Gradients are on-trend for 2017, and they’are a good way to make your design look a little more up to date. They also provide a pleasing illusion of depth and distance, which can add some volume to one-dimensional layouts. Check out these tips for using gradients in web design to get acquainted. Put Gradients in… Continue reading Tips for Using Gradients In Web Design
On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent
On Being Humble Be modest. Your accomplishments to date have brought you this far, but don’t depend on it to bring you any further. That design competition you won, painting sold to a museum exhibition, or local media sensation? Cheers to having your hard work rewarded. Keep it up. Your accomplishments in the future starts with… Continue reading On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent
Design Continuity Matters
Planning and executing your site for multiple platforms Today’s digital data world is not inclusive of just the computer monitor or the laptop screen, but rather a combination of phones, tablets, smart devices, laptops, desktops, and mini-computers. As a business, it is vital that the information you present for such platforms have a level of… Continue reading Design Continuity Matters
4 Considerations for Choosing a Web Host
Managing and maintaining a successful small business website is a full-time job. There are countless elements to manage, hundreds of things to consider and thousands of new things to learn to improve the efficiency of the site. Whether you need to learn about vector artwork, find out how to reduce bounce rates or decide how… Continue reading 4 Considerations for Choosing a Web Host
Piroll: A design template for agency/personal portfolio
Piroll is a PSD design template by Svetlana, UI designer from New York, that you can use for building your own agency or personal portfolio. This template has a minimal and modern look and provides great flexibility: that makes it suitable for designers, photographers, web agencies and studios, freelancers and so on. In the download… Continue reading Piroll: A design template for agency/personal portfolio
A Little Help – Developing A Tutorial-Driven Website
September 1, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger It’s harder and harder to carve out a profitable niche among the millions of sites populating the web today, but one option that has stood the test of time is the tutorial website. Based on a constantly evolving knowledge base, innovative presentation styles, and overall profitability, tutorial websites may… Continue reading A Little Help – Developing A Tutorial-Driven Website
Which Metric Should You Use to Measure Customer Satisfaction?
The “Net Promoter Score” and the “Customer Effort Score” are two ways of measuring customer satisfaction. Let’s look at the similarities and differences. In UX design, metrics are used to measure how something is performing, and the “Net Promoter Score” (NPS) is recognised as being the gold standard of measuring satisfaction. Satisfaction may be a fairly… Continue reading Which Metric Should You Use to Measure Customer Satisfaction?
Improving Couple of Experiences in Strava (Unsolicited)
Recording an activity Current design analysis The app comprises of four tabs: Feed (default selection), Explore, Record, Profile and More. Although the Feed is the default selection, most of the times, as soon as I open the app, all I want is to start recording the activity, i.e, running or cycling. However, in the current setup, I… Continue reading Improving Couple of Experiences in Strava (Unsolicited)
Museums, show your collection some love
Part I If you’ve ever visited a museum website, the above navigation structure probably looks familiar to you. Sections for “visit,” “exhibitions,” and “collection” are the core navigational components for the vast majority of museum websites. There’s an essential distinction that museums make between the permanent collection (those objects owned by the institution) and exhibitions… Continue reading Museums, show your collection some love
Free Download : Awesome Oktoberfest Posters (Ready To Print)
Our friends from Freepik shares today on Designbeep with all our readers a complete pack that includes an amazing variety of free awesome oktoberfest posters that you can use in your design projects. Each vector graphic comes with .AI and EPS files and you can use,share or easily modify these posters both for your personal… Continue reading Free Download : Awesome Oktoberfest Posters (Ready To Print)
How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design
The better designed the website and the better the usability, the more likely people will come back to use it – and the more views, the more conversions and the better the website performs. Gaming websites need to be at the very height of attractive web design, especially in such a saturated sector. The look… Continue reading How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design
3 Working Methods to Create a Beautiful and Fast Loading Website
Did you know that there are currently over a billion active websites and blogs on the internet today? It’s true! When they say “active”, that means they are actually live and producing content. If you were to take a count of every website, blog, forum and info source online, you would quickly find yourself counting… Continue reading 3 Working Methods to Create a Beautiful and Fast Loading Website
Free Downloads: Fintech and World Cities Icon Sets From Agente Studio
August 29, 2017 by Noemi Twigg We’ve got two free icons sets for you today, thanks to Agente Studio, a full-service UX/UI design and mobile/web development agency based in New York and Minsk. For your Fintech and travel design projects, you’ll find these two free icon sets ultra useful. Fintech Icon Set Fintech has become a buzzword… Continue reading Free Downloads: Fintech and World Cities Icon Sets From Agente Studio
Vivify – A New Free CSS Animation Library
As web standards are changing constantly and being improved, we see now that web browsers can do many more things than just displaying text and images. The era of having web pages with just images and text is long gone and in order for you to be successful in this competitive area, you need to… Continue reading Vivify – A New Free CSS Animation Library
4 Metrics You Should Look At To Measure Website Success
Now that you have a well-designed website that is easy on your reader’s eye and simple to navigate, you still need to determine whether it is truly successful. To do this, you have to dive into data and analytics. Of course, measuring your site’s success is not all about pretty colors, textures and fonts. Google… Continue reading 4 Metrics You Should Look At To Measure Website Success
Zyma.com – Free 1 Year Web Hosting
Who is Zyma? Zyma.com is a fast growing web hosting company in the UK, with the mission of making a better hosting service that cares about its customers. We were immediately impressed by their website and their highly affordable plans. Why Use Zyma as hosting provider: They have a great long track record of being… Continue reading Zyma.com – Free 1 Year Web Hosting
23 Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers
Fresh free fonts download for commercial use. New stylish fonts included handwritten, sans serif typefaces and script fonts ideal for signature logos, t-shirts, brochure, magazines, social media, greeting cards, invitations, weddings, headers and much more! All fonts are free and available for commercial use. If you need more cool fonts, you must check our font’s collection, because we published thousands of… Continue reading 23 Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers
UX overload, toolkit of a product designer, testing words, and more UX this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????. You don’t need to know everything about UX → I find myself saying this to other people quite often. You don’t need to be a specialist in all possible verticals within User Experience Design. And you probably can’t. A lot of people are starting in UX… Continue reading UX overload, toolkit of a product designer, testing words, and more UX this week
Interface: A typeface designed for user interfaces
Interface is a free font for highly legible text on computer screens. It started out in late 2016 as an experiment to build a perfectly pixel–fitting font at a specific small size (11px.) Interface font works great for English-language text, and pretty well for other Latin and Cyrillic languages. Feel free to download the latest release… Continue reading Interface: A typeface designed for user interfaces
Get Free Social Media Icons and Logo Sets From IconBunny
August 24, 2017 by Noemi Twigg One can’t have enough icons and logos to work with, can one? While there are tons of free sets available, many of the best ones don’t come for free. Their creators have to make a living after all. Today, however, we are giving away some high-quality icons and logo… Continue reading Get Free Social Media Icons and Logo Sets From IconBunny
Is WordPress Ready for the New EU Privacy Rules?
Data is invaluable in the digital age, and if you have online presence, particularly if you run a website, then you are automatically part of the data game. With the new EU rules on data protection set to come into force in less than a year from now, how will WordPress – everyone’s favorite platform… Continue reading Is WordPress Ready for the New EU Privacy Rules?
Tips on Designing Site Architecture for Optimal SEO Results
Think of site architecture as a blueprint of a house. If effectively created, the site architecture can help you lay out the structure of your website so that it serves your target audience as well as the search engines. Your goal should be to create a fine balance between these two segments. As far as… Continue reading Tips on Designing Site Architecture for Optimal SEO Results
Psychology Hacks to Improve Your Website’s Effectiveness
August 23, 2017 by Alex Fox Psychological research has yielded a ton of fascinating precepts that can help us create better websites. By utilizing these psychology hacks, we can improve our websites’ effectiveness, increasing revenue and driving more traffic. Beneficial Defaults In the United States, we have a problem with organ donations: very few people… Continue reading Psychology Hacks to Improve Your Website’s Effectiveness
Kotlin From Scratch: Packages and Basic Functions
Kotlin is a modern programming language that compiles to Java bytecode. It is free and open source, and promises to make coding for Android even more fun. In the previous article, you learned about ranges and collections in Kotlin. In this tutorial, we’ll continue to learn the language by looking at how to organize code using… Continue reading Kotlin From Scratch: Packages and Basic Functions