Shards: A modern UI toolkit based on Bootstrap 4

Shards is a free and modern design system based on the popular Bootstrap 4 framework. It is basically a UI toolkit including responsive components and icons from both Material and Font Awesome packs. Shards is built with performance in mind having a small footprint and weighting (it’s ~12kb minified and gzipped). Download includes the original Sketch and SCSS files so you can get your… Continue reading Shards: A modern UI toolkit based on Bootstrap 4

UX trends, 2017 highlights, and more UX links this week

The State of UX in 2018 → We have seen quite a lot this year. After curating and sharing 1,926 links with 189,489 designers all over the world, we see a few trends in what our industry is writing, talking, and thinking about. Here is what to expect for UX in 2018.

New Fresh HTML5 WordPress Themes

Fresh new WordPress themes, all themes and templates are fully responsive, SEO optimize, retina-ready, cross-browser compatible with powerful easy to use theme features. All themes are professionally designed to be versatile and light-weight, with a modular Bootstrap and HTML5 and CSS3 coding features. Best WordPress themes comes with a well documented help file, which will assist you configure the template… Continue reading New Fresh HTML5 WordPress Themes

A Showcase of Great Typography Usage in Web Design

Good typography is vital to having an effective website. Visitors need to be able to read the info on a site, whether it is an eCommerce website or a purely informational website. If they aren’t able to read it, they will quickly leave. The site will not be linked to, so it won’t show up… Continue reading A Showcase of Great Typography Usage in Web Design

Stockio.com – Thousands of Free Photos, Vectors, Icons, Fonts and Videos

Finding images, graphics, fonts or even videos for your design projects can be a difficult challenge. Photos and graphics are expensive; many of us have found that to be true. With many thousands of new designs being created each day there is a growing need for designers to obtain good quality royalty free images, free… Continue reading Stockio.com – Thousands of Free Photos, Vectors, Icons, Fonts and Videos

5 Essential Features of a Viable Human Resources Software

The end of the year makes an ideal time to reflect on the year’s performances and to make new resolutions for the new year. As a business owner, your human resources department is the most important within your company. The unit is vital in hiring, firing, payroll, benefits, and understanding all tax and employment laws.… Continue reading 5 Essential Features of a Viable Human Resources Software

23 Best Booking Plugins in WordPress for Reservations (2024)

Are you looking for an automated booking or reservation plugin? These tools can help you and your customers save valuable time. Leave your competitors behind and streamline your appointments with premium booking plugins. Guests should find it easy to view, reserve, and book appointments on your website. This is where reservation plugins for WordPress can… Continue reading 23 Best Booking Plugins in WordPress for Reservations (2024)

Rippplr

I am still recoiling from the loads of information and knowledge sharing that happened during IxD14 last week. You guys should follow #1xd14 on twitter and catch up on the videos at Vimeo channel. During the conference, I conducted a workshop at the HKU on “Playful Thinking”. To give you a short introduction, ‘Playful Thinking’… Continue reading Rippplr

New Christmas Wallpapers from DesignWorksStyle.com

You can always tell when it’s December from all of the festivities happening everywhere. It’s the holiday season, Christmas Is just around the corner, and there will be plenty of beautiful moments to share with friends and family this holiday season. Of course, moments aren’t the only free things you’ll be wanting to enjoy this… Continue reading New Christmas Wallpapers from DesignWorksStyle.com

Webster – Responsive Multi-Purpose HTML5 Template

Why settle on one theme and one layout when you can have over 220 HTML5 pages and more than 29 home pages? Yes, Webster is 100% responsive and comprehensive template with cool features like- parallax, smooth scrolling, retina-ready, responsive mega drop-down menu, MailChimp, Recaptcha, PHP contact form, and a bunch of free plugins (Revolutions slider,… Continue reading Webster – Responsive Multi-Purpose HTML5 Template

Creative SVG Strokes Animation | Codrops

A creative strokes animation of a bike illustration powered by SVG and GSAP. SVG stroke animations are nothing new, but when using a more complex drawing that is basically made of strokes, then we can create a very original looking effect. Using many different colors and adding some other element animations, we can bring a… Continue reading Creative SVG Strokes Animation | Codrops

Car Dealer – The Best Car Dealer Automotive Responsive WordPress Theme

If you are looking for an amazing car dealer WordPress theme for your existing or upcoming automotive website, then this is a perfect package which undeniably acquires all the auto dealer website development needs with a stack of 10 unique layout options, 6 listing pages, 3 style detail pages, 6 working PHP forms, and over… Continue reading Car Dealer – The Best Car Dealer Automotive Responsive WordPress Theme

Human Centered Automation

Embraer 190 Flight Deck Redundancy is one of the ways for develop error resistant design, every important system have a backup (sometime backups) operation alternatives. It’s is also true for human actions, that’s why we have this pilot plus co-pilot operation. In the past we had 5 humans operating a cockpit, as automation increases, less people… Continue reading Human Centered Automation

Botera: A free font with wine flavour

Botera is an amazing typographic project created by Javi Montoya for a wine brand. It is basically a stencil serif font ideal for creating luxury beverage labels (for example whisky, beer, wine, etc.). Botera comes in two weights (Regular and Stencil) and includes 278 characters (uppercase, lowercase, alternative characters, ligatures, decimal and old numbers, punctuation marks and… Continue reading Botera: A free font with wine flavour

Canny Edge Detector Using Python

Edge detection is an essential image analysis technique when someone is interested in recognizing objects by their outlines, and it’s also considered an essential step in recovering information from images.  For instance, edge detection can extract important features like lines and curves, which are then normally used by higher-level computer vision or image-processing algorithms. A… Continue reading Canny Edge Detector Using Python

UX is a Process. SEO, too.

TL;DR: Most people consider the value of both UX and SEO in the same way. Instead, we need to emphasize that both are about the process and an end result, not a product or deliverable. The Internet is a crazy place. Where else can you find a whirlwind of scholarly papers one minute and an… Continue reading UX is a Process. SEO, too.

How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites

While a simple, clean website design might seem easy at first, the fact of the matter is the process is a lot more complex than you think. There’s a lot of stuff going on underneath the surface that makes the clean website functional. Most people don’t need or care about that makes these sites function,… Continue reading How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites

Beautiful and Simple Logo Design Ideas for Your Inspiration

November 30, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger You have launched your online store, put a social media campaign in place, and created a roadmap of how you can grow your business over time. However, now it’s time for the company branding. So, how do you start with that?Branding comprises of many things- your company’s work culture,… Continue reading Beautiful and Simple Logo Design Ideas for Your Inspiration

Mockplus Repeater vs. Adobe XD Repeat Grid, which one do you like better?

What do you think is the most tedious aspect of a designer’s workflow? I believe that’s to create repeating layouts and then make small adjustments over and over again. However, in the process of building a prototype, we often find a lot of similar parts need to be made. Although copy-and-paste is a good solution,… Continue reading Mockplus Repeater vs. Adobe XD Repeat Grid, which one do you like better?

15 Great Gifts for Web Designers

November 29, 2017 by Alex Fox Buying gifts for the technologically inclined can be challenging. Here’s fifteen great ideas for gifts for web designers. This unique sketch pad is created to help developers design websites for both desktop and mobile platforms. If you don’t like this pad, UI Stencils has an awesome collection of similar… Continue reading 15 Great Gifts for Web Designers

9 Email Design Inspiration for a Killer Campaign

Email marketing has been rumored to be dead. Don’t believe that just yet. People still read emails. In fact, 80% of retail businesses say that email marketing is the number one customer retention, according to eMarketer. There are many factors for when an email is considered “good.” But right now, let’s talk about design first.… Continue reading 9 Email Design Inspiration for a Killer Campaign

The Best Email Design Hunt 2017 – Showcase Your Email Design Talent

Emails have paved a long way from being a plain text personal communication to an effective marketing channel with amazing animations and interesting interactive elements. The entire email industry is sure to experience many more revolutionary trends in the years to come. EmailMonks, one of the largest email template production company, is happy to announce,… Continue reading The Best Email Design Hunt 2017 – Showcase Your Email Design Talent

Fontisto: An iconic font and CSS toolkit

Fontisto is a new iconic font curated and maintained by Kenan Gündoğan that includes more than 360 pictographic icons and a CSS toolkit for easily customising size, color, drop shadow and anything else via CSS. Features: It doesn’t require JavaScript Icons are infinitely scalable and look sharp on HiDPI screens The icon font has been built with accessibility… Continue reading Fontisto: An iconic font and CSS toolkit

There’s no such thing as “minor design changes”

Sharing a quick story I found on Intercom’s blog about how there’s no such thing as a small change in a product. At some point Intercom’s team decided to limit the number of characters of their reviews to 140. “We want to limit the length of a review in the product to 140 characters, because… Continue reading There’s no such thing as “minor design changes”