Design eBooks – Geeky Guides Bundle 1

Get 6 Smashing Designer’s design eBooks to sharpen your skills, create impactful designs, and build stronger user connections.

Design eBooks Bundle

Dive into the world of professional design with the 6 Smashing Designer’s eBooks Bundle. This carefully curated collection by Smashing Magazine is your ultimate guide to mastering design tools, enhancing creativity, and crafting meaningful websites. Perfect for both beginners and experienced designers, these design eBooks provide step-by-step techniques, expert insights, and practical advice. Why settle for ordinary when you can achieve excellence? With this bundle, you’ll explore advanced Adobe software techniques, refine your UX processes, and gain new perspectives on website navigation and interaction design. All design eBooks are designed to address a specific area of expertise, ensuring you’ll have all the tools to elevate your designs and user experiences. Struggling to stay updated with the latest design trends? These eBooks have you covered. From mastering Photoshop to learning innovative navigation principles, this bundle is a one-stop solution to level up your skills and remain competitive in the design world. Plus, the DRM-free formats ensure you can access your eBooks on any device, anywhere.

Design eBooks in Detail:

1. Mastering Fireworks

This design eBook will show you what can be achieved with Adobe Fireworks; such as creating interactive prototypes, time savers and parent libraries and extracting logos. Table Of Contents

• The Power of Adobe Fireworks: What Can You Achieve With It?
• Developing A Design Workflow In Adobe Fireworks
• Refining Your Design In Adobe Fireworks
• Interactive Prototypes And Time-Savers With Adobe Fireworks
• Create Interactive Prototypes With Adobe Fireworks
• Simulating The Letterpress: From Live Filters In Fireworks To CSS Code
• Extracting Logos Using Levels In Adobe Fireworks
• Creating a Pattern Library with Evernote and Fireworks
• Create Demo: An Easy Way to Present Adobe Fireworks Design Prototypes

 

2. Mastering Illustrator

One of the most beloved vector graphic softwares among Web Designers is Adobe Illustrator. Learn how to create graphics, transform a sketch into a vector, combine analog and digital techniques, prepare artwork for screen printing and useful typography tips focusing on Adobe Illustrator. Table Of Contents

• Productive Web Design With… Adobe Illustrator?
• Creating Graphs With Adobe Illustrator
• Illustrator’s Live Trace: Sketch to Vector
• Mixing Up Illustration: Combining Analog And Digital Techniques
• Examples And Tips For Using Illustrator’s Warp Tools
• Preparing Artwork for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator
• Create a Cute Little Tiger in Illustrator
• Useful Typography Tips For Adobe Illustrator

 

3. Mastering Photoshop Vol. 3

This design eBook “Mastering Photoshop, Vol.3” offers hints for recent techniques, such as using brush tools, anti-aliasing typography, layer and grid settings and unveiling masks and perfecting pixels. Table Of Contents

• Brushing Up On Photoshop’s Brush Tool
• Unveiling Photoshop Masks
• Mastering Photoshop With Paths
• The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing
• Mastering Photoshop Techniques: Layer Styles
• Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop
• Pixel Perfection When Rotating, Pasting And Nudging In Photoshop
• Top Non-Destructive Photoshop Techniques
• Exporting From Photoshop
• The Lost Art Of Design Etiquette

   

4. Creating Meaningful Websites

A collection of thoughts to give you some general impulses and perspectives on creating meaningful websites. Table Of Contents

• A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide
• A Fun Approach To Creating More Successful Websites
• Defending The Generalists In The Web Design Industry
• Breaking Down Silos, Part 1: The Consequences Of Working In Isolation
• MUD: Minimum Usable Design
• A Craft Of Consequences: Reader, Writer And Emotional Design
• Easier Is Better Than Better
• Designing Engaging And Enjoyable Long-Form Reading Experiences
• Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends

   

5. UX Design Process

Learn how lean UX has made the whole discipline more approachable and attractive to startups. Explore wireframing techniques, research planning and design bias. Table Of Contents

• Interaction Design In The Cloud
• Lean Startup Is Great UX Packaging
• Fitting Big-Picture UX Into Agile Development
• You Already Know How To Use It
• Fixing A Broken User Experience
• Beyond Wireframing: The Real-Life UX Design Process
• Stop Redesigning And Start Tuning Your Site Instead
• Designer Myopia: How To Stop Designing For Ourselves
• The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love

 

6. Navigation & Interaction

The foundations of good UX design lie in transparent navigation and interaction patterns and systems. A solid understanding of the rules is as important as knowing when to break them. Table Of Contents

• The Elements Of Navigation
• Sticky Menus Are Quicker To Navigate
• Design Patterns: When Breaking The Rules Is OK
• Exploration Of Single-Page Websites
• Redefining Hick’s Law
• What Web Designers Can Learn From Video Games
• A New Mobile UX Design Material
• Mission Transition
• Designing With Audio: What Is Sound Good For?