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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Georgeous Nature Wallpapers

When it comes to beauty nothing can beat the beauty of nature. Although we, designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything, nature often manages to provide us with beautiful, eye-catching

Wallpapers , Graphics , Downloads

Vitaly Friedman - Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms, Part 2

Last week we have presented first findings of our web forms survey. The main objective of the survey was to provide designers and developers with some intuition of how effective web forms are design

CAPTCHA , Forms , Studies , Web Design , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Table of Contents: Creative Examples

Table of contents is often considered to be one of the most unspectacular design elements ever invented. Because of its simple, usual form, table of contents is often not given the attention it may

Inspiration , Content

Vitaly Friedman - Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms

If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is

User Research , Forms , ux , Studies , Usability

Vitaly Friedman - Should Links Open In New Windows?

Visitors to the sites with heavy linking are more willing to have links opened in new windows then open dozens of links in new windows manually. Visitors of less-heavy-linkage-sites are more likely

ux , Tabs , Usability , Javascript

Vitaly Friedman - Creative Calendar Designs

How many creative solutions for calendar design are out there? If you take a look around you’ll find out that most calendars are designed in a “standard” linear fashion. Calendar cards usually have

Calendars , Inspiration , Visualizations

Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful Brochures and Booklets

In corporate design brochures and booklets are a standard tool for promotion and advertising. They are little books or magazines which lay around in conference halls, offices and waiting rooms. Some

Magazines , Print , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful Black and White Photography

If you’ve been following Smashing Magazine for a while, you know that almost all posts from the Monday Inspiration series are pretty colorful and eye-catching. This post is an exception. Compared to

Photography , Graphics , Pictures

Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful and Expressive Packaging Design

Packaging design has the primary goal to attract customers’ attention. For this purpose, package designs can not simply inform the customers, but also provoke feelings and communicate emotions. An e

Packaging , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs

Effective web design doesn’t have to be pretty and colorful — it has to be clear and intuitive; in fact, we have analyzed the principles of effective design in our previous posts. However, how can y

Mathematics , Layouts , Web Design , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful And Original Product Designs

Successful product design manages to reveal useful functionality beyond its appealing form. No matter how excellent a design looks like, most customers aren’t likely to spend money on something they

Packaging , Devices , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - 40 Professional Icon Packs For Free Download

When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon pack is a per

Graphics , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Handcraft Strikes Back: Buttons, Badges, Pins and Clips

Buttons, badges and pins stand for a medium which is often underestimated and not taken seriously. That’s a pity, because designed properly, badges and buttons can effectively communicate ideas to y

Buttons , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography

Sometimes typography is all you need to communicate your ideas effectively. Graphics can support the type or type can support the graphics, but to deliver the message precisely, you need to make sur

Showcases , Typography , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides

Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the project’s layout, with all its numerous classes, color schemes and type setting. To understand your code year

workflow , Programming , coding , Style Guides , Css , Essentials

Vitaly Friedman - (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos

Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Excellent photos don’t only display some facts — they tell stories, awake feelings and manage to share with the audience the emotion

Photography , Graphics , Pictures

Vitaly Friedman - Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design

Web design has significantly improved over the last years. It’s more user-friendly and more appealing today — and there is a good reason behind it: over the years we’ve found out that design with fo

Principles , ux , Usability

Vitaly Friedman - Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design

Retro and vintage designs are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull. That’s not true. Although compared to modern design, retro is mostly a completely different real

Showcases , Retro , Inspiration , Vintage , Paintings

Vitaly Friedman - Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks

Book covers are hard to design and nice to look at. An effective book cover manages to catch human’s eye and convey the idea behind the book on one single page. However, it’s getting even harder: to

Covers , Print , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful Handwriting Styles, Lettering and Calligraphy

Handwriting styles seems to have lost some of its attraction over the last years. Nobody writes beautiful handwritten letters, and uses digital means of communication with smileys, abbreviations and

Handwriting , Calligraphy , Lettering , Typography , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - Fresh, Free and Gorgeous RSS Feed Icons

Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place which is why we support designers and challenge them to release something for free in order to be featured on Smashing Magazine. And the results are

Graphics , RSS , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Slick Laptop Designs and Concepts

Laptop design doesn’t have to be boring. Although often laptops look exactly as we expect them to look like, there is a number of design solutions and approaches which are completely different — unu

Gadgets , Inspiration

Vitaly Friedman - 60 Brilliant Corporate Fonts

Typography is more than being legible and looking good. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve two important objectives: a) to create an appropriate atmosphere and enable users

Typography , fonts , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Laptop Sleeves, Skins and Stickers

Sometimes laptop is more than just a device. Using laptops over years, some of us tend to develop a genuine affection toward their little (or not so little) companions. We take care of them, putting

Covers , Inspiration