Mobile Considerations in User Experience Design: “Web or Native?”

Mobile Considerations in User Experience Design: “Web or Native?” Our brand new Smashing Books #3 and #3⅓ have been released last month and we’re sincerely grateful for the tremendous feedback, reviews and photos submitted by our truly smashing readers across the world. We appreciate your time and your interest, and thank you for your support and love….

33 Inspiring Website Contact Form Designs

33 Inspiring Website Contact Form Designs Some visitors landing on your webpage are going to want to share their mind. This can mean suggestions, critiques, comments, complaints, or even compliments on your work. But the best way for users to get in touch with webmasters is through a contact form. Backend languages allow for web…

The 10 Best Script and Handwritten Google Web Fonts

The 10 Best Script and Handwritten Google Web Fonts A good script is hard to find. I’m extremely picky when it comes to this particular area of typefaces and tend to hate most of what I see. With this post, you can skip the work of sorting through the crap and cut straight to the…

Syte Social Integrations

Syte Social Integrations Syte is a really simple but powerful packaged personal site that has social integrations like tumblr, twitter, github, dribbble and instagram. You can see it in action on my personal site http://rigoneri.com

Life Beyond 960px: Designing for Large Screens

Life Beyond 960px: Designing for Large Screens The premise behind a responsive web isn’t purely that websites be built in a mobile-friendly way. It’s about setting our content free so that it can be experienced by whatever means necessary – and that includes at large scale. Let’s take a look at the design considerations behind…

31 Examples Of Icons In Navigation Menus

31 Examples Of Icons In Navigation Menus One of the fundamental things in web design in reference to usability isnavigation. Navigation menus are important to help the user find the information that he or she seeks. Use of colors, highlights and mouse-over effects will facilitate detection of the items that are being searched. The use of icons…

You’re a Designer and Don’t Have a Website? Get Started Now

You’re a Designer and Don’t Have a Website? Get Started Now Every designer, whether you work in the web or print (or both) platform needs to have a website to showcase work. Websites can be simple and should only contain examples of a designer’s best work. Remember, using too many items can be a little…

The Web is going to look hideous on the new retina MacBook Pro

The Web is going to look hideous on the new retina MacBook Pro Like everyone else who watched Apple’s WWDC yesterday, I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on one of those brand new MacBook Pros with a Retina Display. Of course, since it’s starting at $2,200, I’ll have to wait to make that jump, and I’m going to…

Percentage Loader A tiny jQuery plugin for displaying progress in a visual and engaging way

Percentage Loader A tiny jQuery plugin for displaying progress in a visual and engaging way jQuery.PercentageLoader is a jQuery plugin for displaying a progress widgetin more visually striking way than the ubiquitous horizontal progress bar / textual counter.Installation and use is quick and simple. It makes use of HTML 5 canvas for a rich graphical appearancewith…

Create a Parallax Scrolling Website Using Stellar.js

Create a Parallax Scrolling Website Using Stellar.js One of the biggest trends in recent modern web design is use of parallax scrolling effects. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how you can create the effect on your own website, with a bit of imagination and a little help from Stellar.js.