Usability testing doesn’t have to be complicated. There are dozens of options for a design team that wants to remotely test their solutions. To prove that, we’ve redesigned Yelp, with the help of remote usability tests. We ran remote usability tests because they’re fast and affordable. All of these tests were unmoderated, which means the… Continue reading How to transform user experience into UX design
Category: Design
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
Inspiration Showcase of Double Exposure Photography
Double exposure photography is the name of the original process where two photographs are exposed onto the same piece of film, resulting in interesting and surreal pictures. While this style is rooted in analog photography, it’s also popular with digital photographers and artists/designers who can replicate the effect in Photoshop, as I recently described in… Continue reading Inspiration Showcase of Double Exposure Photography
New Web Design and Development Resources: July Edition
Everyone needs beautiful things, and for us, designers and developers, it means gorgeous resources, so as is usual every month, we have gathered the best and most compelling resources we could find, including fonts, themes, icons, design tools, snippets, articles, and of course, great freebies for you to download. NEW FOR DESIGNERS AND DEVELOPERS Vintage… Continue reading New Web Design and Development Resources: July Edition
iDevie Weekly News for Designers (week 27)
This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week. New Resources & Tools Making Sense of Git, a visual perspective. Baseline First, set text on the web to a baseline grid with Sass & rems. Photoshop Design Space, an alternative UI… Continue reading iDevie Weekly News for Designers (week 27)
What’s Hot and What’s Not: Web Design In 2015
Web design is a constantly evolving space. New trends keep on knocking while old practices keep tumbling and toppling over. With every New Year we have a round of predictions and promises, and 2015 is no different. If you are a web developer, it’s for your own good to keep a tab on these changes… Continue reading What’s Hot and What’s Not: Web Design In 2015
Marketing Approach to UX
The key to successful marketing is advertising a solution, and selling the tool that provides it. Put another way, by looking at the jobs people are trying to accomplish, marketers can better interact with their prospects. Now imagine we think about UX in the same way: the key to a successful product is creating a… Continue reading Marketing Approach to UX
25 Inspirational Branding Design Projects
Branding is very important and should go hand in hand with your marketing and PR strategies. A strong brand always has a beautiful logo design, it’s easy to remember and keeps a close relationship with its clients. Whether you’re a brand owner or a designer, these 25 inspirational branding design projects will surely help you… Continue reading 25 Inspirational Branding Design Projects
Understanding Color Psychology for Impactful Web Design
It’s no secret that color psychology is used extensively in all aspects of design. From the colors used on day-to-day grocery items, to brand logos and website design, color is an important element that can convey a specific message to users. Photo credit: Dropbox According to Kissmetrics, when we view a color, our eyes send… Continue reading Understanding Color Psychology for Impactful Web Design
Learn JavaScript and Up Your Photoshop Game
You’re a Photoshop master. You have your preferences perfected, the menus memorized. You’re a Wacom wielding wizard. Or are you? If you use Photoshop and you don’t code, you’re wasting time and effort with every project you touch. That’s time you could use to do more creative, enriching work or to get away from your… Continue reading Learn JavaScript and Up Your Photoshop Game
Top 5 Scroll-to-Animate Effects in Online Animation
Online animation has become much more than a parlor trick for developers to show off their skills. Animation is used to create more sultry interfaces that feel smoother and easier to use. Natural animation gives off a certain vibe of corporeality to interface design. One area that’s seen a lot of attention is the scroll-to-animate technique.… Continue reading Top 5 Scroll-to-Animate Effects in Online Animation
15 Essential Graphics Tools for Online Designers
Great design is a process of hard work and inspiration. There are no shortcuts, but technology offers you plenty of tools to save time and increase productivity. Of course the hard part is actually finding the software that fulfills your needs. Over the course of the last year I’ve created an online toolbox, composed of… Continue reading 15 Essential Graphics Tools for Online Designers
10+ Developer Tools We Can’t Live Without
In this article, we have gathered 11 of the best fresh and useful tools for web developers, these web tools will make your workflow more efficient and highly productive. We invite you to give them a try and see how they will improve your website, promote your business and create better communication between you and… Continue reading 10+ Developer Tools We Can’t Live Without
Subtle and Transparent Gorgeous Website Designs with Gradients
Gradients, welcome back. Although it seemed that they had gone forever and without a trace, as practice shows, history always repeats itself, and material design, flat style and iOS8 inspired patterns have prepared the fertile ground for it. As a result, one cannot but agree that there is a rise in popularity in this direction.… Continue reading Subtle and Transparent Gorgeous Website Designs with Gradients
10 Flat CMS to Setup Lightweight Websites – Best of
Traditional content management systems (CMS) like WordPress or Joomla is great but if you build a small website or a personal blog, you probably don’t need the rich functionalities offered. What you need is a simpler, more elegant and lightweight solution — what you need is a flat CMS. The most striking difference you will… Continue reading 10 Flat CMS to Setup Lightweight Websites – Best of
iDevie Weekly News (week 29)
New Resources & Tools iconate.js, a tiny performant library for cross-browser icon transformation animations. SmartIcons, infinite icon system for the modern web. Animate-Plus, a performant JavaScript library that helps you animate CSS properties and SVG attributes. Predawn, a dark interface and syntax theme for Sublime Text and Atom. 50 CSS and JavaScript Tools, Frameworks and… Continue reading iDevie Weekly News (week 29)
The Value of UX Research in Product Development
When we talk about user experience, we quite often end up discussing UX Design. Some may even refer to UX and UX Design as a same thing, which they are not. Today I would like to draw your attention to the “pre-story” of amazing and usable design — user experience research. Let’s try to answer… Continue reading The Value of UX Research in Product Development
Tools and Resources for web designers and developers, May 2015
Hello, coders out there! We have an exceptional freebie pack for all of you today. Our team has been scouting for the best, freshest material over the last few weeks and this is what they’ve come up with, all kinds of sliders, plugins and other tools to make your developments easier are now at your… Continue reading Tools and Resources for web designers and developers, May 2015
The Importance of Case Studies in a Design Portfolio
Modern case studies are built for design projects of all types. Studios and freelancers alike can put together case studies ranging from branding, web design, mobile UI design, or even After Effects compositing. The following tips & examples should help you understand the purpose of case studies in a creative portfolio. While they might not… Continue reading The Importance of Case Studies in a Design Portfolio
How to Improve UX Design with A/B Testing
If you’ve kept up with design news the past 5-6 years then you should know about A/B testing. This is where two or more page designs are created and offered to a split percentage of visitors. Various metrics are tracked and designers can select a design style based on which features perform the best. It’s… Continue reading How to Improve UX Design with A/B Testing
Marketing Tools To Use To Automate and Improve Your Website Conversions
Marketing is definitely one of the crucial elements of any business in any industry. You can have the best product and the best audience but if they don’t know a thing about each other’s existence you simply can’t succeed. Website serves your business as a communication tool online, its essential function is to present the… Continue reading Marketing Tools To Use To Automate and Improve Your Website Conversions
What To Keep In Mind When You Use Typography in Your Design
One of the most common elements of your website is typography. After all, it is for reading the content that visitors typically look to visit your web-pages. Undoubtedly, graphics and layouts are also key components of a webpage but you simply cannot ignore line heights, type size, and column width in their favor. When it… Continue reading What To Keep In Mind When You Use Typography in Your Design
Free Goods of the Week from Creative Market (mockups, font, HTML template and more)
Every week Creative Market releases free web or graphics design elements (graphics, templates, themes, fonts, addons etc..) for a limited time and here is this week’s ”Free Goods of the Week” collection. Display Screen Mockup Pack This Display Screen Mockup Pack allows you to quickly display your designs and layouts into a digital device showcase.… Continue reading Free Goods of the Week from Creative Market (mockups, font, HTML template and more)
What Is An Effective Web Design And What Makes Good User Experience?
The Importance of User Experience We live at an age and time where everything is accessible but also in an era where people’s attention span gets shorter. Therefore, in a race to attract prospective customers, companies of all sizes and shapes come up with ways and means to do that. In the process, the World Wide… Continue reading What Is An Effective Web Design And What Makes Good User Experience?
10 Tools for Collaborating on Design Projects Remotely
Remote collaboration with clients or with remote team members can be a pain. There are two main options, email or Skype. But we all know that it takes time and choosing between Reply and Reply All is sometimes complicated and some won’t be able to keep up with all the discussion. Sure, you can email files around,… Continue reading 10 Tools for Collaborating on Design Projects Remotely