Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: February 10, 2020 – February 16, 2020
Creative and Clean Brochure Templates
Brochure are Clean & Professionally designed by best designers for any kind of business and company. The brochure templates comes with paragraph and character styles, swatches, styles for your spreadsheet / financial info, block quotes, key figures layout, and much more. Brochure templates are perfect for graphic design portfolio, product catalogs, annual report, fashion booklet, photography… Continue reading Creative and Clean Brochure Templates
How to Create an Android App Without Coding
Alternative approaches to Android application development—those that involve writing no code at all or writing only minimal amounts of code—are becoming increasingly feasible today. They are, of course, ideal for non-programmers, but experienced programmers too can use them to save time and effort. In this tutorial, I’m going to talk about two such approaches and… Continue reading How to Create an Android App Without Coding
Free PSD Mockups: 30 Fresh Presentation Mockup Templates
Free PSD Mockups with Smart Objects and easy to customize. Fresh useful Mockup templates for photo-realistic presentations. High quality Mockup templates that can be used for commercial or personal work and save your time and make your design look awesome with amazing effects. These mockups are easy to use with smart objects, simply double-click the Smart… Continue reading Free PSD Mockups: 30 Fresh Presentation Mockup Templates
Bad writing will destroy a designer’s reputation
The barrage of articles reminding us what poor designers we are is seemingly endless. Either we do too much user research or make abhorrent design choices. For me, this is not a missive about incorrect word usage in error messages. Guy Ligertwood’s insights from Google I/O 2017 cover those requirements. Instead, I am more interested… Continue reading Bad writing will destroy a designer’s reputation
10 Best WordPress Star Rating Plugins
Star ratings are used by websites to review all kinds of products and services. You can use them to rate pretty much anything your users are interested in: a movie, the food in a restaurant, the quality of service provided by a mechanic, etc. One of the reasons star ratings are so popular is that… Continue reading 10 Best WordPress Star Rating Plugins
How to Create Your First Android App Step-by-Step
To create a native Android app, one that can directly use all the features and functionality available on an Android phone or tablet, you need to use the Android platform’s Java API framework. This is the API that allows you to perform common tasks such as drawing text, shapes, and colors on the screen, playing… Continue reading How to Create Your First Android App Step-by-Step
29 Best Heavy Metal Fonts
Bring the powerful, fast-paced spirit of heavy metal music to your next project when you use metal lettering fonts. Just one of the many heavy metal fonts you can find at Envato Elements and GraphicRiver Today we look at 29 premium fonts from Envato Elements and GraphicRiver that best capture the heavy metal aesthetic. Check them… Continue reading 29 Best Heavy Metal Fonts
5 Pitfalls of User-Generated Content (And How to Avoid Them)
It brings with it a host of benefits. UGC can greatly increase engagement with websites, as well as shareability and authenticity. Of course, along with benefits are a host of pitfalls, from having to take the time to moderate content, to establishing an engaged community to submit the content in the first place. It’s important… Continue reading 5 Pitfalls of User-Generated Content (And How to Avoid Them)
How to Track a Cell Phone Location For Free
In the current world, our phone is something that stays with us all day long. Moreover, your phone knows most of your secrets. Hence, there are many cases where your phone gets lost. You can check where it is using a free phone tracker. What is the first step that you will take if your phone… Continue reading How to Track a Cell Phone Location For Free
Tips On How To Design Your Own Invoice Template For Business
February 12, 2020 by Spyre Studios Invoices are the bread and butter of your business’s revenue, even if you’re a freelancer. It’s the preferred way to get, on paper, what exactly you need from those that owe you for your service or products. Nowadays we have the choice to make our own to our liking.… Continue reading Tips On How To Design Your Own Invoice Template For Business
Need Help Choosing the Right Plugin for Your Website? Check These Options
Posted · Category: Design, Tools WordPress is an ideal platform for building your own portfolio, blog, or eCommerce site. It’s packed with all the basic tools you need to build a professional-looking site. Plus, it has tools that can take your web-building skills to an even higher level. Get even more impressive results or add… Continue reading Need Help Choosing the Right Plugin for Your Website? Check These Options
Ethos: Free portfolio HTML template
Ethos is a free HTML one-page template for creating beautiful portfolios or resume websites, released by StyleShout. You can use it to create your own personal page and showcase your skills. Ethos is responsive and retina-ready, and it looks great, crisp, sharp on any screens and devices. Code is neat and well commented, and that makes… Continue reading Ethos: Free portfolio HTML template
5 Web Design Trends For 2020 That Are Here To Stay With Us
We are always looking for ways to improve our skills and services and what we create. Sometimes that desire to improve is a conscious one. Most of the time it’s in the back of our minds, yet active. Short term results can be OK, but good long term results are what you want if you… Continue reading 5 Web Design Trends For 2020 That Are Here To Stay With Us
3 Ways Graphic Design Can Optimize Your Branding
In a world where countless companies are vying against each other online, branding has become one of the most common buzzwords. Everyone in a business thinks about branding at some point, from the CEO to the marketing director. If they’re not obsessing over the company’s branding, they’ll be considering their own personal brand. After all,… Continue reading 3 Ways Graphic Design Can Optimize Your Branding
Ugly Cities Transformed into Works of Art
Cities are the main attraction for visitors worldwide. And while we adore the cities that we’ve grown up in, not all of them are pretty to look at. The architecture of historic buildings is beautiful, however, not all cities are blessed with a lengthy architectural history and our modern landscapes are starting to look somewhat… Continue reading Ugly Cities Transformed into Works of Art
Designing for Google Glass
Since scheduling interviews with doctors proved challenging, I opted to test the prototypes internally. I recruited 10 employees with various levels of experience using Glass. The group’s experience level was similar to our doctor population. Each participant went through three prototypes. Initially, some newcomers struggled with the swipe down gesture but eventually, they got it.… Continue reading Designing for Google Glass
Seven E-Commerce Predictions For 2020
Compared to traditional shopping methods, e-commerce is showing no signs of slowing down as the internet almost takes over as the world’s favorite high street. 300 million online shoppers are predicted for the US alone in 2023, a huge majority of the population, and the rest of the world is following suit. Developments in technology… Continue reading Seven E-Commerce Predictions For 2020
How to Connect PHP to MySQL
Do you want ot learn how to connect php to MySQL and perform different types of database operations? In this article, we’ll do just that—we’ll discuss MySQL database connectivity in PHP. PHP provides different ways to connect PHP to a MySQL database server. Until PHP 5.5, one of the most popular ways was with the… Continue reading How to Connect PHP to MySQL
Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020
Are you starting 2020 off on the right foot? How about keeping up with those resolutions to learn or try something new? Either way, you’re in luck. This roundup is packed with new tools to help you through projects or learn new tricks to enhance your skillset. Here’s what’s new for designers this month. Calcolor… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020
Free PSD Mockups: 25 Fresh Useful Mockup Templates
Download Mockup PSD Templates for free. Big collection of free photorealistic Mockups. All free mockups created with Smart Object for easy to edit. Mockup templates that can be used for commercial or personal work and save your time and make your brand look awesome with amazing effects. These mockups are easy to use with smart objects, simply… Continue reading Free PSD Mockups: 25 Fresh Useful Mockup Templates
Benefits Of Using Inventory Scanning Software
Running a business takes hard work, ingenuity, knowledge, and management skills. It involves overseeing products and services, employees, and business operations, as well as ensuring that the productivity rate equals high-quality offerings. As a business owner, you also need to make certain that your inventory is well-stocked. Gone are the days of manual management. Today,… Continue reading Benefits Of Using Inventory Scanning Software
A service designer could have prevented the fiasco in Iowa
Steven J. Slater Follow Feb 7 · 7 min read The Iowa Democratic Party botched reporting the state’s caucus voting results this past Monday, the first barometer for voter’s preference in the U.S. presidential election, all because leaders there failed to prototype the process with a smartphone app, according to widely circulated independent news reporting… Continue reading A service designer could have prevented the fiasco in Iowa
Created by You, February 2020 Edition
What You’ll Be Creating Welcome back to our monthly feature of wonderful content created by you—the Envato Tuts+ community! There’s a lot of awesome content to see, this month, so let’s dig right in! These works are submissions from the Design & Illustration portion of Envato Tuts+. We love to see what you have created,… Continue reading Created by You, February 2020 Edition