animatedModal.js – A jQuery plugin to create a fullscreen modal with CSS3 transitions

In user interface design, a modal window is a graphical control element subordinate to an application’s main window which creates a mode where the main window can’t be used.It can be used to generate alert or confirm messages with few lines of code. animatedModal.js is a jQuery plugin to create a fullscreen modal with CSS3… Continue reading animatedModal.js – A jQuery plugin to create a fullscreen modal with CSS3 transitions

29 Free Photoshop Designs for Mobile App User Interface

Mobile Apps are all the rage these days. Now a days when almost everyone owns smart phones there are myriad apps that cater to different purposes. For each purpose there are infinite apps, all by different designers. Now that there are so many apps already available online it becomes a little difficult for the designers… Continue reading 29 Free Photoshop Designs for Mobile App User Interface

Free Files For March 2015

Each month the Envato marketplace brings you free premium files. Envato is a web marketplace where you can get premium files for different areas of your website. My favourite marketplaces are the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the theme marketplace ThemeForest. Here are the files which you can get for free for March 2015. readyChat –… Continue reading Free Files For March 2015

Use Google Analytics to Tweak Your Website Design

As a designer, you let design elements — colors, textures, graphics, and layout — guide you as you create different pages and templates. Unfortunately, even the most beautiful design ultimately fails if it doesn’t deliver for the client. Most people blame a non-productive website on problems like search rankings and keywords. However, if people are… Continue reading Use Google Analytics to Tweak Your Website Design

How To Design a Mesmerizing Studio or Agency Website

Creative studios are becoming much more popular with such an interconnected world of digital design. Large-to-medium sized companies are found all over the world, coupled with freelancers and small teams who launch their own personal studio. Thus competition is fierce and understanding how to design a captivating website is pivotal to success. I’d like to… Continue reading How To Design a Mesmerizing Studio or Agency Website

Free Image Editor: 4 Stellar Programs to Help You Create Beautiful Images

Need a new free image editor? Today we’re taking a look at four free tools you can use to design your own custom image graphics for sharing in blog posts or on social media. While toiling away in advanced image editing programs will always allow for unparalleled sophistication, there are some incredible free tools online that… Continue reading Free Image Editor: 4 Stellar Programs to Help You Create Beautiful Images

Top UX & UI Tools and Resources That You Should Use

When you take on a web or an app design project, how much thought do you give about the tools you are presently using as opposed to new tools that are constantly coming on the market which could make your work easier and in some cases, more professional looking? The list below offers a cross-section… Continue reading Top UX & UI Tools and Resources That You Should Use

Impress.js – A presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions

It’s a presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions(positioning, rotating and scaling them on an infinite canvas) in modern browsers and inspired by the idea behind prezi.com Additionally for the animations to run smoothly it’s required to have hardware acceleration support in your browser. This depends on the browser, your operating… Continue reading Impress.js – A presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions

17 New Stylish Free Fonts For Designers

Latest free fonts for your web and graphic design projects. Professionally designed fonts are best for Headlines, Headings and print designs. Free download all fonts which are available for Windows and MAC in truetype and opentype format.  Fresh Free Fonts for Designers GDJ always keep our readers up-to-date with fresh graphic design resources, especially about the fonts.… Continue reading 17 New Stylish Free Fonts For Designers

Solutions To Fix Navigation Issues For Mobile Devices

When it comes to creating a responsive design for mobile the most challenging aspect we face is creating a navigation menu that works well on any mobile device screen. Especially, when your website navigation menu has several items, squeezing all those items into a mobile device with small screen resolution, is a tricky problem to… Continue reading Solutions To Fix Navigation Issues For Mobile Devices

Tips & Tricks for Designing Uniform Website Icons

Featured image source Beautiful icons are the rainbow sprinkles on top of a delicious website sundae. The ability to craft icons that blend together is almost compulsory. Any UI designer should be more than willing to jump onto the path of icon design. Although it is jarring and difficult, consistent icon design greatly improves the… Continue reading Tips & Tricks for Designing Uniform Website Icons

How To Create a Seamless Topographic Map Pattern

I’ve posted articles about topographic maps before on my blog, namely my contour map effect Illustrator tutorial and my free pack of topographic map patterns. My first tutorial used Illustrator’s Blend tool to draw a series of concentric lines. It worked pretty well, but I went on to develop a technique that would help create… Continue reading How To Create a Seamless Topographic Map Pattern

27 Fresh Free PSD UI Kits for Designers

User Interface kits can help designers to take great start with their design project. If you have a new project to start off, we would recommend to have a look at these fresh free PSD UI kits. All these UI kits are in PSD format which comes with layered PSD so you can customize it according to… Continue reading 27 Fresh Free PSD UI Kits for Designers

15 Free HTML/CSS Templates and PSD Files from February 2015

We always try to bring you fresh and new stuff from around the web. In this post we rounded up 15 best free HTML/CSS templates and free PSD files you can save for any future projects. These free templates give new users a chance to learn from experts where they can explore the HTML/CSS templates… Continue reading 15 Free HTML/CSS Templates and PSD Files from February 2015

Why Flat Design Is The Way To Go For Your Mobile App

Flat design is increasingly being used in mobile apps replacing the commonly known intricate designs that are dominated by drop shadows, brushes and gradients. This design style incorporates flat shapes and icons. Flat design basically revolves around the use of rectangles, triangles, circles and other shapes without the need to use other design elements such… Continue reading Why Flat Design Is The Way To Go For Your Mobile App

10 Excellent Time-Saving Tools for Developers

You are waking up early, planning your tasks beforehand and working until late at night, yet you are not on time with your projects? Many creative professionals such as web developers face this problem. Within this post, I will introduce you to a small collection of tools that can help you find an extra free… Continue reading 10 Excellent Time-Saving Tools for Developers

20 Best Color Palette Tools for Web and Graphic Designers

As a web or graphic designer you must have a keen sense of color combinations and feel which colors look good together and which don’t. Anyway, even with this great skill in color combining, you may find yourself in situations when you just feel less inspired. That’s when these best color palette tools come in… Continue reading 20 Best Color Palette Tools for Web and Graphic Designers

Create Your Own Professional Forms for Free with JotForm

If you’ve ever built a form for your website, you must have taken a few minutes to scratch your head here and there. The task at hand can often be daunting, which is why a lot of people don’t build their own forms. Forms can sometimes take the back seat when it comes to the… Continue reading Create Your Own Professional Forms for Free with JotForm

Using Googles NoCaptcha ReCaptcha In WordPress

Google has recently announced a new project called recaptcha which is a way of spam protecting your website from bots but making it easy for humans to submit the form by simply recreating a checkbox for users to click. Registering Your Website To use Google NoCaptcha ReCaptcha for your website you must first register your… Continue reading Using Googles NoCaptcha ReCaptcha In WordPress

Best Tools and Platforms For Building Websites in 2015

You need to know your CMS, website building platforms, and page crafting tools. How else do you expect to pacify the two forces behind website creation – design and development? You could be a design guru, and have no clue about coding. You could be waist-deep in the analytic mindset required for programming, even though… Continue reading Best Tools and Platforms For Building Websites in 2015

30 CSS Puns That Prove Designers Have a Great Sense of Humor

The job of a web designer can be a real pain and frustrating one, but it is also a close-knit community with a healthy sense of humor. Take for instance CSS puns like this: In fact, you probably get this universal truth even if you aren’t a designer! You can find more from this Reddit… Continue reading 30 CSS Puns That Prove Designers Have a Great Sense of Humor

45 New & Creative WordPress Website Designs For Inspiration

WordPress is known as the best blogging platform for a reason. Statistics show that WordPress runs 23.4% of all the websites globally, which means, the content management system holds a market share of 60.6% and that is enough to rate it as the most popular choice. Many of you may already know that instantShift is… Continue reading 45 New & Creative WordPress Website Designs For Inspiration