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.

35 Finest UI Tools Every Designer Should Know

User interface designs continue to evolve tremendously. To stay ahead, it is crucial for a UI designer to keep themselves updated with the latest trends, resources, and technologies that are being used to design fantastic user interfaces. Since the ‘interface’ is the first thing a user notices of a website, it demands a lot of creativity. Essential… Continue reading 35 Finest UI Tools Every Designer Should Know

When Launching a New Website: Avoid These Four Simple Website Mistakes

Having a website is essential for just about every business these days. Not only is it expected, but it helps improve your image and your accessibility for customers. Putting together a website doesn’t have to be complicated, but it isn’t just a snap and to go project either. It takes work. Businesses often tend to… Continue reading When Launching a New Website: Avoid These Four Simple Website Mistakes

20 Tools To Get You Started With Web Development

Creating a website may sound complicated and tedious, but there are a lot of tools out there that can make your task a lot easier. It’s important to have a good presence online both for businesses and organizations or causes, this is why all the tools and services available for helping you create a website… Continue reading 20 Tools To Get You Started With Web Development

Turning Design Ideas into Reality: Brainstorming, Wireframing, Prototyping

Starting a new project is in a lot of ways the hardest part. It’s the only stage of development that you’re turning nothing into something. Luckily, there are proven methods to reduce the “empty canvas” syndrome. We’ll talk about the best ways to handle the early stages of brainstorming and concepting and how it translates… Continue reading Turning Design Ideas into Reality: Brainstorming, Wireframing, Prototyping

Best of SVG 2014: Icons, Tools and Resources

With mobile devices taking over the world, so to speak, new technology for making websites and apps look pretty on mobile devices continues to emerge and evolve. One of those awesome mobile technologies to arrive on the scene in recent years is that of SVG or Scalable Vector Graphics. SVG takes vectors a step further… Continue reading Best of SVG 2014: Icons, Tools and Resources

Everything you need to know about WatchKit

Getting Started with WatchKit WatchKit allows you to develop a companion Watch app of your iPhone app. Unfortunately you cannot develop standalone apps for the Apple Watch. Yes, that is unfortunate, just like the first version of the iPhone we expect this to change in the near future. Watch apps are accessible from the home… Continue reading Everything you need to know about WatchKit

What is Macrotypography?

Understanding macrotypography can be useful in making websites, specifically in making websites readable. Macrotypography involves the combination and arrangement of all groups of texts within a web page. While microtypography involves small details such as the glyph, kerning, tracking and capitalization of letters and words, macrotypography involves the arrangement of paragraphs. Microtypography deals with legibility,… Continue reading What is Macrotypography?

28 Website Mockups using Fullscreen Images

Let’s face the facts: anything that takes up the entirety of your computer screen is going to draw some attention. Fullscreen images have been used in backgrounds and slideshows for quite a few years now. But ever-improving Internet connections have allowed for much larger images that relate better to content on the page. This style… Continue reading 28 Website Mockups using Fullscreen Images

28 Free Online Tools & Resources for Web Designers

With the increasing popularity of web design there are more online resources available no than ever before. In the past we’ve covered top design tools that included both premium and free options. But since most designers would prefer to use free tools that $ 0.00 price tag is much more useful and in-demand. In this… Continue reading 28 Free Online Tools & Resources for Web Designers

15 Top Notch Collaboration Tools for Your Creative Projects

Are you daunted or put off by the prospect of project management? You shouldn’t be. Think of it rather as an opportunity. Start-ups have more to prove than large companies. They have to build a reputation and not lose credibility, which is why your web design or development practice needs teamwork to deliver great products.… Continue reading 15 Top Notch Collaboration Tools for Your Creative Projects

iDevie Weekly News (week 49)

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 Andy.scss, an open-source collection of useful SASS mixins. Sticky-Kit, a jQuery plugin for making smart sticky elements. Furtive CSS, a lightweight, mobile-first, CSS micro-framework. Magic Mockups, a web-based… Continue reading iDevie Weekly News (week 49)

15 Tools That Will Change How Your Web Design/Development Team Collaborates

If you’re in charge of a small creative agency, don’t make the mistake of thinking that there is no need for careful project management. You wouldn’t believe how many collaboration and market advantages arise if you just pay a little attention to the details of your teamwork routine. Don’t think for a second that you… Continue reading 15 Tools That Will Change How Your Web Design/Development Team Collaborates

The Best 20 Tools for Web Development

Over the past few years the web development community has steadily increased its numbers. Due to the creativity and resourcefulness websites have become increasingly interactive and diverse. It’s complicated enough with all the different devices that now have access to the Internet to make a website that will look good and function properly across platforms.… Continue reading The Best 20 Tools for Web Development

30 Beautiful Blue Websites for Design Inspiration

This week I thought it would be interesting to check out a showcase of blue websites. The clean and fresh characteristics of this colour make it a popular choice with web designers, with light cyans being particularly trendy in the modern web design scene. Evolve Wealth Sparkbox Squares Conference Underbelly Creative Co. Bay Street Biergarten… Continue reading 30 Beautiful Blue Websites for Design Inspiration

Optimize Your Team Collaboration with These Top-Notch Tools for Creatives

The best part about being a web designer or a web developer is that you make it your job to create something from scratch – which is more than most people can say. We relish in our creative freedom, that’s why at first we get the feeling that administrative tasks are toilsome and more than… Continue reading Optimize Your Team Collaboration with These Top-Notch Tools for Creatives

8 Best Approaches to Design a Website (That Can Also Impact Your Conversions)

A website’s design is not dependent on its visual flare of the amount of things you’ve managed to fit on one page, it’s about usability and utility. These two elements are what define a successful website, not the amount of visual flare. Just like people, the beauty of a website needs to come from within.… Continue reading 8 Best Approaches to Design a Website (That Can Also Impact Your Conversions)

Communicating a Message Through Visual Hierarchy

The goal of every design is to successfully communicate a message. Visual hierarchy enables you to organize information and elements so that the message can be communicated easily. Hierarchies also enable the design to tell a story to communicate the message. What is Visual Hierarchy? When you organize information based on importance, that’s hierarchy. Visual… Continue reading Communicating a Message Through Visual Hierarchy

Use Ptengine Heatmap to Make Your Website Perfect

If content is king, then design is the castle. Good web design for businesses not only has the content to peak audience interest for whatever product or service you’re sell-ing, but also has an intuitive UI to encourage sales. Lots of designers think they have brilliant ideas for designing UI, but without real world user… Continue reading Use Ptengine Heatmap to Make Your Website Perfect

15 Best Tools For Prototyping And Creating Apps

If you are building mobile app you need to get within many stages. You can’t build a mobile app only using just the native developer kit. You are creating wireframes and prototypes, these are the most essential stages of your project. Building an app requires that you have the right tools to deliver efficiently on… Continue reading 15 Best Tools For Prototyping And Creating Apps

Creating a Good Design Brief for Your Mobile App

Understanding well what a client has in mind for his/her mobile app can be a slippery process. As a designer, you surely want to deliver to the best of your abilities and make the client happy. But when it comes to ensuring the success of a mobile app design project (or any other design project… Continue reading Creating a Good Design Brief for Your Mobile App

iDevie Weekly News (week 47)

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 MissqlCommand – A web application designed to help you learn SQL. Galaxy – A modern front-end framework based on conversational language. The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate – A foundation… Continue reading iDevie Weekly News (week 47)

7 Crucial Web Design Trends For 2015

Looking back at 2014, we can see some spectacular trends emerging in the web design landscape: code-free design platforms, parallax effects, single-page websites, and many more. While many design trends are fleeting, a select few are natural evolutions of the industry. As the range of devices on which we view websites continues to grow, designers… Continue reading 7 Crucial Web Design Trends For 2015