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Today’s web users are almost always in a hurry. If your page does not engage them in a few brief seconds, they’re likely to try their luck elsewhere. In addition, if your users are already established clients or customers, they …
For a long time, we wanted to create a printed magazine that hasn’t existed before. Not a magazine about fleeting design trends or ever-changing frameworks, but topics that would make us all think, and that would remain useful as time passes. A printed magazine exploring topics that often get lost in the myriad of blog posts out there.
With Smashing Magazine Print, we want to provide a space for topics that perhaps have more longevity than what we usually cover online — without running short on practical and actionable insights, of course. One theme per issue, with handy, digestible 60–80 pages of high-quality print, containing a handful of curated and unpublished articles.
Approachable, friendly and inclusive. Written by and for the community, with a focus on real-world insights and the challenges that we all have to tackle together — for people just like you, who design and build the web. It took us more time than expected, but we are done now, and shipping worldwide. Download a free PDF preview (3 MB) and get your copy now.
Printed magazine + PDF, ePUB, Kindle.
Free airmail shipping worldwide.
Printed magazine for free + DRM-free eBooks, webinars and other fancy things.
All Smashing Members ($5 per month) get the eBook for free, and Smashers ($9 plan) also get a free printed copy shipped to the doorsteps. For additional copies, a discount of $10 applies.
We kick off with an issue exploring topics very close to our hearts — ethics, privacy and security, because these issues reach into all our lives, from our personal use of the web through to the advanced applications we develop. We take a closer look at the current state of tracking, advertising, GDPR and privacy law, data protection and addictive interfaces. We explore how we all can integrate privacy-driven decisions into our workflows by default, abandoning dark patterns for good along the way.
The web is wonderfully diverse and unpredictable because of the wonderfully diverse people who shape it. While we often see people as lifeless dots in our analytics stats, every single dot is an actual person, and so every single dot matters. We deserve to be respected and valued, and that holds true for how companies treat our data and privacy, too. In times when humility and kindness have become rarities, we need to find a way to make the web a calmer, more respectful place that treats data and privacy seriously?
That's what we wanted to explore. So, we got to work. We've teamed up with Veerle Pieters for the design and illustrations, and Rachel has been working with the authors to bring valuable insights to the magazine. Rather than asking the authors to write on very specific topics, Rachel asked them to contribute to a collection of thinking on the subjects of ethics, privacy and security.
What follows is a collection of articles that sit very well together, yet tackle different aspects of the issues at hand. You might not agree with all of them, but we hope they will make you think.
Along with the themed articles, we have included some little insights into our Smashing Family, pieces about our books, conferences and membership. You might not know it, but Smashing Magazine is brought to you by a tiny team of people who care. We care about the values we stand behind, and about the people who read the magazine, who join as members, and who come to conferences. We care a lot about the web. We hope that shines through in everything we do.
60 pages. High-quality print. Free worldwide airmail shipping from Germany, late July. Written by and for the community. Download a free PDF preview (3 MB).
Printed magazine + PDF, ePUB, Kindle.
Free airmail shipping worldwide.
Printed magazine for free + DRM-free eBooks, webinars and other fancy things.
The printed magazine wouldn’t exist without our dear Smashing community, and that’s why it is and always will be free to Smashing Members.
Admittedly, publishing a printed magazine in a time when everything has gone digital is quite a gamble for us. But you never know for sure until you try — and fail or succeed.
We don’t know how the magazine will take shape in the future, but we already can’t wait to hear your feedback. We’re very excited, and we hope you’ll be, too —at least when you hold the very first issue of the printed magazine in your hands.
Stay smashing, and thank you for your ongoing support, everyone!
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Honesty, humility and authenticity became rarities on the web. Dark patterns are prevailing many of the interfaces we use, and our data is collected, evaluated and handed over to third-parties left and right, often without us noticing at all. To many of our customers it’s not really a big deal — privacy is often seen as a fair price for using all the wonderful free services around us.
However, we might underestimate the value of data we willingly hand over to data-driven companies. And very often, while we mindlessly click away a cookie consent prompt, we are giving away the sense of intimacy. After all, nobody loves to search for shoes one day, and be followed by the same shoes across the entire web over weeks to come.
In the panel discussion, we look into:
These aren't easy questions to answer, and we need reliable solutions to make the difference. But we can figure out a way forward, and how to make privacy-aware decisions a default in our design and development work. These are also the questions we explore in our brand-new Smashing Magazine Print. In fact, it's the magazine that prompted us to run a live session in the first place.
With Smashing Magazine Print, we want to provide a space for important topics that perhaps have more longevity than what we usually cover online — without running short on practical and actionable insights, of course.
We kick off with a 60-pages issue exploring ethics, privacy and security. We take a closer look at the current state of tracking, advertising, GDPR and privacy law, data protection and addictive interfaces. We explore how we all can integrate privacy-driven decisions into our workflows by default, abandoning dark patterns for good along the way.
And — guess what! — it's ready now, and it's shipping worldwide. Download a free PDF preview (3 MB) and get your copy now.
Printed magazine + PDF, ePUB, Kindle.
Free airmail shipping worldwide.
Printed magazine for free + eBooks, webinars, discounts and other fancy things.
And that's a wrap! Watch the recording with Trine Falbe, Laura Kalbag, Heather Burns, Cennydd Bowles, Stuart Langridge and Morten Rand-Hendriksen. Also, prepare and post your questions and we'll bring them up during the discussion as well, of course!
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