Creating Your First Desktop App With HTML, JS and Electron

Web applications become more and more powerful every year, but there is still room for desktop apps with full access to the hardware of your computer. Today you can create desktop apps using the already familiar HTML, JS and Node.js, then package it into an executable file and distribute it accordingly across Windows, OS X and… Continue reading Creating Your First Desktop App With HTML, JS and Electron

Strategies For Creating Better User Interfaces

Believe it or otherwise not, perfect interfaces are created on an item of paper. It’s much later on that the exact same is used in Photoshop or Sketch App. The primary advantage of paper sketches may be the possibility to produce errors. Unlike limited design pc software, paper is ready to accept everybody’s imagination and… Continue reading Strategies For Creating Better User Interfaces

How to Create Flat Profession Avatars in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we’ll be making a set of flat-style portraits, depicting people of different professions and occupations. Such images can be used as avatars for social networks or as design elements for your website, depicting various categories. Or you can even draw yourself, using such flat-style portraits for your business card.  If you want… Continue reading How to Create Flat Profession Avatars in Adobe Illustrator

Inspiring Sites of the Week No. 2

Inspiring Sites of the Week is the 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 cutting-edge technology we feature them here. Get inspired by the best designs in the industry in the ninety-eighth edition of… Continue reading Inspiring Sites of the Week No. 2

How to Create This Eerie Floating Island Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will create an eerie floating island photo manipulation by using your vast imagination and the mighty power of Photoshop. I will introduce you to  some simple editing techniques, smart objects and adjustment layers. Let’s begin! What you’ll be creating This is a classic floating island scene with a touch of funny… Continue reading How to Create This Eerie Floating Island Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

20 Best Free Business WordPress Themes

Once you choose to grow your personal or company website, you should use one of many content management systems or CMS. Though I guess you’ll end up using WordPress sooner or later. WordPress if you’re looking for easiest and most powerful choice has a community that is fantastic’s always ready to help you out and… Continue reading 20 Best Free Business WordPress Themes

50 Free Resources for Web Designers

The tremendous thing about the design community is that we all love to share. We really do. Whether we share our thoughts and ideas via an in-depth article or by giving advice/feedback on a forum, or even by freely offering high-quality resources. The sharing is what makes our community truly great! Here are this months… Continue reading 50 Free Resources for Web Designers

Create “Racing Vertical” Digital Art in Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create dynamic racing photo manipulation in abstract world. If you are interested in not only repeat this photo manipulation, but also learn how to create such an abstract rendering then you should read my tutorial “Create colorful abstract glossy render in Cinema 4D” on this site. Today… Continue reading Create “Racing Vertical” Digital Art in Photoshop

Design Agency – Corporate Business HTML5 Template

Design Agency – Corporate Business HTML5 Template: An Introduction Design Agency, a customized and responsive HTML website template for professionals and freelancers who are looking for a website which can be used for a Corporate, Agency, Creative, Personal, and small or large business websites. Packed with sundry features and breathtaking functionality, Design Agency HTML template… Continue reading Design Agency – Corporate Business HTML5 Template

BARTON – Smart Portfolio for Creative People – 14023495

Now you are able top create a quick & easy HTML5 portfolio that showcase your work with an enjoyable design having a distictive and creative touch Demo [sociallocker]https://mega.nz/#!JUN13bQA [signinlocker]https://mega.nz/#!JUN13bQA!hhXMc90tOKtrBESyKiAlA4JZqvnHE_lm_9xuD2y-xm8[/signinlocker][/sociallocker]

Top 15 Websites for Designers for Visual Inspiration

How many times you have struggled with the ideas. Just how to do this or that, just how to complete this illustration or design? For me, it happens a lot and I think is normal. Time to time developers face this “black” interim. I’m not saying you need to check how the professionals are doing… Continue reading Top 15 Websites for Designers for Visual Inspiration

Tridiv: Useful CSS3 Editor for 3D Objects

The design possibilities of CSS3 are diverse. Thanks to the “transform”-feature, not only animations, but also elements can be displayed three-dimensionally. With a few tweaks, three-dimensional objects can be drawn and arranged in space. With a little JavaScript, 3D animations are possible as well. The web application Tridiv provides a graphical user interface that enables… Continue reading Tridiv: Useful CSS3 Editor for 3D Objects

Gogs – An Open Source Self-Hosted Git Service

Gogs (Go Git Service) is a painless self-hosted Git service. The objective of this mission is to make the simplest, quickest, and most painless approach of establishing a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this may be achieved with an independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and… Continue reading Gogs – An Open Source Self-Hosted Git Service

Knowledge Persistence and Sessions With React

Having a “remember me” function is a very useful feature, and implementation with React and Express is relatively easy. Continuing from our last part where we set up a WebRTC chat application, we will now add Mongo-backed persistent sessions and a database-backed online user list for good measure. Sessions? If you have not used sessions… Continue reading Knowledge Persistence and Sessions With React

Freebie of the Month: Car RE – Auto Mechanic & Car Repair HTML Template

The template is built for Auto Mechanic, Car Repair Shops, Car Wash, Garages, Automobile Mechanicals, Mechanic Workshops, Auto Painting, Auto Centres and other Auto and Car related services and it is suitable for any kind of small business activity – Car Service Mot, Tyres, Brakes Hire, Car Rental, Auto Care, Maintenance, Vehicle Diagnostics, Auto Glass,… Continue reading Freebie of the Month: Car RE – Auto Mechanic & Car Repair HTML Template

Vertical Navigation in CSS and jQuery

A smart vertical navigation, with round indicators that turn into labelled icons when the user interacts with them. [sociallocker]Demo Download[/sociallocker] Our first concept of vertical fixed navigation is one of our most popular resources. This time, we tried to push this concept a little further. The basic idea behind putting round indicators on the side of… Continue reading Vertical Navigation in CSS and jQuery

The awards for design, creativity and innovation on the internet

Winners of the Year We have reached the end of 2015 and the moment has come to choose the winners of the year at Awwwards. A recognition of the effort, talent and innovation of the biggest professionals to create unique, innovative and beautiful websites that allow the internet to continue being a magical channel with… Continue reading The awards for design, creativity and innovation on the internet

36 Free Linear Finance Icon Set (exclusive)

Our friends from Vector4Free shares today on idevie with all our readers a complete pack that includes an amazing variety of FREE Linear Finance Icon Set that you can use in your design projects.This collection of icons includes a PNG file, a PSD file, AI formats and EPS files with SVG files. The pack is… Continue reading 36 Free Linear Finance Icon Set (exclusive)

International Artist Feature: Spain

For this article in the international artist series, we turn to Spain, featuring four illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from lettering to character design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Baimu Studio Baimu Studio focuses on Art Direction and… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Spain

Essential elements for creating a successful UX design

In a modern world, most of the companies and business organizations realize the importance of the UX design support on a website. These companies are investing huge amount in developing attractive UX designs that enable their website to deliver a good user experience in a custom website development. In a digital world, user experience has… Continue reading Essential elements for creating a successful UX design

How To Create a Text Portrait Effect in Photoshop

In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to create a cool portrait effect using a long passage of text that bends and deforms around the contours of the face. Known as a Calligram, this effect is particularly powerful when used to present famous quotes or speeches by depicting the author/speaker with the actual words. Photoshop’s Displace… Continue reading How To Create a Text Portrait Effect in Photoshop

WP REST API: Setting Up and Using Basic Authentication

In the introductory part of this series, we had a quick refresher on REST architecture and how it can help us create better applications. We then explored the history of REST APIs in WordPress and introduced ourselves to the latest addition: the WP REST API plugin. We set up a basic working environment for testing… Continue reading WP REST API: Setting Up and Using Basic Authentication