this image, I encourage you to experiment with the skills you learn, applying them to your own style. Final Preview Illustration: Final As we go through constru

Illustrator , Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics

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Saud Khan - Effective Twitter Backgrounds: Examples and Current Practices

Smashing Magazine has been on Twitter for about a year now (@smashingmag), and it turned out to be a great medium to communicate with our audience, build connections, discuss design-related topics a

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Vitaly Friedman - Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns and Current Practices

Following the requests of our readers, we have carefully selected 55 design agencies and Web development agencies, analyzed their portfolio websites and identified popular design patterns. The main

Portfolios , Studies , Web Design , Design

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Paul Andrew - Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets

If you are designing a set, the actual design becomes a lot harder, the designer has to face two initial challenges: each icon they design has to be individual and distinctive from the other, and, t

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Cameron Chapman - How To Find Time For… Everything!

Successful time management can be challenging, especially to those who are new to freelancing or being self-employed. When you have a boss telling you what to do and when to do it by, it’s much easi

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Louis Lazaris - The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look

Most CSS properties are quite simple to deal with. Often, applying a CSS property to an element in your markup will have instant results — as soon as you refresh the page, the value set for the prop

Layouts , coding , Css , Essentials

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Thiemo Fetzer - How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress

We did some research to find out how the integration of Facebook with WordPress and vice versa works, or — in other words — how you can present your WordPress blog on Facebook or use the functionali

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Catalin Zorzini - Showcase Of Music Night Clubs Web Designs

The time has come for the first showcase of music night club websites here on Smashing Magazine. We’ve scanned the Web up and down to find the most original and interesting online club identities. A

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Cameron Chapman - Data Visualization and Infographics Resources

Data visualizations and infographics can make complex datasets easier to understand and comprehend. By creating a graphical represenatation of data and statistics, complicated concepts and informati

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The Smashing Newsletter Team - CSS Ideas And Wishlist: Debates and Solutions

CSS will get a number of new changes. Among them are alternative syntaxes, CSS programming concepts and the ability to allow more common design techniques without using images. In this article, we’l

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Vailancio Rodrigues - Exquisite Black and White Photography

In this post we present beautiful examples of black and white photography — an update to previously featured showcase of black and white photography. The showcase below focuses more on art and creat

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Aquil Akhter - 50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing

Traditional drawing is certainly way harder than digital and it is true that people are able to progress much faster digitally, but one should learn the traditional type of drawing and painting befo

Tutorials , Art , Sketching , Graphics , Cartoons , Drawing

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Louis Lazaris - Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns And Best Practices

Notably, CNN discovered those limitations before switching from vertical to horizontal a few years back. There are, however, many styles of horizontal navigation in modern Web design. Some offer us

Showcases , Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design

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Andrea Austoni - How To Be A Samurai Designer

Historical Background “Hagakure” (In the shadow of the leaves) is a collection of writings compiling the narrations of the samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659-1719), who in his late years retired from

workflow , Inspiration , Designers

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Steven Snell - Showcase of Fresh and Well-Designed Online Shops

Throughout this showcase the most noticeable trend of well-designed e-commerce sites is the use of high-quality photos. Many of the sites use large images on the homepage, and product and model phot

Showcases , Inspiration , E-Commerce

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Andy Butterworth - Professional Team Management Tips For Creative Folks

There seems to be in creative sectors a fear of management and a great divide between creative and “business” people. This is often because the people doing the managing are not business-minded or b

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Michael Martin - CSS Background – Everything You Need To Know

The CSS Background is one of the fundamentals that you simply need to know. We will cover the basics of using CSS backgrounds, including properties such as background-attachment. We’ll show some com

Backgrounds , coding , Css , Essentials

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Cameron Chapman - 35 Excellent Wireframing Resources

Below are more than 35 resources for creating better wireframes, including tutorials on different methods and a variety of tools available. 1. Wireframing Articles Here are more than twenty wirefr

Tools , Prototyping , Wireframing , Design

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