As a designer, you can enhance the user experience of a website or mobile application by adding subtle animations to its components. One such component is a search input box. This tutorial will cover how to create an expanding search input; one which expands when a user clicks on a search icon. You’ll find this… Continue reading How to Create an Expanding Search Input with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Best Parade Flyer Templates | Envato Tuts+
There’s no better way to get the word out about an upcoming parade than by handing out flyers. Create eye-catching flyers with these terrific parade flyer templates from Envato Elements and Placeit. For one low monthly fee, these subscription-based marketplaces offer tons of awesome parade flyer templates, fonts, logos, add-ons, and more. Let’s take a… Continue reading Best Parade Flyer Templates | Envato Tuts+
What Font Does IKEA Use?
IKEA is known around the world for its well-designed, low-cost furniture and household goods, and the blue and yellow IKEA logo has also become iconic. Learn all about the IKEA logo history, colours, font, and more. IKEA logo. Source: IKEA website What Font Does IKEA Use? Let’s start by answering the question: “What font does… Continue reading What Font Does IKEA Use?
How to Use the Equalizer in Audacity for Better Audio
In the world of digital audio editing, Audacity shines as a straightforward yet powerful tool, ideal for various audio projects. A key feature that sets Audacity apart is its ability to equalize audio effectively, a process essential for improving audio quality. Whether you’re adjusting the tones in a musical piece or striving for the best… Continue reading How to Use the Equalizer in Audacity for Better Audio
Design Systems 101: An Introduction to Design Systems
In order to design a scalable website or app, you need an effective and efficient way to manage it without introducing errors, inconsistencies, or friction-filled experiences. This is what a UI design system is for. In this introduction to design systems, we’ll look at real examples of design systems that leading organizations use today. We’ll… Continue reading Design Systems 101: An Introduction to Design Systems
Crafting an effective design system strategy
How to build a strategy, not a roadmap A design system is a product. A product that solves concrete tasks: ensuring consistency reducing development time and much more Most often, the main reason to create a new product is that you want it to be different from the existing ones on the market. After all, why waste time… Continue reading Crafting an effective design system strategy
Web Design Trends for 2024
One of the best parts about my job is that I get to talk to designers and developers all the time, and they help me keep tabs on what’s happening in the world of web design. Today, four experts from Tuts+ Web Design are here to tell you what you should keep an eye on… Continue reading Web Design Trends for 2024
Experimental On-Scroll Text Animations with SVG Clip-Path
You may have come across those design elements with knockout “text”, revealing an image or pattern behind it. Sometimes, it doesn’t even look like text, but more like shapes: Or like the one seen on the website of Newfolk. I find that these elements can really contribute a nice dynamic touch to a design. I… Continue reading Experimental On-Scroll Text Animations with SVG Clip-Path
5 Best Free Audacity Effects Plugins to Download 2024
Audacity, renowned for its open-source prowess, stands as a versatile audio editing software, catering to both beginners and those at an intermediate level. The key to unlocking its full potential lies in the use of Audacity plugins. In this article, we delve into the realm of free Audacity plugins, spotlighting those that stand out in… Continue reading 5 Best Free Audacity Effects Plugins to Download 2024
Audacity: How to Smooth Out & Clean Up Audio Quality
Audacity stands as a titan in the world of audio editing, offering a vast array of tools for those eager to enhance their audio recordings. This guide, tailored for intermediate users, focuses on how to smooth out and clean up audio in Audacity. It’s an essential read for podcasters, musicians, or any audio enthusiast aiming… Continue reading Audacity: How to Smooth Out & Clean Up Audio Quality
How to Integrate Bootstrap 5 Tabs With Chart.js
Today, I’ll cover Chart.js, a very popular JavaScript library, and teach you how to incorporate charts of this library into Bootstrap 5 tabs/pills. The idea is that each time we click on a Bootstrap tab, the target chart will be reconstructed and hence reanimated. Bear in mind that this technique can work for embedding such… Continue reading How to Integrate Bootstrap 5 Tabs With Chart.js
How to Integrate Bootstrap 5 Tabs With Chart.js
Today, I’ll cover Chart.js, a very popular JavaScript library, and teach you how to incorporate charts of this library into Bootstrap 5 tabs/pills. The idea is that each time we click on a Bootstrap tab, the target chart will be reconstructed and hence reanimated. Bear in mind that this technique can work for embedding such… Continue reading How to Integrate Bootstrap 5 Tabs With Chart.js
15 Best WordPress Block Themes for 2024
Want to create modern, engaging and visually striking websites and web pages? Look no further than WordPress block themes. They allow you to create visually stunning and professional-looking web pages without any coding knowledge. The benefits of using WordPress Blocks are numerous, including easy customization, improved user experience, increased flexibility, and enhanced design options. In… Continue reading 15 Best WordPress Block Themes for 2024
18 New Best Insurance Card Templates for 2024
Do you really need a business card? Business cards will remain relevant in 2024, primarily for client-facing roles like insurance agents. It’s an extension of your brand and an integral part of your marketing toolkit. Insurance Business Card Templates, a premium file from Envato Elements Are you starting up an insurance business, rebranding an existing… Continue reading 18 New Best Insurance Card Templates for 2024
How to Recreate the GTA 6 Background
What You’ll Learn in This Tutorial How to make the Grand Theft Auto background How to make palm trees with brushes in Adobe Illustrator How to make a building in perspective in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial Assets You’ll need the following resources in order to complete this project: 1. How to Make a… Continue reading How to Recreate the GTA 6 Background
Build a Simple YouTube App with Vanilla JavaScript
The Tuts+ YouTube channel is fast approaching 1.5M subscribers. Let’s celebrate this great achievement by creating something YouTube-oriented! We’re going to build a simple, yet fully functional YouTube app with Vanilla JavaScript. The concept will be pretty straightforward; we’ll build a simple UI where we can enter the ID of a channel and our app… Continue reading Build a Simple YouTube App with Vanilla JavaScript
Build a Simple YouTube App with Vanilla JavaScript
The Tuts+ YouTube channel is fast approaching 1.5M subscribers. Let’s celebrate this great achievement by creating something YoutTube-oriented! We’re going to build a simple, yet fully functional YouTube app with Vanilla JavaScript. The concept will be pretty straightforward; we’ll build a simple UI where we can enter the ID of a channel and our app… Continue reading Build a Simple YouTube App with Vanilla JavaScript
Test smart: How to validate product on a business-facing level?
It took a long time since my story How to Select Testing Techniques for an Agile Team was published (if you ask me what happened in between, the short answer will be: a war in Ukraine and a career pivot). The mentioned story focused on Agile Testing Quadrants, a method presented by Lisa Crispin and… Continue reading Test smart: How to validate product on a business-facing level?
The deeper meaning behind Japan’s unique UX design culture
The Japanese writing system is a combination of several scripts. Kanji, the main script, was borrowed from the Chinese. Kanji literally means “characters of Han (China).” The Chinese alphabet didn’t cover all of the Japanese cases. Japan had their own terms and names. Therefore, Hiragana and Katakana were added later. Hiragana is a phonetic lettering… Continue reading The deeper meaning behind Japan’s unique UX design culture
Rock Solid WordPress Security: Keeping Your Business Safe
Development By Simon Sterne Today WordPress is the web’s favourite CMS (content management system), renowned for its low-entry level and vast array of themes and plugins. WordPress’s open-source nature allows for endless flexibility, catering to diverse needs and technical skills. Unfortunately, 10,950,000 websites are hacked yearly, and 4,708,500 of those belong to small businesses. WordPress’s… Continue reading Rock Solid WordPress Security: Keeping Your Business Safe
Create a Currency Converter with HTML, CSS, and Vanilla JavaScript
Let’s create a fully functional currency converter application using HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. By the end of this tutorial, we will have a responsive currency app that fetches real-time data with the Exchange Rate API and presents it in a user-friendly interface. HTML Structure Our currency application will have a simple interface containing :… Continue reading Create a Currency Converter with HTML, CSS, and Vanilla JavaScript
Create a Currency Converter with HTML, CSS, and Vanilla JavaScript
Let’s create a fully functional currency converter application using HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. By the end of this tutorial, we will have a responsive currency app that fetches real-time data with the Exchange Rate API and presents it in a user-friendly interface. HTML Structure Our currency application will have a simple interface containing :… Continue reading Create a Currency Converter with HTML, CSS, and Vanilla JavaScript
Google Maps: a refreshing turn in the right direction
Finally! Google Maps gets a much-needed makeover… and we’re here for it. Sometimes, a reroute is all it takes to rediscover the joy of the journey — Google Maps’ latest update is a testament to that. What’s New Since My Last Rant A few months back, I ripped into some serious user experience flaws in Google Maps. Google Maps: about that… Continue reading Google Maps: a refreshing turn in the right direction
Build a Grid-to-Full-Screen Image Animation With CSS (and a Touch of JavaScript)
In this tutorial, I’ll show you a motion effect where a split-screen image grid layout will turn into a full-screen image. 1. Begin With the HTML Markup We’ll define three sections: The first and third sections won’t have any real value, but we’ll utilize them to prove that the effect can work inside any page content.… Continue reading Build a Grid-to-Full-Screen Image Animation With CSS (and a Touch of JavaScript)