Month: March 2015

22 Circular Icon Designs for Websites and User Interfaces

Various styles have been adapted over recent years pertaining to icon design. Websites and mobile apps utilize their fair share of icons to convey a much clearer meaning in regards to a user interface. Those with perspicacity recognise the importance of symbolic pictograms. But how do you decide on a theme among the many various… Continue reading 22 Circular Icon Designs for Websites and User Interfaces

Critical Mistakes To Avoid When Quoting A Web Design Project

Striking out on your own as a freelance designer can be incredibly exciting and rewarding, but to be successful, designers who go this route must hone much more than their design skills. A successful freelance designer must have exceptional organizational and presentation skills. He/She must also understand business development and know how to properly quote… Continue reading Critical Mistakes To Avoid When Quoting A Web Design Project

23 Perfectly Minimal Portfolio Themes

How often do you need to update your portfolio website? Perhaps every couple of years or more? Although it may not be something all too common, there are lots of designers who wish to update their design style in a consistent manner. This requires tact, skill, patience, and quite a bit of free time. Unfortunately… Continue reading 23 Perfectly Minimal Portfolio Themes

How To Use Balanced Symmetry in Web Design

Professional designers incorporate many different ideas related to composition. One of the lesser-discussed but vitally important ideas relates to symmetry. This is the process of adjusting page elements so that they align in exactly equal parts. Creating a layout using balanced symmetry aligns certain elements together into groups. There is also value in using asymmetry… Continue reading How To Use Balanced Symmetry in Web Design

Some Of The Best UX And UI Tools And Resources That You Can Use

The tools you are using today may not be ideally suited for the next web or app design project you take on. Newer tools are constantly being introduced on the market and have the potential to make your work easier and faster, as well as more professional in appearance. As you browse through this list,… Continue reading Some Of The Best UX And UI Tools And Resources That You Can Use

25 Creative Business Cards Design (Print Ready)

All business card PSD templates are perfect for any kind of company, or even personal use. In this post, you will see high quality print ready business cards created by professional designers. All designs are elegant, creative, neat, and well organized with creative concept design with professional look. Professional Business Cards PSD Templates Modern business cards for… Continue reading 25 Creative Business Cards Design (Print Ready)

10 Free Vintage Retro Labels(PSD)

There’s something to be said about that old nostalgic feeling of retro design. Although it doesn’t fit into every project, it certainly does give off a sense of nostalgia and connection to the old days. Specifically in this exclusive freebie PSD of retro-styled text labels. Who said old school wasn’t cool anymore? These particular logos… Continue reading 10 Free Vintage Retro Labels(PSD)

Web Designs of the Best Selling WordPress Themes

WordPress themes are great sources of design inspiration, but it’s even more interesting to check out the best selling premium themes to see the kind of styles are popular with the general public. In today’s web design showcase I round up some of the most purchased themes from multiple marketplaces to compare their layouts. Can… Continue reading Web Designs of the Best Selling WordPress Themes

animatedModal.js – A jQuery plugin to create a fullscreen modal with CSS3 transitions

In user interface design, a modal window is a graphical control element subordinate to an application’s main window which creates a mode where the main window can’t be used.It can be used to generate alert or confirm messages with few lines of code. animatedModal.js is a jQuery plugin to create a fullscreen modal with CSS3… Continue reading animatedModal.js – A jQuery plugin to create a fullscreen modal with CSS3 transitions

29 Free Photoshop Designs for Mobile App User Interface

Mobile Apps are all the rage these days. Now a days when almost everyone owns smart phones there are myriad apps that cater to different purposes. For each purpose there are infinite apps, all by different designers. Now that there are so many apps already available online it becomes a little difficult for the designers… Continue reading 29 Free Photoshop Designs for Mobile App User Interface

Free Files For March 2015

Each month the Envato marketplace brings you free premium files. Envato is a web marketplace where you can get premium files for different areas of your website. My favourite marketplaces are the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the theme marketplace ThemeForest. Here are the files which you can get for free for March 2015. readyChat –… Continue reading Free Files For March 2015

Use Google Analytics to Tweak Your Website Design

As a designer, you let design elements — colors, textures, graphics, and layout — guide you as you create different pages and templates. Unfortunately, even the most beautiful design ultimately fails if it doesn’t deliver for the client. Most people blame a non-productive website on problems like search rankings and keywords. However, if people are… Continue reading Use Google Analytics to Tweak Your Website Design

How To Design a Mesmerizing Studio or Agency Website

Creative studios are becoming much more popular with such an interconnected world of digital design. Large-to-medium sized companies are found all over the world, coupled with freelancers and small teams who launch their own personal studio. Thus competition is fierce and understanding how to design a captivating website is pivotal to success. I’d like to… Continue reading How To Design a Mesmerizing Studio or Agency Website

Free Image Editor: 4 Stellar Programs to Help You Create Beautiful Images

Need a new free image editor? Today we’re taking a look at four free tools you can use to design your own custom image graphics for sharing in blog posts or on social media. While toiling away in advanced image editing programs will always allow for unparalleled sophistication, there are some incredible free tools online that… Continue reading Free Image Editor: 4 Stellar Programs to Help You Create Beautiful Images

Top UX & UI Tools and Resources That You Should Use

When you take on a web or an app design project, how much thought do you give about the tools you are presently using as opposed to new tools that are constantly coming on the market which could make your work easier and in some cases, more professional looking? The list below offers a cross-section… Continue reading Top UX & UI Tools and Resources That You Should Use

Impress.js – A presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions

It’s a presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions(positioning, rotating and scaling them on an infinite canvas) in modern browsers and inspired by the idea behind prezi.com Additionally for the animations to run smoothly it’s required to have hardware acceleration support in your browser. This depends on the browser, your operating… Continue reading Impress.js – A presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions

17 New Stylish Free Fonts For Designers

Latest free fonts for your web and graphic design projects. Professionally designed fonts are best for Headlines, Headings and print designs. Free download all fonts which are available for Windows and MAC in truetype and opentype format.  Fresh Free Fonts for Designers GDJ always keep our readers up-to-date with fresh graphic design resources, especially about the fonts.… Continue reading 17 New Stylish Free Fonts For Designers