International Artist Feature: Germany

For this article in the international artist series we turn to Germany, featuring seven illustrators and designers who create fantastic work from digital paintings to textile design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Cloudy Thurstag Cloudy is an illustrator and designer… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Germany

An Introduction to Intel RealSense Technology for Game Developers

Intel RealSense technology pairs a 3D camera and microphone array with an SDK that allows you to implement gesture tracking, 3D scanning, facial expression analysis, voice recognition, and more. In this article, I’ll look at what this means for games, and explain how you can get started using it as a game developer. What is… Continue reading An Introduction to Intel RealSense Technology for Game Developers

Methodologies For Effective Mobile App Usability

The volatile growth in the sales of mobile devices and their usage signifies that only a desktop-optimized website is not enough to stay ahead of the curve. Today, almost everyone owns an Internet-enabled mobile device, and thus, they expect to have apps and websites specifically designed for their devices. Certainly, to ensure a successful product… Continue reading Methodologies For Effective Mobile App Usability

Tips about how to Design the Great Logo

The fundamental shapes of universe’s geometry derive from the knowledge of ancient civilizations. These fundamental forms and functions have constantly helped us to divide time and space and have now motivated every known science (technology, languages, math, physics, civil evolvement, etc.). Art and culture have actually mostly benefited from shapes such as for example circles;… Continue reading Tips about how to Design the Great Logo

Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists

What You’ll Be Creating WooCommerce gives you a few options as to what you can display on your archive pages: products categories (on the main shop page) or subcategories (on category pages) both products and categories. When I’m setting up a store, I normally select the third option: products and categories/subcategories. This means visitors to… Continue reading Display WooCommerce Categories, Subcategories, and Products in Separate Lists

Designing Websites With Big Hero Images – Best Practices

One of the most important trends nowadays in web design are website hero images, which are generally defined as being a type of large banner that is typically located at the top of a website. Oftentimes, these images are the very first things that people see when they log on to a website. This, in… Continue reading Designing Websites With Big Hero Images – Best Practices

How to Make WordPress Sites Different by Geography

An Approach to Geolocal WordPress Sites In order to launch an inexpensive global network of sites run by volunteers that would provide shoppers categorized directories to local stores, I needed to leverage the power of WordPress with some unusual customizations and workarounds. There are a number of approaches to providing local experiences with WordPress. In this tutorial, I’m… Continue reading How to Make WordPress Sites Different by Geography

Web Designers: Roll up Your Sleeves and Sketch!

Let’s talk about why you, as a web designer, should be using pens and pencils more often. I’m going to give you some tips, tool suggestions, and plenty of reasons to roll your sleeves up and sketch! Step Away From the Computer The design process tends to isolate designers from the rest of the team, meaning… Continue reading Web Designers: Roll up Your Sleeves and Sketch!

A Collection Of Useful Photoshop Typography Tutorials

Type art is popular at the moment for all sorts of reasons – and it’s a highly versatile skill to have. You can use illustrated lettering in projects ranging from posters to brochures – making it a great technique to add to your creative toolset. But beware: type art is so popular at the moment… Continue reading A Collection Of Useful Photoshop Typography Tutorials

Showcase Of 26 Awesome Sites Using HTML5 and CSS3

Discover the social media footprint of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. Proudly brought to you by Socialbakers. I AM SACHA Follow Sacha de Boer on her trip to Gjoa Haven, a village in the Arctic. There she took photos eight years ago of exceptional people and was intrigued by their stories. Now… Continue reading Showcase Of 26 Awesome Sites Using HTML5 and CSS3

12 Best Meteor Tools For Developers

Are you a developer who is looking for some free to use meteor tools? Well, if your answer is yes, then you are lucky enough to land on the right page. In this round up, we are presenting 12 best and extremely useful meteor tools for developers. Meteor tools or MeteorJS tools are very helpful… Continue reading 12 Best Meteor Tools For Developers

20 Free Vectors to Use in Your Designs

If you’ve been searching far and wide for high-quality free vector graphics, a quick look through the superb selection should convince you that your efforts have finally been rewarded. Most of these are royalty free and many are yours for the asking. Vector graphicsserve a multiplicity of purposes.You can use them tohighlight your brand. Some… Continue reading 20 Free Vectors to Use in Your Designs

Weekly Inspiration for Designers #4

  Lost in Space by Geoff Keough Event Alert by buatoom for Craft Fig. Cloud Apps Backup by Ghani Pradita Perfecto Stock Imagery // Portrait Category by Studio–JQ Logo Project by Yoga Perdana Social music app by Jakub Antalík Reelevant Homepage by Balkan Brothers Structure – Architecture Blog by Ernest Asanov for Tubik Studio The Dark Arts by EJ Hassenfratz Daily UI challenge #037… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration for Designers #4

Creating an Accessible Breakout Game using Web Audio and SVG

As the co-author of Babylon.js, a WebGL gaming engine, I was always felt a little uneasy listening to folks discuss accessibility best practices at web conferences. The content created with Babylon.js is indeed completely inaccessible to blind people. Making the web accessible to everyone is very important. I’m more convinced than ever about that as I’m personally touched… Continue reading Creating an Accessible Breakout Game using Web Audio and SVG

Learn Web Designing & HTML5/CSS3 Essentials in 4-Hours

The Best Way to Learn HTML5 & CSS3 PSD to HTML5/CSS3 is a simple course that will teach you to take a Photoshop Mockup Design and hand-code it into a beautiful, semantic, valid HTML5 & CSS3 website. Start Speaking the Language Right Away Just like learning a human language, the best way of learning is… Continue reading Learn Web Designing & HTML5/CSS3 Essentials in 4-Hours

Weekly Inspiration for Designers #3

Book Store Website   Space onboarding   User Onboarding Screen Happy Holidays!   Weather App   Healthcare Mobile App   Dribbble Invite Giveaway – Christmas Gift   Judopay Cards   Task, Memo, Schedule, Weather & etc.   Pots App Daily UI Day 43 Food/Drink Menu   Banked App Map   Calendar   Camera Settings Flow… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration for Designers #3

Weekly News for Designers Week 1 – 2016

New Tools & Resources CSSketch, an open source CSS plugin for Sketch. Juiced, a new Flexbox CSS framework. Smartcrop.js implements an algorithm for content aware image cropping FontReach, an app that scans the top million sites to show font usage across the web. Neutron, a Sass framework for creating flexible, clear, and semantic web layouts.… Continue reading Weekly News for Designers Week 1 – 2016

Weekly Inspiration: Good Golly, Gradients

Gradients are making a sneaky comeback. For a while they belonged to the world of Miami Vice and Tequila Sunrise, then they added depth to 1980’s magazines, then there was Geocities–ok, let’s not dwell on the past. Nowadays gradients are being used on the web in bold fashion; mixing highly saturated colors for extremely rich… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Good Golly, Gradients

How To Create Impressive Websites

Image source: reuters.tv[2] As we already mentioned, ‘wow’ is the word we want our users to say when they open our website. It shows that they are amazed by what we’ve done and that our work was successful. You could appreciate them liking the site or addressing it as nice, but it is much better… Continue reading How To Create Impressive Websites

Inspiring Sites of the Week: Best Portfolio Websites

217 Views January 18, 2016 Nis, Serbia Inspiration 1 min read Inspiring Sites of the Week is a weekly series where we feature the latest and hottest websites targeting the design world from around the globe. If it’s creative, unusual, has great functionality and is built using the cutting-edge technology we feature them here. Get inspired… Continue reading Inspiring Sites of the Week: Best Portfolio Websites

How to Create a Scrolling Background in Affinity Designer

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we’ll go through the process of creating a horizontal, tileable background that is perfect for side-scrolling 2D games (action, adventure, hack & slash) for PC, mobile and browsers. We’ll be using the basic vector tools of Affinity Designer, and you’ll see how we can make the image seamless… Continue reading How to Create a Scrolling Background in Affinity Designer

Masterstudy – Education Center WordPress Theme

MasterStudy is the best WordPress theme for the Education & Learning Center – for educational organizations, who sell courses and organize classes locally. Using Masterstudy you can easily setup a stunnig WordPress site for your education business. We have done a deep research of Education center industry and we know exactly which features your Learning… Continue reading Masterstudy – Education Center WordPress Theme

Tools and resources for web-site designers and designers

Hi fellows! Come and have a look at these amazing nice and fresh resources which will improve to outter space your developing, not leaving behind the appearance. Find great libraries for graphics managing, interface, applications, interactivity, and collections of framework technologies, versatile containers, mailing tools, useful communication APIs, server under-the-hood tools, powerful design tools, Halloween-related… Continue reading Tools and resources for web-site designers and designers