Rough.js – Create Hand-Drawn and Sketchy Like Graphics

Rough.js is a light weight (~8k), Canvas based library that lets you draw in a sketchy, hand-drawn-like, style. The library defines primitives to draw lines, curves, arcs, polygons, circles, and ellipses. It also supports drawing SVG paths. If you have Workly imported on your web page (~1k only), RoughJS will automatically offload all processing to… Continue reading Rough.js – Create Hand-Drawn and Sketchy Like Graphics

Free Floral Wedding Vector Labels

Our friends from Freepik shares today on Designbeep with all our readers a complete pack that includes an amazing variety of free vintage floral wedding labels that you can use in your design projects. Wedding pack pack contains beautiful labels that you can easily modify. Each poster comes as .ai, .eps nd jpg formats. Freepik.com… Continue reading Free Floral Wedding Vector Labels

Maximizing Marketing Videos (Tips & Tricks)

If you are a growing brand or business who want to engage your target audience, creating a marketing video is one sure-fire way to propel your business forward. Visual content is a key factor in connecting and reaching out to customers at a much deeper level. With the proliferation of online video content, you need… Continue reading Maximizing Marketing Videos (Tips & Tricks)

Note-taking during design reviews — and more UX links this week

News & ideas Netflix Sans, a new custom typeface developed with Dalton Maag Intel just open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system There’s a new trend on the internet of editing famous songs like if they were playing in an empty mall or from another room In case you were left wondering, this is what an inclusion… Continue reading Note-taking during design reviews — and more UX links this week

Why You Need to Include Quality Images And Video in Your Online Content

March 23, 2018 by Spyrestudios Blogger Conventional online content isn’t enough to stand out any more. If you’ve been producing brilliant blog posts for the last few years, the chances are you’ve enjoyed the success of being one of the first to the content marketing party. Content marketing has been an essential ingredient for online… Continue reading Why You Need to Include Quality Images And Video in Your Online Content

Encouraging healthy lifestyle choices with an engaging user experience

Please note: This was a concept project undertaken as part of the User Experience Design Immersive course at General Assembly and is in no way affiliated with Nuffield Health. Nuffield Health is one of the UK’s leading not-for-profit healthcare organisations. They operate a wide variety of facilities and healthcare services, from gym and fitness centres… Continue reading Encouraging healthy lifestyle choices with an engaging user experience

Which WordPress Website Builder Is for You? Try the #1 WordPress Theme Builder

Posted · Category: Tools Finding just the right WordPress website builder to fit you needs can take time. First, you must determine what it is you want. Then you must take the time to research what’s available. Your research may require the skills of a Sherlock Holmes since you often need to read between the… Continue reading Which WordPress Website Builder Is for You? Try the #1 WordPress Theme Builder

8 Awesome and Free PHP Books

PHP is one of the most popular scripting language for web development. It has an approachable and easy to learn syntax, works on all operating systems, and can be used for building classic web sites and applications, mobile app backends, REST APIs and more. In this article, we’ve collected some of our favorite free PHP… Continue reading 8 Awesome and Free PHP Books

Web Designers, Stop Wasting Time on Billing and Accounting When You Don’t Have Too

Posted · Category: Tools Keeping a small business running is hard work. You have projects to negotiate, emails to answer, and deadlines to meet. You have to find the time to explore new trends and methods. Sometimes, you have to take whatever time it takes to learn how to use new tools of your trade… Continue reading Web Designers, Stop Wasting Time on Billing and Accounting When You Don’t Have Too

Design is not Design, thoughts on IxDA 2018

From 6 Feb to 8 Feb, the conference had separate subjects for each of the three days. I am going to recommend and elaborate on one talk for each day to explain the thoughts behind the above statement I made. At the very end of this article, I will also recommend talks that I think… Continue reading Design is not Design, thoughts on IxDA 2018

How and Why to Optimize Images On the Site?

Everyone who runs a website knows that the loading speed is the most important factor for high convension, especially, if this is an online market. Studies made by Walmart clearly show that the longer it takes to load the page, the less operations made on the site by potential customers, because no one simply wants… Continue reading How and Why to Optimize Images On the Site?

5 Things Beginner Mobile Game Developers Must Know

For game developers, the dream is to create the next big hit, the Tetris of our generation. Since Tetris became a huge hit, there have been many spinoffs. It is interesting to note that the games we love the most aren’t very complicated. Just have a look at a puzzle game like Cube Blast. All… Continue reading 5 Things Beginner Mobile Game Developers Must Know

Getting Started with Chrome Developer Tools: Advanced DevTools

The most common tool in Chrome Developer Tools is Inspect Element. As we’ve covered, this tool allows you to view the CSS and HTML associated with specific on-screen elements. But there’s more power than that within DevTools. You can also access additional tools to do far more. You can debug JavaScript, monitor network performance, preview… Continue reading Getting Started with Chrome Developer Tools: Advanced DevTools

New Free Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials (30 Tuts)

Free text effect tutorials to learn how to create 2D, 3D, Retro & Vintage and 80’s text effects in Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials. Tutorials are perfect for beginners and advance graphic designers. There are amazing text effect tutorials to create posters, flyers, calendar and giving your typography or lettering a fresh touch with traditional and digital media, mixing patterns and textures… Continue reading New Free Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials (30 Tuts)

Integrating Security into Your Web Development Plan

Website security breaches have real consequences for visitors and site owners. Frustration and inconvenience from hijacked pages can keep potential customers from engaging with a website, while phishing and data leaks that expose customer information can cost site owners’ reputations, and their bottom line. Integrating security into a new website or implementing security fixes to… Continue reading Integrating Security into Your Web Development Plan

Flyer Templates: Clean & Professional Business Flyer Templates

A beautiful multipurpose Photoshop flyer templates, modern and creative flyers perfect for corporate business and organization. Professional flyer designs are the most impressive and popular way of advertising. All flyer templates are easy to use and can be resized without any loss of quality available in PSD, AI and InDesign format. The PSD files are very well organized in folders and layers.… Continue reading Flyer Templates: Clean & Professional Business Flyer Templates

How does design strategy work within a large enterprise?

Courtesy Dilbert Last October, I visited my alma mater, the School of Visual Arts Masters in Branding program, which teaches graduate students about the intersections of business & design. Whenever I visit, there’s always students that have questions about what I do, both as an IBM’er and a Design Strategist. Most recently, I was asked… Continue reading How does design strategy work within a large enterprise?

Tips for Designing a Great Looking E-commerce Website + 20 Examples

If you’ve ever spent time buying from an online store, you know that a pleasurable experience would motivate you to return.  Customer satisfaction is key to designing an effective E-commerce site.  An effective E-commerce site allows the products to shine and then allows you to carry out purchases quickly and efficiently.  When designing an E-commerce… Continue reading Tips for Designing a Great Looking E-commerce Website + 20 Examples

These 5 UX Mistakes Drive Visitors Away in Less Than 5 Seconds

Posted · Category: Best Collections The longer you can keep a visitor tuned into your website the better. But the time needed to fully engage a visitor is quite short. If your website UX isn’t up to snuff, you’ll be fortunate if a visitor sticks around more than 5 seconds. That isn’t much time to… Continue reading These 5 UX Mistakes Drive Visitors Away in Less Than 5 Seconds

20 Fresh Free Fonts for Creative Designers

Creative fresh free script fonts, brush fonts, handwritten fonts and sans serif fonts with stylish extras for professional graphic designers. These fonts will perfect for many different project like photography, watermark, quotes, blog header, poster, wedding, branding, logo, fashion, apparel, letter, invitation, stationery, Web UI and legible and looks great as a headline or in body text. The… Continue reading 20 Fresh Free Fonts for Creative Designers

Build A Pomodoro Timer ― Scotch

Last week on the code challenge #5 we looked at building a movie player using a provided API. Here is the solution to the challenge built with Vue.js. This week we’ll be building a Pomodoro timer. A Pomodoro timer is a time management tool which breaks down task completion time into intervals of about 25… Continue reading Build A Pomodoro Timer ― Scotch