Developing and accomplishing a total decluttering plan for your home or workspace can be overwhelming. So many books and videos instruct you to tackle an entire room or more all at once, and who has that kind time? This all-at-once approach also leads you to get rid of things you need, causing you to spend… Continue reading Eliminate Old Technology to Declutter Your Space
Month: July 2019
45 Free T-Shirt Mockup Templates PSD
Free t-shirt mockups created by professional graphic designers. T-shirt Mockup will help you to present your apparel design will look like printed on a T-shirt. All t-shirt mockups are easily edited via smart-object in Photoshop (detailed step by step help is included). Just place your artwork and it will be automatically transformed to a realistic mock-up with all… Continue reading 45 Free T-Shirt Mockup Templates PSD
How a series of stumbles taught me to nurture my own process
I came in the next day and was ready to get my gut test reviewed by everyone. I really can’t remember how it happened. But let me just say that I was mentally exhausted by the end of it all. It turns out that once again, I messed up. What I had put together was… Continue reading How a series of stumbles taught me to nurture my own process
Best Interactive JavaScript Plugins to Liven Up Your WordPress Site
Interactive media like audio, video, flipbooks, galleries, maps, countdown clocks, timelines, popups and forms increases the time visitors spend engaging with content on your WordPress website. They create great user experiences. JavaScript media scripts and plugins for WordPress make it easy to bring this life and engagement to your website. If you’re looking for fresh… Continue reading Best Interactive JavaScript Plugins to Liven Up Your WordPress Site
17+ Best Fashion WordPress Themes (2019) for Blog & Magazine Sites
When it comes to fashion websites, choosing the right design is imperative. Whether you’re highlighting your best models or showcasing your latest creations; one thing is certain: your site needs to have a high visual focus. Large images and plenty of white space will do wonders for your site. But, how do you go about… Continue reading 17+ Best Fashion WordPress Themes (2019) for Blog & Magazine Sites
25 Professional Trifold Brochure Templates for Inspiration
Modern and creative Trifold Brochure Templates with elegant design. All brochure templates are designed with a professional theme and multipurpose business. Trifold brochures are perfect for corporate business, sports, events, school portfolio, photographer, interior design and company products. There brochure templates has all the features you’d expect in a brochures, from placeholders, to text styles, one… Continue reading 25 Professional Trifold Brochure Templates for Inspiration
5 Essential React Concepts to Know Before Learning Redux Courses
How to Embed PDF Files on Your WordPress Site With a Free Plugin
Today, we’ll explore the PDF Poster plugin for WordPress which allows you to embed PDF files on your WordPress site. I’ll demonstrate how you can use this plugin on your own site to embed PDF files. As a site owner, sometimes you’ll need to embed and display PDF documents on your website. It could be… Continue reading How to Embed PDF Files on Your WordPress Site With a Free Plugin
D is for Discoverability: a 15-point list to ensuring users find what they need
Darren Wilson Follow Jul 19 · 10 min read A couple of things have baffled me recently, provoking thoughts about the principle of discoverability. Firstly, Instagram. We recently joined to market UXcentric to prospective customers. To showcase visually what we do, what we like and where we are. Most people I know who use it… Continue reading D is for Discoverability: a 15-point list to ensuring users find what they need
Popular Design News of the Week: July 22, 2019 – July 28, 2019
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: July 22, 2019 – July 28, 2019
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Exploring Photo Manipulation: Analysis and Interviews
What You’ll Be Creating Photo manipulation and photo effects—they could cover anything from touching up a face to adding an entire universe right into your favorite photo. The manipulation of imagery is often associated with Adobe Photoshop, but photo manipulation itself predates Photoshop by many, many years. Perhaps we, as artists, designers, and people, have… Continue reading Exploring Photo Manipulation: Analysis and Interviews
Iconic Movie Posters Recreated in Fuzzy Felt
Some movie posters have become known (in the design and graphics community at least) to be appreciated and revered as much as the movies they advertise themselves. Iconic standalone pieces of art in their own right, these kind of posters have all had some part to play in cementing the iconic status of the corresponding… Continue reading Iconic Movie Posters Recreated in Fuzzy Felt
Best Free WordPress Audio Player Plugins
There are a variety of reasons why you might want to embed audio in your website. For instance, maybe you sell your own music and want to give users a preview before asking them to purchase a song, or you might just want to have an audio version of a text-based post. In either case,… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Audio Player Plugins
5 Tips for Controlling Focus
You’re going to have build your site in such a way that the eye is naturally drawn from one step to the next. My sister used to accomplish controlling my focus by sternly, but calmly, telling me to “Get back to your schoolwork” anywhere from fifteen to forty times in a single day. But your… Continue reading 5 Tips for Controlling Focus
Brutalism: A free web kit for Sketch and Figma
Brutalism is an amazing free UI web kit released by the design team at AND CO and available for Sketch and Figma. The kit comes with 70 ready-made artboards and a bunch of pre-made sections (menu, hero, showcase, about, team, testimonials and more) to help you jumpstart your next website project. In addition, Brutalism uses Google… Continue reading Brutalism: A free web kit for Sketch and Figma
Create Amazing Prototypes in No Time with the Envato Elements Sketch Plugin
The rise of prototyping tools in recent years is undeniable. Designers are harnessing these powerful, yet easy-to-use programs to build functional models of both websites and mobile apps. As such, they have become a vital part of the design process. Among the most widely-used and well-known prototyping apps is Sketch. This Mac-based program… Continue reading Create Amazing Prototypes in No Time with the Envato Elements Sketch Plugin
Photoshop Tutorials: 35 New Tutorials to Learn Exciting Manipulation Tricks
Adobe Photoshop is the one of the best tools for photo editing, manipulation and graphic design. We are here to help you to learn Photoshop tools and improve your graphic design skills. These experts-taught Photoshop tutorials have everything you need to learn photo effect, image editing, retouching, watercolor portraits, lighting effects, digital painting and photo manipulation from beginner… Continue reading Photoshop Tutorials: 35 New Tutorials to Learn Exciting Manipulation Tricks
New Course on the WordPress Customizer for Theme Designers
The WordPress Customizer is a great way to tweak the look of a WordPress site. It’s especially great for end users of your themes. They can see their changes in real time, and they don’t need to know any coding to customize their site for their own branding. Even better, your theme can add custom… Continue reading New Course on the WordPress Customizer for Theme Designers
Focus Session: defining design requirements with stakeholders
Involving stakeholders from the beginning of the design process will help you and your stakeholders to make important decisions together, as one team. Having them on board means that you have access to information that you otherwise wouldn’t have. It gives everyone involved a chance to express their point of view, before you start working… Continue reading Focus Session: defining design requirements with stakeholders
5 Things That Significantly Improve User Experience
There are some truly stunning websites out there. But just because something looks pretty, doesn’t mean it will be functional and drive your target customers to action. “Most client web design requests will begin with a request for stellar web design, not a fully-functional one,” says an article from the digital marketing agency Active Web… Continue reading 5 Things That Significantly Improve User Experience
8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System
Recently, I was part of a 3-person team of consultants who in 12 weeks built the foundations of a new design system. That design system is now used in multiple products and is contributed to by other developers and designers. In this post you’ll find some of the techniques we used to make the project… Continue reading 8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System
New Fresh Free Fonts Download
New free fonts, 100% fresh and free fonts download and used in any commercial work. In this font collection we are gathered handwritten brush fonts, script fonts, calligraphy fonts and sans serif fonts which are perfect for logo design, badge, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel, greeting card, and wedding invitation. The following fonts are ideal to make… Continue reading New Fresh Free Fonts Download
Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin
What You’ll Be Creating Plugins are what makes WordPress special. Without them, WordPress wouldn’t be much more than a humble blogging platform. But by adding plugins to your site, you can turn it into so much more. Depending on what you need, you can use a plugin to make your site more efficient and to… Continue reading Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin