Open Source Week at SitePoint

If you are reading this, chances are you have stumbled upon something remotely related to Open Source. opensource.com defines it in a simple manner: More from this author Ilya Gelfenbeyn, CEO of Api.ai, on AI and the IoT Why the Internet of Things Still Has a Long Way to Go The term “open source” refers… Continue reading Open Source Week at SitePoint

Some of The Best Black Friday Deals Are Already Here

Posted · Category: Best Collections Black Friday is a super time to take advantage of bargains in household items and consumer electronics. But what about bargains for web designers? As it turns out, web designers haven’t been left out of the picture. You can see from this selection of design aids, UI kits, stock photos, and WP… Continue reading Some of The Best Black Friday Deals Are Already Here

Popular design news of the week: November 14, 2016 – November 20, 2016

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular design news of the week: November 14, 2016 – November 20, 2016

Affinity Designer for Windows released

I’ve actually been using the beta versions of both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo for a little while now, in my daily work. Given their beta status, I haven’t gone so far as to design whole websites with these apps or anything of the sort, but I used them for small, quick tasks just to… Continue reading Affinity Designer for Windows released

A free set of 100 Ai icons for Christmas

Today’s featured freebie is a set of 100 Christmas icons brought to you by Designer Bundle and released exclusively on Freebiesbug. The package includes an Illustrator file containing vector shapes icons that you’re free to edit at your pleasure. Like what you see? Thats great. Get 50% off the full set of 27000 icons using coupon code: FB50% at… Continue reading A free set of 100 Ai icons for Christmas

12 JavaScript libraries to watch in 2017

With hundreds of free JS libraries out there it’s tough to know where to put your energy. Some end up discarded or forked into new projects, while others grow rapidly and achieve widespread adoption. Most developers already know the big names like jQuery and React. But in this post I’d like to introduce twelve alternative… Continue reading 12 JavaScript libraries to watch in 2017

5 Best Collaboration Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow

Posted · Category: Best Collections A team leader’s role is to take a group of people who have diverse yet complementary skills, and variable degrees of experience, and mold them into a cohesive team.  And make them work together toward a common objective. These same skills that can do so much when given proper direction can just… Continue reading 5 Best Collaboration Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow

Making logos work for the web

When you design for the web, no matter the industry, there are expectations that must be met, and realities that must be accounted for. Although this is true for all forms of web design, it is especially true for logo design. This is something we’ve encountered numerous times. Think about the many different conventions of logo… Continue reading Making logos work for the web

Mixmax Sequences – Powerful Drip Campaigns for Gmail

Posted · Category: License Free, Webmail Mixmax Sequences is easy, powerful drip campaigns for Gmail, Google Inbox, and Salesforce. You can easily add contacts, prospects or recruits to your outbound campaigns. Customize messages with variables to keep a human touch. If you’re in Salesforce – add any contact or lead to a Sequence directly. You… Continue reading Mixmax Sequences – Powerful Drip Campaigns for Gmail

Turn Your Web App Into A Native App

Posted · Category: Information 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

Generate the Admin Microservice of your App with Lumber

Posted · Category: GPL License, Tools Lumber is an opensource tool to generate an admin microservice. It serves a REST API hooked directly into your database. Lumber generates a lightweight web app serving a REST API hooked directly into your database, so it works out-of-the-box for MySQL and Postgres. If you’ve already architectured your application… Continue reading Generate the Admin Microservice of your App with Lumber

Creating a design system language

It seems like the current buzz word in the design industry and everyone wants one. But how exactly can a product benefit from having a living, breathing design language? I’m going to try break down the very basics so you can understand why it’s needed. Creating an underlying language will unite our design philosophies and… Continue reading Creating a design system language

The best new portfolio sites, October 2016

Hello readers! World events have been very interesting lately, but now it’s time for what we all know is really important: other peoples’ portfolios! Okay, it’s not that important in the grand scheme of things, but design is one thing we can all agree o… ahahaha. I can’t even properly finish that sentence. Not even… Continue reading The best new portfolio sites, October 2016

Comics of the week #365

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world… Continue reading Comics of the week #365

Top 10 resources for designing email newsletters

The world of email marketing is constantly changing. There are dozens of tools out there tailor made to help marketers write emails, designers craft emails, and developers code emails. But with so many tools available, it can be frustrating to find the best ones. That’s why, in this post, I’ve curated the top ten best… Continue reading Top 10 resources for designing email newsletters

Winds – Open Source Personalized RSS Reader

Posted · Category: MIT License, Tools Winds is an open source & beautiful RSS reader built using React/Redux/Sails/Node 7 and Stream. It showcases personalized feeds (using machine learning similar to Facebook, Flipboard, Etsy, and Quora) powered by the http://getstream.io API. This tutorial explains how the personalization API works (http://bit.ly/personalization-winds). You can also check out the… Continue reading Winds – Open Source Personalized RSS Reader

Affinity Photo comes to Windows

Friends, Windows enthusiasts, and people generally just stuck with Windows… rejoice! Rejoice, for some real competition to Adobe has finally hit our platform. Affinity Photo is here in Beta form, and it is looking mighty fine. I’ve had a chance to play around with it, and I have to say that I am duly impressed.… Continue reading Affinity Photo comes to Windows

The Verge gets a redesign

Okay, let’s just get this out of the way: on this, the verge of a new year, the Verge got a redesign. Now the punnery is over and we can get on with our lives. It had to be done, or I could not call myself a writer. So let’s get to the good bit:… Continue reading The Verge gets a redesign

Choice paralysis: 3 ways the number of choices impacts conversions

Maybe you’ve heard of a phenomenon called choice or analysis paralysis. In short, it’s a situation where a customer can’t make a decision on a purchase because he’s faced with so many choices that they end up paralyzing him. Hence, choice paralysis. In the annals of marketing, there’s this notorious jam experiment that painfully details… Continue reading Choice paralysis: 3 ways the number of choices impacts conversions

Cloudinary – Real-Time Video Transcoding and Management in the Cloud

Posted · Category: Video Web and mobile developers face many challenges when trying to manage videos on their sites and in their apps. The Cloudinary Video Management solution simplifies the process by enabling developers to quickly and easily optimize and transcode videos in real-time in the cloud. The solution, which integrates with existing workflow, gives… Continue reading Cloudinary – Real-Time Video Transcoding and Management in the Cloud

What’s new for developers, November 2016

In this edition of what’s new for developers, we’ve included app platforms, source code tools, AI and bot resources, frameworks, JavaScript resources, and much more. Much of what’s on the list this month is free, with a few high-value paid apps and tools also included. They’re sure to be useful to developers, from beginners to… Continue reading What’s new for developers, November 2016