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