Blog Profile / Smashing Magazine
| URL : | http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts / Graphic Design | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1357 | |
| Posts / Week: | 5.1 | |
| Archived Since: | March 30, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Animating The Web: We’re Gonna Need A Bigger API!
Everyone likes stuff that moves about on the Web, right? Remember how you cried joyful tears when you first used ? I do. I nearly sobbed all the water out of my body as I gazed upon “JAKE’S COOL WEBSITE” bobbing back and forth in uppercase serif. Show More Summary
Building On The Measure: Logical Breakpoints For Your Responsive Design
There are several tactics for deciding where to put breakpoints in a responsive design. There is the rusty idea that they should be based on common screen sizes, but this doesn’t scale well. There are no “common” screen sizes. Another popular tactic is to create a breakpoint wherever the layout breaks. This sounds much better. Show More Summary
Learning From Cinema: What Sci-Fi Tells Interaction Designers About Gestural Interfaces
One of the most famous interfaces in sci-fi is gestural — the precog scrubber interface used by the Precrime police force in Minority Report. Using this interface, Detective John Anderton uses gestures to “scrub” through the video-like precognitive visions of psychic triplets. Show More Summary
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2013
We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one—desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. Show More Summary
Conferences RoundUp: Upcoming Web Design Events
A Web developer is never through with learning new skills. So many new techniques crop up over a year, that keeping up to date can be quite challenging, especially with the usual workload Web developers have on their plates. An enjoyable,...Show More Summary
Typeplate: A Starter Kit For Beautiful Web Type
As of today we’re pleased to announce Typeplate, a free-range and open-source typographic starter kit that will hopefully help you build beautiful, text-rich websites. The word on the street is that the Web Is 95% Typography, so as we hurtle towards the future, we think there’s still a lot we can learn from five centuries of history. Show More Summary
The Problem Of CSS Form Elements
Before 1998, the birth year of CSS Level 2, form elements were already widely implemented in all major browsers. The CSS 2 specification did not address the problem of how form elements should be presented to users. Because these elements...Show More Summary
Smashing Introduces New Full-Day Workshops!
In the past few years, we’ve been working hard to publish only the best in quality industry knowledge, and have decided to finally create a series of workshops to immerse participants in full days of learning and networking with leading experts. Show More Summary
Creating Exciting And Unusual Visual Hierarchies
Layout, for both print and screen, is one of the most important aspects of graphic design. Designs that extend across multiple pages or screens, whether containing large or small amounts of type, must be carefully controlled in a way that is enticing and is easy for all to access. Show More Summary
Opinion Column: There Is No Mobile Internet!
It’s time to stop thinking about the Internet and online communication in the context of a device, be it desktop, tablet or mobile. Advances by Google and Apple have heightened consumer expectations, which now require stricter focusShow More Summary
Interview: Bringing Angry Birds To Facebook
There’s no avoiding those Angry Birds. They are, quite literally, everywhere: toys, snacks, cartoons, plush toys and that wildly addictive game that seemingly everyone has downloaded at some point — 1 billion of us last year alone.
2012 was another landmark year at the Angry Birds aviary, otherwise known as Rovio. Show More Summary
Case Study: The Evolution Of The BEM Methodology
This article is a case study about the evolution of BEM, a methodology that enables team members to collaborate and communicate ideas using a unified language that consists of simple yet powerful terms: blocks, elements, modifiers. Learn...Show More Summary
Sharing Experiences: How To Improve And Refine Your WordPress Theme Development Process
There is so much to learn about WordPress theme development. The Internet is home to hundreds of articles about building WordPress themes, to countless theme frameworks that will help you get started, and to endless WordPress themes,...Show More Summary
Building Trust And Credibility: How To Sell Your UX Design Solution To Clients
How do you convince clients to trust you with their valuable and much-loved product? In my experience, the best way to sell work to clients is to apply user-centered design not only to the work we produce, but also to the clients who commission that work.
We have to understand who our clients are, what is important to them and what their goals are. Show More Summary
Maintainable Code: Using White Space For Readability In HTML And CSS
Right up front, I’ll offer some simple advice: In production, your code should be as performance-friendly as possible. This means, Gzip’ing, concatenating and minifying as many assets as possible, thus serving the smallest possible files and the least number of files. Show More Summary
Function Over Form: Designing For The Reading Experience
With the rise of Web fonts as well as affordable hosted Web font services and ready-made kits, typography is reclaiming its title as design queen, ruler of all graphic and Web design.
At the same time, for far too many designers, the main concern about typography today seems to be aesthetic in nature. Show More Summary
Converting The Prototype: iOS Prototyping With Adobe Fireworks And TAP (Part 3)
In the previous parts of this tutorial (part 1 and part 2), we looked in detail at the building blocks of our design in Fireworks (pages, shared layers, symbols, styles), and we started to make a demo prototype in Fireworks. The demo prototype had six pages, linked together by hotspots, and each hotspot was customized for use with TAP. Show More Summary
Mechanism Of Action And Effects: Designing Great Feedback Loops
The products we build are full of feedback loops, whether we know it or not. People who study human behavior agree that feedback loops play a critical role in what we do. From biofeedback to the quantified self, designers and psychologists alike are discovering the real power that these cyclical interactions play in shaping our day-to-day choices. Show More Summary
Web Content Optimization: Setting Weights And Styles With The @font-face Declaration
If people are on your website, they’re probably either skimming quickly, looking for something, or they’ve found what they’re looking for and want to read it as easily as possible. Either way, keeping text readable will help them achieve...Show More Summary
Responsive Web Design: Planning For The Future
When considering a mobile Web strategy and weighing responsive Web design against a separate mobile website, the most important metric is how functional the website is for the user. This goes beyond better content organization for smaller screens. Show More Summary