World Mental Health Day (10th October) is an international day for mental health. Its goal is to raise awareness and to lower social stigma in an empathetic way. The World Federation for Mental Health started the event initially in 1992. Richard Hunter, the then Deputy Secretary General, organized the event, aiming to start a long-term… Continue reading Understanding Mental Illness in the Tech Field
Month: October 2020
The Ultimate 10 UX Influencers to Follow
The digital world is a place of constant change. Just as you get used to a new design trend, another one appears, forcing you to rethink the way that you approach each client project. As a web designer, it’s up to you to make sure that you have your finger on the pulse on the… Continue reading The Ultimate 10 UX Influencers to Follow
How to Implement Email Verification for New Members
Have you ever created an account with a website and been required to check your email and click a verification link sent by the company in order to activate it? Doing so highly reduces the number of spam accounts. In this lesson, we’ll learn how to do this very thing! Looking for a Shortcut? This… Continue reading How to Implement Email Verification for New Members
Understanding the Image Component in React Native
Images are an essential aspect of any mobile app. This tutorial will introduce you to the image component and show you how to use images in your React Native app. You will also learn how to create your own photo gallery! Prerequisites to Create a React Native App We will use the Expo CLI for… Continue reading Understanding the Image Component in React Native
7 Ways Designers Can Streamline Client Communication
90% of web designers need to engage their clients with ongoing communication and collaboration. Effective communication is key to delivering for your design clients and maintaining your relationship with them. Without the right communication process and tools, it can eat into the time you need to get their project done as well as lead to… Continue reading 7 Ways Designers Can Streamline Client Communication
Business Card Templates – 31 Inspiring Design
37 Shares Simple, clean and professionally designed Business Card Templates for your business brand or use as a personal visiting card. All business cards and fully customizable and text can be changed with one click. All objects can be resized without any quality loss (shapes). Fully layered Photoshop PSD files with smart objects. Available in… Continue reading Business Card Templates – 31 Inspiring Design
Marmo: Free serif font family
Marmo is a free font family with sharp-edged and thick-bodied character, designed by Stefano Giliberti. This typeface comes in 10 styles (Extra Light, Light, Regular, Bold, Extra Bold, plus italic versions). Also, it includes 486 glyphs and provides support for 92 languages! Such a complete font family gives you a wide range of options when… Continue reading Marmo: Free serif font family
Who Do Web Designers Really Work For?
It would be way too easy to answer this question with: “Whoever pays your bills.” And, honestly, I don’t think you can be a very successful web designer if you’re only driven by what the person paying you tells you to do. Then again, that doesn’t mean you should swing to the exact opposite end… Continue reading Who Do Web Designers Really Work For?
A semiotic perspective on product design
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Dealing with illness. The creativity and sensitivity of designers can be put at the service of the needs of particular categories of users such as people suffering from chronic diseases and subject to long-term treatments. I will demonstrate that through the analysis of a new object designed to facilitate the administration… Continue reading A semiotic perspective on product design
7 Viral Halloween Ads
October’s finally started which means that Halloween’s finally around the corner! This means that Halloween-themed ads and designs are coming our way any time soon. If you’re a designer, you’ll probably be receiving requests soon for Halloween ads, themes, and the like. We’ve covered our favorite clever Halloween ads, now we’ll be listing down some… Continue reading 7 Viral Halloween Ads
Angular Component Libraries and Accessibility
Nowadays, it feels as if web development is an ever-changing landscape that moves at supersonic speeds. With the demands to keep your content up to date with the latest and greatest designs and frameworks, it can be an overwhelming task to keep up. JavaScript frameworks, such as Angular, play a large role in this with… Continue reading Angular Component Libraries and Accessibility
How to Draw Wood
What You’ll Be Creating Drawing is like magic—you can create many different surfaces using only a sheet of paper and a few pencils. But, just like magic, the whole process is not so easy to understand. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw a wood texture step by step. I will be using a… Continue reading How to Draw Wood
3 Reasons Why The Online Shopping Trend Is Booming
The internet seems have the answer to every question you could ever ask. More than that, it is also a virtual world bustling with opportunity and convenience. The internet and digital technologies continue to progress. Along with it, most of the world’s population takes to the internet daily for all of their needs. They use… Continue reading 3 Reasons Why The Online Shopping Trend Is Booming
12 Important Rules to Observe When Designing a Logo
2 Shares The logo represents the very identity of a brand. Basically, it functions as the face of the brand and it makes the first impression upon customers. Hence, its design is mandatory. The execution of a logo design needs to be perfect, succinct and has the ability to arrest the attention of the potential… Continue reading 12 Important Rules to Observe When Designing a Logo
A Guide to HTML & CSS Forms (No Hacks!)
Historically, HTML forms have been quite tricky — firstly, because at least a little bit of JavaScript was required, and secondly, because no amount of CSS could ever make them behave. However, this isn’t necessarily true in the case of the modern web, so let’s learn how to mark up forms using only HTML and… Continue reading A Guide to HTML & CSS Forms (No Hacks!)
How to Detect When a Sticky Element Gets Pinned
The need for position: sticky was around for years before it was implemented natively, and I can boast that I implemented it with JavaScript and scroll events for ages. Eventually we got position: sticky, and it works well from a visual perspective, but I wondered how can we determine when the element actually became pinned… Continue reading How to Detect When a Sticky Element Gets Pinned
Designing for Color Blindness With Chrome DevTools (in Just 4 Clicks)
Color blindness and vision deficiencies are hard to imagine if you are not affected by them. However, it’s important to take people with visual impairments into consideration when designing a color palette for a website or application. If you don’t, they might be unable to use vital features such as clicking links or buttons, or… Continue reading Designing for Color Blindness With Chrome DevTools (in Just 4 Clicks)
3 Essential Design Trends, October 2020
Design can make a statement. It evokes feeling and can encourage thought and conversation. That’s the common theme among the three trends in website design this month. Each trend is rooted on the time and place where we live and includes elements that provoke thought. Kudos to these designers and design teams for jumpstarting conversations.… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, October 2020
How to Make a Face Mask Mockup (Using a Face Mask Generator)
What You’ll Be Creating Face masks have become an essential item for many of us in the world, and creating a face mask mockup design can be a great way to experiment with reusable options. Have you considered designing or creating your own face mask, rather than relying on disposable ones? You can do so right… Continue reading How to Make a Face Mask Mockup (Using a Face Mask Generator)
How to really understand humans
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Need-to-know theories, frameworks and tools for designers and researchers. Unsplash by Nijwam Swargiary Why it matters The proper study of mankind is the science of design. -Herbert A. Simon As a UX professional, looking deeply into how our minds, emotions, needs and behaviors co-exist can help us translate human insights into designs… Continue reading How to really understand humans
New Business Cards PSD Templates – 30 Print Design
55 Shares Perfect business card templates for personal identity or any business. Business cards as a brand identity represent your business in the business market. In this article we are picked-up perfectly designed Business Card Templates. Each business card is ready to use and print ready. All business cards are well organized and easy to edit with… Continue reading New Business Cards PSD Templates – 30 Print Design
Best Practices for App Icon Design
October 3, 2020 by Clarence App icons have become a very important part of mobile applications. Years before, just a simple logo of the application program or its company would do. However, nowadays, app icons have been an important element of branding and marketing. If an app itself puts importance on its usability, an app… Continue reading Best Practices for App Icon Design
SyncMate : All In One Sync Tool
Are you tired of purchasing several sync solutions to sync your Mac with Android and all other devices? No need to worry further, SyncMate is here! Though all the apple products are great for business and personal use, they don’t provide much flexibility like android devices. It is a bit hard to transfer or sync… Continue reading SyncMate : All In One Sync Tool
Meet MacDroid : File Transfer App For Mac and Android
It can always be such an absolute headache transferring data between a Mac and an Android device. If you are one such user who has had to face this same problem, well, you aren’t alone. Thousands of users often find transferring files from their Mac to their Android device and vice-versa extremely tedious when using… Continue reading Meet MacDroid : File Transfer App For Mac and Android