Type Considerations The official font for DoorDash is TT Norms, which is a modern geometric grotesque created by the Russian type foundry TypeType. It’s a neutral font with humanist sans-serif qualities which gives the characters a sense of warmth and personality. I couldn’t afford to purchase TT Norms from their store so I substituted it… Continue reading My DoorDash Order Manager Redesign — a UX Case Study
20 Best Real Estate WordPress Themes for 2019 Websites
It can be difficult to differentiate yourself in the real estate industry, but a beautiful website can certainly help. Finding the perfect real estate theme is a challenge, considering the sheer number of themes available. That’s why we’ve curated a premier selection of our responsive WordPress real estate themes, so you can easily find the features you… Continue reading 20 Best Real Estate WordPress Themes for 2019 Websites
How to Create a Google Calendar Plugin for WordPress
Regardless of niche, adding a calendar plugin to your WordPress site is a great way to improve user engagement and retention. Creating such a plugin doesn’t take much effort because there are lots of cloud-based calendaring packages available today. Google Calendar is the most popular of them all, and it offers a free to use API.… Continue reading How to Create a Google Calendar Plugin for WordPress
When to Use (And Not Use) a Mega Menu for Navigation
Mega Menus and User Experience The main principle behind using a mega menu should be the answer to one simple question: Does a mega menu make it easier for people to navigate around my site? You shouldn’t just add one because they’re the latest cool thing. The addition of a mega menu to your site… Continue reading When to Use (And Not Use) a Mega Menu for Navigation
Unicons: A free set of 1000+ icons
Iconscout has recently released Unicons, a very complete set of 1000+ free vector icons. Icons are available in top categories (for example, User Interface, Business, Shopping, Medical) and they are carefully crafted in 24px grid to have consistency on all kind of display. Icons are available in SVG files. Frontend developers can use them as… Continue reading Unicons: A free set of 1000+ icons
Most Common SEO Mistakes That Can Kill Your Rankings
SEO is a subject that has often been surrounded by misconceptions. Everyone has his/her idea of SEO. This has troubled the beginners who don’t have a way around this. However, through learning, you will be able to understand what SEO is and is not. One thing is for sure though, SEO is alive, and it… Continue reading Most Common SEO Mistakes That Can Kill Your Rankings
20+ Best WordPress Directory Themes to Make Business Websites (2019)
Making your own business listing website can be difficult. Thanks to quality WordPress directory themes, however, you can get the job done right and fast. Listify: multipurpose WordPress directory theme that continues to trend in 2019 Here we showcase over twenty of the best WordPress directory themes fromThemeForest. They’re packed with professional website design features.… Continue reading 20+ Best WordPress Directory Themes to Make Business Websites (2019)
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New Course: Practical React Fundamentals
If you want to build dynamic single-page applications quickly and easily, React is a wonderful solution. Learn how to use it—while building your own React app from scratch—in our comprehensive new course, Practical React Fundamentals. What You’ll Learn Millions of developers all over the world are beginning to see the power and ease with which… Continue reading New Course: Practical React Fundamentals
42 Best InDesign Template Tutorials
Whether you are a skilled designer or just starting out, Adobe InDesign templates are a great resource to have in your toolbox. Design templates have to be properly set up to let you or your clients update them easily. To help you get inspired, we’ve gathered a collection of 42 InDesign template tutorials, ranging from… Continue reading 42 Best InDesign Template Tutorials
16+ Best WordPress Themes for Writers and Authors (2019)
There is no shortage of professional WordPress themes for making a website in 2019, for every niche imaginable. Whilst you can use almost any theme for your writer’s website, there are some text-based WordPress themes out there that are better suited for anyone who wants to showcase their writing skills. Whether you’re a writer trying to break… Continue reading 16+ Best WordPress Themes for Writers and Authors (2019)
20 WordPress Video Plugins and Players to Add Engagement
Video is becoming an increasingly important element of a successful website. It has SEO benefits, increases engagement and the amount of time visitors spend on your site, and will also reflect well on your brand. WordPress lets you add embedded video out of the box, but you can make the process easier and enhance the… Continue reading 20 WordPress Video Plugins and Players to Add Engagement
Guidelines for constructive and empowering design feedback and critique
Patrick ThorntonBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 30 Photo by Alvaro Reyes on Unsplash Regular, well-run feedback and critique sessions are critical for helping to refine a product and make it great, and a lot of these sessions do not help accomplish those goals. Doing critique and feedback sessions in a way that is constructive and empowering, without hurting feelings… Continue reading Guidelines for constructive and empowering design feedback and critique
Logo Trends For 2019
Having a logo for your business is pretty much a no-brainer. It’s synonymous to your brand’s identity, a visual representation that people will recognize immediately even without the company or product name. Knowing, understanding and applying wisely chosen trends in logo design to your emblem shows that your brand is contemporary and relevant to the… Continue reading Logo Trends For 2019
Grafier: A modern brutalist variable font
Grafier is a modern serif typeface that brings drastic contemporary aesthetics to classic design. Grafier features fresh and precise digital curves, square dots and long connected serifs. Turn on the 1st OpenType style set to disconnect them; the 2nd style set brings you nice and rounded dots. The font family comes in 5 weights from… Continue reading Grafier: A modern brutalist variable font
7 Best Tips To Master Portrait Photography
Portrait photography is quite unique compared to other fields of photography. It is one of the toughest fields of photography because a photographer has to capture emotions, get lighting right and bring out the features of his or her subject. In portrait photography, it is important that you as a photographer get your techniques to… Continue reading 7 Best Tips To Master Portrait Photography
Why are you not designing your day-to-day experience?
Fabricio TeixeiraBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 29 The other day a coworker and I were chatting about our phone’s home screens and the way we organize our app icons. We spent good ten minutes describing to one another our implicit rules on how we prioritize homepage icons, how we choose apps that will sit on the edge vs.… Continue reading Why are you not designing your day-to-day experience?
32 Creative and Funny Error Pages
January 29, 2019 by Alex Fox There aren’t a lot of places on a web design where you get to tell jokes. Error pages and source code are one of the few places you can hide your humor. Spelunkers of source code know you can find job listings, inside jokes, Monty Python references and more… Continue reading 32 Creative and Funny Error Pages
How to Customize Bootstrap’s Sass Files With Grunt
Today, we’ll learn how to customize Bootstrap 4’s Sass files with Grunt. Instead of Grunt, we could just as easily use another task runner like Gulp, webpack, or npm scripts. Regardless of the build tool the process of customizing Bootstrap’s source Sass files will be the same. Note: This tutorial assumes you have some familiarity with Bootstrap 4, Sass, and build tools.… Continue reading How to Customize Bootstrap’s Sass Files With Grunt
Try These 3 Practical Projects to Learn WordPress Plugin Development
If you want to learn to code your own WordPress plugins, you should try our new course, 3 More Practical Projects to Learn WordPress Plugin Development. In this course with experienced WordPress developer Rachel McCollin, you’ll create three practical projects to help you learn WordPress plugin development. The plugins you create will help you: Create… Continue reading Try These 3 Practical Projects to Learn WordPress Plugin Development
Best Practices For Optimizing Web Page Speed
A Moving Target The internet develops as computers develop: exponentially. If you don’t believe that, just use a search engine to explore “legacy” websites. One website still up since its inception is the Space Jam website; and it is extremely dated—but it’s also extremely fast. Part of exponential forward development in terms of technology is… Continue reading Best Practices For Optimizing Web Page Speed
Best jQuery Flipbook Plugins Compared
Are you looking for a creative and interactive way to showcase text, photos, and documents on your website? Adding a flipbook to your site can elevate your project and enhance the experience of your website visitors. For this article, I’ve chosen three great tools that will allow you to create realistic, animated flipbooks with ease.… Continue reading Best jQuery Flipbook Plugins Compared
Top 10 Effective SEO Techniques to Drive Organic Traffic in 2019
Are you struggling with driving traffic to your website? I know the feeling. As website owners and marketers we invest a lot of time and energy trying to drive organic traffic through the roof. But when it comes down to it, we realize that we are still getting negligible traffic. In fact, sometimes we might… Continue reading Top 10 Effective SEO Techniques to Drive Organic Traffic in 2019
23 Best Trifold Brochure Templates & Examples (Word, InDesign, & PSD)
Need a hand explaining your business? Try an amazing trifold brochure. Get the latest creative designs from this list of resources. 23 Best Trifold Brochure Templates (Word, InDesign, & PSD) Trifold brochures are one of the easiest ways to present your business. They feature a creative folded layout that gives you plenty of room for… Continue reading 23 Best Trifold Brochure Templates & Examples (Word, InDesign, & PSD)