Designing For iPhone

With almost half of the smartphone market share, the iPhone is a concrete confirmation that its worth it to be a vanguardist in technology. Designers that have familiarity with the Apple iOS are one step ahead in designing mobile interfaces. If you want do discover trends and special requirements that iPhone applications ask for, this eBook "Designing For iPhone" is a must.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

- How to Create Your First iPhone Application

- Web Development For The iPhone And iPad: Getting Started

- iPhone App Design Trends

- iPhone App Designs Reviewed: Critique Board and Lessons Learned

- iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over Blown Visuals

- iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Disregard Of Context

- Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development

- Designing For iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques And Workflow

- Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone

Designing for Mobile can be very complex: it requires many skills such as programming, usability, typography, creating applications. all of this without forgetting the necessary ingredient of visual appeal. This eBook: Essentials of Mobile Design, will give you an overview of the basic features you need to know for designing beautiful and useful Mobile interfaces and apps.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) Not Your Parents Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones
2) Why We Shouldnt Make Separate Mobile Websites
3) How To Build A Mobile Website
4) Making It A Mobile Web App
5) A Study Of Trends In Mobile Design
6) How To Market Your Mobile Application
7) A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web Development
8) From Monitor To Mobile: Optimizing Email Newsletters With CSS
9) How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website
10) Creating Mobile Optimized Websites Using WordPress

After having read fundamental concepts in our Smashing eBook #10 "WordPress Essentials" and having expanded your knowledge by applying the many options gathered in our Smashing eBook #11 "Mastering WordPress", it's time for you to go even further with WordPress development. This eBook "WordPress Tutorials" (eBook #12) is filled with detailed techniques which will show you the step-by-step of various enhancement processes on WordPress publishing. Including tabs into the user interface, adding media elements, applying plug-ins and creating custom meta boxes are a few examples of what is expecting you. Why wait until your clients ask what can be done when you can anticipate their expectations and impress them with your know-how?

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- How To Create Tabs On WordPress Settings Pages
- Create Native Admin Tables In WordPress The Right Way
- How To Build A Media Site On WordPress (Part 1)
- How To Build A Media Site On WordPress (Part 2)
- How To Create Custom Post Meta Boxes In WordPress
- Getting Started With bbPress
- WordPress Multisite: Practical Functions And Methods
- Writing the Perfect WordPress Readme.txt
- Integrating Amazon S3 with WordPress

Web design, with its wide range of disciplines and fields, is not an easy nut to crack. However, it is possible to put together a book with some of the crucial principles and fundamentals that you will need for every project you take on.

Learn about the harsh truths of corporate Web design and the troubles you are bound to run into. Create effective online portfolios with optimized user experiences, without the usual trial and error. Use storytelling to create engaging user experiences. Impress clients by staying on top of enhancements and Web standards. And in case you are wondering how to handle clients, we have some professional advice on how to deal with exceptional situations and customer requests.

This guide to professional Web design was carefully selected, prepared and edited to bring you the most useful Web design advice from Smashing Magazines articles. Know where you stand, put your situation in perspective, and get the advice you've been looking for.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites
- Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns And Current Practices
- Creating A Successful Online Portfolio
- Better User Experience With Storytelling
- Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications
- Progressive Enhancement And Standards Do Not Limit Web Design
- Color Theory For Designers, Part 1: The Meaning Of Color
- Is John The Client Dense Or Are You Failing Him?
- How To Identify And Deal With Different Types Of Clients
- How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism
- Web Designers Guide To Professional Networking
- Group Interview: Expert Advice For Students and Young Web Designers

Since the appearance of the smartphone and tablet computers, we are experiencing a boom in Mobile Design. And, as it happens with the development of new gadgets and technologies, some trends and patterns are already established. With this eBook: Mobile Design Patterns, you will learn the most important guidelines and strategies for Mobile Design, including solutions for forms, tap ahead patterns and UX approaches.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) The Elements Of The Mobile User Experience
2) Picking A Mobile Support Strategy For Your Website
3) Essential Design Patterns For Mobile Banking
4) Seven Guidelines For Designing High Performance Mobile User Experiences
5) Useful Design Tips For Your iPad App
6) A User Centered Approach To Web Design For Mobile Devices
7) Mobile Auto Suggest on Steroids: Tap Ahead Design Pattern

Unlike its predecessors, the new Smashing Books 3 and 3 and a half have the main theme: Redesign. The books are a professional guide on how to redesign websites, but they also introduce a whole new mindset for progressive Web design. They challenge 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 for the new Web. You will explore a practical hands on guide to a bulletproof workflow for responsive Web design. Finally, you will also dive deep into emotional design, content strategy and storytelling.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface
- The Business Side of Redesign
- Selecting a Platform: Technical Considerations for Your Redesign
- Jumping Into HTML
- 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

This Book was written by 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 and The Smashing Editorial Team.

WordPress offers a world of possibilities if you are curious enough to explore them. The most popular blog publishing platform is not limited by its default configurations. You can improve your website with the innumerable plugins, hooks and custom fields new versions are being created almost every day by the global developer community! This Smashing eBook "Mastering WordPress" (eBook 11) is exactly about the above mentioned. We've selected only the best articles on how to use extensions for WordPress with an amazing collection of copy paste coding snippets. They explain advanced methods and techniques which go beyond front end experience and show how to customize back end experience. After reading this eBook, you will be able to transform your website into whatever you want you just have to use your imagination. Make sure you add this source of knowledge to your library!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Definitive Guide To WordPress Hooks
Custom Fields Hacks For WordPress
Power Tips For WordPress Template Developers
Advanced Power Tips For WordPress Template Developers
Advanced Power Tips for WordPress Template Developers : Reloaded Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plugin
Ten Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know
Create Perfect Emails For Your WordPress Website
Writing WordPress Guides for the Advanced Beginner
Advanced Layout Templates In WordPress Content Editor

WordPress is without a doubt the most popular Web software among online publishers. But did you know that there are thousands of plugins and techniques available which you can use to extend WordPress well beyond its potential and transform your site into almost anything you can imagine?

If you want to find out how to extend the limitations of WordPress, this Smashing eBook 10: WordPress Essentials for advanced beginners will help you improve your capabilities, so you can take full advantage of its flexibility. This eBook is packed with copy paste coding snippets and provides practical advice, such as useful techniques for creating your own plugins, adding menus as well as sub menus, and also how to avoid problems with JavaScript and CSS. Find out how to use AJAX and extend the possibilities of WordPress by integrating custom HTML5 tags. With the help of these articles, you will be sure to achieve a good command of better image management and learn how to build media heavy sites, how to integrate Facebook and receive the best tips about the latest developments in WordPress. The advanced tips for WordPress developers provided in this eBook will certainly cater for maximizing the success of your site.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Building WordPress Themes You Can Sell
- Developing WordPress Locally With MAMP
- The Developers Guide To Conflict Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress
- Interacting With The WordPress Database
- How To Create A WordPress Plugin
- How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress
- How To Use AJAX In WordPress
- Better Image Management With WordPress
- Using HTML5 To Transform WordPress TwentyTen Theme

Getting the Hang of Web Typography is dedicated to web workers that are dealing with typography in their daily lives, but have no special training for this independent craft. This eBook (eBook #6)gives you the necessary background on macro- and microtypography, it helps you to choose suitable fonts and use modern techniques such as Web font embedding. It's a valuable book that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography.

The implications of desktop publishing, where anybody who has access to a computer can set type, have led to a flood of poorly designed brochures, flyers and web pages. In Web design especially illegible text, incorrect use of punctuation marks and inappropriate font combinations or use of line widths are frequent. The new techniques that Web fonts offer might bring about even worse examples of ugly and illegible Web typography.

Getting the Hang of Web Typography is a collection of Smashing Magazine's best and most recent articles on web typography with one additional article series and glossary. You can use this eBook as reference work for your projects. It's a valuable book read that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing
- 10 Principles For Readable Web Typograph
- 5 Principles and Ideas of Setting Type on the Web
- Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design
- 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography in Your Designs
- Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices
- The Typography Dress Code: Principles of Choosing and Using Typefaces
- Best Practices of Combining Typefaces
- Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources
- New Typographic Possibilities with CSS 3
- Good Old @Font-Face Rule Revisited
- The Current Web Font Formats
- Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services
- How to Embed Web Fonts from your Server
- Web Typography: Work-arounds, Tips and Tricks
- 10 Useful Typography Tools

As the technology becomes more advanced, all of us seek for time saving tips and guidelines to make our work much more effective and productive. The eBook Mastering Photoshop for Web Design Vol. 2 (eBook 8) contains 11 articles that cover useful and partly unknown Photoshop techniques and tricks from experts in the field. The articles discuss retouching, cloning, compositing, obscure Photoshop timesavers and designing for iPhone. The articles have been published on Smashing Magazine in 2010 and 2011 and have been carefully edited and revised.

Productivity is a crucial asset of professional designers. Photoshop is an extremely powerful application for photo processing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by using advanced techniques and design approaches that professionals and experts in the field are using regularly. The better our professional skills are, the more time we can spend to focus on the actual design process rather than the tool we are using to implement it on screen. This book is the brand new Photoshop eBook edition in our Smashing eBook Series which will help you mastering Photoshop and gain a more efficient, advanced workflow in your design process.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Mastering Photoshop: Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles
- Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks for Photo Retouching
- Photo Retouching Tips and Tricks in Photo Retouching
- The Ultimate Guide to Cloning in Photoshop
- Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display: Techniques and Workflow
- Mastering Photoshop: Pixel Perfection when Rotating, Pasting and Nudging
- Setting up Photoshop for Web and iPhone Development
- Compositing in Adobe Photoshop: Time Saving Tips
- Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time Savers
- Preparing Photoshop Files for Web Developers
- In Defense of Photoshop

Five years have passed, and the magazine has changed. A small, obscure lists blog has evolved into a professional publication with a publishing policy, editorial plans, in house style guide as well as a dedicated team of experienced authors, research assistants, advisory board experts, editors and proofreaders.

Smashing Magazine is a dedicated, passionate team, but it is also you, you and every single reader who have been reading Smashing Magazine for all those years. Thank you for being with us, we could not exist without you.

This eBook is our humble gift to you for your support, criticism and encouragement over all these years. It contains the best, most useful, most interesting or most inspiring articles that have been published on Smashing Magazine over the last five years. They have been carefully edited, proofread and updated for your convenience and a pleasing reading experience.

This eBook, Responsive Design, gives an overview about responsive Web design, showing many situations and techniques in which this approach can be applied to. Smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers may share the same design, which is adapted according to screen size, platform and orientation of each device. Flexible grids and layouts, images, text and an intelligent use of CSS media queries are included.

User Experience (UX) can be strongly influenced by behavioral factors such as emotions, beliefs, preferences and even cultural backgrounds. Being aware of this, Web designers keep developing strategies to improve the overall UX with the help of storytelling, tools for problem solving, relationship engineering and costumer service improvement. This Smashing eBook User Experience Design provides you with insights on how to improve your website based on the most important UX principles.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed
- Design Is About Solving Problems
- A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable
- Designing The Well Tempered Web
- Better User Experience With Storytelling Part 1
- Better User Experience With Storytelling Part 2
- Relationship Engineering Part 1
- Relationship Engineering Part 2
- Taking A Customer From Like To Love: The UX Of Long Term Relationships
- Idiots, Drama Queens And Scammers: Improving Customer Service with UX

The Web changes everyday and, as a Web-developer, you are probably eager to keep up with the various techniques that help optimizing your workflow. This eBook:Mastering HTML5, explains to you the facts and myths of HTML5, shows how to use local storage on websites, teaches how to optimize images with HTML5 canvas and how to sync content with HTML5 video.

Among the most important ingredients for successful Web designs are creativity, planning, coding and design skills. However, many people forget that various psychological factors also play an important role when making design decisions. Psychology of Web Design gives you insights on how the human brain deals with different elements, colors, contrast, symmetry and balance. Combining the usability guidelines from Maslows pyramid will surely help you design closer to your audiences desires.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Persuasion Triggers In Web Design
- Designing For A Hierarchy Of Needs
- Designing For The Mind
- 10 Useful Usability Findings And Guidelines
- 30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of
- Designing For Start Ups: How To Deliver The Message Across
- Color Theory For Designers Part 1
- Color Theory For Designers
- Part 2
- Color Theory For Designers Part 3

UX design isn’t a new field. But sometimes new approaches lead to new perspectives. In this book, you’ll learn how lean UX has made the whole discipline more approachable and attractive to startups, and you’ll see that UX issues aren’t just a quick fix, but should also address big-picture issues. Sometimes, the solution to a problem is just to fix a broken UX. At other times, you need to constantly fine-tune in order to keep up with changing demands. You’ll also explore wireframing techniques, research planning and design bias. TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Interaction Design In The Cloud

- Lean Startup Is Great UX Packaging

- Fitting Big-Picture UX Into Agile Development

- You Already Know How To Use It

- Fixing A Broken User Experience

- Beyond Wireframing: The Real-Life UX Design Process

- Stop Redesigning And Start Tuning Your Site Instead

- Designer Myopia: How To Stop Designing For Ourselves

- The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love

Are you familiar with the term User Experience (UX) and the principles that determine a user-friendly website? If yes, then all you need to do is to learn some more useful techniques that will make your user interface designs even better! User Experience, Practical Techniques, Volume 1 features seven selected articles on usability principles which will help you design user-centered websites by showing you helpful examples of the best practices and which common mistakes to avoid in your next project.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design
- Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design
- 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
-10 Useful Web Application Interface Designs
- 12 Useful Techniques For Good User Interface Design
- An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability
- 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of

In "Rethinking UX", various UX professionals share their lessons learned and provide practical advice from their very own personal experience. The eBook is packed with interesting thoughts and concepts that let us reflect on our own practices. Every designer has their own user research techniques and strategies, but leaving the office and talking to people on the streets can foster innovation even more as any thought-out strategy ever could. 

Is empathy possibly the best guarantor for great UX? Overcoming traditional patterns and designing with a new type of user in mind is among the many topics of this eBook. 

Of course, you can also get your hands on some future scenarios. The Smashing authors dare to sneak a peak at some new challenges that we could face with the rise of innovative technologies such as Google Glass and Leap Motion, and explore how we can embrace entirely gesture-driven interfaces today. This eBook is a springboard for developing a new perspective and for creating future-proof user experiences.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Thirteen Tenets Of User Experience Design

- Improving Your Website Usability Test

- Designing For The Multifaceted User

- 50 Design Problems In 50 Days: Real Empathy For Innovation

- Beyond The Button: Embracing The Gesture-Driven Interface

- What Leap Motion And Google Glass Mean For Future User Experience

With the advent of responsive techniques, design patterns and off-the-shelf components, responsive Web design has become more than a technique — but rather a new mindset that requires us all to rethink and extend our practices. Responsive design is also about performance, server-side components, content strategy and conditional loading. With this eBook, you will learn how to go from non-responsive layouts to optimized responsive mobile experiences. We're happy to present techniques to help you overcome outdated practices and set new defaults in your workflow — a new responsive design workflow. TABLE OF CONTENTS
- How Much Has The Web Really Changed?
- Looking Beyond Common Media Query Breakpoints
- Logical Breakpoints For Your Responsive Design
- Preparing Websites For The Unexpected
- How To Maintain Hierarchy Through Content Choreography
- Towards A Retina Web
- Building A Better Responsive Website
- How To Make Your Websites Faster On Mobile Devices

Getting the Hang of Web Typography is dedicated to web workers that are dealing with typography in their daily lives, but have no special training for this independent craft. This eBook (eBook #6)gives you the necessary background on macro- and microtypography, it helps you to choose suitable fonts and use modern techniques such as Web font embedding. It's a valuable book that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography.

The implications of desktop publishing, where anybody who has access to a computer can set type, have led to a flood of poorly designed brochures, flyers and web pages. In Web design especially illegible text, incorrect use of punctuation marks and inappropriate font combinations or use of line widths are frequent. The new techniques that Web fonts offer might bring about even worse examples of ugly and illegible Web typography.

Getting the Hang of Web Typography is a collection of Smashing Magazine's best and most recent articles on web typography with one additional article series and glossary. You can use this eBook as reference work for your projects. It's a valuable book read that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
- The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing
- 10 Principles For Readable Web Typograph
- 5 Principles and Ideas of Setting Type on the Web
- Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design
- 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography in Your Designs
- Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices
- The Typography Dress Code: Principles of Choosing and Using Typefaces
- Best Practices of Combining Typefaces
- Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources
- New Typographic Possibilities with CSS 3
- Good Old @Font-Face Rule Revisited
- The Current Web Font Formats
- Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services
- How to Embed Web Fonts from your Server
- Web Typography: Work-arounds, Tips and Tricks
- 10 Useful Typography Tools