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.

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

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