Smashing Book #4 — New Perspectives on Web Design (eBook)

Design Library Smashing eBook Anthology Smashing ebooks Web Design

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 book is for you because you’ll discover plenty of valuable, time-saving techniques that will improve your workflow right away.

New Perspectives On Web Design

The concept of the Smashing Book 4 is focused around practical techniques, strategies and approaches that haven't been thoroughly discussed and adopted by the community just yet. We’d like to challenge you to look beyond what's usually done.

The book features valuable insights into large-scale projects, adaptive interfaces, customer support, user psychology and typography. We 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.

We've assembled a remarkable line-up of authors for the book. All of them are well-respected designers and developers who will share their practical insights, design strategies and hands-on tools to explore the new perspectives in Web design today.

AUTHOR	CHAPTER
Harry Roberts	Modern CSS Architecture and Front-End
Nicholas C. Zakas	Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code
Christian Heilmann	The Vanilla Web Diet
Tim Kadlec	Culture of Performance
Mat Marquis	Robust, Responsible, Responsive Web Design
Addy Osmani	Finding and Fixing Mobile Web Rendering Issues
Aaron Gustafson	Designing Adaptive Interfaces
Paul Tero	Obscure Back-end Techniques and Terminal Secrets
Marko Dugonjić	The Next Steps For Web Typography
Corey Vilhauer	The Two Faces of Content Strategy
Rachel Andrew	Supporting Your Product
Nishant Kothary	The Design of People
Christopher Murphy	On Creative Spirit

What Reviewers Say About Smashing Book #4

A few reviewers have had the chance to read the book a few days before its release, and share their views in a non-committal way. The result is very clear: the book is worthwhile. Should you get it? Yes! Let’s see why:

Smashing Book 4 provides logical, practical, real-world examples of what’s wrong with modern sites and how to fix them. [..] I want the Web to win. But to do so, Web development has to match its age and live up to the responsibility it has earned. The book takes a big step in guiding that transition for both products and people, making it a book I would very strongly recommend for everyone involved in Web development.

— Dudley Storey

The Smashing Book 4 is excellent value for money. [...] [It’s] conference quality topics in the palm of your hand, permanently committed to paper (or the medium of your choice) ready for you to consume whenever you want. The Web has grown up and The Smashing Book 4 is the perfect field guide for making and maintaining things for a future-friendly Web.

— Jordan Moore

Currently reading a preview of Smashing Book #4. Each chapter updates you on one important area of Web development and Web design which is really useful given the hectic pace seemingly every aspect of our industry is moving at. Nice to have it all distilled in one book.

— Jamie Mason