Let Your Audience Design Your Website: Why Online Casinos are Built on Logic Not Luck

Taking an activity that primarily existed in the physical world for decades and making it something internet users will enjoy is never easy. Indeed, when you look at the mixed response to online books, you’ll see just how tough it can be to convert people. According to Forbes’ review of Amazon’s Kindle sales in 2013,… Continue reading Let Your Audience Design Your Website: Why Online Casinos are Built on Logic Not Luck

50 New Free Christmas Icons (Flat, Line, Linecolor)

Christmas is just around the corner and it one of the most cheerful and brightest time of the year.I’m sure you start to think about gift ideas for your family and friends.There are many things to be planned for this special time of the year. If you are designer and have project for Christmas time… Continue reading 50 New Free Christmas Icons (Flat, Line, Linecolor)

33 Winter and Christmas Design Elements for the Holiday Season

December 13, 2017 by Alex Fox The holiday season is one of the most important parts of the years for many business. Retail especially revolves around the holiday season, with Christmas sales, special promotions and incentives. All these things need holiday-specific design language, which is where these design elements come in. You’ll need some high-quality… Continue reading 33 Winter and Christmas Design Elements for the Holiday Season

9 ½ Plausible and/or Absurd UX Industry Predictions for 2018

1. Salaries will either increase or decrease, but likely not remain exactly the same With the volatility of our world, who’s to say where salaries will go? 2017 similarly saw salaries go in a direction. 2018 will either see an increase or decrease. This will depend on economies, how many salary negotiation blogs we read, and… Continue reading 9 ½ Plausible and/or Absurd UX Industry Predictions for 2018

Grab This Month’s (Dec.) FREE Responsive Multi-Purpose HTML5 Template

Theme focuses on Multi-page and One-page Responsive Marketing Bootstrap Template that can use all kind of Business sites. Homepage designed for multipurpose, Laning on Multi-page, Eydea, Agency, Apps, Architect, Bakery, Boxed, Border design, Business, Charity, College, Construction, Corporate, Education, Hosting, Industry, Magazine, Medical, Personal, Portfolio, Restaurant, School, Shop, Travel, University, Wedding Eydia is the Aristocratic… Continue reading Grab This Month’s (Dec.) FREE Responsive Multi-Purpose HTML5 Template

5 UX Mistakes Killing Your Website

You want your site to be cool, fresh, and exciting, but more than anything else, you should want your website to be effective. If visitors think “Wow, that looks neat” but leave without reading an article or buying a product, your design has failed. Often, visitors choose not to interact with a website because the… Continue reading 5 UX Mistakes Killing Your Website

3D Particle Explorations | Codrops

An inspirational set of demos that explores particle animations in 3D space with three.js. This type of animations could be very suitable for page loaders. This set of demos explores 3D particle animations using three.js and easing. All of the particles and shapes in these demos are made from basic geometry/material/mesh sets in three.js, such… Continue reading 3D Particle Explorations | Codrops

Shards: A modern UI toolkit based on Bootstrap 4

Shards is a free and modern design system based on the popular Bootstrap 4 framework. It is basically a UI toolkit including responsive components and icons from both Material and Font Awesome packs. Shards is built with performance in mind having a small footprint and weighting (it’s ~12kb minified and gzipped). Download includes the original Sketch and SCSS files so you can get your… Continue reading Shards: A modern UI toolkit based on Bootstrap 4

UX trends, 2017 highlights, and more UX links this week

The State of UX in 2018 → We have seen quite a lot this year. After curating and sharing 1,926 links with 189,489 designers all over the world, we see a few trends in what our industry is writing, talking, and thinking about. Here is what to expect for UX in 2018.

New Fresh HTML5 WordPress Themes

Fresh new WordPress themes, all themes and templates are fully responsive, SEO optimize, retina-ready, cross-browser compatible with powerful easy to use theme features. All themes are professionally designed to be versatile and light-weight, with a modular Bootstrap and HTML5 and CSS3 coding features. Best WordPress themes comes with a well documented help file, which will assist you configure the template… Continue reading New Fresh HTML5 WordPress Themes

A Showcase of Great Typography Usage in Web Design

Good typography is vital to having an effective website. Visitors need to be able to read the info on a site, whether it is an eCommerce website or a purely informational website. If they aren’t able to read it, they will quickly leave. The site will not be linked to, so it won’t show up… Continue reading A Showcase of Great Typography Usage in Web Design

Stockio.com – Thousands of Free Photos, Vectors, Icons, Fonts and Videos

Finding images, graphics, fonts or even videos for your design projects can be a difficult challenge. Photos and graphics are expensive; many of us have found that to be true. With many thousands of new designs being created each day there is a growing need for designers to obtain good quality royalty free images, free… Continue reading Stockio.com – Thousands of Free Photos, Vectors, Icons, Fonts and Videos

5 Essential Features of a Viable Human Resources Software

The end of the year makes an ideal time to reflect on the year’s performances and to make new resolutions for the new year. As a business owner, your human resources department is the most important within your company. The unit is vital in hiring, firing, payroll, benefits, and understanding all tax and employment laws.… Continue reading 5 Essential Features of a Viable Human Resources Software

Rippplr

I am still recoiling from the loads of information and knowledge sharing that happened during IxD14 last week. You guys should follow #1xd14 on twitter and catch up on the videos at Vimeo channel. During the conference, I conducted a workshop at the HKU on “Playful Thinking”. To give you a short introduction, ‘Playful Thinking’… Continue reading Rippplr

New Christmas Wallpapers from DesignWorksStyle.com

You can always tell when it’s December from all of the festivities happening everywhere. It’s the holiday season, Christmas Is just around the corner, and there will be plenty of beautiful moments to share with friends and family this holiday season. Of course, moments aren’t the only free things you’ll be wanting to enjoy this… Continue reading New Christmas Wallpapers from DesignWorksStyle.com

Webster – Responsive Multi-Purpose HTML5 Template

Why settle on one theme and one layout when you can have over 220 HTML5 pages and more than 29 home pages? Yes, Webster is 100% responsive and comprehensive template with cool features like- parallax, smooth scrolling, retina-ready, responsive mega drop-down menu, MailChimp, Recaptcha, PHP contact form, and a bunch of free plugins (Revolutions slider,… Continue reading Webster – Responsive Multi-Purpose HTML5 Template

Creative SVG Strokes Animation | Codrops

A creative strokes animation of a bike illustration powered by SVG and GSAP. SVG stroke animations are nothing new, but when using a more complex drawing that is basically made of strokes, then we can create a very original looking effect. Using many different colors and adding some other element animations, we can bring a… Continue reading Creative SVG Strokes Animation | Codrops

Car Dealer – The Best Car Dealer Automotive Responsive WordPress Theme

If you are looking for an amazing car dealer WordPress theme for your existing or upcoming automotive website, then this is a perfect package which undeniably acquires all the auto dealer website development needs with a stack of 10 unique layout options, 6 listing pages, 3 style detail pages, 6 working PHP forms, and over… Continue reading Car Dealer – The Best Car Dealer Automotive Responsive WordPress Theme

Human Centered Automation

Embraer 190 Flight Deck Redundancy is one of the ways for develop error resistant design, every important system have a backup (sometime backups) operation alternatives. It’s is also true for human actions, that’s why we have this pilot plus co-pilot operation. In the past we had 5 humans operating a cockpit, as automation increases, less people… Continue reading Human Centered Automation

Botera: A free font with wine flavour

Botera is an amazing typographic project created by Javi Montoya for a wine brand. It is basically a stencil serif font ideal for creating luxury beverage labels (for example whisky, beer, wine, etc.). Botera comes in two weights (Regular and Stencil) and includes 278 characters (uppercase, lowercase, alternative characters, ligatures, decimal and old numbers, punctuation marks and… Continue reading Botera: A free font with wine flavour

Canny Edge Detector Using Python

Edge detection is an essential image analysis technique when someone is interested in recognizing objects by their outlines, and it’s also considered an essential step in recovering information from images.  For instance, edge detection can extract important features like lines and curves, which are then normally used by higher-level computer vision or image-processing algorithms. A… Continue reading Canny Edge Detector Using Python

UX is a Process. SEO, too.

TL;DR: Most people consider the value of both UX and SEO in the same way. Instead, we need to emphasize that both are about the process and an end result, not a product or deliverable. The Internet is a crazy place. Where else can you find a whirlwind of scholarly papers one minute and an… Continue reading UX is a Process. SEO, too.

How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites

While a simple, clean website design might seem easy at first, the fact of the matter is the process is a lot more complex than you think. There’s a lot of stuff going on underneath the surface that makes the clean website functional. Most people don’t need or care about that makes these sites function,… Continue reading How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites