There are a variety of reasons why you might want to embed audio in your website. For instance, maybe you sell your own music and want to give users a preview before asking them to purchase a song, or you might just want to have an audio version of a text-based post. In either case,… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Audio Player Plugins
5 Tips for Controlling Focus
You’re going to have build your site in such a way that the eye is naturally drawn from one step to the next. My sister used to accomplish controlling my focus by sternly, but calmly, telling me to “Get back to your schoolwork” anywhere from fifteen to forty times in a single day. But your… Continue reading 5 Tips for Controlling Focus
Brutalism: A free web kit for Sketch and Figma
Brutalism is an amazing free UI web kit released by the design team at AND CO and available for Sketch and Figma. The kit comes with 70 ready-made artboards and a bunch of pre-made sections (menu, hero, showcase, about, team, testimonials and more) to help you jumpstart your next website project. In addition, Brutalism uses Google… Continue reading Brutalism: A free web kit for Sketch and Figma
Create Amazing Prototypes in No Time with the Envato Elements Sketch Plugin
The rise of prototyping tools in recent years is undeniable. Designers are harnessing these powerful, yet easy-to-use programs to build functional models of both websites and mobile apps. As such, they have become a vital part of the design process. Among the most widely-used and well-known prototyping apps is Sketch. This Mac-based program… Continue reading Create Amazing Prototypes in No Time with the Envato Elements Sketch Plugin
Photoshop Tutorials: 35 New Tutorials to Learn Exciting Manipulation Tricks
Adobe Photoshop is the one of the best tools for photo editing, manipulation and graphic design. We are here to help you to learn Photoshop tools and improve your graphic design skills. These experts-taught Photoshop tutorials have everything you need to learn photo effect, image editing, retouching, watercolor portraits, lighting effects, digital painting and photo manipulation from beginner… Continue reading Photoshop Tutorials: 35 New Tutorials to Learn Exciting Manipulation Tricks
New Course on the WordPress Customizer for Theme Designers
The WordPress Customizer is a great way to tweak the look of a WordPress site. It’s especially great for end users of your themes. They can see their changes in real time, and they don’t need to know any coding to customize their site for their own branding. Even better, your theme can add custom… Continue reading New Course on the WordPress Customizer for Theme Designers
Focus Session: defining design requirements with stakeholders
Involving stakeholders from the beginning of the design process will help you and your stakeholders to make important decisions together, as one team. Having them on board means that you have access to information that you otherwise wouldn’t have. It gives everyone involved a chance to express their point of view, before you start working… Continue reading Focus Session: defining design requirements with stakeholders
5 Things That Significantly Improve User Experience
There are some truly stunning websites out there. But just because something looks pretty, doesn’t mean it will be functional and drive your target customers to action. “Most client web design requests will begin with a request for stellar web design, not a fully-functional one,” says an article from the digital marketing agency Active Web… Continue reading 5 Things That Significantly Improve User Experience
8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System
Recently, I was part of a 3-person team of consultants who in 12 weeks built the foundations of a new design system. That design system is now used in multiple products and is contributed to by other developers and designers. In this post you’ll find some of the techniques we used to make the project… Continue reading 8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System
New Fresh Free Fonts Download
New free fonts, 100% fresh and free fonts download and used in any commercial work. In this font collection we are gathered handwritten brush fonts, script fonts, calligraphy fonts and sans serif fonts which are perfect for logo design, badge, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel, greeting card, and wedding invitation. The following fonts are ideal to make… Continue reading New Fresh Free Fonts Download
Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin
What You’ll Be Creating Plugins are what makes WordPress special. Without them, WordPress wouldn’t be much more than a humble blogging platform. But by adding plugins to your site, you can turn it into so much more. Depending on what you need, you can use a plugin to make your site more efficient and to… Continue reading Definitive Guide to Installing a Free or Premium WordPress Plugin
How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop
The act of card sorting is a hands-on and quick way of creating a category tree (information architecture) based on users’ understanding of the topics of a product. The simple idea of the workshop is to ask users to organise cards that already contain written content into groups. In this tutorial you will learn how… Continue reading How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop
3 Top WP Tools and Services: Any of Them Will Make Your Site Better
Posted · Category: Best Collections With roughly 55,000 WordPress Plugins and Services to choose from, you shouldn’t have any trouble finding one or more that can take your business to the next level Right? The answer is “No”. Sifting through all 55,000 tools and services will not only take up a huge amount of your… Continue reading 3 Top WP Tools and Services: Any of Them Will Make Your Site Better
Stop blaming people: it’s a Design problem
Poor design sets people up for failure. But it’s not their failure. Quinn Keast Follow Jul 22 · 5 min read The New York Times just published a fascinating feature revealing the story playing out in the background during the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire. It’s a compelling look behind the scenes, from the moment smoke was… Continue reading Stop blaming people: it’s a Design problem
5 Ways Social Media Can Impact Your Web Design
There is no denying that the introduction of social media to the world has changed the way website developers and designers build sites. In fact, social media marketing helps you strengthen your brand’s online presence. Thus, it is important that you take social media into consideration whenever you are building (or updating) a website for… Continue reading 5 Ways Social Media Can Impact Your Web Design
How Color Impacts UX
Let’s start with a common example: You’ve just finished a website design for someone. It looks and functions exactly like the wireframe. Everyone on the design team has praised the project. The client hates it, but they can’t explain why. The culprit might be color. Different colors can evoke such strong emotions that people have… Continue reading How Color Impacts UX
Chat UI kit for Sketch
Today’s freebie is an incredible chat UI kit for Sketch designed and released by Stream. This is a complete messaging kit solution including components for building social and team collaboration chats, live streams, in-game chats, customer support, and more. And it’s totally free! You will find a lot of ready-made screens coming in light, dark,… Continue reading Chat UI kit for Sketch
How to Create an Instagram Post Template in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating Today we will be taking a quick look at how to create an Instagram post template in Adobe Photoshop! Whether it’s for a hot sale your site is having, you’re announcing a huge giveaway or maybe you just want to wish your followers a happy holiday, having a blank Instagram post template… Continue reading How to Create an Instagram Post Template in Photoshop
30 Creative Clean CV / Resume Templates with Cover Letters
Professional well structured CV / Resume Templates for lasting impression. In current employment market, only eye-catching clean and creative Resumes can stay in employers hands. So its very essential to pick only best simple and clean resume templates that can make big impact on employers. In this collection we are gathered Creative Clean CV/ Resume… Continue reading 30 Creative Clean CV / Resume Templates with Cover Letters
Popular Design News of the Week: July 15, 2019 – July 21, 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: July 15, 2019 – July 21, 2019
10 Benefits Of Using Postcards For Marketing
If you’re in search of a unique and innovative way to market your business, then you might consider using direct mail postcards. There are many good reasons why this traditional approach could attract many new customers as opposed to the fast-paced online strategies. Sometimes it just takes a little of the tried and true to… Continue reading 10 Benefits Of Using Postcards For Marketing
Best Free WordPress Quiz Plugins
Quizzes on websites can serve a lot of purposes. I am sure you have come across quizzes that simply ask random questions about celebrities or friends for fun. There are also quizzes for things like checking compatibility or aptitude of people. Some websites add quizzes in their posts at the end of courses to help… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Quiz Plugins
7 web typography rules
Want a flawless-looking website? Start with web typography, the secret to a killer website. Jessica Tiao Follow Jul 7, 2017 · 4 min read Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the thought of designing a website? With 100,000 different fonts and 16.8 million colors on the web, the possibilities are virtually limitless. For some people,… Continue reading 7 web typography rules
10 Best Mobile Apps for Learning to Code
What’s even better is that you don’t have to spend years mastering programming either. Thanks to numerous coding apps available for both Android and iOS devices, you can easily level up your coding skills even when you’re on the go. In this post, we’ve rounded up the best coding apps that will help you learn… Continue reading 10 Best Mobile Apps for Learning to Code