5 Productive Ways to Spend Weekend for Your Good

Sometimes I am dreaming about another day off right when I wake up in the Monday morning. Does this happen to you too? Many of us spend our weekend with family, go for a trip, party, or do nothing lying in the bed and watching a movie. Have you ever thought about making some use… Continue reading 5 Productive Ways to Spend Weekend for Your Good

What is an Interaction Designer?

These two little words are being used a lot in the design sphere these days. But what truly is interaction design? And what makes you an interaction designer? Here, we’ll answer both of those questions and offer a showcase of some great interaction design work. Interaction Design 101 Interaction design is a process in which… Continue reading What is an Interaction Designer?

SpaceBase – Sass-based Responsive CSS Framework

SpaceBase is a Sass-based responsive CSS framework. Many CSS frameworks are meant to be included and left alone. But spaceBase is a boilerplate layer that can be built upon and tailored for your needs. It combines best practices for today’s responsive web with the core components we use on every project. Consider it the launch… Continue reading SpaceBase – Sass-based Responsive CSS Framework

Touch of Technomagic – Literally Fantastic Website Designs

Today we are going to review tech style website designs that are inspired by sci-fi movies, neurobotic artworks, artificial and intelligent worlds of tomorrow, space arcades, cosmic landscapes and other fantastic stuff. Unfortunately such prodigious designs quite rarely occur in our time. There are a couple of reasons: first of all, professionals prefer to follow… Continue reading Touch of Technomagic – Literally Fantastic Website Designs

Hover.css Project

Hover.css is an interesting project that is available to contribute to on Github. This library is a collection of different CSS effects that be applied to single elements. The project effects are self contained pieces of CSS that can be used freely in your next project. It also comes in Sass or LESS if you… Continue reading Hover.css Project

iDevie Weekly Freebies (week 5)

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. Here… Continue reading iDevie Weekly Freebies (week 5)

Crucial Design Elements that Every UI Kit Needs

Interface design is the cornerstone to any type of digital design career. Whether an interface is created for the desktop, web, or mobile, plenty of features tend to overlap and lead to the same conclusion. Learning how to craft a reliable interface is more about the overall user experience rather than specific graphic design techniques.… Continue reading Crucial Design Elements that Every UI Kit Needs

Is Minimal Design the Best Strategy for Your Site?

One of the buzzwords of modern marketing or design work is “understanding your customers.” Before you jump on board with a trend or design style, it’s good to research how consumers or clients in your industry respond to it. One particular trend that has dominated the web for several years is minimalism. So, if you’re… Continue reading Is Minimal Design the Best Strategy for Your Site?

20 Free and Exciting CSS3 Libraries, Frameworks and Tools

A lot of additions and enhancements have been done to CSS in CSS3. Designers used to create simple animations using jQuery or Javascript but CSS3 has changed all that due to all the new and exciting features added to it. It has become a lot easier to explore details and play with the designs using CSS3. Due… Continue reading 20 Free and Exciting CSS3 Libraries, Frameworks and Tools

WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination

In this part of the series on Mastering WP_Query, you’ll learn about some of the arguments you can use with the WP_Query class, namely those for status, order, and pagination. You can use these arguments to fetch scheduled posts from the database, to query attachments, to amend the way posts are ordered and what they’re… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination

Slide-in Content Filter Powered by CSS and jQuery

A well-designed filter is a powerful tool users can take advantage of. It is actually an essential feature if your website has lots of content, distributed across different categories. For an e-commerce, it is a way to increase conversion rates by reducing the time needed by the user to find what he’s looking for. Building… Continue reading Slide-in Content Filter Powered by CSS and jQuery

Posts, Pages and Post Types

In this part of this series on WP_Query, you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to query for posts, pages and custom post types. You can query for specific posts and pages or you can run a query to return posts of one or more post types. A Recap on How Arguments Work in WP_Query Before… Continue reading Posts, Pages and Post Types

Top Ways to Use Icons in a Web Page to Enhance Content Presentation

Content is the king in the web world. But if you don’t present even a good content in a proper way, it will not be able to attract the attention of the viewers. So, it’s important to arrange the content of a web page in the perfect manner. And only then you can expect it… Continue reading Top Ways to Use Icons in a Web Page to Enhance Content Presentation

Free Valentine’s Day Icons from FreekPik!

Our friends at FreePik.com, have provided us yet another icon giveaway. This time, it’s a FREE Valentines Day Icon Pack. These graphics are in flat style, and come in both PNG and SVG files. There are 100 individual icons to choose from! We think you will just love these icons when you see them. Here… Continue reading Free Valentine’s Day Icons from FreekPik!

30 Amazing Portfolio Designs

There are hundred of thousand programmers, designers, writers and even developers in every continent. Sometimes it is hard to compete with other professionals, especially when you are a freelancer. But somehow you need to find a ways to attract customers. One of the way is to create a portfolio website. The key is to make… Continue reading 30 Amazing Portfolio Designs

20 Free HTML5, CSS3, UI Kits and PSDs for Designers

There are many resources available online for designers to speed up the website designing process. Some of these resources are free and most aren’t. These resources may include creative HTML5 and CSS3 PSDs and UI kits, color and palette generators and many other different things that together form a wonderful website. Searching for and spotting the… Continue reading 20 Free HTML5, CSS3, UI Kits and PSDs for Designers

20 Free AngularJS Resources & Tutorials

While jQuery is easily the most popular open source JavaScript library there are many competitors. Among the many alternatives I want to focus on AngularJS. As a designer it can be tough getting into JavaScript because it might feel a little bit like programming. Getting past the initial learning curve is tough but worthwhile in… Continue reading 20 Free AngularJS Resources & Tutorials

Inspirational Examples of UI Style Guides

According to Wikipedia, a UI style guide is a ‘set of standards for the writing and design of documents’ and that it ‘ensures consistency and enforces best practice in usage.’ All very true. But what it neglects to mention is how inspiring UI style guides can be just to look at and get lost in.… Continue reading Inspirational Examples of UI Style Guides

Collection of Fresh Design Freebies – January Edition

From improving the appearance of checkboxes/radio buttons and equipping your next project with a solid flexible foundation to a wonderful set of vibrant flat style icons and magnificent glossy skeuomorph UI pack, our January collection is full of superb freebies that can serve both as inspiration or as time-saving downloads for your future and current… Continue reading Collection of Fresh Design Freebies – January Edition

17 CSS3 Transition Plugins & Tutorials To Create A Single Page Website

Here is another collection of some CSS3 tutorials and this time, we are focusing on creating transition effect for creating a single page website. In the recent times, we have seen that single page websites have greatly increased the user experience by reducing the unnecessary loading time of duplicated page contents. So, without any further… Continue reading 17 CSS3 Transition Plugins & Tutorials To Create A Single Page Website