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Steven Snell - Group Interview: Expert Advice For Students and Young Web Designers

Our readers have requested that Smashing Magazine conduct an interview with industry leaders on issues that are relevant to students and those just starting off in their design career.With the help

Community , workflow , Clients , Opinion Column , General

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Frederick O’Brien - An Ode To Side Project Time

There seemed to be a hot minute when the tech industry understood the value of idle tinkering and made a point of providing ‘side project time’ as an explicit working perk. The concept endures — I’m

workflow , Inspiration , Career , Opinion Column

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Paul Boag - When Business Objectives And User Experience Clash

Here’s a question for you: would you agree that creating a great user experience should be the primary aim of any Web designer? I know what your answer is… and youʼre wrong! Okay, I admit that not

ux , Opinion Column

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Jeremy Girard - How To Maintain A Healthy Work-Life Balance

As Web designers and developers, we invest a lot of time and effort in nurturing professional relationships, including those with clients, prospective clients, coworkers, peers and others in the ind

workflow , Communication , Opinion Column

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Cameron Chapman - Why Intellectual Property Rights Are So Important

Intellectual property rights are often confusing and sometimes the topic of heated debates. There are those who question the worth of creative products and projects, claiming design and art are some

Content , Copyright , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Robert Bowen - The Web Design Community Offers Advice To Beginners

At one time or another, we are all newbies. That’s right: you can deny it all you want, but not one of us got into this game with a full deck stacked in our favor. We entered as newbies, born fresh

Community , Opinion Column , Design

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Paul Scrivens - Easier Is Better Than Better

Common sense would dictate that if you were given a list of choices, you would choose the one that is most important to you, when in reality humans usually choose the one that is easiest for them to

Web Design , Psychology , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Extensible Web Manifesto Team - Laying The Groundwork For Extensibility

The Web has succeeded at interoperability and scale in a way that no other technology has before or since. Still, the Web remains far from “state of the art”, and it is being increasingly threatened

API , coding , Opinion Column , HTML , html5 , Javascript

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Francisco Inchauste - Designing For A Multi-Device World

When I think about where we are with the Web in comparison to other media in history, pinpointing it is really hard. Is it like when the Gutenberg Press was just invented and we’re experimenting wit

Responsive Design , Process , Opinion Column , Design

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Jeremy Girard - Rekindling Your Passion For Web Design

I love being a web designer and I'm incredibly thankful that I decided to join this industry many years ago. Still, **despite my love of this profession**, there have been a number of times during m

Inspiration , Career , Opinion Column , Design

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Knut Melvær - Thoughts On Markdown

Markdown is second nature for many of us. Looking back, I remember starting typing in Markdown not long after John Gruber released his first Perl-based parser back in 2004 after collaborating on the

workflow , Tools , coding , Opinion Column

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Tom Giannattasio - In Defense Of Photoshop

A militia of designers have assembled to launch this coup. Their propaganda is convincing, and their proposed successor is worthy, capable and sexy. Their cause is important, but their manifesto is

Photoshop , Graphics , Opinion Column

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Ken Reynolds - Ignorance Is Bliss For A Creative Mind

The saying “Ignorance is bliss” originates in Thomas Gray’s poem “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (1742). The quote goes: “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” Face it: you

Creativity , Discussions , Opinion Column

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Vitaly Friedman - Web Design Is Dead. No, It Isn’t.

Every now and then we see discussions proclaiming a profound change in the way we design and build websites. Be it progressive enhancement, the role of CSS or, most recently, web design itself being

Web Design , Opinion Column , Design

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Jonathan Phillips - How To Become a Better Reader

There are literally dozens of articles online about how to write better articles, but I’ve never come across one with tips on being a better reader. This is a shame, because it’s not all about th

Discussions , Skills , Opinion Column

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Jeremiah Shoaf - The Good, The Bad And The Great Examples Of Web Typography

Choosing typefaces is an integral part of every web design project. With thousands of typefaces available from hosting services such as Typekit, as well an ever-improving collection of free fonts av

Typography , fonts , Opinion Column

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Jake Archibald - Progressive Enhancement Is Faster

The aim of republishing the original article by Jake is to raise awareness and support the discussion about the role of progressive enhancement within the community. We look forward to your opinions

Tutorials , coding , Opinion Column

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Paul Boag - Are You Giving Your Users Positive Feedback?

We love to tell users that they have done something wrong. We have error messages for everything from poorly formatted telephone numbers to incorrect logins. But what about our user’s successes, do

ux , Usability , Opinion Column

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Christian Heilmann - Progressive Enhancement And Standards Do Not Limit Web Design

Lately I have been getting bored and annoyed with people getting up in arms against Web standards and the ideas of progressive enhancement, claiming that they hold us back from creating a rich, beau

Process , Web Design , Discussions , Opinion Column , Design

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Kari Patila - The Sad State Of The Web Design Community

Editor’s Note This article is the first in our new series of “opinion columns,” in which we give people in the Web design community a platform to raise their voice and present their opinion on some

Community , Opinion Column , General

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Jeremiah Shoaf - Taking A Second Look At Professional Free Fonts

Once thought of as amateurish by professional designers, free and open-source fonts have gone through something of a renaissance in just the last few years. The quality of available free fonts has i

Typography , fonts , Opinion Column

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Josh Star - Understanding the Value of Constructive Discussion in the Design Community

Constructive and engaging discussion is crucial in reinvigorating the heartbeat of any community. The design community in particular has often been lauded for its highly discursive and interactive n

Community , Discussions , Opinion Column , Design

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Nick Babich & Gleb Kuznetsov - How AI Technology Will Transform Design

AI-generated art is everywhere on the web. If you are an active Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest user, you likely saw interesting artworks created using text-based tools like DALLE, Midjourney, or S

UX Design , Tools , AI , Opinion Column

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Jad Limcaco - Ask the Expert: Design Discussion With James White

His personal art and design ambitions has landed him in many worldwide creative publications such as Computer Arts magazine, Computer Arts Projects, Advanced Photoshop magazine, Wired UK and the spa

Interviews , Discussions , Opinion Column

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