To mark International Women’s Day 2019 we’ll be creating an animated SVG version of the event’s logo you can use along with this year’s hashtag #BalanceforBetter. In the process we’ll be learning about using Figma and its boolean operations, as well as inline SVG animation via the animateTransform element. This is what we’ll be creating:… Continue reading Create an Animated SVG Logo for International Women’s Day 2019
10 Stunning Ionic App Templates
Ionic is a popular framework for creating modern, hybrid, mobile applications, using the wildly popular Angular framework. Because developers can use technologies they are already familiar with (JavaScript, HTML, and CSS), the learning curve isn’t that steep to create a full-featured mobile app for Android and iOS. CodeCanyon offers a wide range of ready-made app templates to kick-start your Ionic… Continue reading 10 Stunning Ionic App Templates
50 Shades of Urban Decay – Color Inspiration Showcase
As designers, it’s part of our job to find beauty in the most unassuming of places. Our surroundings can always inspire us if we look a little deeper. This is what Climadoor’s latest project looks at. They’ve made a series of striking colour palettes, complete with HEX codes, inspired by scenes of urban decay. Each… Continue reading 50 Shades of Urban Decay – Color Inspiration Showcase
The 5 Most Common Types of WordPress Breaches and Their Fixes
March 7, 2019 by Spyrestudios The WordPress platform is without a doubt the most popular CMS platform on the web. This platform has various features and tools which make it the preferred option for many website owners. Its popularity has captured the imagination of both good and bad people on the web. Criminals whose aim… Continue reading The 5 Most Common Types of WordPress Breaches and Their Fixes
Useful Tips For Designing Great User Interface for Apps
Today mobile applications are playing an essential role in helping businesses in catering a large customer base. Having a visually stunning mobile app isn’t good enough. For a truly successful mobile application, a user-friendly interface must be in mind. Implementing best practices for mobile design is key to getting your app in stores and used… Continue reading Useful Tips For Designing Great User Interface for Apps
One minute of silence for digital design
Am I a kind of ‘zombie designer’ then? Yep, those two holes in my trousers were probably for something.But how did I get here? I couldn’t say that I remember a specific moment… maybe it’s like Italy, my home country, in which everything gets a little worse every day, very very slowly, in a way that… Continue reading One minute of silence for digital design
New Course: Introduction to Studio 2.0
How would you like to design, build, and publish responsive websites without writing a single line of code? Learn how to do it in our new short course, Introduction to Studio 2.0. What You’ll Learn Studio offers a very well-thought-out visual editor that helps you design websites quickly and easily, and in this course, Adi Purdila… Continue reading New Course: Introduction to Studio 2.0
60 SVG multimedia icons
Today’s freebie is a set of 60 beautiful multimedia icons designed by Carlotta Govi, icon designer from Spain. Icons come in PNG and SVG formats and are free for commercial use. Here is a full preview 👇 Download freebie
Inspire Others with the BeTop WordPress Theme
Inspire Others with the BeTop WordPress Theme If you have the ability to help other people, this is considered to be a gift. If you can motivate and inspire others to reach for their dreams, you are making a big difference in their lives. To accomplish this, you need a website that can show the… Continue reading Inspire Others with the BeTop WordPress Theme
How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to create a realistic 3D gold text effect using layer styles in Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: Download the file Gold_Text_Effect-Assets.zip and extract both files inside. Install the Pattern file “Patterns.pat“. Install the Contour file “CustomContours.shc”.… Continue reading How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles
How to Tell If You’re Destined to Be a Graphic Designer
Some people are incredibly talented and are destined for design. They have a killer eye for aesthetics and branding. Should you learn how to become a graphic designer? Here are some signs you were meant for a career in design. You Love Combining Typefaces You see typefaces in a different way. With so many typefaces… Continue reading How to Tell If You’re Destined to Be a Graphic Designer
How To Fix ‘Failed To Load Resource’ Error In WordPress
The “Failed To Load Resource” error is one of the most frustrating issues many WordPress users have been encountering lately. This error is quite hard to fix since it can be caused by several different issues like plugin compatibility issues and HTTPS URL issues and more. In this post, we take a look at some… Continue reading How To Fix ‘Failed To Load Resource’ Error In WordPress
Why I love IKEA’s customer experience
Liat AbadiBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 2 I just crave simple things that get the job done. But when it comes to IKEA, it’s not just the basic furniture that currently fits my needs (well-designed, functional, affordable and happily being abused by my cat and 3 little kids), it’s the holistic customer journey I’m always impressed by, feeling… Continue reading Why I love IKEA’s customer experience
14 Firefox Developer Tools You Might Not Know About
In this roundup we’re going to be checking out some of the awesome tools Firefox has in its collection of Developer Tools. Even if Google Chrome is your primary development browser, Firefox has some tools that Chrome doesn’t. In fairness the reverse is also true–Chrome has some tools that Firefox doesn’t, but the tools in… Continue reading 14 Firefox Developer Tools You Might Not Know About
Best Practices for Better Mobile commerce UX
With the share of mobile users advancing exponentially, the number of users who shop via mobile phones is also increasing drastically. According to eMarketer, online sales through mobile devices would amount to $3.5 trillion by the end of 2021. It is a huge segment of total revenue and the total number of eCommerce shoppers. Mobile… Continue reading Best Practices for Better Mobile commerce UX
6 Best Weather WordPress Widgets & Plugins
Running a venue is tough, and involves plenty of planning and hard work—especially venues that depend on the weather. For golf courses, wedding destinations, and even restaurants with patios, bad weather can really take a toll on attendance. Even though we’re powerless against mother nature, we can plan around it. Since keeping up with weather… Continue reading 6 Best Weather WordPress Widgets & Plugins
31 Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers
Freshest free fonts are here. Designers are always looking for highest quality free goods for their designs but its really hard to find. So here we are gathered big list of script fonts, brush fonts and typefaces free fresh for you. This is an another great collection of free fonts for my readers and followers. I… Continue reading 31 Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers
Choose the Best WordPress Event Calendar Plugins
If you run a business where you regularly need to schedule and display events like seminars, webinars, parties, concerts etc, you’re going to need a reliable events calendar to consolidate and display all the relevant information for your business events into one useful place and keep clients informed about dates, times, locations and other such… Continue reading Choose the Best WordPress Event Calendar Plugins
20 Best Shipping & Pricing WooCommerce Plugins
If you use a WooCommerce plugin to manage the online store on your WordPress site, you’re probably looking for plugins that offer a good variety of shipping options or that make selling your products and running sales as easy as possible. Today, we look at the best shipping and pricing plugins and also take a look at a few… Continue reading 20 Best Shipping & Pricing WooCommerce Plugins
How to Make a Time Magazine Cover Template
What You’ll Be Creating Iconic, timeless, and visually appealing. In this tutorial, we show you how to make your own Time magazine cover template. Time magazine is well known and easily recognisable for its signature cover and its red border. First published in March 1923, this weekly magazine has the world’s largest circulation for a… Continue reading How to Make a Time Magazine Cover Template
3 things I wish UX designers would do when in a new job
Anirudh B BalotiaaBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 30 ONE: Be curious 24×7 Photo by Joseph Rosales on Unsplash If you are a parent, this is fairly easy. Just observe your child. If you have a child who is less than 3 years, you will be surprised how curious they are. When joining a new place of work, have this kind… Continue reading 3 things I wish UX designers would do when in a new job
Using the New WordPress Default Theme
Twenty Nineteen is the latest WordPress default theme currently available and was included with the WordPress 5.0 release. It’s already proving pretty popular with over 800,000 active installations to date. It’s also also available to WordPress.com users too which bumps up the user base even more. It’s described as a minimal and non-generic theme with simple but sophisticated… Continue reading Using the New WordPress Default Theme
Why Each Designer Should Be Using a VPN
You’ve probably heard about VPNs, but hardly ever considered to start using one. All in all, you have plenty of other tools to spend money on that are directly connected to your work. And are those VPNs that important after all? Well, yes, unless you plan to spend the following year covering a costly data… Continue reading Why Each Designer Should Be Using a VPN
5 Critical Elements You Need to Know to Build a Genuinely Cool Website
After completing 2 or 3 multi-page websites building a one-pager will take no time at all. Or so you’ve been told. The problem is, whoever told you that never tried putting together a one-pager. Or, at least one that could be bragged about. You’ll discover that cramming all the important information isn’t all that easy… Continue reading 5 Critical Elements You Need to Know to Build a Genuinely Cool Website