Month: April 2013

Creating Community: If You Build It They Will Come

The web design community does a lot of things well, and they are praised for those instances. Just as when they do things badly, there is an amount of chiding that comes along with it. Today we are going to look at one of the things the online web design community does the best, and… Continue reading Creating Community: If You Build It They Will Come

Improving Your Site’s User Experience

When it comes to web design, the quality of experience that users have with a site determines whether it’s successful or not – regardless of how visually catchy the design is. A positive experience drives sales and conversions, while a negative one deters visitors from staying or returning. Therefore performance optimization should be a central… Continue reading Improving Your Site’s User Experience

Free Collection of 300 Metro-Style Icons for Designers and Developers

Alessio Atzeni has released Free Collection of 300 Metro-Style Icons for Designers and Developers, Metrize Icons is a free icon set, it works perfectly for your apps or web projects. You may use these icons for both commercial and personal projects and customize them any way you like. Metrize Icons includes: – PSD (Single Shape… Continue reading Free Collection of 300 Metro-Style Icons for Designers and Developers

Create Inspirational 3D Gold Text with Photoshop Extended

Preview of Final Results Step 1 Start by creating a new 1920×1200 pixels document. Select the Text tool and type in your inspirational text. The font we’re using is Bebas Neue and Pacifico. These fonts are free. Adjust the font size and leading to your likings. Use the Free Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd+T or Edit >… Continue reading Create Inspirational 3D Gold Text with Photoshop Extended

Benefits and Drawbacks to Freelancing

Many designers contemplate the thought of whether being self employed as a freelancer, or working for a design firm. Of course there are many benefits and drawbacks to each of them, but your decision is based on whether these benefits and drawbacks are worthy for making your decision.We explain several benefits and drawbacks to freelancing… Continue reading Benefits and Drawbacks to Freelancing

23 Flat Design iPhone Apps

Flat design is becoming increasingly popular in the design and development space. When we say “flat” we are referring to the minimalist approach to design. We remove borders, shadows, variants, 3d elements to come up with a very clean simple and yes flat design. Minimal design has been popular for a while and it seems… Continue reading 23 Flat Design iPhone Apps

35+ Incredible Photoshop Metal Brush Sets

For graphic designers having a large variety of brushes, such as Photoshop metal brushes, in the toolbox is a must! Though Photoshop comes with a set of basic brushes, most users need to extend the range of brushes in order to use Photoshop professionally and do great stuff faster. In order to be able to… Continue reading 35+ Incredible Photoshop Metal Brush Sets

The Best Way to Learn CSS

CSS works hand in hand with HTML; HTML sorts out the page structure, CSS makes it look pretty and adds subtle levels of interaction. As a web designer you should really get to grips with both these languages. Even if you don’t do the coding yourself, understanding how they work will help you design for… Continue reading The Best Way to Learn CSS

40+ Awesome Photoshop Poster Tutorials For Your Inspiration

Creating your own creative poster in Photoshop is fun and challenging. If you are not yet an expert, then don’t worry! You can find tons of easy to follow poster design tutorials for Photoshop. Most of them will guide you “step by step” to make sure you learn every step involved in the process. A… Continue reading 40+ Awesome Photoshop Poster Tutorials For Your Inspiration

70+ Must Have jQuery Tutorials

Welcome to day 7, the last installment of tutorial week on Designrfix. Today we have assembled an awesome collection of some wicked jQuery tutorials from around the Web. I am confident that these web design and development tutorials will arm you with all the necessary techniques in-order to achieve those latest web design trends. Lastly,… Continue reading 70+ Must Have jQuery Tutorials

Use Photoshop and Illustrator to Create Guitar String Typography

Photoshop and Illustrator are great tools to help you create things that only exist in your imagination. In this tutorial, we will create words out of intertwining guitar strings. Let’s get started!   Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Wood Texture 1. Create the Strings in Illustrator Step… Continue reading Use Photoshop and Illustrator to Create Guitar String Typography

45+ Websites with Floating and Fixed Position Navigation Designs

Great looking and user-friendly navigation is one of the most important aspects to get right in web design. Web designers have invented many different ideas to help users find what they are looking as efficiently as possible. Still the most used approach is one or two drop down menus placed at the top of the… Continue reading 45+ Websites with Floating and Fixed Position Navigation Designs

Swift Web Development Techniques for Startup Landing Pages

When launching a new startup online you need to consider the features which will draw attention. Visitors can often be easily distracted when browsing the Internet. So ask yourself what value does your page really offer to the average visitor? Developers should think about these topics from a user experience point-of-view. Then the process of… Continue reading Swift Web Development Techniques for Startup Landing Pages

45 Free Watercolor, Ink And Splatters Brushes For Photoshop

Here, we have put together some high quality and very useful Adobe Photoshop brushes for you that will let you quickly create different sorts of ink and watercolor effects for your designs. Photoshop brushes are very helpful for the designers as they let them create stunning effects easily and without much efforts as well as… Continue reading 45 Free Watercolor, Ink And Splatters Brushes For Photoshop

80 Amazing Vector Art For Designers

If you’ve ever worked with design, you know the necessity of having a good set of vector images downloaded on your computer. Vector art can indeed come in handy when working on different types of design projects. Their main advantage is, obviously, that they can be resized to any size that you want while still… Continue reading 80 Amazing Vector Art For Designers

32 Free Icon Sets for Building Unique Web Interfaces

  Recently I was searching the web for some newer icon sets to build into a layout. There are so many freebies released every month that it can be tough to keep track of it all. But I know that icons are some of the most useful resources for structuring menus, links, buttons, and similar… Continue reading 32 Free Icon Sets for Building Unique Web Interfaces

10 great web tutorials on pixel perfect design

Below you’ll find bet 10 tutorials on pixel perfect design available on the web.   Pixel perfect design is something of a lost art, you know. Mostly because it’s an incredibly laborious and long work; it’s a technique that requires dedication, effort and an almost obsessive level of attention to detail and not many designers… Continue reading 10 great web tutorials on pixel perfect design

20 Latest Photoshop Tutorials To Improve Your Skills

It’s been quite a long time for detailed photoshop tutorial collection and so today we are bringing latest photoshop tutorials released in 2013.You can find from novice to expert photoshop tutorials and we are sure you will learn some new techniques from these tutorials.As always the collection consists of photo manipulations,drawing tecniques as well… Continue reading 20 Latest Photoshop Tutorials To Improve Your Skills

Put More Personal Work In Your Portfolio

Anyone here have a bunch of strange, unusual, or, shall we say, “quirky” hobbies? Perhaps you like to collect bottle caps from around the world and photograph them as found typography. Or maybe you recycle old computer parts to fashion into handmade art pieces? Come on, you’re designers – I know there’s something juicy you… Continue reading Put More Personal Work In Your Portfolio

35+ Photoshop Flat UI Interface PSD Gems

One of the hot trends right now in web designs is minimalistic metro style and it is seen used on more and more websites and App UIs. With Photoshop flat UI PSDs you can quickly start up metro design projects and as you will see below there are many cool resources available as free download.… Continue reading 35+ Photoshop Flat UI Interface PSD Gems

10 Hand-Picked Useful resources to Make your life a lot Easier

Being a web designer or developer ourselves, we know you guys are always looking for something new and interesting that can help you get things done more accurately and efficiently. So today we have hand-picked 10 amazing resources and tools that can make your life a little easier. These can be great for the budding… Continue reading 10 Hand-Picked Useful resources to Make your life a lot Easier