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You Design It, They Do It

Posted by Paul Scrivens on May 4, 2012 · Comments Off

What if someone came to you and said, “I’ve designed this great website, but people don’t stay on it. Why?” How would you respond? Would you ask them whether they have done extensive A/B testing? Would you recommend testing the usability of the website? People like to test a number of metrics to see why people are not staying on a website. I think [...]

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Redesigning With Personality

Posted by Aarron Walter on March 27, 2012 · Comments Off

We are very happy to present a sample chapter from the upcoming printed Smashing Book #3, written by Aarron Walter. In this chapter, Aarron explains how sharing our personalities can help us create lasting relationships with users, and how it can improve the bottom line of our business. The sample is also available for free download in PDF, EPUB and MobiPocket. [...]

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Redesigning With Personality

Posted by Aarron Walter on March 27, 2012 · Comments Off

We are very happy to present a sample chapter from the upcoming printed Smashing Book #3, written by Aarron Walter. In this chapter, Aarron explains how sharing our personalities can help us create lasting relationships with users, and how it can improve the bottom line of our business. The sample is also available for free download in PDF, EPUB and MobiPocket. [...]

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Can User Experience Be Beautiful? An Analysis Of Navigation In Portfolio Websites

Posted by Justin Mifsud on March 26, 2012 · Comments Off

When users land on your website, they typically read the content available. Then, the next thing that they will do is to try and familiarize themselves with your website. Most of the time this involves looking for navigation. In this article, I’ll be analyzing the navigation elements of a particular category of websites, i.e. portfolios. Why portfolios, you [...]

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Behind The Scenes Of Tourism New Zealand (Case Study)

Posted by Richard Shepherd on March 8, 2012 · Comments Off

In 2011 we saw the rise in popularity of two relatively new trends: responsive Web design and the use of HTML’s canvas. While some websites had experimented with both, in the last 12 months we’ve seen these trends move from the fringes firmly into the mainstream. Responsive Web design is more a concept than a technology — an ideal that many new websites [...]

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Japanese, A Beautifully Complex Writing System

Posted by Shoko Mugikura on March 5, 2012 · Comments Off

As a Japanese person living in Europe, I’m sometimes asked: “Japanese is a difficult language, isn’t it?” Those asking are often surprised when my answer is a simple: “No, actually, it’s not.” While it is true (at least to many Westerners) that Japanese is an exotic language, when compared to learning other European languages, it may seem [...]

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Is There Ever A Justification For Responsive Text?

Posted by James Young on February 27, 2012 · Comments Off

Depending on who you follow and what you read, you may have noticed the concept of “responsive text” being discussed in design circles recently. It’s not what you might imagine — resizing and altering the typography to make it easier to read on a range of devices — but rather delivering varying amounts of content to devices based on screen size. One [...]

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A Fun Approach To Creating More Successful Websites

Posted by Jeremy Girard on February 24, 2012 · Comments Off

As Web designers and developers, each project we work with has a unique set of goals and requirements. But one goal we have for all of our projects is that we want them to make an impression on people — we want the websites that we create to be memorable. A fun experience is often an enjoyable one and an enjoyable experience is usually a memorable one. Therefore, [...]

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Content Prototyping In Responsive Web Design

Posted by Ben Callahan on September 26, 2011 · Comments Off

You might be interested in further articles and resources related to this article. Michelangelo once said, The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. Translate this to the world of Web design and you might say, No [...]

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Are You Ready For A Web Design Challenge?

Posted by Paul Boag on September 21, 2011 · Comments Off

This is not a normal Smashing Magazine post. I’m not going to teach you something new or inspire you with examples of great work. Instead, I want to encourage you to complete a Web design challenge. I believe this will help to address a weakness that exists in [...]

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