Quality Printed Books on Front-End, Design, UX, Accessibility — Smashing Magazine

Quality matters. Our printed books deliver in-depth knowledge and expertise shared by experts from the industry. They are our editorial flagships — and the most recent one, Accessible UX Research is filled with practical advice on how to make your UX research more inclusive of participants with different needs.
Accessible UX Research is your guide to making UX research more inclusive — from planning and recruiting to facilitation, asking better questions, avoiding bias, and building trust. This book is for anyone who cares about research, accessibility, and making products that endure. Michele A. Williams takes you on a deep dive into the real world of UX research, with a roadmap for including users with different abilities and needs.
High-quality hardcover. Written by Dr. Michele A. Williams. Foreword by Jared Smith of WebAIM. Cover art by Espen Brunborg.
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Success at Scale is a curated collection of best-practice case studies capturing how production sites of different sizes tackle performance, accessibility, capabilities, and developer experience at scale. Case studies are from industry experts from teams at Instagram, Shopify, Netflix, eBay, Figma, Spotify, Wix, Lyft, LinkedIn, and many more. Guidance that stands the test of time.
High-quality hardcover. Curated by Addy Osmani. Cover art by Espen Brunborg.
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Every UI component, no matter if it’s an accordion, a hamburger navigation, a data table, or a carousel, brings along its unique challenges. Inventing a new solution to every problem takes time, and very often it’s really not necessary. We can rely on smart design patterns and ask the right questions ahead of time to avoid issues down the line. Jump to table of contents.
Meet Interface Design Patterns Checklists, a deck of 166 cards with common questions to ask when tackling a common interface challenge — carousel, table, date picker, autocomplete, filtering, search, configurator, slider, timeline, map, web forms, testimonials, onboarding, pricing plan, authentication and many others. Created to help us all keep track of the things we need to consider to design better interfaces, faster. Check the preview. (PDF, 825KB)
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Privacy is a scary topic? It doesn’t have to be. Our new book Understanding Privacy helps you understand what data privacy is really about beyond scary headlines. It is an introduction to the beliefs, concepts, and ideas that inform privacy as it exists — or has failed to exist — on the open web that we build. Whether you’re a designer, developer, or project manager, this book will equip you with the knowledge you need to put your users first in everything you do and build a better web for tomorrow. Jump to table of contents.
288 pages. High quality hardcover. Written by Heather Burns.
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How do we design for touch in 2022? Mobile and touch are the new default for computing, but there are still many myths, rumors, errors and out-of-date practices on how to design for them. Let’s change that!
In our brand-new book Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces, Steven Hoober shares his in-depth research and guidelines on designing for touch. You’ll learn how people hold devices and interact with interfaces, along with strategies and best practices for designing better mobile interfaces. A jam-packed book for designers and developers working on interfaces for mobile. Jump to table of contents.
400 pages. High quality hardcover + eBook (PDF, ePUB, Kindle). Written by Steven Hoober. Shipping now.
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Images have always been a key part of the web. Our brains are able to interpret images much faster than text, which is why high-quality visuals drive conversions and user engagement.
That said, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a little project for a quiet afternoon. It requires understanding of compression techniques, loading behavior, image decoding and image CDNs, adaptive media loading and caching.
This book will equip you with everything you need to know to optimize how you compress, serve and maintain images — boosting performance along the way. Jump to table of contents.
528 pages. High quality hardcover + eBook (PDF, ePUB, Kindle). Written by Addy Osmani.
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In TypeScript in 50 Lessons, Stefan Baumgartner breaks down the quirks of TypeScript into short, manageable lessons. You’ll make sense of TypeScript concepts, tooling for TypeScript and how to get most out of it without learning a new language. Everything TypeScript explained, from start to finish. Jump to table of contents.
Written for seasoned and not-so-seasoned developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous, or want to dive deeper into TypeScript. With code walkthroughs, hands-on examples and common gotchas, that’s a book you might want to keep close.
464 pages. High quali