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Usability and Interface Design Books
Usability and interaction design are fields that are becoming important for every website design. They consider the interactions between the user and every system, nowadays most commonly applied to... More... 78 Comments
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Evolve Your User Interface To Educate Your Users
The Web has changed. This isn’t your neighbor’s nerdy kid’s internet anymore. Now the Web is home to your mom, your grandma and your technophobe sister. With computers as common a... More... 56 Comments
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Premium WordPress Themes: Are They Here To Stay?
Over the last few years WordPress managed to become the dominating weblog engine out there. The main reasons behind its overwhelming success aren't that astonishing: WordPress is extremely easy to use,... More... 117 Comments
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Screen Resolutions and Better User Experience
In order to work well, designs have to be optimized for simplicity, transparency and, consequently, optimal user experience. The user experience itself is, however, in many cases just an elegant term... More... 57 Comments
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Best Practices For Bulletproof E-Mail Delivery
Have your e-mails already been flagged as spam, although you've sent a seemingly legitimate proposal to your client? Have you ever wondered why the efficiency of your newsletter campaigns suddenly... More... 52 Comments
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30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of
You don't have to agree upon everything. As a professional web developer you are the advocate of your visitors' interests and needs; you have to protect your understanding of good user experience and... More... 211 Comments
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Who Is Your Visitor? An Average Profile
You never really know who is going to visit your web-site next. You have no idea which configuration will be used, what browser will be installed, which screen resolution will be in use. However, since... More... 64 Comments
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10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of
Sometimes you just want to get the information you're after, save it and move along. And you can't. Usability nightmares — which are rather the daily routine than an exception — appear every now and... More... 284 Comments
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20 (Alternate) Ways to Focus on Users
Many web professionals know about certain ways to focus on users. The most popular methods surely include usability tests, card sorting, personas, surveys, and watching current research, and they mean... More... 41 Comments
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170+ Expert Ideas From World’s Leading Developers
Few days ago we've published the first part of our survey "50 Designers x 6 Questions". We've presented the first three questions which we've asked and 175 professional suggestions, tips and ideas from... More... 61 Comments
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50 Designers x 6 Questions
Some months ago we’ve selected 50 prominent designers and design companies, contacted them and asked to answer five design-related questions, sharing their knowledge and experience with fellows... More... 105 Comments
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40+ Books For Professional Design & Development
Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. To become or remain professional, you permanently need to improve your design and programming skills, be aware of new approaches and now how other... More... 2106 Comments
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PDF: Five Smashing Wisdom Treasures
In our recent posts we've promised to publish the .pdf-versions of the articles you've considered useful and important. We've received many e-mails in which you supported us and asked us for... More... 24 Comments
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Copyright Explained: I May Copy It, Right?
With blogging comes great responsibilty. You define the content of your weblog and you carry the full responsibility for every word you've published online. More than that, you are responsible for... More... 120 Comments
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Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?
Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and... More... 419 Comments
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Henry Jones presents 400 High Quality Patterns — a collection of patterns of all shapes, sizes, and color. Some are images, and some are pattern files for Photoshop and Illustrator.
Facebook and YouTube Icons is a free set of fresh Leopard-optimized Facebook and YouTube icons (512×512px). Formats: .icns, iContainer.
How many blogs give link credit? Phrases like “via Boing Boing” and “via Instapundit” are ubiquitous in the blogosphere. But this is far from universal. Simon Owens knows.
WordPress Function List is a quick cheat sheet and a reference guide to expedite WordPress theme development.
Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera's new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and JavaScript basics.
Eye Movement Patterns Study presents results of a recent research on single and dual-column web pages, encouraging 2-column presentation for articles published online. [via]
David Leggett shares 5 Pixel Popping Techniques for Adobe Photoshop. Among them the 2 pixel divide effect, the pixel shadow and the shadow highlight.
The most memory efficient browser is Firefox 3.0. Not only trumps its older version, but every other popular offering on Windows. Sam Allen's findings.
Everyday Icons offers over 30 sets of beautiful patterns and icons for free download. Some of them are just sexy. 
Finetuna is a free service that allows you to upload an image, comment on it and share it with clients and co-workers. Firefox-extension is available as well. Useful.
