Because of the sense of value users perceive from micro-interactions, they not only boost engagement, but also inspire positive feelings towards your brand, and ultimately, influence users’ actions. This article will discuss the basics of micro-interactions and how you can utilize them to enhance your UX design. What Are Micro-Interactions? In digital design, micro-interactions are… Continue reading How Powerful Micro-Interactions Boost Your UX
9 Mistakes That Drive Away Instagram Followers
Instagram is a social media platform for sharing photos and videos, which has become popular worldwide from the beginning in 2010, the year the Instagram app was launched. TheAppSolutions social media experts note the rapid advancement in technology in the last years. Instagram allows users to target and influence interested users as well as customers… Continue reading 9 Mistakes That Drive Away Instagram Followers
What Web Design Resources To Involve In Your Workflow
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” It’s hard not to agree with Leonardo da Vinci’s state when talking about the modern website building process. Launching a powerful, feature-rich site has become easier and faster. There are tons of web design resources and tools aiming to help webmasters simplify and jumpstart their projects. Many of them are… Continue reading What Web Design Resources To Involve In Your Workflow
5 tactics to propel your design internship into a design career
David Wu Follow Sep 20 · 5 min read So you’ve just gotten yourself a design internship. How do you make the most of it? If I could go back to myself when I started my design career and got my first internship, there are five things I’d tell myself to make the most of… Continue reading 5 tactics to propel your design internship into a design career
33+ Best Shopify Fashion and Clothing Themes
Having the right Shopify templates for fashion stores can help you create a chic site that people will want to buy from. In this roundup, I’ve highlighted the best Shopify clothing themes available right now on Envato, and the Shopify theme store. To start off, here are a couple of premium examples of clothing themes… Continue reading 33+ Best Shopify Fashion and Clothing Themes
25 Best High Quality Photoshop Actions for Photographers and Designers
The Best Photoshop actions can instantly transform your photos into HDR photography. The hand-picked twenty five high quality Photoshop actions that will transform your Photography into Oily effect, newspaper print, abstract, watercolor effect, comic and dots effects within a seconds. Mostly Photoshop actions available with video tutorials that shows how to setup action files and how… Continue reading 25 Best High Quality Photoshop Actions for Photographers and Designers
How to Use HTML5 “picture”, “srcset”, and “sizes” for Responsive Images
<picture> is an HTML5 element designed to give us more versatile and performant responsive image functionality. Instead of loading a single image and trying to resize it to suit all possible viewport sizes and layouts, the picture tag loads multiple images of different sizes and resolutions, choosing the best fit for different scenarios. How Does <picture>… Continue reading How to Use HTML5 “picture”, “srcset”, and “sizes” for Responsive Images
How about Weatherstack – The most reliable weather update tool
One the major concerns for the recent time is rapid climate change. Climate change is the key concerns now a days and many organization, NGOs and environmentalist are working for this cause. Companies are making their operations, workplaces, products, and manufacturing sites, environmentally friendly. To get an update regarding weather, constant weather updates and historical… Continue reading How about Weatherstack – The most reliable weather update tool
23+ Best Responsive WordPress Themes (For Sites in 2020)
When it comes to creating a website for your business, an attractive design will only get you so far. With people increasingly using their tablets and smartphones to research and shop online, your website needs not only to be responsive, but flawlessly responsive. In 2020, the number of smartphone users worldwide is forecast to reach an incredible… Continue reading 23+ Best Responsive WordPress Themes (For Sites in 2020)
How to Create a Typographic Album Cover
What You’ll Be Creating In this article, we’ll analyze some album cover design examples that have an emphasis on typography. Then, we’ll take some of these album cover ideas and experiment with them in a sample typographic album cover. Whether your focus is on CD album covers, a cover for your podcast, or creating and… Continue reading How to Create a Typographic Album Cover
Learn to Code WordPress Plugins With These 3 Practical Projects
If you want to get started coding your own plugins for WordPress, try our newly updated course, 3 Practical Projects to Learn to Code WordPress Plugins. In this course, Rachel McCollin will guide you through creating a series of practical call-to-action WordPress plugins. You’ll create: a call-to-action plugin that can be activated with a hook… Continue reading Learn to Code WordPress Plugins With These 3 Practical Projects
How to Create Simple and Inexpensive Business Web apps with Great Design
Low-cost web solutions often have uninspiring or even, to put it mildly, primitive design. By looking at this kind of an interface, users would rather have a nap than commit themselves to work. Nevertheless, several decision-makers prefer to rely on the solution’s functionalities, which is surely wise. But at the same time, they miss the… Continue reading How to Create Simple and Inexpensive Business Web apps with Great Design
Become a better writer and storyteller with these resources
Shane Doyle Follow Sep 15 · 2 min read https://unsplash.com/photos/3ym6i13Y9LU I originally posted this on shanedoyle.io I was travelling home on a red-eye flight from Dubai, and I couldn’t sleep. I’m notoriously bad at sleeping on flights, which is awful when you’re on a 9-hour trip. Flicking through the latest movies and tv shows nothing… Continue reading Become a better writer and storyteller with these resources
20 Freshest Web Designs, September 2019
This month, there’s tons of color, and some elegant transitions. Video is huge this month, with a number of sites opting for video front and center. You’ll also find some delightful animated illustration. Enjoy! Bon Iver Visualizer This impressive site, built with Spotify data, visualizes all of the people currently streaming Bon Iver music, including… Continue reading 20 Freshest Web Designs, September 2019
Sections: Wireframe kit for landing pages
Sections Wireframe Kit is a library of UI components for building landing page wireframes in minutes. Freebie is available as Sketch and Figma file formats and includes 8 ready-made screens in light mode. The full version provides much more components and it’s available for just $33. Download free version Check out the full version
How to Add an Appointment Booking Calendar With a WordPress Plugin
The internet has revolutionized many services that before were tedious or time-consuming. Booking an appointment is a great example. Booking online not only saves time for the user but also the service provider. An appointment booking plugin makes it easy to manage their visitors, appointments and schedules in a well-organized manner. Business such as salons,… Continue reading How to Add an Appointment Booking Calendar With a WordPress Plugin
Popular Design News of the Week: September 9, 2019 – September 15, 2019
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: September 9, 2019 – September 15, 2019
Best WordPress Quiz Plugins of 2019
A great way to improve website visitor engagement and get potential business is with quizzes. A quiz does not necessarily need to have academic questions. You can use them to help visitors figure out which product they should buy or books they should read, for example. Quizzes can also be created just for fun or… Continue reading Best WordPress Quiz Plugins of 2019
6 Essential Photography Tips Every Photographer Needs to Remember
Whether you are on vacation with your family or attending the grand reception of your friend, photos are an essential element of enjoyment. Without clicking perfect pictures, the purpose of amusement cannot be fulfilled in this present era. Not only for fun, but photography is a real art and considered as an ultimate tool for… Continue reading 6 Essential Photography Tips Every Photographer Needs to Remember
Prototyping with Discord, top 30 design companies, jobs-to-be-done — and more UX links this week
Fabricio Teixeira Follow Sep 14 · 3 min read Better Search →A UX experiment re-thinks search result layouts. Design Mentorship →How Dropbox designs their design mentorship. Video Games UX →How games create sparkles, tension, and juice. The UX Collective newsletter is a self-funded newsletter read by over 112,200 people every week. The best way to… Continue reading Prototyping with Discord, top 30 design companies, jobs-to-be-done — and more UX links this week
15 Best APIs for Web Designers and Developers
With an API, you create a connection between your website and an application for the purposes of drawing on its data or features. This allows you to not only enhance the on-site experience, but to streamline a lot of the processes that would otherwise require much tedious hand-holding behind the scenes. Many of you are… Continue reading 15 Best APIs for Web Designers and Developers
6 Figma Plugins to Give You Design Superpowers (and How to Use Them)
Figma plugins are a recent addition to what’s becoming the go-to collaborative tool for UI designers everywhere. Plugins are built by the community (you can even build one yourself if you wish) and provide an easy way to extend your capabilities with Figma. Through this helpful update, designers can automate repetitive tasks, add accessibility features,… Continue reading 6 Figma Plugins to Give You Design Superpowers (and How to Use Them)
Sitejet: The Perfect CMS for Every Web Design Agency
If you haven’t already heard about Sitejet, it’s a new CMS, and it’s generating a lot of buzz among web designers. Sitejet is just like many other CMSs around, except for a few distinct differences a better dashboard, a client feedback system, and better project management capabilities. This post addresses the newbie that is Sitejet… Continue reading Sitejet: The Perfect CMS for Every Web Design Agency
How to Make, Use, and Manipulate a Calligraphic Brush in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating The Calligraphic brush in Adobe Illustrator mimics the look and feel of a calligraphy pen nib. Let’s take its options for a spin to get everything you can from this brush type. 1. How to Make a Calligraphic Brush Step 1 To start, create a New Document, select the Paintbrush Tool (B)… Continue reading How to Make, Use, and Manipulate a Calligraphic Brush in Adobe Illustrator