Improving the design of your website is the first thing to do after setting up your blog. Whether its a portfolio site or a WooCommerce store, you must always look for the loopholes in your design. One of the basic things to do is make your website design responsive and provide your visitors with a… Continue reading 5 Best WordPress Plugins for Improving Your Website Design
Modernising the hiring process — a UX case study
Competitor Analysis From the competitors we looked at 2 key insights were found: The most effective way employees were keeping up to date with their referrals was through continuous updates. The preferred methods were through notifications e.g. HR email updates, live job boards updates, and newsfeeds. A few of the competitors we looked at also… Continue reading Modernising the hiring process — a UX case study
10 WordPress Tips and Tricks to Steal from the Pros
WordPress is one of the most popular website platforms in the world, powering around 30 percent of the Web. It also has about 60 percent market share, beating out platforms like Joomla and Drupal by a long shot. People who use WordPress generally love it, which may be one reason it’s so popular. The other… Continue reading 10 WordPress Tips and Tricks to Steal from the Pros
Design Elements That Increase Conversion Rates
Once you’re past the stage of creating traffic and at least some sales or leads, the next thing you want to do is to make sure you are actually getting the most conversions you can out of your users. Even a small increase in conversion rate, from say 1% to 1.25% can mean a 25%… Continue reading Design Elements That Increase Conversion Rates
How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Photoshop adjustment layers to create a fantasy photo manipulation featuring a rock goddess. First, we’ll build the base scene using several arch, rock and landscape images. After that, we’ll add the ground, the model’s face, and a rock texture. Later, we’ll add… Continue reading How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?
Web design is an industry that is loaded with opportunities for upsells and extra revenue. Odds are that your clients will benefit from services that go beyond basic design and development. However, just because you can offer extras doesn’t necessarily mean that you should. One such area is web hosting. While there is the potential… Continue reading Should You Sell Web Hosting Services to Your Clients?
Laurel: Free HTML template for app presentation
Laurel is a free HTML template for presenting mobile apps. It comes with different pre-built sections, like a fully-illustrated hero, features list, and a bottom input-form to collect users emails and feedback. This template is ideal for mobile-based products, but it can be easily customizable for different needs and purposes, such as a web-oriented project. View… Continue reading Laurel: Free HTML template for app presentation
How to Easily Animate SVGs With SVGator
SVG animation is a great alternative to using animated GIFs on the web, but it’s not always easy. In this tutorial I’m going to explain how you can easily animate SVGs using an online tool called “SVGator”. SVGator allows you to import SVG files, then animate individual elements within those SVGs. Animate SVGs With SVGator… Continue reading How to Easily Animate SVGs With SVGator
Free Fonts: 25 New Fonts for Graphic Designers
New, modern & fresh calligraphy free fonts, script fonts, brush fonts and typefaces for Christmas and New Year 2019 posters, flyers, cards and all creative artwork. In this article you’ll find 25 hand-picked free fonts with extras. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and fit for any artwork. Take a look at beautiful commercial fonts for… Continue reading Free Fonts: 25 New Fonts for Graphic Designers
11 Best Courses to Learn to Create a WordPress Theme or Plugin
Do you want to take your WordPress skills to the next level and learn to create your own themes and plugins? Well, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve compiled 11 of the best WordPress coding courses on Envato Tuts+ to help you do just that. Take a look and be inspired. Any great product… Continue reading 11 Best Courses to Learn to Create a WordPress Theme or Plugin
From Websites to Business Cards: How to Unite Your Brand Identity with a Brand Guide
No matter if you are focusing your branding efforts on your website, marketing, or business cards… it’s all a reflection on the business and brand you create. Did you know that 64% of consumers make a purchase after they view a branded social video? Think about that for a moment. If you create a video… Continue reading From Websites to Business Cards: How to Unite Your Brand Identity with a Brand Guide
Sketchnotes & key takeaways from the Amuse UX Conference 2018
14 Sketchnotes from Amuse 2018 Conference Two weeks ago I attended the Amuse UX Conference, and I had a lot of fun capturing the talks by creating sketchnotes. Amuse is a 3-in-1 conference, it’s held together with Impact and Crunch. I missed the first talk of Amuse, since I decided to listen to Marty Cagan’s… Continue reading Sketchnotes & key takeaways from the Amuse UX Conference 2018
Implement Autoplaying GIFs Without Using GIFs
The GIF format is just as popular as its ever been. It may even be more popular than ever before. People love sharing short, auto-playing clips on social media. and the GIF accidentally became the chosen format for that purpose. Unfortunately, the GIFs popularity doesn’t mean that the GIF is a good format. While functional,… Continue reading Implement Autoplaying GIFs Without Using GIFs
Learn Data Visualization With D3.js
We live in an age of increasing amounts of data and decreasing attention spans. The solution to this conundrum is data visualization: creating elegant charts to help people interpret data quickly and intuitively. In our new course, Learn Data Visualization With D3.js, you’ll get a complete introduction to the D3.js data visualization library. Markus Mühlberger will… Continue reading Learn Data Visualization With D3.js
Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 15
Welcome back to our Diversity in Design series on Envato Tuts+. Discover four talented artists with inspiring styles you’ll love. 4 Artists You Should Know: Diversity in Design Celebrate the work of these extraordinary artists. Each with their own unique background, they draw inspiration from their culture and surroundings to create phenomenal designs. Magtira… Continue reading Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 15
File Upload With Multer in Node.js and Express
When a web client uploads a file to a server, it is generally submitted through a form and encoded as multipart/form-data. Multer is middleware for Express and Node.js that makes it easy to handle this multipart/form-data when your users upload files. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use this library to handle different file upload situations… Continue reading File Upload With Multer in Node.js and Express
What can a Product Designer learn from people’s belief in God?
Alright, I know this might probably be the weirdest headline you’ll come across Medium today. However, sometimes the weirdest things can help us think critically and that’s what this thought did to me. While I am writing this, billions of people across the world are celebrating the Hindu festival of Diwali. Diwali is primarily known… Continue reading What can a Product Designer learn from people’s belief in God?
Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma
UX and UI Kits help designers in all kinds of ways, and at different stages in the design process. In this roundup I’ll show you some of the best-selling UX and UI kits available from Envato, to get you started wireframing, prototyping, and designing your next website or app. What Are UX and UI Kits?… Continue reading Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma
Ipapi: IP Targeting Made Easy
Gone are the days when mass marketing was considered to be effective. Now, micro-marketing has taken over. We don’t just want our communications to be relevant to our needs. But, we also need them to be pertinent to our cultures and region. This is where IP targeting comes in handy. Interactive Advertising Bureau defines IP… Continue reading Ipapi: IP Targeting Made Easy
37 Remarkable Lettering and Typography Design for Inspiration
Amazing digital hand-made lettering and typography designs created by professional artists and designers. This showcase contains different artwork of modern fonts, calligraphy, quotes, handmade lettering, typography posters, brushes with bristle effects and watercolor style typo all are great for inspiration. Beautiful artwork of calligraphy, lettering and typography are here. Now a day watercolor, chalkboard, paper, and gold glam textures are… Continue reading 37 Remarkable Lettering and Typography Design for Inspiration
Free portfolio landing design template
Here is a minimal portfolio design template designed by Denis Abdullin, product designer from Russia. The template is a one-page made of sections (works, about, links) and includes a contact form at the bottom of the page for receiving work inquiries. It comes in Sketch file format so you can easily customize that. Get for… Continue reading Free portfolio landing design template
Figma Project, Page & Artboard Tips
Welcome to the next in our series of Figma tips and tricks! This time we’ll be improving the way you work with Figma projects, pages, and artboards. Watch Tips 1. Customize Project Thumbnails It’s perfectly possible to create custom project thumbnails which will show up in your dashboard drafts area. Make sure that the first page… Continue reading Figma Project, Page & Artboard Tips
Benchmarking in UX research
Credit Many user researchers, especially those who focus on qualitative methods, are often asked about quantifying the user experience. We are asked to include quantitative data to supplement quotes or video/audio clips. Qualitative-based user researchers, including myself, may look towards surveys to help add that quantitate spice. However, there is much more to quantitative data… Continue reading Benchmarking in UX research
Design Persuasive Websites With These Basic Principles
November 5, 2018 by Alex Fox Web design has become the focal point of the online industry. Why? Entrepreneurs are now concentrating all their resources on improving their online image, reputation, and brand. That brand is defined most strongly through an official website. Official websites are by far the most common tool used to attract… Continue reading Design Persuasive Websites With These Basic Principles