Designing Landing Pages That Work

Having knowledge on how to create an effective landing page can increase the number of site visitors that take the desired action of the web page. By Six Revisions

A User-Centric Guideline To Product Pages

 

Product pages for e-commerce websites are often rife with ambitions: recreate the brick-and-mortar shopping experience, provide users with every last drop of product information, build a brand persona, establish a seamless check-out process. By Smashing UX Design

Content Strategy Within The Design Process

The first thing to understand about content strategy is that no two people understand it the same way. It’s a relatively new — and extremely broad — discipline with no single definitive definition. By Smashing UX Design

The Art Of Content Marketing

Effective content marketing holds people’s attention. It gives you a distinctive brand, loyal fans and increased sales. You don’t need a big budget to succeed, which is why good content marketing is the single best way to beat bigger competitors online. By Smashing Magazine

Gridpak: The Responsive Grid Generator

Challenges and problems inevitably arise when adopting new ideas and ways of working. One of the main stumbling blocks we found as an agency was in efficiently and cost-effectively implementing one of the fundamental ingredients of responsive design: a flexible grid based layout.  By Smashing Coding

The Elements Of Navigation

 

When users look for information, they have a goal and are on a mission. By Smashing UX Design

Device-Agnostic Approach To Responsive Web Design

This is a different take on Responsive Web design. This article discusses how we can better embrace what the Web is about by ignoring the big elephant in the room; that is, how we can rely on media queries and breakpoints without any concern for devices. By Smashing Coding

Designing Engaging And Enjoyable Long-Form Reading Experiences

When you have fantastic and original content, ensuring the best possible reading experience is critical to keeping and building your audience. The following practices will help you design your content in a way that improves the experience for readers. By Smashing UX Design

Behind The Scenes Of Tourism New Zealand (Case Study)

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. By Smashing Magazine

iPad developers

A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children. By Smashing UX Design

Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends

Since Elliot Jay Stocks so poignantly told us to destroy the Web 2.0 look, we’ve witnessed a de-shinification of the Web, with fewer glass buttons, beveled edges, reflections, special-offer badges, vulgar gradients with vibrant colors and diagonal background patterns. By Smashing UX Design

Jenn Lukas

Jeffrey Zeldman interviews front-end developer Jenn Lukas about how to tell if you're a designer or coder; in-house versus product development versus consulting; Girl Develop It, a code teaching activity for budding women web developers; the designer/developer collaboration; tabs or spaces; jumping on the SASS bandwagon; staying sane during #siteweek; maintaining an active roster of side projects; the importance of writing; and more. By 5by5

10 Excellent Usability Tips For Web Designers

If you want your website to be successful with huge traffic the only ingredient you need to inculcate is the usability. The usability helps your users getting what they are looking for. By Web Designish

The Elements of a Clean Web Design

 
Clean, simple web designs have become a popular trend. This article will cover the subject through a two-part discussion. First, read about a few traits that clean designs tend to have in common. The second article will cover tricks and techniques that can be helpful when trying to achieve a clean design. By Six Revisions

Future-Ready Content

The future is flexible, and we’re bending with it. From responsive web design to futurefriend.ly thinking, we’re moving quickly toward a web that’s more fluid, less fixed, and more easily accessed on a multitude of devices. By A List Apart

Audiences, Outcomes, and Determining User Needs

Every website needs an audience. And every audience needs a goal. Advocating for end-user needs is the very foundation of the user experience disciplines. We make websites for real people. Those real people are able to do real things. Everyone is happy. But, it’s not really that easy, is it? By A List Apart