Smashing ebook #7: Professional Web Design Vol. 2

This eBook is the second part of the best selling Smashing eBook #1. It contains 20 articles that cover current Web Design Trends, Responsive Web Design, User Experience Design, HTML5, Usability and Prototyping. This eBook describes existing and upcoming trends and explains how the Web design might evolve in the coming months and years. It also touches on what Web designers should be ready for to keep abreast of new challenges and opportunities.
The articles are the best about professional Web design that have been published on Smashing Magazine www.smashingmagazine.com in 2010 and 2011. They have been carefully edited and prepared for this eBook. Some screenshots and links were removed to make the book easier to read and print out.

In more than 280 pages, you will read articles about:

• Design for Delight (The Current State of Web Design)



• Keypress Navigation (The Current State of Web Design)



• Print Design Influence (The Current State of Web Design)



• Horizontalism (The Current State of Web Design)



• Real-Life Metaphors (Web Design Trends)



• Subtle Interactivity (Web Design Trends)



• Context-Sensitive Navigation (Web Design Trends)



• Rapid CSS3 Adaptation (Web Design Trends)



• Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How to Use It



• A Showcase Of Responsive Web Design



• Persuasion Triggers in Web Design



• Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today



• HTML5: The Facts And The Myths



• The User Is The Anonymous Web Designer



• The Design Matrix: A Powerful Tool for Guiding Client Input



• A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable



• Web Designers, Don’t Do It Alone



• Why Design-By-Committee Should Die



• Design Better and Faster with Rapid Prototyping



• When a Thousand Words Is Worth a Picture