Editor's Note: When it comes to elections, we are each given a choice in how to express our opinions and beliefs. Some designers and developers use their skills to further articulate their choice in one person. Here's a glimpse into how Topple Trump!, an interactive responsive quiz game, was designed and built -- combined with some valuable lessons learned along the way. This article is about techniques and strategies, so please avoid political flame in the comments. Creating an online quiz that is simple to use, looks great and is really fun to play is one thing. Basing it on Donald Trump's polarizing presidential campaign is another. The brainchild of Parallax director and developer Andy Fitch, Topple Trump! has gone on to win numerous awards. But it was a real team effort that brought the game to life. Here's a glimpse into precisely how that happened, touching on the development process, design considerations and some valuable lessons learned along the way.The post Building "Topple Trump", An Interactive Web-Based Quiz Game (Case Study) appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

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Creating a brand identity is one of the most important parts of creating any new business. After all, it's what helps create your brand image. One of the best ways to create an effective brand identity is to learn from the very best that already won the world with its brands. Today, we take a […]

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Even though Apple's Keynote app gives you plenty of tools and options for creating beautiful presentations, it can be tricky to find the time to build a beautiful, custom design. Don’t worry -- we’ve got you covered with this collection of the best Keynote templates! With these templates, you don't have to spend hours designing […]

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Do you remember the first time you dug deep into the source code of a library or framework you use frequently? For me, that moment came during my first job as a frontend developer three years ago. We had just finished rewriting an internal legacy framework we used to create e-learning courses. At the beginning of the rewrite, we had spent time investigating a number of different solutions including Mithril, Inferno, Angular, React, Aurelia, Vue, and Polymer.