What's your responsive design process like? Do you feel that it's efficient, and s? The following article is an excerpt from Ben Callahan's chapter "Responsive Process," first published in the Smashing Book 5. We've collected some useful techniques and practices from real-life responsive projects in the book -- and you can get your hard copy or grab the eBook today. You will not be disappointed, you know. --Ed. "The successful respondent to this RFP will provide three static design options for our team to evaluate." I've never been a huge fan of taking a multi-option design approach, but I get it -- sometimes a client needs this. "Each of these options will provide design for three unique layouts: home page, listing page, detail page." All right. Now, we're up to nine static design files. This is getting a bit out of hand.The post Efficient Responsive Design Process appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Having a library of tools and assets to work with is the best way to explore new art styles and create stunning results. Using ready-made resources such as textures, graphics and brushes eliminates the worry of having to switch focus from your main project to construct the tools you need to finish the job! The […] The post Create the Art Styles You Never Knew You Were Capable of with This New Design Kit appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Epic Games has scored for developers in its court battle against Apple over what it considers to be monopolistic App Store policies. The gaming behemoth took Apple to court following the removal of Fortnite from the App Store. Apple justified its decision as being due to Epic Games breaking App Store policy and using its... Read more » The post Epic Games scores for developers in Apple court case appeared first on Developer Tech News.

Superheroes are all the craze these days. Everywhere you look you see some sort of a superhero logo or a character on t-shirts, posters, and mugs. There's no age, race, or gender difference to loving a superhero character. If you've been looking for a cool Batman logo template or a Superman logo template to use […]

When running an online shop, you should invest some time into the creation of a good marketing concept. Marketing doesn’t always mean running ads or placing advertisement blocks on different websites. A good idea would be starting an affiliate program. However, this can lead to a couple of tripwires. Today I’ll help you avoid the most fatal mistakes. What’s An Affiliate Program? An affiliate program is like a snowball system. You start the program for your products, and other people advertise them. They integrate your ads on their websites. Each time an advertising medium results in a purchase, the affiliates earn a small share of the sale. You can think of it as a small army of vendors that you don’t need to pay wages to; only a small share of each sale via your advertising media. By using cookies, the affiliate program finds out which vendor the recommendation came from, and then it assigns the sale to said affiliate. The Salary System You can choose your own salary system for your affiliates, and you are not bound to strict standards. The following versions are common: Cost per Sale (percentual salary for each purchase in the online shop) Cost per […]

Using a style guide to drive development is a practice that is gaining a lot of traction in front-end development — and for good reason. Developers will start in the style guide by adding new code or updating existing code, thereby contributing to a modular UI system that is later integrated in the application. But in order to implement a modular UI system, we must approach design in a modular way. Modular design encourages us to think and design a UI and UX in patterns. For example, instead of designing a series of pages or views to enable a user to accomplish a task, we would start the design process by understanding how the UI system is structured and how its components can be used to create the user flow.The post Designing Modular UI Systems Via Style Guide-Driven Development appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by a panel of speakers from Longhorn PHP to discuss the conference, PHP internals, and questions from the attendees. Our amazing panel guests this episode are: Alena Holligan Sammy K Powers Taylor Barnett Margaret Staples Chris Holland Kat Z...

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Isn't it crazy to think that just ten years ago, we were talking about the new revolutionary iPhone and how it was going to change our lives forever? Fast-forward to 2018, and Apple's never-ending stream of iPhone updates are old news. The real hot topic is AI?--?aka, how computers are starting to outsmart us. As...

The process of developing sophisticated web-based software is more like a marathon than a sprint. But we have to keep moving forward. To avoid potential problems, follow the best practices introduced in this guide. The following recommendations are based on The Twelve-Factor App methodology. The web application development best practices discussed here can be applied to any Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. It covers everything from back-end development on a local machine to cloud architecture.