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.

The Essential Elements of a Portfolio Website

Professionals in the photography industry are feeling the heat when it comes to demonstrating the value their work can impart. Whether it’s winning an assignment with a top-rate photography magazine, being hired by a client or seeking a photographer’s job role at the daily newspaper – the indispensable role of a photography portfolio cannot be… Continue reading The Essential Elements of a Portfolio Website

Creating Useful Breakpoints in Responsive Layouts

In our modern technological era you can find devices with any screen size that all have access to the Internet. This means bored people around the world can visit their favorite websites from a laundry basket full of different screen dimensions. If this were Pee-wee’s Playhouse I’d say the word of the day is: breakpoint!… Continue reading Creating Useful Breakpoints in Responsive Layouts

Amazing Frontend Design Patterns Using CSS3 and jQuery

Creating unique websites is every designer’s ultimate goal. When a website is uniquely designed it does attract a lot of viewers and the websites urge users to stay on them for as long as possible to keep them entertained. It is tantamount for all websites that they deliver to their users an amazing and lasting… Continue reading Amazing Frontend Design Patterns Using CSS3 and jQuery

Nibbler – A Free Tool for Testing Websites

Nibbler is a free tool for testing websites. Enter the address of any website and Nibbler will give you a report scoring the website out of 10 for key areas, including accessibility, SEO, social media and technology. Nibbler is fast and completely free. Nibbler uses “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3″… Continue reading Nibbler – A Free Tool for Testing Websites

Productivity Tools for Creatives

If you are working in a creative industry (design, advertising, technology, media, entertainment, architecture etc.) chances are that you are working remotely. You don’t sit desk-to-desk with the people you work with every day. Your co-workers and clients sit on other floors, in other buildings, other cities and even in other countries. You cannot just… Continue reading Productivity Tools for Creatives

App Design – Animations & Interactions

This is our daily mobile app inspiration article for our loyal readers.Every day we are showcasing a mobile app design whether live on app stores or only designed as concept. Today’s mobile application inspiration Animations & Interactions is created by Yalantis Mobile – an iOS and Android application development company from Ukraine. This is a… Continue reading App Design – Animations & Interactions

8 Tips for Planning Your Web Design with Sketches

I am sure most of the senior web designers will agree to the fact that sketches are an important part of the design and development process. Sketches not only convey ideas, but also demonstrate functionality, illustrate things that require human interaction, and help to visualize user flow. Did you ever start any design directly in… Continue reading 8 Tips for Planning Your Web Design with Sketches

Guidelines for Building Touch-Supported Website Layouts

It should come as no surprise that people love to pass the time in waiting rooms by fiddling on their smartphones. These little devices have become a technological gateway to a library of applications and a sprawling metropolis of websites. This means a whole lot of people are visiting websites on the smallest screen imaginable… Continue reading Guidelines for Building Touch-Supported Website Layouts

8 tips for designing great posters

Posters have been around from the time of Jules Cheret, the father of   posters, and intriguingly, some of the things that worked back then still work today. A sharp departure from the 1800s, however, is that posters are no longer only meant for the roadside. They can fit anywhere, online or offline. When talking graphic… Continue reading 8 tips for designing great posters

Fresh Free Photoshop PSD Mockups for Designers (27 MockUps)

Download free Photoshop mockup templates to present your creative work in different perspective styles. This new collection have twenty seven PSD mockup designs including logo mockups, branding mockup, business cards, photographic mockups, iPhone 6 and other smart devices mock-ups. Each psd mock-up is fully layered and high quality with smart objects, so you can easily customize them to achieve perfect… Continue reading Fresh Free Photoshop PSD Mockups for Designers (27 MockUps)

20 Modern Mobile App UI Designs October 2014

Interfaces and experiences are two completely different things but go together hand in hand for every design. It is important for any software to look as attractive as it is amazing to experience. Mobile apps since the launch of smart phones have soared to new heights and they do compliment any phone’s usage. User interfaces… Continue reading 20 Modern Mobile App UI Designs October 2014

How to use UI design patterns

Design patterns are optimal solutions to common design problems. As common problems are tossed around a community and are resolved, common solutions often emerge. Eventually, the best of these rise above the din, self-identify, and become refined until they reach the status of a design pattern. I wouldn’t call a design patern a trend in… Continue reading How to use UI design patterns

34 Dark iPhone App UI Designs for Inspiration

Apple’s newest operating system has simplified the app design process. Mobile UI design now focuses on flat elements with simple buttons and line icons. Although there are plenty of great apps out there it’s tough to know which ideas are best for UI inspiration. In this gallery you’ll find 34 lucrative dark iPhone application interfaces.… Continue reading 34 Dark iPhone App UI Designs for Inspiration

The Guide To UX Design Process & Documentation

Documentation is instrumental for concepting, designing, creating and measuring the performance of products. But it shouldn’t be done just for the sake of maintenance. After all, there’s nothing about a thick stack of paperwork which resembles the experience of your real product. As Lean UX advocate Jeff Gothelf describes in a piece for Smashing Magazine,… Continue reading The Guide To UX Design Process & Documentation

Responsive Versus Adaptive Design: How To Choose Between The Two?

Responsive design is increasingly being promoted as the golden standard for creating the new range of web applications. However, owing to complications arising out of using the same code in every version of the website, an alternative to RWD technology known as adaptive delivery or design is what brands are turning to these days. How… Continue reading Responsive Versus Adaptive Design: How To Choose Between The Two?

You Want to Create An App? Check Out These Prototyping and Building Tools

Wireframing for websites, web apps, and mobile apps that you make is as vital as laying the foundations of a tall building before moving on to its walls and roof. Web designers and web developers really need to pay attention during this stage, and perfect the user experience of your app/website with thorough prototype testing… Continue reading You Want to Create An App? Check Out These Prototyping and Building Tools

Dash – A Comprehensive Dashboard for Visualizing & Understanding Data

Our insatiable thirst for data grows more rapidly than our ability to understand it; and as we’re exposed to more rich media, build and grow businesses faster and connect more with our expanding digital world, there’s a growing desperation to keep track and make sense of it all. There’s more stored data and content created… Continue reading Dash – A Comprehensive Dashboard for Visualizing & Understanding Data

20 Website Concepts with Stunning Full Page Designs

We rarely get the chance to admire the full beauty of website designs when we’re limited to the cropped viewport of our browser windows, but there’s some stunning examples of full page layouts out there. We might only see a finished website at a few thousand pixels at a time as we scroll down the… Continue reading 20 Website Concepts with Stunning Full Page Designs

How To Design Interfaces from a User Experience Perspective

Both web design and mobile app design share many similar features. One of the most important features is that they’re both created for an audience, whether young kids or teens or adults or some kind of mix. The end user should be your most important priority when it comes to brainstorming new ideas. For this… Continue reading How To Design Interfaces from a User Experience Perspective

How To Create a Web Design Style Guide

Creating websites is getting more and more complex and is usually not a one person job. It is important to ensure that design is consistent and optimized to meet business objectives and create enjoyable experiences for users. One of the ways to ensure that team is on the same page when designing separate parts of… Continue reading How To Create a Web Design Style Guide