Wireframing. User journeys. Content maps. User-centered design. Information architecture. Animated prototypes. Conversion paths. Iterative features. Sitemaps. Uhh, what? Let’s be honest, the world of UX (user experience) and UI (user interface) is full of jargon and overcomplicated terms. Take, for example, this real line I copy-pasted from a job description for a senior content specialist… Continue reading 20 Must-Have Wireframe Templates and UI Kits for Your Design Library
Font Combinations Library
Font Combinations Library (aka Font Combinations Kit 2.0) is a great set of 8 different font combinations meant to help speed up your design process. Inside the package you will find some ready-made template screens pairing the most popular Google Fonts. Text styles from the Sketch and Adobe XD will speed up your work. You can change the… Continue reading Font Combinations Library
Interaction models
To a western eater, definitely to a Spaniard like me, the first time having ramen breaks a few well-established mental models. Eating out is a social event. Long noodles equals spaghetti, which you eat using a fork. Soup is to be eaten with a spoon, and the person sitting next to you will not hear… Continue reading Interaction models
4 Must-Have Features for Your Agency’s Web Development Platform
The ultimate end game of every manager in today’s ever-so-competitive agency space is the ability to swiftly scale. Whether it’s your client base, revenue or resources, ensuring everything advances quickly and effectively, without sacrificing quality, is a must-do. Unfortunately, scaling remains one of the biggest challenges of digital agencies today. How so? Consider how agencies… Continue reading 4 Must-Have Features for Your Agency’s Web Development Platform
Top Best Tools to Improve Your Skills in Graphic Design
Seeking to improve your skills is always good idea. This is even more relevant, when it comes to ever evolving craft like design. Whether you are looking for a “quick fix” or prefer to take a more long-term approach to improving your design skills, you need to start somewhere. It is important to keep in… Continue reading Top Best Tools to Improve Your Skills in Graphic Design
Creating Smooth User Pathways With Your UX
As a web designer, it’s easy to jump right in to the visual part of web design. We start messing with templates and wireframing pages right away, excited to start a new project. But that’s really the last step of the process. First, we need to think about how our users will progress through the… Continue reading Creating Smooth User Pathways With Your UX
How to Create a Sunburst Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating This sunlight photo effect is a part of the Rays Of Light Photoshop Action from my portfolio on Envato Market. You can also the check the Animated Sunlight Photoshop Creator. The color tones of the sunlight rays and the flare effects are easy to edit and customize. Sunlight Rays Photoshop Action Tutorial Assets… Continue reading How to Create a Sunburst Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop
A Guide to CrocoBlock Service – How to Create a Website Without Any Experience
Creating a website seems to be a fascinating idea, at least, at first thought. However, when you start looking for the right way to put it together, you discover that the things are actually more complicated than you expected. That’s when page builders come into play. Lately, there are lots of them. One of the… Continue reading A Guide to CrocoBlock Service – How to Create a Website Without Any Experience
Which One Should You Use?
Today I’m going to try and answer a question that I imagine many of you have asked: “Which is better, Sketch or Adobe XD?”. In this video and article I’ll be explaining which I prefer, based on my own opinions and my own needs. Watch the Screencast Which is Better Suited to You? As a… Continue reading Which One Should You Use?
100 Professional Corporate Brochure Templates
100 best creative and professional brochure templates perfect for corporate portfolio, company annual report, product catalog, fashion booklet, photography portfolio and company profile. Brochures are designed with a strong theme, multi-functionality and fully editable. Clean and simple brochure templates has all the features you’d expect in a brochures, from placeholders, to text styles, one click infographics, and easy to edit… Continue reading 100 Professional Corporate Brochure Templates
Designing a decentralized profile dApp
We are a few years ahead of where the whole economic system went decentralized including ourselves. Good thing about this transformation is that we are now more than ever in control of what counts towards our own personal value (public records, type of shopping we make, lifestyle choices, social media, job status etc.) and with… Continue reading Designing a decentralized profile dApp
Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets
Flutter is fast becoming one of the most popular frameworks for developing cross-platform mobile apps. Most Android and iOS developers today are starting to agree that it is a faster and more future-proof alternative to other cross-platform frameworks such as React Native and NativeScript. Google itself is leaving no stone unturned to attract more developers to… Continue reading Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets
Tour de Workforce — here comes the collective economy
Image Credit: Simon Darby What does a group of lycra-clad cyclists have to do with the future of work? More than you might think. If you’re familiar with road cycling, you’ll have heard the term ‘peloton’ before. If you’re not partial to a hoard of people in spandex on two wheels, then maybe you haven’t. The… Continue reading Tour de Workforce — here comes the collective economy
It’s all about the package!
Package and label inspiration Stevie & Fern for St. Petersburg Distillery By Whiskey Design Strømme Throndsen for Min Boazu Sasha Kischenko Lanza Studio Lilit Malkhasyan Opus B Brand Design Constantin Bolimond Constantin Bolimond Kilo Studio Midday It’s all about the package! was originally published in Muzli – Design Inspiration on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by… Continue reading It’s all about the package!
Introducing Laravel Nova ― Scotch
Laracon is here again. For those of you that don’t know, Laracon is the event where that happens every 6 months where we get a look at the latest and greatest in Laravel. We’ll write an article on the latest features in Laravel once we’ve compiled them. But, for now, let’s talk about Nova. Laravel’s… Continue reading Introducing Laravel Nova ― Scotch
The Impact WordPress Has Had on the Web
WordPress recently celebrated its 15th birthday. Not only is it quite an achievement for anything web-related to last that long, it’s also impressive to see that the content management system is still at its peak relevancy. That got me thinking about the impact WordPress has had on the web and specifically on web designers. Frankly,… Continue reading The Impact WordPress Has Had on the Web
Tourex: Flight booking app design template
Tourex is a modern, minimal flight booking app designed for iPhone X and iPhone 8. Freebies includes a welcome screen, a search component, flight details and booking screens, seat selection and more. Designed in Sketch and Adobe Xd and released for free by Nasir Uddin, UI/UX designer from Bangladesh. Download freebie
Building a mobile app UX testing setup for under $50
What we learnt testing different versions of the sled: The first version had a flat sled which the user had to hold with the phone in their hand (rather than having it on a flat surface) — whilst this is more in line with how a user will naturally hold their phone it meant that the setup… Continue reading Building a mobile app UX testing setup for under $50
7 Top Corporate and Business Web Designs
July 23, 2018 by Spyrestudios Web design trends aside, some things stay constant for a corporate or business website to stand out from among the hundreds and thousands in its industry. It must be contemporary, with a cutting-edge design that is appropriate for its business. It must provide a great user experience, a responsive design… Continue reading 7 Top Corporate and Business Web Designs
Try Our New Course on Coding WordPress Plugins
What You’ll Be Creating If you want to get started coding your own plugins for WordPress, try our new course, 3 Practical Projects to Learn to Code WordPress Plugins. You’ll learn by completing practical projects, so not only will you learn a lot about coding plugins, but you’ll also end up with some useful, functional WordPress… Continue reading Try Our New Course on Coding WordPress Plugins
10 steps for a better queer user experience
Do allow users to change or write in their own gender, if this is something your application makes use of. Forcing a user to re-create their whole account if their gender identity should shift isn’t a great experience and it feels like a waste of resources. Consider not having users specify a gender. There are… Continue reading 10 steps for a better queer user experience
Apps And Websites That Work Together Well
As humans become less sedentary with their use of technology, the importance of an intuitive and effective app has grown significantly for companies. In the past, it may have been acceptable to rely on a clear interface on a website to transmit information and services to consumers. The rise of smartphones and tablets has fostered… Continue reading Apps And Websites That Work Together Well
50 Best Handwritten Script, Brush & Vintage Fonts
Beautiful handpicked modern calligraphy script fonts, handwritten brush fonts and vintage fonts that can be used easily and simply, perfect for branding, logos, greeting cards, wedding stationery, stationery, typographic quotes, book covers, website headers, flyers, clothing, packaging designs and more. These high-quality script, brush and vintage fonts can significantly improve your design by simply included them… Continue reading 50 Best Handwritten Script, Brush & Vintage Fonts
5 Practical Productivity Hacks to Improve Web Design Efficiency
When it comes to web design, creativity and productivity are central to your work. If you lack in either of these areas, it will be a struggle to come up with quality results. The challenge, especially with the productivity half, is that everyone is unique. What works for one designer might not work for you,… Continue reading 5 Practical Productivity Hacks to Improve Web Design Efficiency