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.

Visme – the perfect tool for visual content creation

While text was certainly the best way to transmit information a few decades ago, nowadays people are highly accustomed to the visual way of getting the info they need. Be it an infographic, image or a video, these can literally draw the attention towards your product, so it’s crucial that you create such content. Hence,… Continue reading Visme – the perfect tool for visual content creation

3 Old and Outdated UX Patterns (And How to Fix Them)

Photo: R Schofield In one of my recent articles, The Evolution of the Hamburger icon we talked about the history of this commonly-used pattern, and about who’s using it and why. In fact, there have been many recent discussions in UX circles that have raised the unintuitive nature of the hamburger icon and issues in… Continue reading 3 Old and Outdated UX Patterns (And How to Fix Them)

Building Minimum Viable Products at Spotify

Many companies face the paradox of wanting to build a delightful product without knowing if people actually want the product until it’s released. Spotify’s vision was to give people the right music at the right time while incentivizing artists by paying them based on number of shares their music received. A tall order, no doubt,… Continue reading Building Minimum Viable Products at Spotify

7 golden rules of perfect portfolio websites

What do you think customers are seeking when they look for designers, photographers or other creative experts and agencies? Indeed, the first thing they are interested in is the experience and skills of the specialist. Wether if you are a freelance logo designer or a representative of a prestigious creative studio, one thing is obvious: you… Continue reading 7 golden rules of perfect portfolio websites

23 Interesting Twitter Redesign Concepts

As one of the top social media networks in the world, Twitter’s design has to appeal to millions of users from multiple cultures, languages, and regions. So far, its design has worked well, especially its infinite scrolling feed with super convenient tweaks. For instance, Twitter allows users to view other users or a tweet in… Continue reading 23 Interesting Twitter Redesign Concepts

9 Fonts Brands Should Avoid in 2014

Graphic designers use fonts on a daily basis. We have our favorites but we also run away from others. Some fonts have very little recall or have no commercial value, while others have become so popular, they should no longer be used in brand identity. These are some of the fonts that brands should avoid using in… Continue reading 9 Fonts Brands Should Avoid in 2014

How to Handle and Manage Different Types of WordPress Web Design Clients

The client that you choose to take on defines you. Most of the problems in work can be avoided by taking the time to choose a client carefully. This means, you should know what you want out of your client relationships. Psychological approach is an effective strategy that can be used to read your clients’… Continue reading How to Handle and Manage Different Types of WordPress Web Design Clients

Prototyping For Better Products, Stronger Teams And Happier Clients

As mobile designers, we have a stark decision to make: do we spend time learning new tools and changing our design processes to create our own transitional interfaces, or are the tools that we’ve been using good enough? There’s an old writing adage that advises writers, whenever possible, to “show, don’t tell” when bringing characters… Continue reading Prototyping For Better Products, Stronger Teams And Happier Clients

How to Build Compelling and Powerful Startup Website

Do you have any cool ideas that you want to implement in your business to spread its presence through the internet? The first essential step towards this will be a website-designs compelling and powerful startup website, but it is not an easy task to make a new website that is impressive enough to attract visitors.… Continue reading How to Build Compelling and Powerful Startup Website

TETHR – The Most Beautiful iOS Design Kit Indeed!

If you aware of the development of Mobile, Apple has just announced iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Also, with the new iOS8 to be released soon, all these factors will bring another huge wave of impact to the iOS development industry for sure. iOS designers, brace yourself and get ready with all the tools… Continue reading TETHR – The Most Beautiful iOS Design Kit Indeed!

5 Deadly Mistakes a Graphic Designer Shouldn’t Make

Editor’s Note: This post was written by Shayne Moore, a Director at a leading design agency in Christchurch, having a pool of professional graphic designers who design and build beautiful designs. Shayne is passionate about digital marketing and loves to share his creative ideas on the latest design trends. You can know more about him on… Continue reading 5 Deadly Mistakes a Graphic Designer Shouldn’t Make

68 Easy Ways to Promote Your Design Services for a Steady Flow of New Clients

With the huge amount of freelance designers, small studios, and agencies out there offering web and graphic design services it can be difficult to maintain a steady flow of new clients. While it would be nice to have all the clients you need coming to you for work, the reality for most designers is that… Continue reading 68 Easy Ways to Promote Your Design Services for a Steady Flow of New Clients

Manage and Monitor Unix Systems with Monit

Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. You can use Monit to monitor daemon processes or similar programs running on localhost. Monit is particular useful for monitoring daemon processes, such as those started at… Continue reading Manage and Monitor Unix Systems with Monit

What is the Point of Material Design?

In the simplest of explanations, Google developed Material Design to unify the experiences users have across various Google platforms. Additionally, this unification is to bring improved overall experience a user has with technology by making the interaction easier, simpler and more intuitive. Tell Me, What is Google? Google is a very big company, which includes… Continue reading What is the Point of Material Design?

20 Useful Tools & Apps For Everyday UX Tasks

Working in an UX team usually requires mastering quite a few online tools. Whether you’re new to the user experience world, or you’re a seasoned professional you should never stop looking for online solutions that can make your work easier, faster and, most importantly, simply better. That’s why we’ve prepared a list of 21 tools… Continue reading 20 Useful Tools & Apps For Everyday UX Tasks

730+ Free Outline Icons Set for Designers

Awesome free Outline icons set for any type of website, mobile app user interface and graphic design projects. There are 700+ outline icons , all icons come in Ai, SVG, PNG and IconFont formats. These sets are easy to use for both designers and developers.  All icons are highest-quality design, so you can easily change the outline… Continue reading 730+ Free Outline Icons Set for Designers

10 best websites for UX research, case studies and tests

Often times when designers consider looking for the best websites for UX research, including case studies and tests, they contemplate not knowing where to begin to look. If you are really interested in further developing your UX skills, whether it’d be brushing up on your design or base concepts, you would need at hand all… Continue reading 10 best websites for UX research, case studies and tests

Think Your App Is Beautiful? Not Without User Experience Design

Lately, every app is “beautiful”. If you read tech news, you’ve seen this pageant: Beautiful charts and graphs1. Beautiful stories 2. Beautiful texting3. Beautiful notebooks4. Beautiful battery information5. Aspiring to beauty in our designs is admirable. But it doesn’t guarantee usability, nor is it a product or marketing strategy. Like “simple” and “easy” before it,… Continue reading Think Your App Is Beautiful? Not Without User Experience Design

13 Ways to Stop Clients making Too Many Revisions

It can be a designer’s dilemma when clients won’t stop asking for repeated revisions. When we design for our clients we want them to be happy with the result, but sometimes they can go too far and can make our lives a living hell. When we start out as designers, we rarely take into the… Continue reading 13 Ways to Stop Clients making Too Many Revisions

5 Informative and Well-designed Infographics for Web Designers

The popularity of infographics with attractive graphic rises to top because of its easy visual presentation. Today we picked 5 selected infographics which are so informative and beautifully designed. 1. The History of Web Design [Infographic] Web design has changed dramatically since Tim Berners-Lee created the first HTML website in 1991.WestHost used “The History of… Continue reading 5 Informative and Well-designed Infographics for Web Designers