Interact.js – JavaScript plugin for drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures

JavaScript drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping for modern browsers (and also IE8+) Including: – Inertia – Snapping to a grid, custom anchors or paths. – Cross browser and device, supporting the desktop and mobile versions of Chrome, Firefox and Opera as well as Internet Explorer 8+ – Interaction with… Continue reading Interact.js – JavaScript plugin for drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures

8 Best Approaches to Design a Website (That Can Also Impact Your Conversions)

A website’s design is not dependent on its visual flare of the amount of things you’ve managed to fit on one page, it’s about usability and utility. These two elements are what define a successful website, not the amount of visual flare. Just like people, the beauty of a website needs to come from within.… Continue reading 8 Best Approaches to Design a Website (That Can Also Impact Your Conversions)

20 Online CSS3 Menu, Layout & Code Generators

Though CSS3 generators or tools are not necessary but can provide a strong start for your menu or layout designs. These tools can speed up the design workflow. You can change the code later according to your needs. In this article we featured 20 CSS3 menu, layout & code generators you can find online. These… Continue reading 20 Online CSS3 Menu, Layout & Code Generators

Free Material Design GUI Templates & Icon Sets

Material Design is an innovative visual language that has been designed to unify the user experience of all of their products across all devices, and has been built on the principles of successful design combined with technology. So far you may have experienced the beautifully simple aesthetics of Material Design via Google’s Gmail, Inbox and… Continue reading Free Material Design GUI Templates & Icon Sets

25 Beautiful and Minimalist Websites

Minimalism is one of our favorite styles of web design. A well-designed website with a minimalist style may look simple, but they’re not always easy to design. This collection shows 25 excellent examples of well crafted minimalist websites from around the web. If you have others to share, feel free to let me know in the comments below.… Continue reading 25 Beautiful and Minimalist Websites

Communicating a Message Through Visual Hierarchy

The goal of every design is to successfully communicate a message. Visual hierarchy enables you to organize information and elements so that the message can be communicated easily. Hierarchies also enable the design to tell a story to communicate the message. What is Visual Hierarchy? When you organize information based on importance, that’s hierarchy. Visual… Continue reading Communicating a Message Through Visual Hierarchy

Use Ptengine Heatmap to Make Your Website Perfect

If content is king, then design is the castle. Good web design for businesses not only has the content to peak audience interest for whatever product or service you’re sell-ing, but also has an intuitive UI to encourage sales. Lots of designers think they have brilliant ideas for designing UI, but without real world user… Continue reading Use Ptengine Heatmap to Make Your Website Perfect

10 Useful jQuery Image Slider Plugins

While working on various designing an development projects, there sometime arises the need of various plugins, tools and extensions that claim to solve the purpose with ease. What these extensions do is they ensure to help you get the desired results without having to undergo the entire process by yourself. In short, the plugins, tools, apps and extensions… Continue reading 10 Useful jQuery Image Slider Plugins

Create Rocky Face Manipulation with Abstract Lighting Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this Rocky Face Manipulation with Abstract Lighting Effect in Photoshop. You will learn some interesting methods of creating nice-looking abstract line effects and some fancy colouring technique with adjustment layers. Have a try! This is an intermediate level tutorial and some steps can be tricky.… Continue reading Create Rocky Face Manipulation with Abstract Lighting Effect in Photoshop

38 Visually Awesome CSS Tutorials & Techniques

If you are looking for some cool and visually appealing CSS tutorials and techniques, then look no further. In today’s round up, we are unveiling 38 most useful CSS tutorials along with some cool techniques that would help you a lot. These are the tutorials that focus on making the smaller details of the web… Continue reading 38 Visually Awesome CSS Tutorials & Techniques

15 Best Tools For Prototyping And Creating Apps

If you are building mobile app you need to get within many stages. You can’t build a mobile app only using just the native developer kit. You are creating wireframes and prototypes, these are the most essential stages of your project. Building an app requires that you have the right tools to deliver efficiently on… Continue reading 15 Best Tools For Prototyping And Creating Apps

Apps to Watch: Code School, Lumify, Momondo and Others

Apps to Watch is a weekly collection of the most beautiful and innovative mobile apps in the market. There are more apps coming to the market every single day but only a few will make the cut. Here is a collection of 10 apps that are beautifully designed, solve a problem, entertain and have a… Continue reading Apps to Watch: Code School, Lumify, Momondo and Others

Creating a Good Design Brief for Your Mobile App

Understanding well what a client has in mind for his/her mobile app can be a slippery process. As a designer, you surely want to deliver to the best of your abilities and make the client happy. But when it comes to ensuring the success of a mobile app design project (or any other design project… Continue reading Creating a Good Design Brief for Your Mobile App

iDevie Weekly News (week 47)

This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week. New Resources & Tools MissqlCommand – A web application designed to help you learn SQL. Galaxy – A modern front-end framework based on conversational language. The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate – A foundation… Continue reading iDevie Weekly News (week 47)

7 Crucial Web Design Trends For 2015

Looking back at 2014, we can see some spectacular trends emerging in the web design landscape: code-free design platforms, parallax effects, single-page websites, and many more. While many design trends are fleeting, a select few are natural evolutions of the industry. As the range of devices on which we view websites continues to grow, designers… Continue reading 7 Crucial Web Design Trends For 2015

Create Dark Text Effect Inspired by “Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor” Game in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this dark text effect inspired by the action game “Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor” in Photoshop. This is a beginner to intermediate level tutorial. Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in Photoshop CC – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the… Continue reading Create Dark Text Effect Inspired by “Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor” Game in Photoshop

How To: Live Edit WordPress Themes CSS with the CSSHero Plugin

If you wish to customize your WordPress theme, then unless it has a live editor built-in then you would need to have some knowledge of CSS which is how the visual look of themes are constructed. A Stylesheet contains the CSS rules which govern your site’s layout, colors, font choices and so on and can… Continue reading How To: Live Edit WordPress Themes CSS with the CSSHero Plugin

Drag and Drop Interactions Ideas for Your Inspirations

The idea is to show a droppable area that stands for certain actions after an element is being dragged. The demos are just some experimental ideas of how these kind of interactions can be imagined. The idea is to allow to drag an item and then show some droppable area that stands for certain actions.… Continue reading Drag and Drop Interactions Ideas for Your Inspirations

The Essential Elements of a Portfolio Website

Professionals in the photography industry are feeling the heat when it comes to demonstrating the value their work can impart. Whether it’s winning an assignment with a top-rate photography magazine, being hired by a client or seeking a photographer’s job role at the daily newspaper – the indispensable role of a photography portfolio cannot be… Continue reading The Essential Elements of a Portfolio Website

15 FREE Responsive WordPress Themes

With the growing usage of mobile devices, responsive themes are a necessity nowdays! Almost all good WordPress themes will have responsive designs, and some may even be retina ready! If you’re looking for a good, responsive WordPress theme, we’ve got you covered! We selected 20 fresh responsive WordPress themes which are also free to download and use.… Continue reading 15 FREE Responsive WordPress Themes

Creating Useful Breakpoints in Responsive Layouts

In our modern technological era you can find devices with any screen size that all have access to the Internet. This means bored people around the world can visit their favorite websites from a laundry basket full of different screen dimensions. If this were Pee-wee’s Playhouse I’d say the word of the day is: breakpoint!… Continue reading Creating Useful Breakpoints in Responsive Layouts