Every web designer, whether freelanced or employed, should have a reference literature that accompanies him or her throughout their professional routine. In this bundle you will find ten Smashing eBooks that will help you improve your skills in the web design field. You will be able to apply techniques to adapt your designs for mobile gadgets, combine different typefaces and intensify your professional abilities. What is it that makes a website stand out from the crowd? What makes it memorable and meaningful?
Thanks for being smashing! This eBook collection will guide you into the usability for web design field showing you how to use design elements for each purpose. Unlike interviews and focus groups, a well-designed user test measures actual performance. With this eBook, you will learn to take the guesswork out of your design decisions and base them on real-life experiences and user needs instead.
User research is an effective strategy to gain a deeper understanding of your target audience — a crucial step in order to choose efficient design solutions and build smart products. But what has to be considered when conducting user research?
Accessibility is not just about addressing specific disabilities, but making sure as many people as possible have access to the same information. Nothing is more frustrating than stubborn management entangled in dated workflows and inefficient processes. We try to build the best experiences we can, but we only make them for ourselves and for people like us.
This eBook will empower product managers who work in digital and help them to build better products that make their companies and users more successful.
Fresh ideas and practical advice to help you improve your leadership skills and foster a passionate and agile team. Taking the step from being a member of a digital team to becoming a leader can be quite overwhelming. Having proven that you excel in the technical aspects of your job is most probably beyond question, but a leadership position will naturally confront you with entirely new challenges which also call for new skills. After all, a team is as good as its leader , right?
But how can you make the most of this situation? How can you find a job you will truly love? Unlike interviews and focus groups, a well-designed user test measures actual performance.
With this eBook, you will learn to take the guesswork out of your design decisions and base them on real-life experiences and user needs instead. User research is an effective strategy to gain a deeper understanding of your target audience — a crucial step in order to choose efficient design solutions and build smart products. But what has to be considered when conducting user research? What methods have proven themselves in practice? And how do you finally integrate your findings into the design process?
This eBook delves into the world of content, providing beginners as well as communications pros with a fundamental understanding of how content strategy works. This eBook is your guide through the critical phases of content planning, production and maintenance, your partner in crime to develop a sound content strategy.
What is it that makes a website stand out from the crowd? What makes it memorable and meaningful? This eBook wants to explore these questions. The creativity lessons in this eBook may help you overcome a creative trough. If WordPress got you hooked, and you want to tailor your site more to your needs and ideas, then this eBook is for you. A valuable resource for your daily UX routine.
Find out how to integrate emotional appeal into your website — a personal touch can make all the difference, if you know how to design it. Without forms, the web is a passive experience where content is just consumed. But with forms the web can be collaborative, creative and productive. On first glance, forms are simple to learn. Made up of just a handful of inputs, you can create a form in little time. But when we consider the journeys we need to design, the users we need to design for, the browsers and devices of varying sizes, capabilities and bugs being used; and ensuring that the result is simple and inclusive , form design becomes a far more interesting and bigger challenge.
This eBook takes a look at the challenges that crafting online shopping experiences bring along, and equips you with the necessary know-how on how to deal with them effectively. Cross-browser fallbacks. Flex container. Sizing boxes. Flex property. Forms with Flexbox. Advanced alignment. Magical margins. Reordering boxes. Order property. Flexbox as progressive enhancement. Web Fonts Performance — Font formats. Font loading. Font Loading API.
Fallback fonts. Inlining fonts. Simulating swapping. Asynchronous loading and caching. Prioritized loading. Retina displays. Fixed-width images. Variable-width images. Srcset and sizes. Art direction. Separation of concerns. Image format fallback. Background images. Image optimization. Compressive images. Common pitfalls. CSS in email. Market share. Navigation and CTA buttons. Foundational markup. Reset and client-specific CSS.
Fluid containers. Pattern-based development. Layout techniques. Microsoft Outlook. Windows Live Mail. Apple Mail. Mozilla Thunderbird. Predictable, simple CSS. Naming conventions. BEM and class names. Sass organization. Debugging media queries. Content-out media queries.
Exploratory testing. Functional testing. Visual regression testing. Automated testing. Dealing with false positives. Common dependencies. Troubleshooting bugs on mobile. User experience design.
Creative hijinks. Allergic to research. Process and predictability. Building blocks of creativity. Intoxicated by process. Platform for creativity. Creative brief. Line between control and chaos.
Buying creativity. Creative teams. Online and offline events. Cache manifest. AppCache gotchas. Web Storage. Service Workers. Content priority guide. Style comparisons. Testing the aggregate. Content prototype.
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