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Prototyping iOS And Android Apps With Sketch (With A Freebie!) - Smashing Magazine

Joshua Mauldin explains why you should prototype and how you can do it with Sketch and prototyping tools such as Flinto and InVision. A nicely documented freebie Sketch file is also available.

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How To Streamline Creative Dialogue - Smashing Magazine

With this article, Thomas Joos shares his learnings after years of streamlining creative dialogue, and explains how he has managed to move away from confusing meetings and inefficient design efforts and toward constructive client interaction and spot-on projects with a great impact on business and customers.

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Simple, Real And Bug-Free Foundation Development

Ben Gremillion introduces a system for testing responsively in the Foudation development to make sure that nothing is broken at launch on different devices.

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HTML5 is now a recommendation

16 Sep 2014    

You might not realize this, but HTML5 has been a RFC (or “Request for Comment”) for the last 5 years, which means that it wasn’t an official specification.  The recent move to Recommendation status means that HTML5 is now an official specification.

What does this mean?

Basically it means that you can now use it in any application and expect that the rules set out in the spec can (and should be) followed by developers and manufacturers.

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Design Principles: Dominance, Focal Points And Hierarchy - Smashing Magazine

In this fifth post in a series on design principles, Steven Bradley discusses why dominance, focal points and hierarchy are all important design factors to consider in your design projects.

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A Few Different Ways To Use SVG Sprites In Animation - Smashing Magazine

There are some things we know and like about SVGs. First, SVGs have smooth, clean edges on any display, so using SVGs can reduce the number of HTTP requests for image replacement. Second, it’s easy to make an SVG scalable to its container for responsive development. In this article we’ll cover a few ways of using SVG sprites to describe motion on the web. I’ll show some techniques for using SVG sprites in complex animation that takes advantage of these factors. All examples shown will assume the use of an auto-prefixer and some basic knowledge of CSS animations.