Smashing Magazine

For almost 10 years now, Smashing Magazine has been where thousands of designers and developers go to learn about design trends and advanced coding techniques. That is why we have developed the Smashing Library, a comprehensive access to 67 valuable eBooks.

Latest Additions To The Smashing Library

Understanding Privacy by Heather Burns

Privacy is a scary topic? It doesn’t have to be. Understanding Privacy helps you understand what data privacy is really about beyond scary headlines. It is an introduction to the beliefs, concepts, and ideas that inform privacy as it exists — or has failed to exist — on the open web that we build.

Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces by Steven Hoober

In Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces, Steven Hoober shares his in-depth research about designing for touch as well as tips, tricks, trends, tendencies, guidelines, and heuristics you can apply to your work immediately to create human-centered mobile interfaces.

Image Optimization by Addy Osmani

Loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a little project for a quiet afternoon. It requires understanding of compression techniques, loading behavior, image decoding and image CDNs, adaptive media loading and caching. Image Optimization will equip you with everything you need to know to optimize how you compress, serve and maintain images — boosting performance along the way.

TypeScript in 50 Lessons by Stefan Baumgartner

In TypeScript in 50 Lessons, Stefan Baumgartner breaks down the quirks of TypeScript into short, manageable lessons. You’ll make sense of TypeScript concepts, tooling for TypeScript and how to get most out of it without learning a new language. Everything TypeScript explained, from start to finish. With code walkthroughs, hands-on examples and common gotchas, that’s a book you might want to keep close.

Click! How to Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks by Paul Boag

If you believe that we shouldn’t trick users with dark patterns, then this book is for you. A practical handbook on how to increase conversion and drive sales sustainably without alienating users with shady tricks along the way. Click! shows you how to improve conversion sustainably with practical advice and techniques you can apply tomorrow. By figuring out how to make your way forward to establish trust with small commitments, at the right time, in the right way, and in the right order.

The Ethical Design Handbook by Trine Falbe, Martin Michael Frederiksen and Kim Andersen

Over the past 20 years, user privacy has become merely a commodity on the web: there, but hardly ever respected — and often swiftly discarded. It’s time to make a change. The Ethical Design Handbook is our new guide on ethical design for digital products, full of practical guidelines on how to make ethical decisions to influence positive change and help businesses grow in a sustainable way.

Smashing Print #1: Ethics & Privacy by the Web Community

The first issue of our printed magazine brings spotlight to a topic that’s very close to our hearts: ethics, privacy and security. How do we deal with tracking, advertising, GDPR, data protection and addictive interfaces? Dark patterns are everywhere, and in the long term they irreversibly damage trust and bring hidden costs.

Art Direction for the Web by Andy Clarke

Art direction has been part of advertising and print design for over 100 years, but on the web art direction is rare and there have been few meaningful conversations about it. Andy Clarke’s new book changes that. Based on Andy’s twenty years’ experience of working with clients, plus the expertise of the art directors and designers he interviewed, this book is about why art direction matters and how to art-direct compelling and effective experiences across devices and platforms.

Form Design Patterns by Adam Silver

On first glance, forms are simple to learn. Made up of just a handful of inputs, you can create a form in little time. But when we consider the journeys we need to design, the users we need to design for, the browsers and devices of varying sizes, capabilities and bugs being used; and ensuring that the result is simple and inclusive, form design becomes a far more interesting and bigger challenge. Form Design Patterns helps you get a firm handle on them.

Smashing Book 6: New Frontiers In Web Design by The Web Community

Smashing Book 6 explores how to build accessible single-page apps with React or Angular, how to use CSS Grid Layout, CSS Custom Properties and service workers as well as how to load assets on the web in times of HTTP/2 and bloated third-party scripts.

The WebP Manual by Jeremy Wagner

Performance matters now more than ever. What we send over the wire, how we send it, and how much of it we send matters. Because users matter. Web performance is a vast subject with many nooks and crannies, and all deserve their due attention. In this ebook, you’ll learn all about WebP: what it’s capable of, how it performs, how to convert images to the format in a variety of ways, and most importantly, how to use it.

Design Systems by Alla Kholmatova

As the web continues to become more complex, designing static pages has become untenable, so that many of us have started to approach design in a more systematic way. In this book, Alla Kholmatova sets out to identify what makes an effective design system that can empower teams to create great digital products.

User Experience Revolution by Paul Boag

Many companies try to create a great experience for customers. But few are willing to make the changes required to deliver on that promise. In fact most don’t even realize just how bad their experience can be. This eBook is for anybody passionate about user experience, but who is in a company that needs an extra push.

Atomic Design by Brad Frost

Brad Frost’s brand-new book Atomic Design details all that goes into creating and maintaining robust design systems, allowing you to roll out higher quality, more consistent UIs faster than ever before. The book introduces a methodology for thinking of our UIs as thoughtful hierarchies, discusses the qualities of effective pattern libraries, and showcases techniques to transform your team’s design and development workflow.

The Sketch Handbook by Christian Krammer

If you’re designing for the web today, you are probably using Sketch. We do, too, so we created The Sketch Handbook: our brand new Smashing book, filled with many practical examples and tutorials in 12 jam-packed chapters. This book will help you master all the tricky, advanced facets of Sketch, so that you’ll become more proficient and fast when using the app.

Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering

We might not realize it, but as developers, we build inaccessible websites all the time. It’s not for the lack of care or talent though — it’s a matter of doing things the wrong way. This book explains how we can craft accessible interfaces without extra effort — and what front-end design patterns we can use to create inclusive experiences.

A Few Valuable Library Features:

• The eBook Library contains 67 web design eBooks worth $580,
• You can save 80% off their regular prices,
• You get immediate access to all eBooks,
• Our eBooks work on all eBook readers and each is available in PDF, ePUB and Kindle,
• All eBooks are DRM-free so that they’ll never expire.

Smashing eBook Anthology

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Accessibility eBooks

Business eBooks

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