3 Months with Figma: Why it Changes Design Forever

Like most designers, I started with Photoshop, using it for over half a decade. From there, Sketch burst onto the scene and did not take long to announce itself as the go-to tool for designers. For the last three months, I have been using Figma each and every day, integrating it into my workflow and… Continue reading 3 Months with Figma: Why it Changes Design Forever

Singer – Simple, Composable, Open Source ETL

Posted · Category: Framework Singer is an open-source standard for writing scripts that move data. It describes how data extraction scripts—called “Taps” —and data loading scripts—called “Targets”— should communicate, allowing them to be used in any combination to move data from any source to any destination. Send data between databases, web APIs, files, queues, and… Continue reading Singer – Simple, Composable, Open Source ETL

Logo Templates: 25 Custom Logo Design Templates

A superb and modern logo templates that you can use for branding projects, labels, apparel design, typography and any business logo design. They’re all fully editable with well organized Photoshop PSD layers and Illustrated, groups and folders. These logos are designed using creative methods so that you can easily make a guess about the brand by… Continue reading Logo Templates: 25 Custom Logo Design Templates

The Three Photo Effects in Luminar You’ll Fall in Love With

Posted · Category: Stock Photos Every image, in every webpage you work on, should be flawless in terms of its quality, and its ability to fit with the concept or idea behind the page. An image should also fit in contextually with the accompanying text. These considerations, and how cleverly you apply them, can make… Continue reading The Three Photo Effects in Luminar You’ll Fall in Love With

Free Responsive and Clean WordPress Theme

This theme is March’s Free File of the Month from Themeforest. Ecobox is a unique, clean and responsive template. It is designed with fresh and natural color scheme to represent ecofriendly feel of your business. Ecobox comes with Revolution slider, 6 homepage layouts, 2,3,4 columns portfolio layouts, 5 blog pages, contacts pages and more. The… Continue reading Free Responsive and Clean WordPress Theme

Overcoming Material Design.

Okay, I’m going to start this off with one statement; Material Design is great. It has helped unify user interfaces across platforms, and it provides designers with awesome resources (the icons especially ????????). And while some of you may use aterial Design as your UI-North-Star (why are you doing that to yourself), I am not… Continue reading Overcoming Material Design.

4 Ways Designers Can Use Asana to Organize Their Work

Collaboration, organization, and communication are important to making a design process flow smoothly–especially when you’re dealing with multiple stakeholders or cross-functional teams. After all, nothing is worse than having to waste time digging around Google Docs for a product roadmap from last month or not getting enough context for a mockup you’re about to work… Continue reading 4 Ways Designers Can Use Asana to Organize Their Work

9 Best WordPress Plugins for Use in 2017

Posted · Category: Best Collections WordPress has many pluses, but it’s not necessarily the most glamorous platform to work with. Still customize it with themes and plugins to fit a designer’s needs has made it the most popular CMS. Plugins are great to have access to when you need to embed certain functions into your… Continue reading 9 Best WordPress Plugins for Use in 2017

31 New Useful Free Photoshop PSD Files for UI Designers

New highly useful Photoshop and Illustrated free PSD files for web and graphic UI designers. These PSD graphics are very easy to use with the Smart Object and available in fully editable layered files. Free PSD graphics included PSD logos, App UI, Flyers, Business Card Templates, Vector Icons, Web Templates, Mock-ups and more useful free psd files for… Continue reading 31 New Useful Free Photoshop PSD Files for UI Designers

Popular design news of the week: February 20, 2017 – February 26, 2017

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular design news of the week: February 20, 2017 – February 26, 2017

Propeller: CSS framework based on Google Material and Bootstrap

Propeller is a responsive CSS framework that combines Google Material Design and Bootstrap components into a new library. It may be useful to drastically reduce the amount of decisions to make when writing code, and focus on logic rather than on semantics and formatting. Super useful to create quick prototypes and Minimum Viable Products! View project page

6 SEO Must-Haves for Web Designers & Developers

February 24, 2017 by Veronika The design and development work on a website doesn’t end with setting it live. Having a clean, W3C-validated code and an eye-catching design will surely help you get on the railroad to success. Yet, if you’re looking into building a website that truly stands out from the rest and provides… Continue reading 6 SEO Must-Haves for Web Designers & Developers

Form is Functional: Why Design is More Than Gold Plating

When budgets are tight in the software world and companies want to save money, form is usually the first to go. In these situations, the design tends to be considered ‘gold plating’ and not a necessity. It’s thought to only make the product ‘look nice’. This assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. Form has… Continue reading Form is Functional: Why Design is More Than Gold Plating

25 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers

Fresh free fonts, script fonts, handwritten fonts and typefaces for graphic designers. These fonts are available for personal and commercial use. You can use these fonts as a logo, badge, insignia, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel, greeting card, and wedding invitation. The following  typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and fit for any web or graphic project. Take a… Continue reading 25 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers

Best Places to Find Transparent PNG Images

February 23, 2017 by Veronika As browser-based graphic design tools gain popularity among amateurs and professional designers there is an increased demand for ready-to-use transparent PNG images. Sure, raster design software, like Photoshop and its free alternatives (GIMP and Pixlr) can help you easily trace and cut out the unnecessary segments of a photo and… Continue reading Best Places to Find Transparent PNG Images

Elements: Dashboard UI kit for Photoshop and Sketch

Elements is a free UI kit including a lot of useful components (inputs, buttons, selects, dropdowns, notifications, tables, etc.) to get started with dashboards / admin pages design. The freebie comes in both PSD and Sketch formats and it’s been designed and released by Jan Losert, experience designer at at Tapdaq. Download freebie

9 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes For 2017

Here, we have come again with yet another exciting and useful compilation of 9 WordPress themes that are all new and eye-catching. The list contains WordPress themes for real estate websites, portfolio websites, businesses, creative agencies and more. In addition to huge variety, all the themes are responsive design with clean, modern and minimal features.… Continue reading 9 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes For 2017

A letter from Sol LeWitt about creative block, read by Benedict Cumberbatch

In 1960, pioneering American artists Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse met for the first time and instantly clicked, quickly forming a strong, deep bond that would last for ten years and result in countless inspirational discussions and rich exchanges of ideas. In the video below, Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter sent from Sol to Eva… Continue reading A letter from Sol LeWitt about creative block, read by Benedict Cumberbatch

How to Build an Effective e-Commerce Shopping Cart

February 20, 2017 by Spyre Studios The internet has given shopping a whole new meaning. No longer do you have to wait for someone to come into your store, or meet you in person. In fact, you can never see customers in person and still run a successful sales operation. But therein lies the danger… Continue reading How to Build an Effective e-Commerce Shopping Cart

Interaction Awards, Chatbot Interactions, Empathy as Faux Ethics, and more UX this week

What’s hot in UX this week: Notifications: an Interview with John Saito, from Dropbox → We dream of a future with connected and ubiquitous experiences, but we still feel overwhelmed with the notifications across all our devices. In this last piece of our series we interviewed John Saito, ‘designer of words’ at Dropbox, about how we… Continue reading Interaction Awards, Chatbot Interactions, Empathy as Faux Ethics, and more UX this week