Smashing Book #4

Written by well-respected designers and developers, the 4th Smashing Book contains lots of actionable takeaways that will help you in your daily routine. Think of it as a reliable playbook for issues that keep following you in every project. This eBook is for you because you’ll discover plenty of valuable, time-saving techniques that will improve your workflow right away.


Smashing Book #4 — New Perspectives on Web Design features valuable insights into large-scale projects, adaptive interfaces, customer support, user psychology and typography. We will also uncover smart front-end strategies, obscure back-end techniques and find out what it takes to improve website performance for faster and more robust apps.


Table Of Contents:


- Preface by Vitaly Friedman

- Modern CSS Architecture and Front-End Development by Harry Roberts

- Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code by Nicholas Zakas

- The Vanilla Web Diet by Christian Heilmann

- Culture of Performance by Tim Kadlec

- Robust, Responsible, Responsive Web Design by Mat Marquis

- Finding and Fixing Mobile Web Rendering Issues by Addy Osmani

- Designing Adaptive Interfaces by Aaron Gustafson

- How To Fix the Web: Obscure Back-End Techniques and Terminal Secrets by Paul Tero

- The Next Steps for Web Typography by Marko Dugonjić

- The Two Faces of Content Strategy: Balancing the Needs of Users and Editors by Corey Vilhauer

- Supporting Your Product by Rachel Andrew

- The Design of People by Nishant Kothary

- On Creative Spirit by Christopher Murphy