While text was certainly the best way to transmit information a few decades ago, nowadays people are highly accustomed to the visual way of getting the info they need. Be it an infographic, image or a video, these can literally draw the attention towards your product, so it’s crucial that you create such content. Hence,… Continue reading Visme – the perfect tool for visual content creation
3 Old and Outdated UX Patterns (And How to Fix Them)
Photo: R Schofield In one of my recent articles, The Evolution of the Hamburger icon we talked about the history of this commonly-used pattern, and about who’s using it and why. In fact, there have been many recent discussions in UX circles that have raised the unintuitive nature of the hamburger icon and issues in… Continue reading 3 Old and Outdated UX Patterns (And How to Fix Them)
10 cool loading animated gif
The use of loading animated gif is becoming very common in web design as they provide information about the processing time. Some might even be a source of entertainment if you designed them correctly. To get you started in coming out with cool loading gif, here are some example that I have encountered. Most of… Continue reading 10 cool loading animated gif
How To Create a Realistic Aged Textured Logo Mockup
Last week I shared a free set of rusty logo mockup textures that I collected from an old WW2 era aerodrome. The files included a Smart Object layer which allowed you to paste in your own artwork and have it applied to the surface, with all the fine details of the decay and corrosion also… Continue reading How To Create a Realistic Aged Textured Logo Mockup
Building Minimum Viable Products at Spotify
Many companies face the paradox of wanting to build a delightful product without knowing if people actually want the product until it’s released. Spotify’s vision was to give people the right music at the right time while incentivizing artists by paying them based on number of shares their music received. A tall order, no doubt,… Continue reading Building Minimum Viable Products at Spotify
33 Amazing Frontend Design Patterns using CSS3 and jQuery
Website layouts are typically seen as a combination of design and development meshed together. UI design can be performed using graphics software, code, or in most cases both. This subject offers an interesting combination of skills that work hand-in-hand with each other. Frontend inspiration can offer a lot of great ideas for anyone who builds… Continue reading 33 Amazing Frontend Design Patterns using CSS3 and jQuery
Gravit – Open Source Design Tool to Express Yourself
Gravit is the cutting-edge design app that will take your creativity to new heights. Gravit offers the creative possibilities of a full-scale design suite – but in a snug app-sized package. Powerful yet easy-to-handle, Gravit has been custom designed from the ground up with an emphasis on versatility, fluidity and elegance – complex design tasks… Continue reading Gravit – Open Source Design Tool to Express Yourself
How To: Add a Responsive WordPress Mega Menu for Sites with Lots of Content
If you have a large amount of content on your site which you need to provide access to in your main navigation menu, this can become quite overwhelming to site visitors as they hover over your menu and a million drop downs appear, grouping your content can be quite a challenge. One way to overcome… Continue reading How To: Add a Responsive WordPress Mega Menu for Sites with Lots of Content
Awesome Math Library for JavaScript and Node.js
Math.js is an extensive math library for JavaScript and Node.js. It features a flexible expression parser and offers an integrated solution to work with numbers, big numbers, complex numbers, units, and matrices. Powerful and easy to use. It supports chained operations. It’s easily extensible. Requirements: jQuery Framework and Node.js Demo: http://mathjs.org/ License: Apache License
5 Types of Plugins that Every WordPress Site Needs
WordPress has become the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. One of the biggest reasons why is that it’s flexible enough for expert developers, yet simple enough for the non-technical user. In other words, WordPress is whatever you want it to be. Even if you aren’t an ace developer, there are still… Continue reading 5 Types of Plugins that Every WordPress Site Needs
23 New Photoshop Tutorials to Learn Creative Techniques
Photoshop tutorials can improve your skills of work in New Photoshop CC. Learn amazing photo manipulations with advance features of Adobe Photoshop with these Adobe Photoshop CC tutorials. Today, we gathered most detailed Photoshop tutorials to learn basic to advanced techniques and tricks, with these twenty three useful tutorials taught by industry experts. Create Amazing Photo Effects Using Photoshop CC… Continue reading 23 New Photoshop Tutorials to Learn Creative Techniques
7 golden rules of perfect portfolio websites
What do you think customers are seeking when they look for designers, photographers or other creative experts and agencies? Indeed, the first thing they are interested in is the experience and skills of the specialist. Wether if you are a freelance logo designer or a representative of a prestigious creative studio, one thing is obvious: you… Continue reading 7 golden rules of perfect portfolio websites
23 Interesting Twitter Redesign Concepts
As one of the top social media networks in the world, Twitter’s design has to appeal to millions of users from multiple cultures, languages, and regions. So far, its design has worked well, especially its infinite scrolling feed with super convenient tweaks. For instance, Twitter allows users to view other users or a tweet in… Continue reading 23 Interesting Twitter Redesign Concepts
Designing a Responsive Navigation Your Users Will Love
The process of creating a website should always start with general ideas. These turn into wireframes or low-fidelity mockups to give the designer a sense of direction. It’s fairly straightforward, but the creative process requires a large visual library of existing layouts to understand which interfaces are usable and well-designed. Navigation is a huge part… Continue reading Designing a Responsive Navigation Your Users Will Love
9 Fonts Brands Should Avoid in 2014
Graphic designers use fonts on a daily basis. We have our favorites but we also run away from others. Some fonts have very little recall or have no commercial value, while others have become so popular, they should no longer be used in brand identity. These are some of the fonts that brands should avoid using in… Continue reading 9 Fonts Brands Should Avoid in 2014
Take A Look At Some Of The Best Web Apps For Web Designers
So you started your own design agency, and it didn’t take long to register that it takes a lot more than a wicked awesome creative capacity to make it big in this already crowded market. You also need to plan your projects carefully, manage your time, organize your team, learn about marketing, and keep your… Continue reading Take A Look At Some Of The Best Web Apps For Web Designers
45+ Simple Yet Creative And Appealing Logo Designs For Inspiration
Here, we have come up with an interesting and fresh collection of logo designs for your inspiration. A logo design is a graphical representation of an organization’s goods and services that it offers. Therefore, a logo design has to be unique and creative so that it can attract target audience. A logo design along with… Continue reading 45+ Simple Yet Creative And Appealing Logo Designs For Inspiration
20 Hand-Picked Premium WordPress Theme
WordPress theme now very much popular in latest website owners. These themes are easy to customize and anyone can handle without any knowledge of coding. This article is a presentation of 20 Hand-Picked Premium WordPress Theme. Kokoshka Multipurpose Shop WP Theme Business Identity WordPress Theme Supernova – WordPress Theme DW Focus – Responsive WordPress News… Continue reading 20 Hand-Picked Premium WordPress Theme
Freebies for Week 39
Freebies for designers is a series where we regularly post some great, super useful freebies on a weekly basis. In our weekly collection we will be sharing all types of stuff including mockups, templates, icons and much more. Here is a collection of 15 freebies for this week. Drink Icons Architect – Construction PSD Weather… Continue reading Freebies for Week 39
How to Handle and Manage Different Types of WordPress Web Design Clients
The client that you choose to take on defines you. Most of the problems in work can be avoided by taking the time to choose a client carefully. This means, you should know what you want out of your client relationships. Psychological approach is an effective strategy that can be used to read your clients’… Continue reading How to Handle and Manage Different Types of WordPress Web Design Clients
Prototyping For Better Products, Stronger Teams And Happier Clients
As mobile designers, we have a stark decision to make: do we spend time learning new tools and changing our design processes to create our own transitional interfaces, or are the tools that we’ve been using good enough? There’s an old writing adage that advises writers, whenever possible, to “show, don’t tell” when bringing characters… Continue reading Prototyping For Better Products, Stronger Teams And Happier Clients
Use Geometry As Your Key Tool for Building a Website
Today you could hardly ever be successful online, if your website is not unique, trendy, and interesting. Year after year, new trends appear, designers find new elements to use in order to turn common things into astonishing art pieces. Now we are talking about geometry use in contemporary website design field. Grids and columns are… Continue reading Use Geometry As Your Key Tool for Building a Website
20 Free PSD Business Card Templates from 2014
No matter how improved or advanced we get print media always remains and will always remain in trends in one way or another. Today most of the importance is given to internet and to advertising via internet as it is not only efficient but also cost effective. But none the less the power of business… Continue reading 20 Free PSD Business Card Templates from 2014
How to Build Compelling and Powerful Startup Website
Do you have any cool ideas that you want to implement in your business to spread its presence through the internet? The first essential step towards this will be a website-designs compelling and powerful startup website, but it is not an easy task to make a new website that is impressive enough to attract visitors.… Continue reading How to Build Compelling and Powerful Startup Website