Category: Trends

As a designer, you’ve always got to push yourself forward; you’ve always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That’s what we do.

New Free PSD Mockup Templates for Designers (27 MockUps)

GDJ is one of the best Graphic Design Website to download free web and graphic design resources like vector graphics, free fonts, free PSD files, free PSD mockups and many more useful resources. In this collection we put to gathered free Photoshop PSD mockup resources which are very helpful for print designs. Free Square Magazine Mockup Download… Continue reading New Free PSD Mockup Templates for Designers (27 MockUps)

Essential Design Trends, March 2016

One of the great things about looking at trends each month is catching a glimpse of what designers are experimenting with. In particular, you start to see a distinct crossover of elements that you might have missed at first glance. That exact thing happened with this month’s collection. Note all the yellow and gold tones. Even… Continue reading Essential Design Trends, March 2016

Quality Wireframes Inspiration

A well produced, quality wireframe is a critical phase in the creative process and could make all the difference while working with different stakeholders. Covering all the angles, attention to details and working in the correct size proportions enables a productive and aligned dialogue with your client or your boss, making sure everyone is on… Continue reading Quality Wireframes Inspiration

Card Grid Layouts: Showcase of 40 Beautiful Websites

Card grid layouts, made popular by Pintrest, Facebook, and Twitter, are becoming a fast-growing trend in web design, and have almost turned into the go-to format for nearly every website. They organize information in neat, little boxes, and they give any website a clean, minimalistic look. However, card grids are not just aesthetically pleasing, but also… Continue reading Card Grid Layouts: Showcase of 40 Beautiful Websites

Weekly News for Designers Week 8

New Resources & Tools Bricks.js – A blazing fast masonry layout generator for fixed width elements. Imperfect Buttons – “Hand-Drawn” border effect on buttons with CSS border-radius. 30 Projects in 30 Days to Learn Swift – A self taught project to learn Swift from Allen Wang. Editor Color Schemes – A collection of color schemes… Continue reading Weekly News for Designers Week 8

Best Black and White Websites from 2016

Best Black and White Websites from 2016 is hundred and twenty-fourth edition of our Inspiring Sites of the Week weekly series, where we feature hottest websites following best practices and latest trends. We like creative, unusual and inspiring designs, and will strive to deliver the best inspiration we can get our hands on. This week we collected… Continue reading Best Black and White Websites from 2016

7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX

A great user experience starts with the designer. You have to imagine and create something that people will want to touch and engage with, time and time again. Sounds easy, right? The key to delighting users is to think like one. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel with every new design project; use tools and… Continue reading 7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX

Design Trend: How to Create a Cool Split Screen Aesthetic

One display screen divided in 2. This could be one of many larger design trends appearing now. More sites are utilizing design patterns that include two vertical or square panels put side by side. And it is a aesthetic that is nice. The look is user friendly, can be adapted for a variety of needs,… Continue reading Design Trend: How to Create a Cool Split Screen Aesthetic

Navigation Inspiration For Mobile User Interfaces – 57 Designs

Statistics concept Yik Yak × Android 2016 Tap Bar Animation Cloud Apps Backup Menu Interface Time tracking app Swiiish app Thumbnail Navigation Pebltree Collaboration on mobile Piart Bright and modern iOS menus Profile Animation Mobile Payment Android Version Social calendar app mobile Music Ink Project: Stats widget Home & Side Menu Screen Porsche Game and… Continue reading Navigation Inspiration For Mobile User Interfaces – 57 Designs

8 Areas of Specialization for Web & Graphic Designers

Some designers prefer the jack-of-all-trades route because it offers more job security. But most specialists would debate that focusing on a particular skillset improves your recognition amongst clients and employers. This isn’t to say you should only learn one area of design and never try anything else. The idea of specialization is to do amazing… Continue reading 8 Areas of Specialization for Web & Graphic Designers

2016 Web Design & UX Trends to Boost Conversions

It’s almost 2016, and with the new year comes a new set of web design trends waiting to be discovered. While most trend reports focus on visual styles and technical functionalities, the following infographic adds a new element to the mix; All of the trends presented here have been handpicked for their potential to increase… Continue reading 2016 Web Design & UX Trends to Boost Conversions

Trends that Web Design and Development will follow in 2016-17

Trends change with time and often following the trends can define whether you will be successful in attracting the right target audience for your online business. This can only happen if you have a website that is trendy and in tune with the times. Let us examine the website design and development trends for the… Continue reading Trends that Web Design and Development will follow in 2016-17

Using Color Theory to Improve Website Accessibility

There are tons of articles and guides about color theory and its importance for every web designer. Colors are really essential in design and may even influence people’s behavior in many cases. Thus, web designers usually check their website colors are suitable for the overall website style and that they create a good impression for… Continue reading Using Color Theory to Improve Website Accessibility

Custom Grid Design for Structured Website Mockups

The best print and digital designers are those who can master the use of grids. In many cases it’s possible to forego the grid, but you’ll generally create higher-quality work if you learn the rules of grid structure and composition. Grid design is one of the most important components for structuring layouts. Websites use grids… Continue reading Custom Grid Design for Structured Website Mockups

Trends & Examples of SVG Animation in Web Design

Animation on the web has transformed radically over the past 5 years. SVG animation is one of the newest techniques to manipulate graphics on a webpage. Although SVG has been supported for a long time, it only recently gained support in a majority of web browsers.   With greater support comes a greater audience and… Continue reading Trends & Examples of SVG Animation in Web Design

What’s Hot and What’s Not: Web Design In 2015

Web design is a constantly evolving space. New trends keep on knocking while old practices keep tumbling and toppling over. With every New Year we have a round of predictions and promises, and 2015 is no different. If you are a web developer, it’s for your own good to keep a tab on these changes… Continue reading What’s Hot and What’s Not: Web Design In 2015

Understanding Color Psychology for Impactful Web Design

It’s no secret that color psychology is used extensively in all aspects of design. From the colors used on day-to-day grocery items, to brand logos and website design, color is an important element that can convey a specific message to users. Photo credit: Dropbox According to Kissmetrics, when we view a color, our eyes send… Continue reading Understanding Color Psychology for Impactful Web Design

What Are Top 7 Graphic And Web Design Trends in 2015 To Look Out For?

We’re finishing up the first quarter of 2015 and have seen many predictions for the web design scene already. While most of these predictions make a lot of sense based on what we have seen being used lately, I’d like to dig deeper into these trends and analyze the top 7 web design trends while providing… Continue reading What Are Top 7 Graphic And Web Design Trends in 2015 To Look Out For?

Free Ebook: Web UI Trends Present & Future (Typography)

Big letters, small letters, crisp images overlaid with bold fonts. Beautiful strokes and fun flourishes. These are just a few of the things that website designers and developers are playing with for almost every aspect of design – from basic responsive websites to apps and watch interfaces – in 2015 and beyond. The trend is… Continue reading Free Ebook: Web UI Trends Present & Future (Typography)

Vintage is Back in Trend: Best Retro Website Designs

Fashion for retro and vintage style has gradually moved from podiums and fashion shows to website design. It has been actively used in a variety of contexts: in advertising, corporate design, blog design, etc. Moreover, nowadays you can even find webdesign studios that specialize in vintage designing only. Retro Website Design There are several old-fashioned… Continue reading Vintage is Back in Trend: Best Retro Website Designs

Top Web Design Trends for 2015

There’s no clear-cut scientific formula to great design because it’s undoubtedly considered more of an art than a science. Strangely there are many recognizable patterns which seem to reappear time and again. These might be called popular design techniques but from an industry perspective many people refer to them as design trends. This post delves… Continue reading Top Web Design Trends for 2015