This book shares valuable practical insight into design, usability and coding. It provides professional advice for designing mobile applications and building successful e-commerce websites, and it explains common coding mistakes and how to avoid them. You’ll explore the principles of professional design thinking and graphic design and learn how to apply psychology and game theory to create engaging user experiences. Like its predecessor, the Smashing Book 2 is a printed book about best practices in modern Web design. Well-respected professionals have worked with us to provide exciting and comprehensive chapters: “The Principles of Great Graphic Design”, Matt Ward and Alexander Charchar, “Visible vs. Invisible Design”, Francisco Inchauste, “Designing Mobile User Experiences”, Mike Rundle, “Sketching, Wireframing and Prototyping”, Janko Jovanovic, “Red Flags in Web Development”, Christian Heilmann, “The Future of Web Typography”, Vivien Anayian, “Game Design Techniques Applied to UX Design”, Christoph Kolb, “When They Click: Psychology of Web Design”, Susan Weinschenk, “Design Patterns on E-Commerce Websites (A Study)”, Steven Bradley, “How to Make a Book (Like This One)”, The Smashing Magazine Team.

Unlike its predecessors, the new Smashing Book #3 has the main theme: Redesign. The book is a professional guide on how to redesign websites, but it also introduces a whole new mindset for progressive Web design. It challenges you to think differently about your work and will change the way you design websites forever. A detailed look at the business and technical side of redesign is followed by a comprehensive overview of advanced HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript techniques that you can use today. You will get useful advice on innovative UX techniques, learn about the peculiarities of mobile context in Web design and discover useful Photoshop techniques. You’ll study a practical hands-on guide to a bulletproof workflow for responsive Web design. Well-respected professionals have poured their heart and expertise into these contributions. The Smashing Book #3 contains 11 chapters. TABLE OF CONTENTS - Preface - The Business Side of Redesign - Selecting a Platform: Technical Considerations for Your Redesign - Jumping Into HTML5 - Restyle, Recode, Reimagine With CSS3 - JavaScript Rediscovered: Tricks to Replace Complex jQuery - Techniques for Building Better User Experiences - Designing for the Future, Using Photoshop - Redesigning With Personality - Mobile Considerations in User Experience Design: Web or Native? - Workflow Redesigned: A Future Friendly Approach - Becoming Fabulously Flexible: Designing Atoms and Elements AUTHORS Elliot Jay Stocks, Paul Boag, Rachel Andrew, Ben Schwarz, David Storey, Lea Verou, Christian Heilmann, Dmitry Fadeyev, Marc Edwards, Aarron Walter, Aral Balkan, Stephen Hay, Andy Clarke

Responsive design is a default these days, but we are all still figuring out just the right process and techniques to better craft responsive websites. That’s why we created a new book—to gather practical techniques and strategies from people who have learned how to get things done right, in actual projects with actual real-world challenges.

Responsive design is a default these days, but we are all still figuring out just the right process and techniques to better craft responsive websites. That’s why Smashing Magazine created a new book—to gather practical techniques and strategies from people who have learned how to get things done right, in actual projects with actual real-world challenges. The Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design is Smashing Magazine’s brand new book with smart front-end techniques and design patterns derived from real-life responsive projects. Part 1 features 7 chapters on responsive workflow, SVG, Flexbox, content strategy, and design patterns—just what you need to master all the tricky facets and hurdles of responsive design. Written by Daniel Mall, Ben Callahan, Eileen Webb, Sara Soueidan, Vitaly Friedman and Zoe M. Gillenwater. Please note that the corresponding Part 2 is also available with even more responsive web design tips and tricks—among others on web fonts, responsive images, email design, performance, debugging and optimizing for offline. TABLE OF CONTENTS: •A Responsive Way Forward—written by Vitaly Friedman •The Modern Responsive Designer’s Workflow—written by Dan Mall •Responsive Process—written by Ben Callahan •Responsive Design Patterns And Components—written by Vitaly Friedman •Content Choreography In RWD—written by Eileen Webb •Mastering SVG For Responsive Web Design—written by Sara Soueidan •Building Advanced Responsive Modules With Flexbox—written by Zoe M. Gillenwater

It’s about time to finally make sense of all the front-end and UX madness. Meet our new book with everything from design systems to accessible single-page apps, CSS Custom Properties, Grid, Service Workers, performance patterns, AR/VR, conversational UIs and responsive art direction.