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Andy Budd - The Feature Trap: Why Feature Centricity Is Harming Your Product

Most product teams think in terms of features. Features are easy to brainstorm and write requirement docs for, and they fit nicely into our backlogs and ticketing systems. In short, thinking in term

Best Practices , User Experience , Product Strategy , Design , Business

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Dan Redding - The History Of Logos And Logo Design

We live in a Brand Era, where branding is in, and for some, aspiring to the Paul Rand style of logo craftsmanship is about as hip and contemporary as writing your invoices with a quill. Yes, logo de

Graphic Design , Graphics , Branding , Design , Logo Design

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Lee Munroe - 10 Steps To The Perfect Web Design Portfolio

You may have a personal web design portfolio site for a number of reasons. If you’re a freelancer, then you’d need one to showcase your work and allow people to contact you. If you’re a student (or

Portfolios , Web Design , Design

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Lyndon Cerejo - A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer

Artificial Intelligence isn’t new, but in November 2022, something changed. The launch of ChatGPT brought AI out of the background and into everyday life. Suddenly, interacting with a machine didn’t

workflow , ux , AI

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Steven Snell - Textures In Modern Web Design

If you look around at well-designed websites in CSS galleries or any other source of design inspiration, you’ll see that texture is extremely common in modern Web design. One of the reasons it’s so

Showcases , Footers , Inspiration , Web Design , textures

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Preethi Sam - SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at SerpApi, who make search result extraction easy with their real-time API. Thank you! SerpApi leverages the power of search engi

API , Tools , Research

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Jason Gross - The Designer Will Make It Pretty

I am sure that my day job as a designer has a lot of similarities to that of the entire Smashing community. I create wireframes, mockups and concepts. I craft HTML and CSS using methods that I hope

Creativity , Inspiration , Design

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Matt Cronin - Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

Web design has come a long way since its beginning, especially in terms of styling. Take a look at a website from 10 years ago and compare it to one from today. The differences are enormous. One of

Showcases , Backgrounds , Inspiration , Web Design

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Tom Giannattasio - Photoshop Secrets: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers

We all have shortcuts that are essential to our daily workflow. A majority of them are staples such as Copy (Command + C) and Paste (Command + V), but occasionally we stumble upon a shortcut we wish

Photoshop , Graphics , Time Savers

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Daniel Yuschick - Simplify Your Color Palette With CSS Color-Mix()

There’s a reason for all the new, experimental color features CSS is introducing. And there’s a reason for all the excitement they’re stirring up. Colors are hard. Defining a base color palette can

Techniques , Tools , Css , Design Systems

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Mikołaj Dobrucki - Integrating Design And Code With Native Design Tokens In Penpot

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Penpot, whose mission is to provide an open-source and open-standards platform to bring collaboration between designers and developer

Design Systems , Design , ui

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Sergey Chikuyonok - How To Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas

Images have always been the heaviest component of websites. Even if high-speed Internet access gets cheaper and more widely available, websites will get heavier more quickly. If you really care abou

optimization , coding , Responsive Images , html5

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Victor Yocco - Connecting With Users: Applying Principles Of Communication To UX Research

Communication is in everything we do. We communicate with users through our research, our design, and, ultimately, the products and services we offer. UX practitioners and those working on digital p

User Research , ux , Communication

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Sean Hodge - Professional Web Design Forums

Web design-related forums are a place where you interact with other designers, exchange ideas or discuss your first drafts. When you have a problem, you can post the issue, and then receive feedback

Community , Tools , coding , Web Design

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Dan Mayer - Design Legacy: A Social History Of Jamaican Album Covers

Mention Jamaican music to someone who isn’t a fan and you can bet that a fairly predictable image pops into the head of your listener. Chances are this image looks something like the cover of Bim Sh

Graphic Design , Covers , Inspiration , Design

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Rian van der Merwe - A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children

I spend a lot of time buying and testing iPad apps for kids. To be more specific, I lovingly do this for a certain two-year-old girl who is currently on a very successful #OccupyiPad mission in my h

ux , Usability , Design

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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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Julia May - Designing A Facebook Fan Page: Showcases, Tutorials, Resources

Despite its privacy issues, Facebook clearly has a key role in global Internet activity. It has become a kind of universal social network, being used for both personal and business needs. For many i

Facebook , Web Design , Design

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Frederick O’Brien - How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Multimedia Writing

Prior to the World Wide Web, the act of writing remained consistent for centuries. Words were put on paper, and occasionally, people would read them. The tools might change — quills, printing presse

Inspiration , Content , MDX

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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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Kat Neville - How To Design Style Guides For Brands And Websites

A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio.One way to help those who take over your projects is

Branding , Style Guides , Design , Logo Design

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Louis Lazaris - Powerful Terminal And Command-Line (CLI) Tools For Modern Web Development

Many modern programmers, including front-end and full-stack developers, work daily with the command line. Even those who are relatively new to web development are picking up command-line skills earl

Techniques , Round-Ups , Tools , coding

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Luis Ouriach - Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 1)

Design systems are on the tip of every designer’s tongue, but the narrative in the industry mainly focuses on why you need a design system and its importance rather than the reality of endless maint

Design System , Figma , Design

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Sven Lennartz - Splash Pages: Do We Really Need Them?

Yes, sometimes we do. Should we use them? No, we probably shouldn’t. Splash screen (or splash page) is a front page of a web-site that don’t provide the actual content, but offers visitors some kind

Flash , Navigation , ux , Usability