This collection of 40 best PSD mockups for designers covers both free and paid options, offering useful tools for professional and personal work. PSD mockups help designers present branding, packaging, and product ideas with realistic visuals. You can use them to display logos, packaging, websites, or apparel in real-life settings. These mockups save time and… Continue reading 40 Best PSD Mockups for Designers (Free & Paid)
Stable Diffusion & Its Alternatives: Top 5 AI Image Generators
[unable to retrieve full-text content] AI-generated imagery has become an essential part of the modern product designer’s toolkit — powering everything from early-stage ideation to polished design assets. Stable Diffusion is one of the most popular and flexible platforms for creatives that enables designers to generate a wide range of imagery with ease. However, with growing competition… Continue reading Stable Diffusion & Its Alternatives: Top 5 AI Image Generators
Learn How to Display WordPress Custom Field Data With Blocks — Speckyboy
Custom fields are among WordPress’s most powerful features. They allow us to customize the front and back end of a website, and there are all manner of creative uses for them. Everything from displaying niche content to changing page layouts based on field values is possible. Traditionally, using custom fields meant navigating obstacles. They require… Continue reading Learn How to Display WordPress Custom Field Data With Blocks — Speckyboy
AI Chatbots Discourage Error Checking
Summary: AI hallucinations threaten the usefulness of LLM-generated text in professional environments, but today’s LLMs encourage users to take outputs at face value. Large language models (LLMs) are being widely introduced into professional workflows through both new standalone software and integrations with existing tools. One of the most important ways that these tools increase users’… Continue reading AI Chatbots Discourage Error Checking
Best CSS Frameworks for React: Which One Should You Use?
Best CSS Frameworks for React are essential tools for developers who want to build beautiful, responsive, and efficient web applications without reinventing the wheel. As React continues to dominate the front-end ecosystem, choosing the right CSS framework can significantly streamline your development process and enhance your app’s performance and user experience. React is a powerful… Continue reading Best CSS Frameworks for React: Which One Should You Use?
50 Best Logos for Inspiration in 2025
Explore best logos for real-world inspiration. These logo designs show clarity, creativity, and function across industries. Learn what makes them work and how they communicate brand identity clearly. Use these examples to improve your own logo concepts and meet client needs effectively. Logo design in 2025 is driven by clear visual impact, simplified structure, and… Continue reading 50 Best Logos for Inspiration in 2025
Adobe Premiere Pro AI: How to use Auto-editing and Speech-to-Text
I used to think video editing was a time-consuming beast! Fun in theory, but overwhelming in practice. But then Adobe started packing Premiere Pro with AI tools, and suddenly, things got way easier (and honestly, more fun). In this article, we’ll walk through two of my favourite features: Auto-editing and Speech-to-Text. These clever tools can… Continue reading Adobe Premiere Pro AI: How to use Auto-editing and Speech-to-Text
How to crop an image with AI ImageEdit
Image cropping removes unwanted image areas to improve composition, focus, or aspect ratio. When designing, cropping images can help you enhance visual hierarchy, optimize for different screens and social media, and subtly alter the mood to create compelling visual content. How to crop images using Envato AI ImageEdit In this tutorial, we’ll be editing two… Continue reading How to crop an image with AI ImageEdit
Top 8 Methods for UX Research Analysis w/ Tools & Tips
Key takeaways 💡 User research analysis is the process of interpreting data and insights collected during the user research stage. 🔦 In user research analysis, the data that we analyze generally falls under two categories: qualitative and quantitative data. 🔎 UX research analysis and UX research synthesis are two distinct processes that serve distinct roles… Continue reading Top 8 Methods for UX Research Analysis w/ Tools & Tips
How to Create a Reward System That Actually Works
Gamification is everywhere these days—from fitness apps that give you badges for hitting your step goal to language-learning platforms that keep you hooked with streaks and leaderboards. But let’s be real: not all reward systems are created equal. Done right, they can make an experience fun, engaging, and even addictive (in a good way). Done… Continue reading How to Create a Reward System That Actually Works
Whitenoise Celebrates 25 Years with Graphic Design Playing Cards
Belfast’s Whitenoise agency marks 25 years with custom playing cards. Each card features unique graphic design. A celebration of design and play. To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Belfast-based agency Whitenoise created a unique and playful project: a custom deck of playing cards. This initiative showcases the agency’s graphic design talent and its passion for storytelling.… Continue reading Whitenoise Celebrates 25 Years with Graphic Design Playing Cards
Before We Charge Ahead, Let’s See Where We’re Standing
Audit your UX role, resources & leverage: 10-minute exercise to see where you stand before we redefine UX. In Lesson 1 we travelled from Roman amphitheaters to modern apps and saw that user experience is not what many consider it to be and needs repositioning. In Lesson 2 I asked whether you’re ready to lead… Continue reading Before We Charge Ahead, Let’s See Where We’re Standing
Professional Brochure Catalog Templates: 25 Print Ready Designs
A brochure catalog templates remains one of the most effective tools for brand communication. The catalog templates, lookbook brochure, and portfolio templates delivers information clearly while showcasing products, services, or collections in a structured format. Choosing the right catalog design template enhances visual appeal and strengthens brand identity. Creating a brochure, lookbook or portfolio from… Continue reading Professional Brochure Catalog Templates: 25 Print Ready Designs
AI Design Tools Are Marginally Better: Status Update
Summary: Despite improvements in narrow-scope AI design tools, most design-specific AI cannot replicate human designers’ output quality. This is a follow-up to the 2024 article AI UX-Design Tools Are Not Ready for Primetime: Status Update. In April 2024, AI-powered design tools were not useful to designers. As of May 2025, their usefulness has improved, but we’re… Continue reading AI Design Tools Are Marginally Better: Status Update
How to create a colorful fan art portrait in Procreate
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to draw a portrait in Procreate from scratch. We’ll draw Jinx from Arcane series, and we’ll take some inspiration from comics and Art Nouveau styles. We’ll explore different drawing techniques, and we’ll learn to use textures to make your fan art portrait expressive and vibrant. Creating a fan art… Continue reading How to create a colorful fan art portrait in Procreate
How to edit images with AI ImageEdit
While editing images, it can be tough to find a tool that is both easy to use and has advanced features. Envato’s AI ImageEdit makes this easy, providing both beginners and expert creators with tools that take away the difficulties of regular editing. Ready to breathe new life into your uploaded images with this all-in-one… Continue reading How to edit images with AI ImageEdit
A Deep Dive into Today’s Best Online Meeting Apps
In our increasingly digital workplace, online meeting platforms have evolved from convenient alternatives to essential tools for global collaboration. As remote and hybrid work arrangements become standard practice, the demand for reliable, feature-rich virtual meeting solutions continues to grow. Whether you’re managing a distributed team, connecting with clients overseas, or organizing virtual events, finding the… Continue reading A Deep Dive into Today’s Best Online Meeting Apps
How to remove people in the background of photos
We’ve all been there—you spend ages taking the perfect shot, only to find a random person lurking in the background. Whether it’s a stranger in your travel photo or a blurry figure messing it all up, it can be very frustrating when these things happen to your creative work. That’s why I love using ImageEdit… Continue reading How to remove people in the background of photos
How to remove a background from a logo
If you’ve ever been handed a logo that’s buried in a busy photo or slapped onto a textured background, you know how frustrating it can be to clean it up. Whether you’re dealing with brick walls or busy gradients, trying to extract a clean and transparent version that you can use can be a real… Continue reading How to remove a background from a logo
New Mapping Feature Available with Every Email Send
Zoom in to discover where your emails are being read. A great new feature offering more insight into your subscribers is now available with every email send and monthly insight report: Geographic data on engagement stats. And not just the numbers, the team went a step further and added a mapping feature for visual representation.… Continue reading New Mapping Feature Available with Every Email Send
How AI Models Are Trained
Summary: Training modern LLMs is a costly process that shapes the model’s outputs and involves unsupervised, supervised, and reinforcement learning. By this point, you’ve undoubtedly heard that the large language model (LLM) behind your favorite AI tool has been “trained on the whole internet.” To some extent, that’s true, but after training hundreds of UX… Continue reading How AI Models Are Trained
Are You Ready to Become a UX leader?
Discover your true role as a UX leader—regardless of your job title or organization. Understanding Where You Fit If you’re reading this, chances are you’re passionate about user experience. But maybe UX isn’t actually in your job title. Perhaps you’re a marketer, project manager, developer, copywriter, or business analyst who deeply cares about making your… Continue reading Are You Ready to Become a UX leader?
Avoiding Common Bias Traps in UX Surveys
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Part 3 (of 3) in the Crafting Effective UX Surveys series. In Part 1, we covered the essential “Do’s” for creating impactful surveys, and in Part 2, we focused on identifying and eliminating bias in survey questions. In this final part, we’ll explore the broader landscape of common bias traps that… Continue reading Avoiding Common Bias Traps in UX Surveys
Button States: Communicate Interaction
Summary: Minor visual changes help users distinguish between 5 different button states: enabled, disabled, hovered, focused, pressed. Buttons are core user-interface elements that, when clicked or tapped, execute an action. When designed correctly, buttons set accurate user expectations and help them understand how to interact with the interface. In addition to clear button labels, effective… Continue reading Button States: Communicate Interaction