Hello all! And welcome to January’s portfolio roundup. There will be a lot to appreciate about each portfolio listed here, so why not grab a coffee and browse through some of the best sites that are new display design work. You’ll find a few of the most exciting designers working away in studios throughout… Continue reading The greatest portfolio that is new, January Edition
10 Mistakes to Avoid While Designing an App
Every good app developer constantly learns how to create the best apps avoiding the common pitfalls. How can you be up to date with the current methodologies and ensure that the app is bug free? There are two ways to learn. One is from the experience of developing an app and the other from other… Continue reading 10 Mistakes to Avoid While Designing an App
How to Use Swift on Linux
1. State of the Union As with any new and emerging technology or language, it is always important to stay on top of the latest news and updates. Swift as a language is no different. Apple has released many new updates and enhancements in the short time that Swift has been in existence. So you first… Continue reading How to Use Swift on Linux
Create An Emotional Photo Manipulation Of A Sad Angel In Photoshop
Rate this post Learn how to create a fantasy photo manipulation of a desperate angel in sorrow and bleak rainy scene with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create your winged angel with ordinary stock images, do some retouch and enchantment on the angel with shadows and lighting, then complete it with rain… Continue reading Create An Emotional Photo Manipulation Of A Sad Angel In Photoshop
35 Fresh and Free Photoshop Actions
Every now and then we like to showcase freebies that can designers can use to save some of their own time. Quality Photoshop actions can be great resources to have in your arsenal because in the right situation they can drastically reduce the amount of time that you have to spend to get the photo… Continue reading 35 Fresh and Free Photoshop Actions
Polaroid Stack to Grid Intro Animation
A tutorial on how to create an intro animation where a decorative Polaroid stack becomes a grid similar to the effect seen on the takeit website. View demo Download source Today we’d like to show you how to create a very simple intro effect similar to the one seen on the takeit website where a… Continue reading Polaroid Stack to Grid Intro Animation
Weekly News for Designers Week 8
New Resources & Tools Bricks.js – A blazing fast masonry layout generator for fixed width elements. Imperfect Buttons – “Hand-Drawn” border effect on buttons with CSS border-radius. 30 Projects in 30 Days to Learn Swift – A self taught project to learn Swift from Allen Wang. Editor Color Schemes – A collection of color schemes… Continue reading Weekly News for Designers Week 8
Brick.js – A Blazing Fast Masonry Layout Generator
Brick.js is a blazing fast masonry layout generator for fixed width elements. Bricks capitalizes on batched reading of layout properties for blazing fast packing time, no matter how many items. Besides performance, it features: No required HTML markup or CSS stylesheet, Minimal, powerful, and readable configuration, Optional resize handling, Optimized handling of dynamically added items.… Continue reading Brick.js – A Blazing Fast Masonry Layout Generator
How to Stay Productive While Working Remotely
It’s part-amusing, part-infuriating to read articles about remote work efficiency that discusses changing your work area in the home into an cubicle that is office-like. This type of how-to articles mostly implies that the way that is only be effective while working remotely would be to mimic an office ambiance in the home or anywhere… Continue reading How to Stay Productive While Working Remotely
LARX – Interior Design Studio Template – 8170114
Larx – is a amazing template for Creative, Architecture, Organization, Community, Company Profile, Personal Portfolio, Interior Design, and more. 13 HTML Files HTML5 & CSS3 Twitter Bootstrap 3.3 100% Responsive Layout Design Parallax Background One Page Example Multiple Page Example Demo [signinlocker]Download[/signinlocker]
Build a Custom Photo Widget for Your Desktop with Node.js
The first thing I do on any new device is customize the home screen. This has been a tradition of mine since my first non-DOS computer, when I used my Mario Paint manual to help me make some Legend of Zelda pixel art in MS Paint, and set it as the Desktop wallpaper. Now that… Continue reading Build a Custom Photo Widget for Your Desktop with Node.js
15 Incredibly Useful Tools To Increase Your Poductivity
If you’re starting a business, new project or even a daily task, you will want to find useful productivity tools to manage all tasks easier and faster. During past few years of freelancing I’ve tried many tools. Some of them were to save time, some of them were to find a shortcut and others were to… Continue reading 15 Incredibly Useful Tools To Increase Your Poductivity
Best Black and White Websites from 2016
Best Black and White Websites from 2016 is hundred and twenty-fourth edition of our Inspiring Sites of the Week weekly series, where we feature hottest websites following best practices and latest trends. We like creative, unusual and inspiring designs, and will strive to deliver the best inspiration we can get our hands on. This week we collected… Continue reading Best Black and White Websites from 2016
Free Photoshop Actions: Super Smoke Effects
Turn your ordinary photos into amazing abstract smoke art in just two steps with these amazing Photoshop actions by SparkleStock. Simply paint over your subject and the action will do everything else needed to create an awesome smoke art effect. The actions are compatible with Photoshop CS3 and newer. Super Smoke Art (Lite) These Photoshop… Continue reading Free Photoshop Actions: Super Smoke Effects
Framerjs: Innovative prototyping and design with interaction
Constant updates for free! Includes prototyping for Virtual Reality! Join more than 1400 students and learn how to use Framer JS with your Sketch 3 or Photoshop designs to create innovative prototypes, design animation and add interaction to your mobile and web designs and prototypes. This course will teach you step by step how to… Continue reading Framerjs: Innovative prototyping and design with interaction
10 Apps To Batch install & Uninstall Windows/Android Apps
Installing and uninstalling an app is a necessary process to ensure that your device is working fine. Sometimes, you need to install certain apps that you need while at the same time, you have got to uninstall some apps that are now not necessary. However, installing and uninstalling apps one at a time is quite… Continue reading 10 Apps To Batch install & Uninstall Windows/Android Apps
International Artist Feature: South Africa
For this article in the international artist series, we turn to South Africa, featuring five illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from lettering to illustration and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Pearly Yon Pearly Yon is illustrator Simone Hodgskiss, who runs… Continue reading International Artist Feature: South Africa
Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools
There are more ways than ever to get yourself (and your work) seen online. Whether yours is a design, illustration, photography, code, or product portfolio, take a look at some of these tools for getting it out there. Dunked Brainchild of Orman Clark and chums, dunked is a platform offering an account where you can upload… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools
How to Meet Visitor Expectations by Creating Websites
Creating good web sites begins with a certain consistency. This consistency is essential for the cognitive burden of a website’s visitor. Whenever your design is consistent, utilizing the internet site seems smooth and logic. Nonetheless, if it is inconsistent, the consumer has to invest unnecessary effort. This is what you need to avoid when you… Continue reading How to Meet Visitor Expectations by Creating Websites
Designing For Small Businesses: 10 Websites That Can Change The Game
Source: Be Digital[2] First impressions count. This is where pre-built websites can play a key role in creating any business-oriented website. There has to be a follow-through of course, but the importance of creating a great first impression can never be overemphasized. The problem facing the web designer is what makes a great first impression… Continue reading Designing For Small Businesses: 10 Websites That Can Change The Game
What’s new for designers, February 2016
In this month’s edition of what’s new for designers and developers, we’ve included frameworks, code resources, UX and UI design tools, JavaScript resources, design and dev tools, apps, stock photo sources, and much more. And as always, we’ve also included some awesome new free fonts! Almost everything on the list this month is free, with… Continue reading What’s new for designers, February 2016
7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX
A great user experience starts with the designer. You have to imagine and create something that people will want to touch and engage with, time and time again. Sounds easy, right? The key to delighting users is to think like one. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel with every new design project; use tools and… Continue reading 7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX
25 Completely Free Clean, Minimal & Whitespace WordPress Themes for 2016
In the current climate of WordPress themes which are trending towards larger multi-purpose themes jam-packed with features and add-ons you may never use, it can be refreshing to come across a nicely styled, clean theme which is the focus of today’s post. If you are looking for something simple to use on a personal blog… Continue reading 25 Completely Free Clean, Minimal & Whitespace WordPress Themes for 2016
10+ Photoshop Tutorials That will Amaze You.
As a web designer, there is nothing I love more than learning new things, when it comes to Photoshop I am always amazed at some of the things that people are able to create. Every once in a while, I will sit down and try to recreate some of these amazing things, and that is… Continue reading 10+ Photoshop Tutorials That will Amaze You.