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That’s Real-Life Responsive Web Design: Meet The Brand New Smashing Book 5

• By Vitaly Friedman
• March 31st, 2015
• Smashing Books
• 109 Comments

Smart “responsive” workflows, effective responsive design/UX patterns and powerful front-end techniques — if you need a good book on smart responsive design, our brand new Smashing Book 5 is just what you need. Neatly packed in a gorgeous hardcover, it covers time-saving, practical techniques for crafting fast, maintainable and scalable responsive websites. 584 pages, hardcover. Free worldwide airmail shipping. Get the book.

About The Book

Responsive design is a default these days, but we are all still figuring out just the right process and techniques to better craft responsive websites. That’s why we created a new book — to gather practical techniques and strategies from people who have learned how to get things done right, in actual projects with actual real-world challenges.

Just like all of our Smashing Books, the book isn’t concerned with trends or short-lived workarounds. It focuses on the actual design process — the why of the decisions we make as we craft websites. Think of it as a reliable playbook for issues that keep popping up in every responsive project — just the playbook you need to master all the tricky facets and hurdles of responsive design.

The illustrations inside the book were crafted by Guillaume Kurkdjian and the cover was designed by Jessica Hische. (View large version)

This book won’t solve every single issue in your responsive projects, but it will help you deal with common challenges effectively: be it front-end architecture, layout issues, resolution-independent assets, performance issues, responsive images or pretty much everything else related to responsive design. Shipping worldwide. Available as print and eBook.

Smashing Book #5 has completely changed the potential for books around the web. This thing is ridiculous in how it dives deep into a topic and continues to dive deeper until you feel as though your brain might explode from the knowledge.

Smashing Book #5 is now your RWD bible. Stop searching, buy this book, and spend a weekend filling your brain with the most useful, technical information on RWD you can find anywhere.

And that’s what is most impressive to me about this book. It’s no different than sitting in a work environment with these authors and seeing how they get the job done. When you are trying to get into this field you are often left on your own to figure things out.

—Paul Scrivens, “Smashing Book #5, A Review”

Table Of Contents

We invited respected designers and developers who know a thing or two about designing and building responsive websites. The chapters have also been reviewed by active members of the community such as Jake Archibald and Dmitry Baranovsky — just to name a few.

From left to right: Daniel Mall, Ben Callahan, Eileen Webb, Sara Soueidan, Zoe M. Gillenwater, Bram Stein, Yoav Weiss, Fabio Carneiro, Tom Maslen, Andrew Clarke, John Allsopp, Matt Gaunt and yours truly.

Technical Details Link

• 584 pages, 16.5 × 24.0 cm (6.5 × 9.5 inches),
• Quality hardcover with stitched binding and a ribbon page marker,
• The eBook contains PDF, EPUB, and Kindle.
• Free worldwide airmail shipping from Germany.
• Available as print or eBook.

All our dear Smashing Library subscribers will find the Smashing Book 5 eBook in their dashboard. All printed books are being shipped from Germany via free airmail shipping. Yay!

Why This Book Is For You

If you’re looking for smart design patterns and strategies for building fast, flexible responsive websites efficiently, this book is just for you. It’s a responsive design handbook with valuable, time-saving techniques that will help you avoid hacky workarounds and solve common responsive issues effectively. You’ll learn how to:

1. Be efficient in your responsive workflow,
2. Tackle common content issues in RWD,
3. Manage complex responsive interface components,
4. Design systems with atomic design process,
5. Master advanced SVG techniques,
6. Avoid dirty hacks with smart Flexbox techniques,
7. Build scalable, maintainable CSS layouts,
8. Manage web fonts performance issues,
9. Implement responsive images today,
10. Craft responsive HTML email newsletters,
11. Test, maintain and debug responsive sites.
12. Make responsive websites fast and snappy,
13. Set up a bulletproof performance optimization roadmap,
14. Enhance your website with offline features,
15. Avoid generic solutions and stay creative with RWD.

One of the fantastic illustrations by our “Mystery Riddle” illustrator Guillaume Kurkdjian. (Large views: chapter cover, book layout)

Add Your Name Into The Book!

The Smashing Book 5 is being written and will be published in the spirit of our fantastic community — written by designers and developers for people like you, designers and developers who care about their craft. This book wouldn’t exist without your kind support. That’s why, just like with our previous Smashing books, we kindly invite(d) you to submit your name into the book. All spots have been reserved — thank you for joining in!

Just about 1,500 names will fit properly on the two dedicated pages, so please don’t wait too long. First come, first served! Please also avoid grammar mistakes or blatant advertising. Thank you again for your kind support throughout the years, our dearest readers!

Frequently Asked Questions Link

If you have any questions, we are right here to answer them. We love our customers, and we’d love to help you in any way or just listen to your story. So please feel free to ask questions via Twitter @smashingmag — we’ll get back to you right away. Just in case: here are answers to some frequently asked questions.

That’s it, everyone! We sincerely appreciate your support and trust, and we’ll make sure to deliver the book to you as soon as possible. Cheers!

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