Update (Nov. 26 2013): The Smashing Book #4 is now available in the Smashing Shop. It contains 13 chapters that focus on new perspectives on coding and Web design and is filled with lots of hands-on tips on common design problems and current practices. The book is as ambitious as it is beautiful — an unique, extraordinary artefact, filled with valuable insight for Web designers and developers.
New Perspectives On Web Design
The book 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 performance for faster and more robust websites and apps.
Table Of Contents
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 as they explore new perspectives in Web design today.
About Coding:
| AUTHOR | CHAPTER |
| Addy Osmani | Finding and Fixing Mobile Web Rendering Issues |
| Harry Roberts | CSS Architecture and Front-end Development for Today’s Web |
| Nicholas C. Zakas | The Roadmap To Maintainable, Clean And Effective Code |
| Tim Kadlec | Performance Optimization |
| Christian Heilmann | The Vanilla Web Diet |
| Paul Tero | How To Break The Web And Fix It (Back-end Techniques) |
| Mat Marquis | The Struggles and Solutions In Responsive Web Design |
About Design:
| AUTHOR | CHAPTER |
| Aaron Gustafson | Creating Adaptive Interfaces |
| Rachel Andrew | Providing Good Technical And Customer Support |
| Nishant Kothary | How We Think, Design And Code |
| Marko Dugonjić | The Next Step For Web Typography |
| Bedrich Rios | UX Through The Lens Of Video Games |
| Corey Vilhauer | The Two Faces of Content Strategy |
TECHNICAL DETAILS
– One book, appr. 480 pages, 16.5 × 24.0 cm (6.5 × 9.5 inches).
– Quality hardcover with stitched binding and a ribbon page marker.
– For both newcomers and experienced Web designers and developers.
– To be delivered both from US and Germany.
– The eBook version is included in all buying options (PDF, EPUB, Kindle).