Getting started as a creative professional is never easy. Although the market for freelance and independent digital designers is booming at the moment, most newbies still find it hard to get their foot in the door. Here are some of the ways you can get started and find work in the industry: 1. Join an… Continue reading How to get work as a freelance digital designer
Goal-based Sketching for UX design
Sketching and doodling can be fun, relaxing and has the power to expand your thinking. However when trying to solve problems, sketching can also distract your process. As a User Experience designer, I have found setting constraints like a timer or a whiteboard super helpful in putting pressure on the ideas being explored. Sketching up… Continue reading Goal-based Sketching for UX design
Free Christmas Vector Set (Cards, Backgrounds, Patterns etc.)
Christmas is just around the corner and it one of the most cheerful and brightest time of the year.I’m sure you start to think about gift ideas for your family and friends.There are many things to be planned for this special time of the year. If you are designer and have project for Christmas time… Continue reading Free Christmas Vector Set (Cards, Backgrounds, Patterns etc.)
Bootstrap Magic: A tool for creating Bootstrap themes
Bootstrap Magic is a free but powerful tool to create custom Bootstrap themes in-browser in minutes. We’ve tried it out and we have to admit that it’s a great product, simple and easy to use thanks to a built-in HTML editor with live reload. Bootstrap Magic leverages Sass’s power to make all helper functions available… Continue reading Bootstrap Magic: A tool for creating Bootstrap themes
How To Make Your Websites Look and Feel Original
There are hundreds of millions of websites active on the web. It can be hard to imagine how a single lonely website or brand can hope to make an impact. Decent inbound marketing can be help, and Search Engine Optimization can certainly play a role, but none of these efforts will help you get visitors… Continue reading How To Make Your Websites Look and Feel Original
You want these special Black Friday deals for designers?
Posted · Category: Best Collections Attention web designers and developers. Black Friday is upon us, and it’s your turn to participate in the fun and excitement. We’ve put together nine attractive deals just for you. In fact, there is one or more you’re certain to want to take advantage of while they’re available. You’ll have to… Continue reading You want these special Black Friday deals for designers?
UX portfolios, writing products, discoverability in touchscreens, and more UX this week
How to build a UX portfolio if I have never worked in UX? → A lot of user experience professionals who are active in our industry today have faced the question above when starting their career. Let’s be honest: it’s a bit unfair. “Portfolio” is a mandatory field in almost every job application form, regardless of… Continue reading UX portfolios, writing products, discoverability in touchscreens, and more UX this week
Free iOS 11 UI kit for Photoshop & Sketch
A massive iOS UI kit brought to you by Apply Pixels which includes a bunch of useful screens and common interface elements, controls, shapes, containers and icons. This free UI kit is available for Photoshop (in PSD format) and Sketch (as symbols). Access to resource is reserved for subscribing members. It only takes a minute to… Continue reading Free iOS 11 UI kit for Photoshop & Sketch
Get Started with iPhone’s Taptic Engine.
You’re a UI designer. You’ve heard about the Taptic Engine on the iPhones and watched the developer videos where Apple encourages you to integrate them into your design. At first you thought, it’s only on the iPhone 6S. It’s a small market. Then the next iPhone came and you procrastinated more. And now it’s maybe… Continue reading Get Started with iPhone’s Taptic Engine.
Different Strokes: How Brands Build Logos Using Typeface
The concept of something as intangible as a design calling consumers’ attention to a tangible product is a concept that goes back more than one hundred years with brands such as Pepsi, Valvoline and Jack Daniel’s. These logos of yesteryear might be largely unfamiliar, but the way designers chose how to construct a likable image… Continue reading Different Strokes: How Brands Build Logos Using Typeface
Top 7 Brightest WordPress Web Design Trends We Met in 2017
The year 2017 is slowly running to the end, so we can start drawing the first conclusions in regards to the trends that were in the biggest demand among the web audience. It’s become our good tradition to start every New Year with the series of predictions for the next 365 days and finish the… Continue reading Top 7 Brightest WordPress Web Design Trends We Met in 2017
What designers can learn from the iPhone X
I’ve been playing around with the iPhone X for a couple of days now. The one thing that surprises me the most is how different it is from all the previous models. It’s the most radical deviation from the original iPhone, and yet — or perhaps precisely because of it — the best update so far. With it’s high… Continue reading What designers can learn from the iPhone X
The Perfect Product Label
When trying to create the perfect product label, there are certain fundamental steps you must adhere to in order to reach the right design. Labels for products have to convey a lot of information while also appealing to customers and standing out from the competition so going through the right process to get the perfect… Continue reading The Perfect Product Label
Inter UI: A free font for highly legible text
Inter UI is a free font family designed by Rasmus Andersson for featuring an excellent readability on computer screens. Typeface comes in 4 weights (regular, medium bold and black) and includes italic style. It works great for English-language text, and pretty well for other Latin and Cyrillic languages. Inter UI is very similar to Roboto for… Continue reading Inter UI: A free font for highly legible text
How to make smart group decisions on food — iPhoneX experience design
Step 3. Key findings from User Research Most people handle food decisions over text or email. Cite: This data comes from a research called Looking at the Food [data], conducted by Hannah Moyers. The results are from a survey which has gained 150 responses, with half of them coming from the US. 2. Users chat (physically or… Continue reading How to make smart group decisions on food — iPhoneX experience design
Site Authentication in Node.js: User Signup and Login
Just as authentication is important in APIs, it is also an important feature in certain web applications—especially those with pages and secrets that should only be accessible to registered and authenticated users. In this tutorial, you will build a simple web application while learning how to create user registration. Application Setup Create a new directory… Continue reading Site Authentication in Node.js: User Signup and Login
Best PHP Books, Courses and Tutorials in 2017
November 8, 2017 by Alex Fox While JavaScript has gained popularity for animation and interaction, PHP still rules the server-side scripting world. Developers with strong PHP skills are more competitive in the job market, and can build better sites with improved user experiences. If you want to freshen up your PHP skills or get started… Continue reading Best PHP Books, Courses and Tutorials in 2017
The relationship between design deliverables and presentation skills
In 13 years working in UX, I have joined a considerable number of meetings where UX Designers present their work to the rest of the team. More than I can remember, to be brutally honest. Consumer journeys, sitemaps, wireframes, benchmark audits, personas, user research reports — the list of deliverables designers are creating is huge. Presenting work… Continue reading The relationship between design deliverables and presentation skills
Pearl WP – The Most Functional Theme You’ll Ever Need to Build Your Business Website
Pearl is unlike any WordPress theme you’ve ever used. Why? You’ll have the capability to design a website to the exact specifications of your business, personal blog, expertise or passion. It is versatile, sleek and adaptable for really any type of business use. Pearl is a micro-niche business WordPress theme that allows you to mirror… Continue reading Pearl WP – The Most Functional Theme You’ll Ever Need to Build Your Business Website
How to Read and Write CSV Files in Python
The CSV format is the most commonly used import and export format for databases and spreadsheets. This tutorial will give a introduction of the csv module in Python. We will learn about all the functions and classes that it makes available for you to read and write data to CSV files. We have also included… Continue reading How to Read and Write CSV Files in Python
How Can 123ContactForm Maximize Your Marketing Capability
Optimizing digital marketing is required for every website owner who wishes to successfully compete with the most important companies. The market is a complicated one, with lots of competitors which heavily invest and become stronger day by day. There is no room for errors or for „IFs”. Everything should be researched and well documented, this… Continue reading How Can 123ContactForm Maximize Your Marketing Capability
Fresh Free Font Of The Day : Romero
Here on Designbeep,we also aim to help designers to find free yet high quality resources whether for your web design projects or graphic design projects.Who doesn’t like freebies? Well,although we bring together free font collections time to time we decided to share a free font everyday and today’s free font Romero is designed by Sebastian… Continue reading Fresh Free Font Of The Day : Romero
Simplux – Creative Portfolio and Blog WordPress Theme
SIMPLUX is a WordPress Theme, it’s not just ordinary WordPress theme, its a new look of soft and clean professionalism for Corporate, Portfolio and Blogging. These designs combine creativity with simplicity on each page. This theme is suitable for all creativity, blogs and creative corporate businesses. Theme is built especially for portfolio focus website so… Continue reading Simplux – Creative Portfolio and Blog WordPress Theme
Voyage: A free travel-themed UI kit for Framer
What we are featuring today is a pretty unusual freebie: that’s Voyage, a free travel UI kit for Framer that you can use for creating fully interactive app prototypes easily and with little effort. Freebie includes 20 screens, 42 ready-to-use interactions and 78 elements brought to you by the design team at Framer. You just… Continue reading Voyage: A free travel-themed UI kit for Framer