Redesign The Web (The Smashing Book 3)

Smashing books #3

by Smashing Magazine

Unlike its predecessors, the new Smashing Book #3 has the main theme: Redesign. The book is a professional guide on how to redesign websites, but it also introduces a whole new mindset for progressive Web design. It challenges you to think differently about your work and will change the way you design websites forever.

A detailed look at the business and technical side of redesign is followed by a comprehensive overview of advanced HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript techniques that you can use today. You will get useful advice on innovative UX techniques, learn about the peculiarities of mobile context in Web design and discover useful Photoshop techniques. You’ll study a practical hands-on guide to a bulletproof workflow for responsive Web design.
Well-respected professionals have poured their heart and expertise into these contributions. The Smashing Book #3 contains 11 chapters.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Preface
- The Business Side of Redesign
- Selecting a Platform: Technical Considerations for Your Redesign
- Jumping Into HTML5
- Restyle, Recode, Reimagine With CSS3
- JavaScript Rediscovered: Tricks to Replace Complex jQuery
- Techniques for Building Better User Experiences
- Designing for the Future, Using Photoshop
- Redesigning With Personality
- Mobile Considerations in User Experience Design: Web or Native?
- Workflow Redesigned: A Future Friendly Approach
- Becoming Fabulously Flexible: Designing Atoms and Elements

AUTHORS

Elliot Jay Stocks, Paul Boag, Rachel Andrew, Ben Schwarz, David Storey, Lea Verou, Christian Heilmann, Dmitry Fadeyev, Marc Edwards, Aarron Walter, Aral Balkan, Stephen Hay, Andy Clarke

Genres: Design, Website Design, Reference, Technology, Nonfiction, Web, Technical

480 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I'm not quite finished this book yet, it's safe to say this perhaps the most interesting technical book I have read. Every chapter in this collection has inspired me! I try to take a break after each chapter to let everything I've read settle in, and really think about how the concepts being presented have the ability change what I do on a daily basis, as well as affect the overall vision of the sites I work on. Inspiring, challenging, and actually pretty down to earth and humorous, this book is a great way to learn more about all the advances being made in the web development and design industries. Good for both experts and novices.

[Juuso Palander · Rating 3 out of 5]

Redesign the Web was an overview about what kind of challenges redesining a website brings to you as a developer / designer and some solutions how to tackle them.

But that is pretty much it. While reading, I had a feeling that I've already read this book because there seemed to be so much of "old news" wrapped in shiny covers.

I wouldn't recommend the book but Smashing Magazine's great blog instead!

[Hugh Springer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Follower of the Smashing community. Read both #1 & #2 and several other eBooks released. Will likely pick up #3.5, after I'm done. Relevant content and insight for software and web development, collaborative input and process in writing and publishing, and quality presentation.

[Steph · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Smashing Books are worth every penny.