25 Inspirational Branding Design Projects

Branding is very important and should go hand in hand with your marketing and PR strategies. A strong brand always has a beautiful logo design, it’s easy to remember and keeps a close relationship with its clients. Whether you’re a brand owner or a designer, these 25 inspirational branding design projects will surely help you… Continue reading 25 Inspirational Branding Design Projects

Card Expansion Effect with SVG clipPath

View demo Download source Today we are going to create a experimental grid layout with “cards” where we’ll animate the card expansion with a morphing effect on the cover image and follow its motion with a delightful animation of a low-poly pattern used as the background of the page. We are using Trianglify by Quinn… Continue reading Card Expansion Effect with SVG clipPath

Understanding Color Psychology for Impactful Web Design

It’s no secret that color psychology is used extensively in all aspects of design. From the colors used on day-to-day grocery items, to brand logos and website design, color is an important element that can convey a specific message to users. Photo credit: Dropbox According to Kissmetrics, when we view a color, our eyes send… Continue reading Understanding Color Psychology for Impactful Web Design

Learn JavaScript and Up Your Photoshop Game

You’re a Photoshop master. You have your preferences perfected, the menus memorized. You’re a Wacom wielding wizard. Or are you? If you use Photoshop and you don’t code, you’re wasting time and effort with every project you touch. That’s time you could use to do more creative, enriching work or to get away from your… Continue reading Learn JavaScript and Up Your Photoshop Game

Top 5 Scroll-to-Animate Effects in Online Animation

Online animation has become much more than a parlor trick for developers to show off their skills. Animation is used to create more sultry interfaces that feel smoother and easier to use. Natural animation gives off a certain vibe of corporeality to interface design. One area that’s seen a lot of attention is the scroll-to-animate technique.… Continue reading Top 5 Scroll-to-Animate Effects in Online Animation

20 Amazing Free WordPress Photography Themes

Photography websites and online portfolios are often confused. While the former put a special emphasis on the blog aspect, the latter are more photo-centric. If you are looking for a ready-made design that can become the rock-solid foundation of your photography website, look no further. In this blog post today we will showcase 20 of… Continue reading 20 Amazing Free WordPress Photography Themes

15 Essential Graphics Tools for Online Designers

Great design is a process of hard work and inspiration. There are no shortcuts, but technology offers you plenty of tools to save time and increase productivity. Of course the hard part is actually finding the software that fulfills your needs. Over the course of the last year I’ve created an online toolbox, composed of… Continue reading 15 Essential Graphics Tools for Online Designers

CamanJS – Image Manipulation in JavaScript

CamanJS is (ca)nvas (man)ipulation in Javascript. It’s a combination of a simple-to-use interface with advanced and efficient image/canvas editing techniques. CamanJS is very easy to extend with new filters and plugins, and it comes with a wide array of image editing functionality, which continues to grow. It’s completely library independent and works both in NodeJS… Continue reading CamanJS – Image Manipulation in JavaScript

10+ Developer Tools We Can’t Live Without

In this article, we have gathered 11 of the best fresh and useful tools for web developers, these web tools will make your workflow more efficient and highly productive. We invite you to give them a try and see how they will improve your website, promote your business and create better communication between you and… Continue reading 10+ Developer Tools We Can’t Live Without

Subtle and Transparent Gorgeous Website Designs with Gradients

Gradients, welcome back. Although it seemed that they had gone forever and without a trace, as practice shows, history always repeats itself, and material design, flat style and iOS8 inspired patterns have prepared the fertile ground for it. As a result, one cannot but agree that there is a rise in popularity in this direction.… Continue reading Subtle and Transparent Gorgeous Website Designs with Gradients

Tools and Resources Every Web Professional Should Know About

It’s quite easy to get lost in the numerous tools and resources available for web professionals at the moment. Some are truly extraordinary and others aren’t really work your time. In order to help you get the best ones for your business we’ve comprised a list of the ten best we could find. Stamplia Stamplia… Continue reading Tools and Resources Every Web Professional Should Know About

10 Flat CMS to Setup Lightweight Websites – Best of

Traditional content management systems (CMS) like WordPress or Joomla is great but if you build a small website or a personal blog, you probably don’t need the rich functionalities offered. What you need is a simpler, more elegant and lightweight solution — what you need is a flat CMS. The most striking difference you will… Continue reading 10 Flat CMS to Setup Lightweight Websites – Best of

65 Handpicked Minimal WordPress Themes For Portfolio Owners and Agencies

Minimalism is being used in almost every art forms and the concept of minimalism has been quite around for centuries.Minimalism has affected many artists for years and since the birth of world wide web it’s been also quite popular among web designers.In web design,minimalism is to bring the content to the forefront in order to… Continue reading 65 Handpicked Minimal WordPress Themes For Portfolio Owners and Agencies

9 Crucial Tips To Help You Stop Procrastinating Now

The freelance designer has a job that many people envy. Being able to work from home or anywhere with an internet connection, having flexibility with working hours, avoiding a rush hour commute, and being able to wear whatever you want to work are some serious perks. However, working independently and working from home brings plenty… Continue reading 9 Crucial Tips To Help You Stop Procrastinating Now

20 Beautiful and Free Hand-Drawn Fonts

Designers can never ever have enough fonts in their toolbox, and hand-drawn fonts are the perfect choice if you want to add a little charm and personal touch to your work. With appropriate and well thought-out use of white space, hand-drawn fonts can give your designs some added style and elegance. In this collection, we… Continue reading 20 Beautiful and Free Hand-Drawn Fonts

Create a Free WordPress site without any Coding: CloudPress

Today we are going to be taking a look at a unique take on providing WordPress themes, named CloudPress, it is an app which lets you design a WordPress theme from scratch ( or choose from a number of existing themes ) and customize it using drag and drop building tools. Once you are done… Continue reading Create a Free WordPress site without any Coding: CloudPress

iDevie Weekly News (week 29)

New Resources & Tools iconate.js, a tiny performant library for cross-browser icon transformation animations. SmartIcons, infinite icon system for the modern web. Animate-Plus, a performant JavaScript library that helps you animate CSS properties and SVG attributes. Predawn, a dark interface and syntax theme for Sublime Text and Atom. 50 CSS and JavaScript Tools, Frameworks and… Continue reading iDevie Weekly News (week 29)

Accessibility for Modern Responsive Website Layouts

The older methods of web design have fallen by the wayside to make room for HTML5/CSS3 design. Unfortunately when you’ve become ingrained with older design techniques it can be difficult to extricate yourself from the outdated workflow. But modern usability centers around responsive design and requires more attention to detail. The following design tips are… Continue reading Accessibility for Modern Responsive Website Layouts

Some Of The Best Multipurpose WordPress Themes

Most of the multipurpose WordPress themes presented here were chosen because of their extreme flexibility, versatility, and ease of use. The majority of them will be highly useful in creating virtually any type of website, and several of those listed here were designed with a specific type of website in mind. Every single theme in… Continue reading Some Of The Best Multipurpose WordPress Themes

Realistic 3D Casino Style Bulb Sign Photoshop Tutorial

In today’s tutorial we’re going to play around in Photoshop to create an illuminated bulb sign similar to those used on Las Vegas casinos and Broadway theaters. The sign will be created as a standalone piece of text, using Photoshop’s powerful 3D tools to simulate a hyper realistic setting within a warehouse. We’ll then add… Continue reading Realistic 3D Casino Style Bulb Sign Photoshop Tutorial

The Value of UX Research in Product Development

When we talk about user experience, we quite often end up discussing UX Design. Some may even refer to UX and UX Design as a same thing, which they are not. Today I would like to draw your attention to the “pre-story” of amazing and usable design — user experience research. Let’s try to answer… Continue reading The Value of UX Research in Product Development

Making SVG Accessible

1: Treat linked SVG images as you would bitmaps When linking to an SVG document as an image, the alt attribute is still required: <img src=”coca-cola-logo.svg” alt=”Coca-Cola”> … just like a regular bitmap. 2: If you’re using inline SVG, provide a title The <title> of an SVG element serves a similar purpose to the <title>… Continue reading Making SVG Accessible