Month: October 2014

You Want to Create An App? Check Out These Prototyping and Building Tools

Wireframing for websites, web apps, and mobile apps that you make is as vital as laying the foundations of a tall building before moving on to its walls and roof. Web designers and web developers really need to pay attention during this stage, and perfect the user experience of your app/website with thorough prototype testing… Continue reading You Want to Create An App? Check Out These Prototyping and Building Tools

Create a Halloween-Inspired Children’s Illustration in Photoshop

As the fall approaches in many parts of the world, designers and illustrators might already be thinking about the upcoming Halloween holiday, especially those that are based in the U.S. In this tutorial, we will show you how to illustrate a cute and scary children’s illustration using techniques that you could easily incorporate into your… Continue reading Create a Halloween-Inspired Children’s Illustration in Photoshop

Dash – A Comprehensive Dashboard for Visualizing & Understanding Data

Our insatiable thirst for data grows more rapidly than our ability to understand it; and as we’re exposed to more rich media, build and grow businesses faster and connect more with our expanding digital world, there’s a growing desperation to keep track and make sense of it all. There’s more stored data and content created… Continue reading Dash – A Comprehensive Dashboard for Visualizing & Understanding Data

20 Best Tools and Freebies for October

A variety of tools and freebies are released every day of every month. All these tools are wonderful resources that designers rely on after their own skill and education. All these tools and freebies help the designers in creating surpassing works of art in a very short period of thus achieving the goal of satisfying… Continue reading 20 Best Tools and Freebies for October

25+ Free Wireframe Style UIs, Mockups and Templates

Attention to detail is important in any kind of design. Web design means no exception. Yet before we get into that detail we should always scribble up a quick mockup of what we want the project to look and feel like. Some put detail even into that mockup, some stay minimalist. Whatever your approach is,… Continue reading 25+ Free Wireframe Style UIs, Mockups and Templates

Illustrator Tutorials: 23 New Tutorials to Improve Your Illustration Skills

Improve your design & illustration skills with these new adobe illustrator tutorials. These tutorials will teach you how to create digital illustrations, vector graphics and realistic text effects in Illustrator. In this list you will also enjoy some latest InDesign Tutorials. So what are you waiting go and check out the best Illustrator tutorials and take your knowledge… Continue reading Illustrator Tutorials: 23 New Tutorials to Improve Your Illustration Skills

Designers Freebie Pouch of October, 2014

Designers Freebie Pouch is a monthly collection of the latest freebies from all over the internet. In the pouch you will find latest design resources like icons, mockups, UI kits, textures, templates and much more. Use freebies for learning new techniques, bootstrapping next project or building your business but always remember to check the licence. Apple… Continue reading Designers Freebie Pouch of October, 2014

20 Graphic and Web Design Studio Websites for Inspiration

Websites of web and graphic designers’ are considered and thought to be the best of all. As these people are professionals and have so much experience that they really do create amazing websites and most of the time designers scour such websites over the internet for gaining inspiration. Most of the people are surprised at how… Continue reading 20 Graphic and Web Design Studio Websites for Inspiration

Static WordPress Conversion Tutorial

Help! That’s the first reaction you might have if you are trying to figure out your WordPress conversion tasks, right? Even if you are just a beginner and not really a web expert, you can definitely create a WordPress theme for as long as you know how WordPress works. If you’ve been using WordPress as… Continue reading Static WordPress Conversion Tutorial

10 Awesome JavaScript Libraries All Developers Should Know About

JavaScript, also known under the acronym JS, is a dynamic computer programming language, it has also been called an “assembly” language or “the x86 of the web”. Bottom line, JavaScript is a programming language widely used by web developers as part of web browsers. It’s typing discipline is described on Wikipedia as dynamic and/or duck.… Continue reading 10 Awesome JavaScript Libraries All Developers Should Know About

19 Free Professional Resume Templates 2014

Resumes and CVs are ways to introduce oneself to a prospective employer. CV stands for Curriculum Vitae and it displays all the relevant information about a person including his/ her achievements, grades, degrees and son on and so forth. The importance and significance of a resume and CV can never be undermined as it represents… Continue reading 19 Free Professional Resume Templates 2014

20 Examples of Creative Using Color Filters in Web Design

Large background image has established as web design trend this year. Its quite challenging to place typography and buttons over the image and make them well-seen. Therefore, designers use creative photography filters and gradients to create a cover over the image and place other web design elements on it. New fresh vibe gives a site… Continue reading 20 Examples of Creative Using Color Filters in Web Design

20 Website Concepts with Stunning Full Page Designs

We rarely get the chance to admire the full beauty of website designs when we’re limited to the cropped viewport of our browser windows, but there’s some stunning examples of full page layouts out there. We might only see a finished website at a few thousand pixels at a time as we scroll down the… Continue reading 20 Website Concepts with Stunning Full Page Designs

5 Reasons Why Introverts Are Awesome

In our modern society where the assertive, charismatic personalities are favored over the solitary, silent individuals, an introvert is often seen as shy or even anti-social. Given how they may appear aloof, unfriendly an even snobby to others, it’s perhaps no surprise that people sometimes don’t pay enough attention to what these introverts have to… Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Introverts Are Awesome

How To Design Interfaces from a User Experience Perspective

Both web design and mobile app design share many similar features. One of the most important features is that they’re both created for an audience, whether young kids or teens or adults or some kind of mix. The end user should be your most important priority when it comes to brainstorming new ideas. For this… Continue reading How To Design Interfaces from a User Experience Perspective

Freebies Week 41

Freebies for designers is a series where we regularly post some great, super useful freebies on a weekly basis. In our weekly collection we will be sharing all types of stuff including mockups, templates, icons and much more. Here is a collection of 15 freebies for this week. Set of 10 Polygonal Images 25 Babies… Continue reading Freebies Week 41

Create a realistic star field with space dust in photoshop (With Action)

Star fields are a great way of adding an interesting element to your photo manipulations or digital paintings and they are surprisingly easy to create from scratch in Photoshop. Although most of the steps are repetitive and can be easily added into a Photoshop action (see below for download), I’ll go through each of them here… Continue reading Create a realistic star field with space dust in photoshop (With Action)

How To Create a Web Design Style Guide

Creating websites is getting more and more complex and is usually not a one person job. It is important to ensure that design is consistent and optimized to meet business objectives and create enjoyable experiences for users. One of the ways to ensure that team is on the same page when designing separate parts of… Continue reading How To Create a Web Design Style Guide

22 New Free Fonts for Designers

Fresh Fonts for Designers – Free Download GDJ always keep our readers up-to-date with fresh graphic design resources, especially about the fonts. In this post, I’ll be featuring collection of Free Commercial Fonts For Designers. So what are your waiting, go and check out all of them and download the ones you like most. Luthier Free… Continue reading 22 New Free Fonts for Designers

20 Must Have Tools For Creating And Maintaining Your Website

As a web developer or designer nowadays can be both stressful and rewarding. Rewarding because your services are some of the most sought after ones in the current market and stressed because the expectations of your clients seem to increase with each passing day. It’s clear that we no longer need plain, functional websites, but… Continue reading 20 Must Have Tools For Creating And Maintaining Your Website

5 Useful Tutorials for Web Designers

Being a successful web designer does not only require creativity and a keen eye for aesthetics. The keys to turning your ideas into a reality are practice and skill. The easiest way to achieve them is by digging around through hundreds of online tutorials and for every hour you waste you’ll get one minute of precious information… Continue reading 5 Useful Tutorials for Web Designers