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40 Creative Uses Of Cufón Font Replacement

40 Creative Uses Of Cufón Font Replacement

From Spyrestudios, October 7th, 2009

Cufón has been growing in popularity among designers as an alternative to sIFR. I have personally used it on a couple website designs for clients now, and I have to say, it’s a great tool to add creativity to your ...

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Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces

Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces

From Tyler Tate, October 7th, 2009

Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces (via @smashingmag) - Clean. Easy to use. User-friendly. Intuitive. This mantra is proclaimed by many but often gets lost in translation. The culprit: complexity. How one deals with complexity can make or break an application. A ...

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Freelance Contracts: Do’s And Don’ts

Freelance Contracts: Do’s And Don’ts

From Robert Bowen, October 6th, 2009

In the world of freelancing, the entrepreneur has to take on a number of tasks for themselves that would normally be handled by a separate department at a bigger company. Most of these tasks are not part of the creative ...

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Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started

Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started

From Soh Tanaka, October 5th, 2009

Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started (via @smashingmag) - CSS has become the standard for building websites in today’s industry. Whether you are a hardcore developer or designer, you should be familiar with it. CSS is the bridge between programming and design, ...

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The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials

The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials

From Callum Chapman, October 2nd, 2009

The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials (via @smashingmag) - Although web design is everywhere nowadays (even when we’re not at the computer it still manages to squeeze it’s way in to our everyday life), print design is still a huge ...

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How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism

How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism

From Andrew Follett, October 1st, 2009

Winston Churchill once said: “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” Regardless of where you work or who ...

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2009

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2009

From Smashing Editorial, September 30th, 2009

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2009 (via @smashingmag) - Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s ...

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40+ Desert Island Web Development Tools

40+ Desert Island Web Development Tools

From Cameron Chapman, September 29th, 2009

What would you do if you were suddenly stranded on a desert island in the middle of nowhere, with only a USB drive, a dial-up internet connection, and a barebones computer with no software outside the operating system installed? Of ...

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Search Results Design: Best Practices and Design Patterns

Search Results Design: Best Practices and Design Patterns

From Louis Lazaris, September 28th, 2009

If you’ve been assigned to design or provide the architecture for a large e-commerce project or other information-heavy website whose success depends on content findability, it is vital that the design and layout of the search functionality for that website ...

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Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone

Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone

From Adeel Raza, September 27th, 2009

Over the last couple of years, mobile devices have managed to gain mainstream popularity. With iPhone, making mobile Web applications finally usable by broad masses, web design can now be applied to mobile applications as well. In this post we ...

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Beautiful Examples of Kinetic Photography

Beautiful Examples of Kinetic Photography

From Vailancio Rodrigues, September 25th, 2009

When you hear the word ‘kinetic‘ for the first time, probably the first thing that comes to your mind is motion. Kinetic Photography, also known as ‘camera tossing‘, is a technique of shooting photos with the actual physical movement of ...

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SVN Server Admin Issue: Fix It!

SVN Server Admin Issue: Fix It!

From Alexander Makarov, September 25th, 2009

A few months ago, Anton Isaykin in collaboration with the company 2comrades discovered a serious security problem that is quite typical of big projects (we do not name names here). To test it, they obtained the file structures and even ...

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10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines

10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines

From Dmitry Fadeyev, September 24th, 2009

Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making your pages easy and enjoyable for your visitors to use is key. Many studies have ...

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Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

From Melissa Scroggins, September 23rd, 2009

Learning is a process which continues throughout the life of an artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. Along the way, designers find the task of mastering Adobe Illustrator a large obstacle which requires practice and experience in using the vector-based application. ...

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Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources

Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources

From Cameron Chapman, September 22nd, 2009

CSS Font stacks are one of those things that elude a lot of designers. Many stick to the basic stacks Dreamweaver auto-recommends or go even more basic by just specifying a single web-safe font. But doing either of those things ...

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Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface

Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface

From Luke Wroblewski, September 21st, 2009

Though many computer applications and operating systems make use of real-world metaphors like the desktop, most software interface design has little to do with how we actually experience the real world. In lots of cases, there are great reasons not ...

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Showcase of Case Studies in Design Portfolios

Showcase of Case Studies in Design Portfolios

From Steven Snell, September 20th, 2009

Portfolio websites are critical for designers who want to get exposure for their work and attract new clients. While all portfolio sites will showcase the work of the designer, some have chosen to provide additional information about the project through ...

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Urban Art Tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator

Urban Art Tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator

From Christopher Fernandez, September 19th, 2009

Photoshop and Illustrator, as we’ve all come to realize, have revolutionized contemporary design and illustration, unleashing the creative potential of artists the world over. Through this tutorial, we’ll take you through process and technique, from sketch to Photoshop to Illustrator, ...

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Effective Twitter Backgrounds: Examples and Current Practices

Effective Twitter Backgrounds: Examples and Current Practices

From Saud Khan, September 18th, 2009

Smashing Magazine has been on Twitter for about a year now (@smashingmag), and it turned out to be a great medium to communicate with our audience, build connections, discuss design-related topics and give away some nice prizes. However, even a ...

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Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns and Current Practices

Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns and Current Practices

From Vitaly Friedman, September 17th, 2009

In our recent study on Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices, we asked our readers about case studies they would like us to conduct. One of the most popular suggestions was a detailed case study of portfolio websites. Following the ...

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