Month: August 2018

100 days of Motion Design

Reflecting 1. Driven by ideas Once I had an idea, I was driven to bring it to life. It did not matter what techniques I needed to learn. For example, I wanted to express my love for reading. To make my idea of flipping book come true, I found a tutorial Open Your Book on Youtube… Continue reading 100 days of Motion Design

International Artist Feature: Germany

We’re honouring the German language and culture this week in celebration of the launch of the German version of Envato Elements!   For this article in the international artist series we turn to Germany, featuring seven illustrators and designers who create fantastic work from digital paintings to textile design and more! I asked each artist how their… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Germany

Examining the Importance of Logo Design

No matter how organised a business may be behind the scenes, it must present the right image to its clients. This means having the right logo. Many customers first become aware of a business through its logo. Or it might be the first thing they see when searching for a product or service. If the… Continue reading Examining the Importance of Logo Design

Anodina: A free sans-serif font family

Anodina is a free font family with human features but symmetric in its soul. It includes 5 weights from Extra Light to Extra Bold, provides uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, symbols, multilingual accents. Great as basic typeface for texts and headlines as well as logos, badges, posters and much more. Anodina font family is free for… Continue reading Anodina: A free sans-serif font family

Elevate Your Designs with the Perfect Mockups

As a designer, you work hard to create unique and interesting designs, but you also know that a great design isn’t enough to get your work noticed. One of the easiest and most effective ways to ensure that all of your hard work gets the recognition it deserves is by displaying it in a way… Continue reading Elevate Your Designs with the Perfect Mockups

How to Create Presentations that Don’t Suck

The presentation is a convenient way to provide a short yet concise information about any of your projects whether you are a student, office manager, businessman, startupper, or financial advisor. Sad to say but bad presentation happens oftener than the good one. As a result, your audience gets bored and want the presentation to be… Continue reading How to Create Presentations that Don’t Suck

Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block

Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor and everyone is talking about it. It has introduced an all-new way of writing content with WordPress. So not only the developers can benefit from its block-modeled layout but the end-users will also be able to create dynamic page layouts with it.  However, building custom blocks with Gutenberg can… Continue reading Building Gutenberg Blocks with create-guten-block

The most common topics from 200+ design mentorship sessions

Photo by Trust “Tru” Katsande For the last couple of years I have been regularly meeting with designers from various countries and backgrounds to offer them mentorship and career guidance. These sessions are one of the most efficient ways I have found to give back to the community some of what I have learned from it — the… Continue reading The most common topics from 200+ design mentorship sessions

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10 Questions You Need to Be Asking Your Clients

Client meetings don’t just go one way. While your clients might come prepared with a list of questions for you, you’ll want to have some questions of your own. Here are the top ten questions you need to be asking your clients if you aren’t already. Why do you want a website? This question can… Continue reading 10 Questions You Need to Be Asking Your Clients

5 Best Design Collaboration Tools For Teams That Want to Scale

Those of us working for agencies in a creative context are, all too often, plagued by deadline after deadline. That’s why having solutions in place for effortless collaboration is the most important prerequisite for delivering striking design and thoughtful functionality – for each and every client and always on time. Whether it’s between your internal… Continue reading 5 Best Design Collaboration Tools For Teams That Want to Scale

25 Modern Resume Templates with Cover Letter

Elegant modern resume templates designed to make an impression. Professional resume templates are easy to use, so you can quickly make your resume for any opportunity and help you to get your dream job. All resume templates available in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and MS-Word versions. These resume templates are clearly organized and labeled so you can be confident in… Continue reading 25 Modern Resume Templates with Cover Letter

Everything You Need To Look For When Choosing A VPN

We shouldn’t need to stress the importance of a virtual private network (VPN). By now, you should be aware of the dangers of using the internet without one. Identity theft is a very real risk. A VPN disguises your location and encrypts your data, giving you the basic security you need. But there are tons… Continue reading Everything You Need To Look For When Choosing A VPN

How to Create a GTA V Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an amazing photo effect inspired by the Grand Theft Auto V video game art style. I will explain everything in so much detail that everyone can create it, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time.  The effect shown… Continue reading How to Create a GTA V Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

Designing a complex table for mobile consumption (nom)

The User Loss-prevention consultants inspect residential and commercial buildings to help ensure systems (such as fire protection systems and fuel-fired equipment systems) meet local, national, and industry standards. These consultants compare different risk factors across multiple assigned locations. This comparison allows them to make recommendations to property owners of how to mitigate risks and thus… Continue reading Designing a complex table for mobile consumption (nom)

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Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg

What You’ll Be Creating WordPress Gutenberg is coming soon to a website near you. It will revolutionise the way you write posts and create pages, so get ready to use it by taking our new course, Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg. What You’ll Learn Gutenberg is a completely new way for people to create content… Continue reading Create Content With WordPress Gutenberg

Reap Enormous Benefits From a Web Development Company

A seasoned company can help you to make a brilliant website that would assist you in creating a unique identity for your website. For this, you are needed to ensure that you hire a professional web development company. This company will build you an incredible site which can cater to the demands of your company.… Continue reading Reap Enormous Benefits From a Web Development Company

Dos and Don’ts of Designing the Perfect Website Form

When designing modern websites, it is important to bear in mind the criticality of creating a well-balanced, user-friendly form as visitors make their first impression about a business by looking at their online portal. In several cases, the design of the form can make or break the future of the website. User experience plays a… Continue reading Dos and Don’ts of Designing the Perfect Website Form

20 Must-Have Wireframe Templates and UI Kits for Your Design Library

Wireframing. User journeys. Content maps. User-centered design. Information architecture. Animated prototypes. Conversion paths. Iterative features. Sitemaps. Uhh, what? Let’s be honest, the world of UX (user experience) and UI (user interface) is full of jargon and overcomplicated terms. Take, for example, this real line I copy-pasted from a job description for a senior content specialist… Continue reading 20 Must-Have Wireframe Templates and UI Kits for Your Design Library

Font Combinations Library

Font Combinations Library (aka Font Combinations Kit 2.0) is a great set of 8 different font combinations meant to help speed up your design process. Inside the package you will find some ready-made template screens pairing the most popular Google Fonts. Text styles from the Sketch and Adobe XD will speed up your work. You can change the… Continue reading Font Combinations Library

Interaction models

To a western eater, definitely to a Spaniard like me, the first time having ramen breaks a few well-established mental models. Eating out is a social event. Long noodles equals spaghetti, which you eat using a fork. Soup is to be eaten with a spoon, and the person sitting next to you will not hear… Continue reading Interaction models

4 Must-Have Features for Your Agency’s Web Development Platform

The ultimate end game of every manager in today’s ever-so-competitive agency space is the ability to swiftly scale. Whether it’s your client base, revenue or resources, ensuring everything advances quickly and effectively, without sacrificing quality, is a must-do. Unfortunately, scaling remains one of the biggest challenges of digital agencies today. How so? Consider how agencies… Continue reading 4 Must-Have Features for Your Agency’s Web Development Platform