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 Psychology of Color in Web Design

Whenever you are trying to design a new website, at some point, it comes the moment when you have to choose the right color. The right color selection is a very important matter and the choice should be made by taking into consideration some facts. The top aspect that should be kept in mind is… Continue reading The Psychology of Color in Web Design

55+ Cool Vintage Texture Designs

A good vintage texture is one of the most vital aspects in creating an authentic old-fashioned graphic design. If you are not sure how to apply the vintage style and use vintage textures, you can get help from this post at Tripwire Magazine where you find several cool vintage style Photoshop tutorials. Vintage textures help… Continue reading 55+ Cool Vintage Texture Designs

Take Control and Save Time When Designing for Clients

At FHOKE we’ve managed hundreds of projects in many ways. With our team’s industry experience, running, or working within studios, we’ve seen it all; ways that have worked and others that have failed. Over the years we’ve refined our process and found a great staged approach that works well for all our clients. It saves… Continue reading Take Control and Save Time When Designing for Clients

Tools and Tips on how to Optimize Images for the Web

The time a page takes to load is something every designer worries about, or at least is something that every designer should worry about. It doesn’t matter if the layout is nice and beautiful if it doesn’t function properly. Since images can be pretty heavy, this is certainly an issue to keep an eye on.… Continue reading Tools and Tips on how to Optimize Images for the Web

Finding Design Inspiration in Others’ Work While Still Being Original

Originality can be hard to find, which is surprising since each one of us are creative individuals. Why don’t we embrace that individuality more often? It seems like it should be such an easy question to answer, but nonetheless, it doesn’t seem to be. Being a designer is a constant battle between embracing our own… Continue reading Finding Design Inspiration in Others’ Work While Still Being Original

26 Open Source Tools & Scripts for Web Developers

I am a big advocate for open source codes and software. These are possibly the greatest methods for learning new techniques and bridging your knowledge from another person or team of people. Scripts and webapps are some of the most commonly shared resources, but also consider desktop-based software applications as well. I have put together… Continue reading 26 Open Source Tools & Scripts for Web Developers

Designing for Performance

Designers have a tremendous impact on site performance based on how they design for the web, before a single line of code is written. This article will cover how performance can be designed and what it takes to make it happen. Speed is a fundamental part of user experience on the web. Web performance has… Continue reading Designing for Performance

80 Awesome Twitter Bootstrap Templates To Get You Started

Twitter Bootstrap is a powerful and easy to use framework enabling front-end developers to craft professional and high quality Bootstrap templates with flexible responsive layouts that look great on tablets, mobiles and desktops. Since its release back in august 2011 the development community has been growing fast, providing developers with the tools and knowledge to… Continue reading 80 Awesome Twitter Bootstrap Templates To Get You Started

Web IDEs: the future of coding

Still using desktop code editors? Web integrated development environments (IDEs) are a new way to build your web projects directly in the browser, often saving development time and making collaboration easier. The humble browser used to just serve up simple HTML documents, but it’s often now your first stop for just about any task. Think… Continue reading Web IDEs: the future of coding

Essential design events, vector art and much more!

Essential design events for 2013 Covering graphic design, typography, web design, 3D and more, here’s a list of essential design events around the world over the next 12 months. The pro’s guide to CSS layouts CSS’s next big challenge is to make flexible, dynamic page layouts that work across our ever-broadening range of devices. With… Continue reading Essential design events, vector art and much more!

Weekend Inspiration: Design for Continuous Experimentation

Take some time out this weekend and listen to Dan McKinley, Principal Engineer at Etsy.com. In this talk he describes the processes undertaken whenever a redesign is carried out – and he knows what he’s taking about, having been at the helm of five redesigns in Etsy’s eight short years.. Watch live streaming video from… Continue reading Weekend Inspiration: Design for Continuous Experimentation

20 Amazing Creations You Can Make With 3D Printing

If you can print in 2D, can you print in 3D? Well, the technology is already here. You can print out 3-dimensional objects based on a working template, and they aren’t just for show. They actually work! Manufacturers can provide you with a template where you can print a broken part of a machinery, let’s… Continue reading 20 Amazing Creations You Can Make With 3D Printing

UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design

The web development community has come up with endless solutions, best practices, and tools for coding a responsive design with ease. While the vast majority of websites can be made responsive now, it’s time to push the envelope further. It’s easy to pay attention to great coding best practices, but sometimes the best design practices… Continue reading UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design

The Matte Paintings and Environments of Nat Monney

Nat Monney is a matte painter and Psdtuts+ author from Switzerland. His work typically involves some form of digital painting, photo manipulation, or both. In this article, we will take a look at a few of our favorites from his portfolio. A Bridge and His City Locomotive (Tutorial) Light, Shadow and War City SciFi Experimentation… Continue reading The Matte Paintings and Environments of Nat Monney

A Comparison of Methods for Building Mobile-Optimized Websites

There’s a debate over which technique of creating mobile-ready websites is the best. Google advocates creating responsive web designs, while Jakob Nielsen, a renowned usability consultant, endorses the creation of dedicated mobile sites (but he was subsequently slammed by some web designers). A third option is also gaining in popularity, where the web server renders… Continue reading A Comparison of Methods for Building Mobile-Optimized Websites

The Colorful Photorealistic Owls of John Pusateri

It is always a breath of fresh to come across some of the amazing talents out there, constantly and passionately at work to creating stunning works of art. John Pusateri is one such artist whose work appears to represent a realistic representation of the subject. John Pusateri’s latest work comprises of a breathtaking series of… Continue reading The Colorful Photorealistic Owls of John Pusateri

Weekly News Roundup – 13 January 2013

The week is coming to an end and that means it is time for us to look back on the week that passed, the best design news, resources and other goodies. This week we look at how you can use any font with CSS3, how you can have multiple backgrounds, why not all websites look… Continue reading Weekly News Roundup – 13 January 2013

30 Awesome Silhouette Brushes for Inspiration

Silhouette is a popular photography as well as artwork theme that is often explored by the photographers and artists. This theme is a hot favorite subject of the graphic designers as well. The graphic artists develop silhouette pictures on the graphic designing platforms with the use of the many applications that are present on it.… Continue reading 30 Awesome Silhouette Brushes for Inspiration

Facebook – New Design and Concept by Fred Nerby

Facebook, as one of the biggest online social network has been a part of people’s lives for the past years and for more years to come. That is why every single change on the site from now and then will either freak us out or praise Facebook for making things cooler and easier. But how… Continue reading Facebook – New Design and Concept by Fred Nerby

Single Page Website Designs: 60+ Fresh Creative Designs

As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work.… Continue reading Single Page Website Designs: 60+ Fresh Creative Designs

Tips To Avoid Great Responsive Web Design Problems

Responsive web designs have been around since the last two years. However, designers have been facing numerous challenges especially when it comes to developing framework for the code, script and developing a process of managing the responsive web designs. Avoiding the responsive web designs problems is possible and a range of solutions are available for… Continue reading Tips To Avoid Great Responsive Web Design Problems