A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine

Planning is essential for most businesses and organizations. Unfortunately, when it comes to websites there is often a failure to plan properly or at all. This guide aims to change that.  Always remember that a good website isn’t a one-time event, but rather an extensible communications tool. Once you’ve built a great website, keep the […]

The Importance Of Macro And Micro-Moment Design — Smashing Magazine

It’s not just micro-moment design problems that can cause trouble. Designers often spend a lot of time on macro design issues, and sometimes less so on critical micro-moment design issues. That might be a mistake. Macro design issues can result in massive UX problems, too. In this article, Susan Weinschenk will take a closer look

What Does This Mean For Mobile Designers? — Smashing Magazine

Has Generation Z been part of your discussions with web design clients? If not, then it’s time you factored it in. This next generation wasn’t caught between worlds the way many millennials were, which means they have a whole different set of expectations when it comes to the technology they interact with on a daily

Designing With Reduced Motion For Motion Sensitivities — Smashing Magazine

Thanks to the wide support of the prefers-reduced-motion-media feature, we now have more advanced ways to design motion that can be creative and innovative while also being safer for those with motion sensitivities. This article is all about the how and why of making that happen. CSS has recently added features that allow us to

Designing For Attention — Smashing Magazine

We must effectively design to gain and hold users’ attention in order to have them use our digital products. In this article, Victor Yocco covers specific tactics with supporting research that are bound to help you design for attention. He also discusses the need to understand why we want to gain users’ attention as well

Intuitive Design? No Such Thing! — Smashing Magazine

“Intuitive design” is one of those overused phrases that we as designers hear all too often from stakeholders and their requirements. In this article, Carrie Webster explores what intuitive design actually means, why it doesn’t make sense, how we can better approach design solutions, and what the future of interfaces might look like. It is

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