What does it mean to be a doodler, to draw pictures all day? Why do we doodle? Most of all, what does it mean to our work? It turns out that the simple act of scribbling on a page helps us think, remember and learn.
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Clay Allsopp tries out RubyMotion by making an app that grabs some data from the Internet and updates the screen’s content accordingly. If you’ve hit stumbling blocks learning native iOS development or are just curious about what Ruby on iOS looks like, you should read on.
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The winners of our “Redesign The Web” Poster Design Contest! We received clean and minimalistic designs, complex artworks, illustrations, inspirational quotes and call-ups, as well as a comic strip. Let’s redesign the Web and, hence, redesign the world.
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Back in 2009, Smashing Magazine presented 100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers. In the meantime Apple has shaken the industry with iPhones 4, 4S and 5, as well as iPad 1, 2, 3, and not to forget to mention the brand new iPad mini and iPad 4 — devices that steal the show with the best ever displays and gigantic resolutions. Having your hands on these masterpieces, how about enriching your device with a high-resolution Retina wallpaper that makes your thingamajig look even better than it already does.
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In this overview you will find posts featuring some of the more entertaining articles which have been published on Smashing Magazine over all the years.
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This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful Smashing Magazine’s articles on business advice, design process and communication published here over all the years.
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Here you will find posts featuring some of the most useful articles related to back-end and server administration which have been published on Smashing Magazine over all the years.
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This is an overview of the most popular articles on design history, graphic lessons from the past and art published on Smashing Magazine over all the years.
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When writing a web application from scratch, it’s easy to feel like we can get by simply by relying on a DOM manipulation library (like jQuery) and a handful of utility plugins. The problem with this is that it doesn’t take long to get lost in a nested pile of jQuery callbacks and DOM elements without any real structure in place for our applications.
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