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Easier Is Better Than Better

From Paul Scrivens
November 28th, 2011
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In his book, The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz comes to an interesting conclusion involving human choice. “People choose not on the basis of what’s most important, but on what’s easiest to evaluate.” Common sense would dictate that if you were given a list of choices, you would choose the ...

Fluidity Of Content And Design: Learning From Where The Wild Things Are

From Sarah Bauer
November 17th, 2011
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Have you read Where the Wild Things Are? The storybook has fluidity of content and design figured out. It goes that one night, protagonist Max “wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind or another.” He hammers nails into walls, pesters a small dog. Author Maurice Sendak doesn’t ...

The Role Of Design In The Kingdom Of Content

From Jason Gross
October 24th, 2011
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If content sits at the top of the food chain, why do we spend so much time talking about the finer points of design? Every day we debate, experiment with and discuss topics that easily fall into the category of aesthetics, enhanced functionality and layout; in fact, relatively rarely do ...

The Whys And The Hows Of Textures In Web Design

From Jon Savage and Simon H.
October 3rd, 2011
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Texture is becoming integral to design. It’s gone beyond being a trend — it’s now a simple and effective way to add depth to a website. Wielding the power of texture is a great responsibility. It increases the effectiveness of websites and is a quality tool in the arsenal of designers. It ...

Are You Ready For A Web Design Challenge?

From Paul Boag
September 21st, 2011
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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 many of ...

Elements Of A Viral Launch Page

From Simon Schmid
September 1st, 2011
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Google+, Hipster, Connect.me and Instagram! They all hit a gazillion users in no time at all — and you can even read all about it in everyday media today. This is every product creator’s dream. Ok, granted, Google already had their users well before the launch of its social extension. But how ...

The Lost Art Of Design Etiquette

From Dan Rose
August 29th, 2011
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Endless layers in Photoshop. Overstuffed image folders. That jQuery plug-in that has 12 files associated with it. Hundreds or thousands of individual pieces go into making a website. No wonder we go off the deep end when we can’t find a closing div — er, section tag. We work with a ridiculously large ...

New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms

From Luke Wroblewski
August 22nd, 2011
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For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine. In fact, we probably do it so often that we’ve stopped having to think about how it’s done… that is, until something goes wrong: we forget our password, our user name, the email address we signed ...

In Search Of The Perfect CAPTCHA

From David Bushell
August 8th, 2011
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CAPTCHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, exist to ensure that user input has not been generated by a computer. These peculiar puzzles are commonly used on the Web to protect registration and comment forms from spam. To be honest, I have mixed feelings ...

Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies

From Smashing Editorial Team
July 22nd, 2011
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Back in January, we published an article on responsive design, “Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How to Use It.” Responsive design continues to get a lot of attention, but considering how different it is from the “traditional” way of designing websites, it can be a bit overwhelming for ...