The Internet has changed beyond recognition since WordPress was first released back in 2003. When the WordPress CMS was first released it was hailed as the answer to everyone’s prayers; a free content management system with hundreds of free visual themes to choose from. Hindsight is always 20/20. We now know that free themes rarely… Continue reading XPRS – A New WordPress Beating CMS?
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.
50 Useful Freebies for July 2015
Admin Dashboard PSD Template Business Card Mockup Baby Icons 300 Icons UI Kit Smashicons Pack Marziona Font iOS 8 Mobile UI Kit Branding Mockups Amalie Lite WordPress Theme 70 Simple Icons El Capitan Font Ebook – Book Covers That Sells iPhone, Macbook, Nokia Mockups Wax Seal Stamp Mockup Material Design Flat Avatars Newspaper advertisement Mockup… Continue reading 50 Useful Freebies for July 2015
Infragistics Indigo Studio: Real Rapid Prototyping for Web, Mobile, and Desktop
Rapid prototyping is an essential way of saving time in our modern age where billions of apps compete for the customer’s attention. Is the great idea you had for just another app actually that great or is it just another failure among the millions of failures in app stores and the web worldwide? Apart from… Continue reading Infragistics Indigo Studio: Real Rapid Prototyping for Web, Mobile, and Desktop
Trends & Examples of SVG Animation in Web Design
Animation on the web has transformed radically over the past 5 years. SVG animation is one of the newest techniques to manipulate graphics on a webpage. Although SVG has been supported for a long time, it only recently gained support in a majority of web browsers. With greater support comes a greater audience and… Continue reading Trends & Examples of SVG Animation in Web Design
26 New Photoshop Free PSD Files for UI Design
Highest quality UI design Free PSD Files download for commercial graphic design projects. GDJ is a best place to download freebies vector graphics, mockup designs and free PSD files. Here, we have a fresh collection of useful free PSD files created by professional designers, which can save your same time and money. These PSD files are very useful for graphic designers.… Continue reading 26 New Photoshop Free PSD Files for UI Design
Awful Website Navigation Mistakes You Should Avoid
A website’s navigation is one of the most important elements in a site’s design. Visitors need to use navigation to make their way through the website and find the information that they are looking for quickly. If the navigation is confusing or if it trips up the user in any way, you run the risk… Continue reading Awful Website Navigation Mistakes You Should Avoid
Weekly Design News for Web Developers
This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week. If you have spotted or want to share something that you’d like to be listed in the next issue, please feel free to let us know. Dropbox’s New Android App Invisible Design… Continue reading Weekly Design News for Web Developers
Metrics That Matter in Web Design
It’s not easy being a Web designer. We craft works of art that adhere to a multitude of environments, and deliver our message to a globally and culturally diverse audience. Despite having tools and apps to guide our processes, increasing demands upon our time and skillset mean we occasionally forget, ignore or fail to fully… Continue reading Metrics That Matter in Web Design
How to transform user experience into UX design
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
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