If you are running a business or building a brand, you are always looking for ways to increase your online reach. A streamlined, accessible and consistent social media presence is essential, whether you are a bricks-and-mortar shop, a digital specialist, or a marketing influencer. Using scripts and plugins from CodeCanyon, you can make your life… Continue reading 11 Best Social Media Scripts and Plugins to Streamline Your Workflow
Month: September 2018
Reality check: how to use the new Google Material Design theming
The Sketch Plugin First I’m downloading the Material Theme Editor from the official Website. Currently, there is only a plugin available for Sketch. As Sketch is my favorite tool for creating wireframes and mockups — I’m happy for using an existing tool. To get an idea of how to get started with the Material Theme Editor, I checked… Continue reading Reality check: how to use the new Google Material Design theming
How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at drawing multiple hairstyles that tend to be popular choices for natural, afro textured hair: afros, locs, braids, and twists. While these styles could potentially be worn by people with other hair types, we will primarily focus on Type 4 hair. We’ll take a stylistic approach… Continue reading How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)
Common Web Design Mistakes to Watch Out For
Whether you want to create a blog, an online store or any other sort of website, web design is a huge part of doing that. While content is king, you definitely still need to put a lot of time and thought into how you design your website. The way that you design it will depend… Continue reading Common Web Design Mistakes to Watch Out For
Hands-on With ARIA: Accessibility for eCommerce
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Looking to make your site more accessible? Or maybe you want to make it easier to traverse your site overall using browsers and other interfaces? Using ARIA, you can do both. Let’s take a look at what ARIA is and how it can benefit an eCommerce site. We’ll also go through some examples step by… Continue reading Hands-on With ARIA: Accessibility for eCommerce
Fresh Free PSD Mockup Templates (45 Mock-ups)
Big list of realistic free PSD Mockup Templates available for commercial and personal use. These free mockups PSD files uses smart object feature which help you change the design just in seconds. In this showcase there are professionally designed product presentation mockups included like iPhone X mockups, branding, stationery items, logo, t-shirt mockups, packaging mock-ups in different perspective angles and styles. Ultra realistic presentation PSD mockup templates can save… Continue reading Fresh Free PSD Mockup Templates (45 Mock-ups)
A Collection Of 10 Well-Designed Wedding Websites
Okay — you have clients, and they need websites for their weddings — like, asap! How do you choose the best wedding website builder, though? Superb query. Well for starters: You want to use a wedding website building platform that saves you time, saves them money, cuts out uncalled for stress and effort, helps you… Continue reading A Collection Of 10 Well-Designed Wedding Websites
Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin
What You’ll Be Creating If you’re like me, you’ve been using Google Maps to add maps to your WordPress sites for years, but you sometimes get a little frustrated about the lack of customization options. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use an alternative—a WordPress plugin called MapSVG that lets you… Continue reading Create Custom Maps With the MapSVG Plugin
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials: 32 New Vector Tutorials to Learn Design & Illustration
Latest free Adobe Illustrator tutorials to design and illustrations. These tutorials are best for beginners and advance graphic designers. As we know Adobe illustrator is widely used to draw illustration, vector graphics and background and many more useful fully scaleable illustrations. Illustrator Tutorials are the best way to learn how to create professional vector graphics and illustrations. These tutorials will provide’s a… Continue reading Adobe Illustrator Tutorials: 32 New Vector Tutorials to Learn Design & Illustration
You don’t know it yet, but you want to be a UX/UI designer
The last years have been a transformative period for the tech industry. Multiple innovations have created a new set of challenges for business. Therefore, companies need to change the way they fabricate products and services and the way they develop these solutions to adapt themselves in no time to new requirements. With so many digital… Continue reading You don’t know it yet, but you want to be a UX/UI designer
Practical Tips for Effective Design Critique
Facilitating an effective design critique is a great way to have a conversation with stakeholders and check in on the progress of your project, collecting a wide breadth of feedback as you do so. Leveraging the feedback of a group, however, exposes you to many perspectives which may be unhelpful if you don’t use your… Continue reading Practical Tips for Effective Design Critique
A Guide to Getting Ready for iOS 12 Notifications for Designers
Now that iOS 12 is out and some users have upgraded to the operating system, you’ll want to start revising your application to take advantage of the new features of iOS 12 notifications. What’s new in iOS 12 Notifications? iOS 12 brings a number of changes to how notifications work. While no single change completely… Continue reading A Guide to Getting Ready for iOS 12 Notifications for Designers
How to Digitally Paint Dimension and Texture in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating How do you add volume and texture to digital paintings? Simple. Just reference real-life objects! Digital painting is difficult for many people, but it’s really all about patience and giving yourself adequate time to develop details to the best of your ability. So today, we’re going to tackle this challenge by… Continue reading How to Digitally Paint Dimension and Texture in Adobe Photoshop
Setting up Your PyMongo Environment — SitePoint
This article was originally published on MongoDB. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. In this article, we’ll introduce developers to programming MongoDB using the Python programming language. PyMongo is the name of the client library (in MongoDB speak we refer to it as a “driver”) we use to interact with the… Continue reading Setting up Your PyMongo Environment — SitePoint
How does Headspace hold up with usability heuristics and accessibility?
In UX design, usability is the ease of use of an interface, or how easily a person can learn and use the product. How can we evaluate the usability of a product objectively? From 1990–94, Jakob Nielsen developed broad rules of thumb known as heuristics that should be considered when objectively evaluating interaction design. These… Continue reading How does Headspace hold up with usability heuristics and accessibility?
Render Text and Shapes on Images in PHP
In the previous, we focused on loaded and manipulating images with PHP. We learned how to rotate, resize, scale or flip an image. We also learned about different filters and the convolution matrix. Those tutorials also covered some practical uses of the GD library like resizing all images in a directory or adding watermarks on multiple… Continue reading Render Text and Shapes on Images in PHP
Holly: Pre-launch landing page
Holly is a free HTML pre-launch landing page for presenting a product or a SaaS, designed by Davide Pacilio and coded by Pasquale Vitiello. Package includes well-organised Sass files and a ready to use package.json sample file that allows you to customise the template in a few moves. Free for personal and commercial use. View demo Download… Continue reading Holly: Pre-launch landing page
Freebie – Corporate Business Card PSD Template
Today’s freebie is a professionally designed Business Card PSD Template. This visiting card is designed for both corporate business and personal. All text layers can be changed with one click, fully editable layered Photoshop PSD files, ready to use, easy to modify 3.75 inc X 2.25 inch with bleed 0.25 300 dpi and CMYK color. Available in three different… Continue reading Freebie – Corporate Business Card PSD Template
Professional Branding Identity Stationery MockUps – 25 Design
Modern and clean designed branding identity and Stationery Mockup PSD Templates to present your design in a professional way. Corporate branding or visual identity is the most valuable asset for any company or business. These Branding Stationery Mockup Templates included Business Card Mockup, Letterhead Mockup (A4 & US Letter), Invoice Mockup, Envelope Mockup (Front & Back Sides), Presentation Mockup Layouts, Instruction & Help… Continue reading Professional Branding Identity Stationery MockUps – 25 Design
20 Different Fonts to Make Stylish Graphic Design Projects in 2018
Explore different letter fonts to complement your work. Get inspired with this awesome list of new resources for 2018. Make Stylish Graphic Design Projects With These Fonts Every designer should have a collection of different font styles in their arsenal. Because no matter the occasion, creative fonts are the best way to upgrade any project.… Continue reading 20 Different Fonts to Make Stylish Graphic Design Projects in 2018
75+ Free baseline icons
A set of 75+ free vector icons designed and released by Luboš Volkov. Icons fit a 25x25px canvas and come in outline and glyph styles. They could be really useful when designing a mobile app. You can download this entire set for free and use it for your personal and commercial projects. Download freebie
The application of cogntive psychology to User-Interface Design
B.A. Critical and contectual dissertation written in 2011 originally posted at http://purofu.com/dissertation.html Do we see our thoughts? A great paradox in plain words, but an inevitable juxtaposition between everyday stimuli and the human thought process. Can a repetitive pattern in our habitualism be the study of much greater things in order to make our lives… Continue reading The application of cogntive psychology to User-Interface Design
11 Quick Tips to Skyrocket Your Ecommerce Marketplace Conversion Rates
Currently there are many sites for selling and providing services in the world market of Ecommerce. Each marketplace in the competitive struggle tries to get the attention of potential customers, but, unfortunately, not everyone not everyone succeeds in this. Growth of the marketplace can only be ensured by knowing secrets of the conversion of site… Continue reading 11 Quick Tips to Skyrocket Your Ecommerce Marketplace Conversion Rates
The Influence Of Hormone Levels On Working Capacity
The influence of hormones on our daily life is never more evident than in the business world. There are 5 ways to balance the hormonal system below, and you will find that each one could help you make better decisions at work.They will help you stay focused and confident in the decisions you make. 1.Regular… Continue reading The Influence Of Hormone Levels On Working Capacity