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.

Top UX & UI Tools and Resources That You Should Use

When you take on a web or an app design project, how much thought do you give about the tools you are presently using as opposed to new tools that are constantly coming on the market which could make your work easier and in some cases, more professional looking? The list below offers a cross-section… Continue reading Top UX & UI Tools and Resources That You Should Use

Tips & Tricks for Designing Uniform Website Icons

Featured image source Beautiful icons are the rainbow sprinkles on top of a delicious website sundae. The ability to craft icons that blend together is almost compulsory. Any UI designer should be more than willing to jump onto the path of icon design. Although it is jarring and difficult, consistent icon design greatly improves the… Continue reading Tips & Tricks for Designing Uniform Website Icons

Why Flat Design Is The Way To Go For Your Mobile App

Flat design is increasingly being used in mobile apps replacing the commonly known intricate designs that are dominated by drop shadows, brushes and gradients. This design style incorporates flat shapes and icons. Flat design basically revolves around the use of rectangles, triangles, circles and other shapes without the need to use other design elements such… Continue reading Why Flat Design Is The Way To Go For Your Mobile App

20 Best Color Palette Tools for Web and Graphic Designers

As a web or graphic designer you must have a keen sense of color combinations and feel which colors look good together and which don’t. Anyway, even with this great skill in color combining, you may find yourself in situations when you just feel less inspired. That’s when these best color palette tools come in… Continue reading 20 Best Color Palette Tools for Web and Graphic Designers

Create Your Own Professional Forms for Free with JotForm

If you’ve ever built a form for your website, you must have taken a few minutes to scratch your head here and there. The task at hand can often be daunting, which is why a lot of people don’t build their own forms. Forms can sometimes take the back seat when it comes to the… Continue reading Create Your Own Professional Forms for Free with JotForm

Best Tools and Platforms For Building Websites in 2015

You need to know your CMS, website building platforms, and page crafting tools. How else do you expect to pacify the two forces behind website creation – design and development? You could be a design guru, and have no clue about coding. You could be waist-deep in the analytic mindset required for programming, even though… Continue reading Best Tools and Platforms For Building Websites in 2015

30 CSS Puns That Prove Designers Have a Great Sense of Humor

The job of a web designer can be a real pain and frustrating one, but it is also a close-knit community with a healthy sense of humor. Take for instance CSS puns like this: In fact, you probably get this universal truth even if you aren’t a designer! You can find more from this Reddit… Continue reading 30 CSS Puns That Prove Designers Have a Great Sense of Humor

User Interface Design Inspiration – 25 UI Design Examples

User interface design is the design of user interfaces for softwares, machines, such as computers, home appliances, mobile devices, and other electronic devices, with the focus to maximize the user experience. The main purpose of user interface design is to make the user’s interaction as simple and efficient as possible, in terms of accomplishing user… Continue reading User Interface Design Inspiration – 25 UI Design Examples

15 Modern Responsive HTML5 WordPress Themes with Amazing UIUX

New HTML5 WordPress themes for blog, news, magazine and corporate websites. All themes are fully responsive with modern UI and UX design, suitable for any kind of creative or business use. All themes are designed to give your brand or service an air of esteem and confidence, easy theme is fully customizable, built with best frameworks… Continue reading 15 Modern Responsive HTML5 WordPress Themes with Amazing UIUX

Responsive Websites Design – 32 Inspiring Examples

Responsive design websites for your inspiration. This website gallery only have fully responsive, Retina-Ready HTML and CSS3 coded websites. All web designs are very interactive with amazing UI and UX. that help to create a great-looking content, making your design looks classy, strong, attractive, mysterious and very striking. Responsive Websites for Inspiration In this article, we are compiled… Continue reading Responsive Websites Design – 32 Inspiring Examples

14 Mockup Templates for Easy Website Hero Images

Hero header images containing various office peripherals and everyday objects are becoming increasingly popular, particularly for design agency and portfolio websites. Following this trend can be time consuming and requires some pretty swish photography equipment, but there are some shortcuts in the form of PSD mockup templates. In today’s post I round up a mixture… Continue reading 14 Mockup Templates for Easy Website Hero Images

iDevie Weekly News (week 6)

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 UX Recipe, a checklist where you discover, choose and estimate your next UX project tools & techniques. Flickity, a CSS library that makes galleries & sliders feel lively… Continue reading iDevie Weekly News (week 6)

A Collection of Inspiring Sitemaps and User Flow Maps

All websites should start with a good plan. Focussing on the design process first may be common for smaller sites. For larger sites, when user experience is paramount, creating an initial sitemap or user flow map is an effective way of working out how you want visitors to use and navigate around. UX is key… Continue reading A Collection of Inspiring Sitemaps and User Flow Maps

What is an Interaction Designer?

These two little words are being used a lot in the design sphere these days. But what truly is interaction design? And what makes you an interaction designer? Here, we’ll answer both of those questions and offer a showcase of some great interaction design work. Interaction Design 101 Interaction design is a process in which… Continue reading What is an Interaction Designer?

Touch of Technomagic – Literally Fantastic Website Designs

Today we are going to review tech style website designs that are inspired by sci-fi movies, neurobotic artworks, artificial and intelligent worlds of tomorrow, space arcades, cosmic landscapes and other fantastic stuff. Unfortunately such prodigious designs quite rarely occur in our time. There are a couple of reasons: first of all, professionals prefer to follow… Continue reading Touch of Technomagic – Literally Fantastic Website Designs

Is Minimal Design the Best Strategy for Your Site?

One of the buzzwords of modern marketing or design work is “understanding your customers.” Before you jump on board with a trend or design style, it’s good to research how consumers or clients in your industry respond to it. One particular trend that has dominated the web for several years is minimalism. So, if you’re… Continue reading Is Minimal Design the Best Strategy for Your Site?

30 Amazing Portfolio Designs

There are hundred of thousand programmers, designers, writers and even developers in every continent. Sometimes it is hard to compete with other professionals, especially when you are a freelancer. But somehow you need to find a ways to attract customers. One of the way is to create a portfolio website. The key is to make… Continue reading 30 Amazing Portfolio Designs

Inspirational Examples of UI Style Guides

According to Wikipedia, a UI style guide is a ‘set of standards for the writing and design of documents’ and that it ‘ensures consistency and enforces best practice in usage.’ All very true. But what it neglects to mention is how inspiring UI style guides can be just to look at and get lost in.… Continue reading Inspirational Examples of UI Style Guides

20 Informative Graphic Design Infographics I’ve Come Across

You may have known someone who only reads books with pictures. Illustrations make the most boring literature come alive. Images make reading a lot more enjoyable. Why do you think children’s books are filled with vibrant, engaging pictures? Nowadays, graphics and illustrations on text are elevated to another level. The cyber world calls data with… Continue reading 20 Informative Graphic Design Infographics I’ve Come Across

35 Website Layouts using Fixed Header Bars

Users often feel quite divisive on the subject of sliding navbars. It has also become a sizable topic of debate amongst designers. Yet it seems that aside from ongoing quarrels the fixed heading navbar is here to stay. It’s an easy technique to recreate and it can be designed in such a wide array of… Continue reading 35 Website Layouts using Fixed Header Bars

26 Inspirational Architecture Firm Website Designs

Agency websites have become much more commonplace relative to the growth of online businesses. Different styles will benefit different agencies and this is especially true of architecture firms. As the old saying goes: measure twice, cut once. If you’re designing an agency website these examples should help you measure ideas before cutting right into the… Continue reading 26 Inspirational Architecture Firm Website Designs

The Effective Use of Gradients on Website Landing Pages

Recently the use of gradients in web design has been increasing, and gradients are used for a number of reasons. Firstly, they are now easier than ever to implement with the advent of CSS3 styling attributes including gradients. Another reason to use gradients is for visual effect, especially if your site is image-light. Gradients are… Continue reading The Effective Use of Gradients on Website Landing Pages