Posted · Category: Information It’s all too easy to fall into the trap of trying to move up the ladder, through trying to demonstrate your work ethic to managers and coworkers. While there’s certainly nothing wrong with that, it’s not always easy to recognize when this pattern has gone too far and has taken a… Continue reading Burnt Out Vs. Time for a Change
Automatic Art Direction with Cloudinary’s Responsive Images Breakpoints Generator
Posted · Category: Tools Earlier this year, Cloudinary released the Responsive Breakpoints Generator to help developers automate the process of generating optimal sets of responsive image resources. This tool makes it easy to generate *resolution-adaptable* images – upload any high-resolution image to get the responsive image markup and an optimal set of resources to back… Continue reading Automatic Art Direction with Cloudinary’s Responsive Images Breakpoints Generator
Create a Sci-Fi Chamber Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Learn how to create a sci-fi photo manipulation of a mysterious chamber with amazing light flares and great entrance with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to contruct your own chamber with textures , place a model in front of the entrance and then complete it by adding realistic shadows and lighting effect Throughout… Continue reading Create a Sci-Fi Chamber Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
One-Click Desktop, Cam, & Mic Recording Tool for Chrome
Posted · Category: License Free, Video Opentest is the fastest way for you to share knowledge and collaborate more easily through video. The seamless experience makes it perfect for: Walking a co-worker through a project, Bug tracking/QA (both web & mobile), Personalized sales demos, Customer support. Opentest let’s you do all that for free without… Continue reading One-Click Desktop, Cam, & Mic Recording Tool for Chrome
Build Human-Friendly Databases for Free with Airtable
Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Airtable is not just a spreadsheet replacement, nor just a user-friendly database. Their mission is to democratize software creation by enabling anyone to build the tools that meet their needs. Creators and creatives around the world use Airtable to do everything from cattle tracking to filmmaking, and they have.… Continue reading Build Human-Friendly Databases for Free with Airtable
Cool Posters Design Inspiration – 37 Examples
Some people use to say that posters are a dying art, that they are not used anymore as often as they were before the internet era. It is true that posters had their golden age when everybody used almost only posters for advertising. That age, however, is not fully gone. In fact, it’s not gone… Continue reading Cool Posters Design Inspiration – 37 Examples
The Best Watercolor Brushes You’d Download
Advertisement The watercolor brushes give you a chance to make a connection between traditional art and digital art. Designing with watercolor effects in one of the most popular concepts in recent years, and has ensured a place both in web design and out-of-the-box photo editing. Some people argue that replicating watercolor effects in the digital… Continue reading The Best Watercolor Brushes You’d Download
UI Movement – The Most Popular Design Animations
Posted · Category: Inspiration, License Free UI Movement started out as a newsletter that featured the best UI designs every day. The main real difference between UI Movement and other design inspiration sites, is that they focus exclusively on UI designs. Since the original, simple newsletter format, UI Movement has been updated to make for… Continue reading UI Movement – The Most Popular Design Animations
Free Stock Photos – Where To Get Them From
Advertisement One thing that has always been a very integral part of web design is photography. One of the most unfortunate things about this, however, is that we’ve come across nothing but mediocre stock photos of men in suits shaking hands. In addition to not only being extremely tacky, these kinds of photos can also… Continue reading Free Stock Photos – Where To Get Them From
Looking for a Prototyping Tool? Here are Some Very Good Ones
Posted · Category: Best Collections First of all, how exactly do you intend to present your design, or elements of it, to others, or test the UX? With a prototype of course, but there are also wireframes and mockups to consider. All three serve a purpose, but they are not one and the same. The… Continue reading Looking for a Prototyping Tool? Here are Some Very Good Ones
Turn Your Web App Into A Native App
Posted · Category: Tools Web apps are awesome, but many are not optimized for mobile, or are done so in ways that leaves much to be desired. These days, a poor mobile experience can quickly drive away users and kill engagement. While app users’ attention spans are shortening, they increasingly demand truly native mobile app… Continue reading Turn Your Web App Into A Native App
Get Started With Firebase for Android
Mobile applications need a back-end server in order to perform tasks such as authenticating users and synchronizing user data across multiple devices. Creating such a server, however, requires a skill set that most independent app developers lack. Fortunately, there are several back-end as a service platforms, often called BaaS, you can use today. Google’s Firebase… Continue reading Get Started With Firebase for Android
Vectr – Free Graphic Editor Used to Create Vector Graphics
Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Design software shouldn’t bring people a sense of struggle, yet that’s exactly how the troublesome design software we grew up on made us feel. With their incredibly steep learning curve and counter-intuitive tools, they would deter our potential as designers rather than helping us to unleash it. We’ve all… Continue reading Vectr – Free Graphic Editor Used to Create Vector Graphics
Meet the Latest Monstroid WordPress Theme Update and Save 40%
Posted · Category: Best Collections We are excited to bring your attention to the most recent update of Monstroid – a multipurpose WordPress theme packed with premade designs, tools for developers, plugins, and many other awesome features.We have already featured Monstroid in one of our posts, and even hosted a giveaway. Today you have a… Continue reading Meet the Latest Monstroid WordPress Theme Update and Save 40%
SVG Tools And Resources You Might Want To See
Advertisement SVG, also known as Scalable Vector Graphics, is one of the fastest and best tools being utilized by web developers, especially those who are looking to have different animations placed into the many websites and apps that they design. As mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets become more and more popular throughout the… Continue reading SVG Tools And Resources You Might Want To See
Every Designer Should Know The Importance Of Prototyping
Advertisement The importance of prototyping should be obvious to anyone involved in designing website or mobile apps. A prototype allows a designer or developer to create a form out of a concept, so that everyone who is involved in the process can give their feedback and make necessary adjustments before a final version is produced.… Continue reading Every Designer Should Know The Importance Of Prototyping
Which Technical Skills Will Earn You the Most Money?
Posted · Category: Information If you work in or near technology, you are well-versed in the high-stakes economy of engineering salaries. All engineers are in super high demand for sought-after (and well paid) positions, the collective narrative goes. Hired’s first-ever Hiring Pulse Report: Q2 2016 adds some nuance to that narrative. TL;DR: Engineers are still… Continue reading Which Technical Skills Will Earn You the Most Money?
The Principles Of Information Architecture
Advertisement At the heart of online design sits information architecture. In fact, a large proportion of our function as online designers is devoted to supporting users when it comes to locating the content that they need, and driving them towards the content that website owners would like them to interact with. As such, we incorporate… Continue reading The Principles Of Information Architecture
Access 5000+ Design Assets for Just $29/Month!
Posted · Category: Best Collections Do you often find yourself struggling to find the right graphic asset to complete your projects? How does access to 5000+ highly curated fonts, graphics templates, icons, UI kits and much more for just one low monthly price sound? Envato Elements promises all this and more. Just launched, it offers… Continue reading Access 5000+ Design Assets for Just $29/Month!
Introducing Divi 3.0
Posted · Category: Information Divi 3.0 introduces a complete new front-end editor that has been re-built from the ground up using React, a modern JavaScript library for user interfaces. This new builder allows users to edit their WordPress pages on the front-end of their website using simple and beautiful visual controls. When you activate the… Continue reading Introducing Divi 3.0
Showcase Of Colorful Mobile User Interface Designs
Advertisement User Interface (UI) has two parts: technological and aesthetic. The technological half is the logic and scientific method used to make not just a program work, but to ensure that users find access to the program simple to navigate. The aesthetic half provides users with an interface that is attractive visually and draws the… Continue reading Showcase Of Colorful Mobile User Interface Designs
Get Notified when a DOM Element Enters or Exits
Posted · Category: MIT License, Tools You can Get notified when a DOM element enters or exits the viewport with in-view.js. It’s a small (~1.9kb gzipped), dependency-free, javascript utility for IE9+. With in-view, you can register handlers that are called when an element enters or exits the viewport. Each handler receives one element, the one… Continue reading Get Notified when a DOM Element Enters or Exits
Cheat Sheets Web Designers Need: CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery
Advertisement When it comes to CSS, HTML or jQuery codes, you just can’t know them all. It’s pretty hard but with the help of these cheat sheets for web designers you can manage to get pretty close to knowing them all, considering that you have everything in from of you and it is easy to… Continue reading Cheat Sheets Web Designers Need: CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery
Candy – Bookmarks for the 21st Century
Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Most tools focus on delivering information to you today, but do not help in recording, retrieving and making use of it. Candy does. You can drop the meaningless links, lost articles in read later silos, and copy-pasting into docs. Candy helps you capture ideas in an easy and beautiful… Continue reading Candy – Bookmarks for the 21st Century