35 Beautiful Artworks Made With Paper App

Paper is an application made for the iPad by FiftyThree, Inc. This awesome free app allows you to capture your sketches, drawings, diagrams, illustrations, and notes. With its easy to use interface, you’re able to bring your ideas to life while storing them all in one place. The application was designed from the ground up for touch… Continue reading 35 Beautiful Artworks Made With Paper App

How to use the Gestalt principle in your web design projects

Web designers are constantly looking for new ways of improving their projects and therefore they are introducing in their works elements from mathematics, marketing, photography, psychology, and the list may continue. As far as psychology is concerned, the Gestalt principle is widely known among web designers since it relates so good to the field of… Continue reading How to use the Gestalt principle in your web design projects

Quick Tip: Create a Seamless Coffee Bean Pattern in Illustrator

In the following steps you will learn how to create a simple coffee bean pattern in Adobe Illustrator. You will start by learning how to create a simple art brush. Next, using some basic tools and effects along with the Round Any Corner script you will learn how to create the starting coffee bean shape,… Continue reading Quick Tip: Create a Seamless Coffee Bean Pattern in Illustrator

Create An Animated CSS Box Menu

In this tutorial were going to play with CSS transitions to create a new style navigation menu. The effect we are aiming for is having a number of navigation boxes, and when the mouse hovers over a box this will grow and shrink the other boxes. We can even add an icon to animate into… Continue reading Create An Animated CSS Box Menu

40+ High Quality Business Website Templates

Business website templates have become immensely popular today and this is not a coincidence. Venturing your business online is a critical move if you are a business administrator or a small business owner. It might seem like a overwhelming task to build or redesign your business website, however this is not always true. It can… Continue reading 40+ High Quality Business Website Templates

10 Powerful Responsive Lightboxes

Lightbox has always been one of the great method to display images without having to refresh a page. Nowadays, with the booming of responsive websites, lightboxes also have evolved to adapt nicely with the trendy responsive layout. Here we have 10 responsive lightboxes. Its modal window resizes itself to fit into the window viewport. We… Continue reading 10 Powerful Responsive Lightboxes

Free Responsive HTML5 + CSS3 Site Templates

HTML5 Up! is a small showcase of the free responsive HTML5 + CSS3 site templates that AJ put together while developing 5grid. All of them are clean, minimal, fully responsive site templates built on HTML5 and CSS3. They are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Requirements: Skel.js Framework Demo: http://html5up.net/ License: Creative Commons License

Web Designing is All About Stirring Up the Right Emotions – 5 Emotions that Make a Website Work

The focus on aesthetics in website designing remains as is, but another element has been added to the mix, which is Emotion. A mixture of emotions and aesthetics helps you design user experiences that effectively capture the mood of the website and help deliver the website’s message effectively. You might not have thought about it,… Continue reading Web Designing is All About Stirring Up the Right Emotions – 5 Emotions that Make a Website Work

Quick Tip: How to Create an Indoor Panorama

In this quick tip tutorial, we will show you how to use Photoshop’s automated features to combine several photos to create a seamless panoramic photo of a room. In the process, we will show you how to use several Photoshop tools including Auto-Align, Auto-Blend Layers, Geometric Distortion Correction, as well as Adaptive Wide Angle. Let’s… Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Create an Indoor Panorama

Photoshop Matte Painting in Easy Steps

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Clouds – aussiegal7 Bridge – montvalentstock Castle – pixellyperfectstock Waterfall – bleu-claire-stock Ruins – pixellyperfectstock Ruins – nixie04 Ruins – sacmaluk Ruins – whynotastock River – cat-in-the-stock Mountains – castock City – knightfall-stock Model – liam-stock Step 1 – Size Open the background stock. The size of the stock… Continue reading Photoshop Matte Painting in Easy Steps

Indigo Studio – Prototyping Tool for Your Web, Desktop and Mobile Applications

If you are in need of a rapid and interactive prototyping tool for your web, desktop and mobile applications then you should totally check out Indigo Studio. This is one of the latest design tools that will make life easier for you by simply and quickly creating functional animated user interface prototypes. What makes this… Continue reading Indigo Studio – Prototyping Tool for Your Web, Desktop and Mobile Applications

Infographic: Take Amazing Photos From Your Phone

Even professional photographers need to take a course in camera phone photography, because it varies somewhat from traditional cameras. In order to get the most out of your mobile device, you have to trick it into performing like a supped-out $ 3,500 Nikon. This infographic includes professional tips, expert advice, and interesting examples of what… Continue reading Infographic: Take Amazing Photos From Your Phone

Reasons Why First-Time Freelancers Fail

You might be surprised with some of the main reasons that cause freelancers to fail. The first-time freelancer doesn’t fail because of doing poor quality work, or due to missing a deadline; nor do they lack the talent to execute their tasks. However, these factors may contribute somewhat to the failure of first-time freelancers. Unfortunately,… Continue reading Reasons Why First-Time Freelancers Fail

Super Simple eCommerce With Gumroad

Gumroad is an insanely easy way to create customizable products and start selling electronic and physical goods within minutes. It’s not meant to be a replacement for all shopping systems, but it can definitely handle selling your music, art pieces, t-shirts, PDFs, and much more. Why Gumroad? I literally think your grandmother could use Gumroad… Continue reading Super Simple eCommerce With Gumroad

Super Smooth CSS Transitions for jQuery

Transit is a super-smooth CSS transitions & transformations for jQuery. You can make transition on any CSS property. They will happen much smoother than if you were to use jQuery’s default .animate(). You can easily translate, rotate, scale, skew and etc.Transit degrades older browsers by simply not doing the transformations (rotate, scale, etc) while still… Continue reading Super Smooth CSS Transitions for jQuery

What Creative Cloud Means to You

Last week, Adobe announced that they were discontinuing the physical versions of the Creative Suite, and moving their entire operation to what they’re calling Creative Cloud (CC). This means that from here on out, if you want to use Photoshop, Illustrator or any of the other great Adobe programs out there, you’ll have to pay… Continue reading What Creative Cloud Means to You

10 Extremely Gorgeous Google Web Fonts

We all know how important a good typography is on any type of design; it acts as a non verbal connection between the viewer and the message which must be delivered. Even if we are able to create the most intricate and amazing designs which can boost the interaction to the sky, if you don’t… Continue reading 10 Extremely Gorgeous Google Web Fonts

The Best Free Books, Videos, Tutorials and More for Learning jQuery

jQuery is undoubtedly the most popular JavaScript library on the web today. It is used by 70% of the top websites and is becoming a defacto standard in web development. If you are looking for a programming job, knowing the library is a big plus. Things have progressed as well in terms of the quality and availability… Continue reading The Best Free Books, Videos, Tutorials and More for Learning jQuery

Design Patterns in WordPress: The Simple Factory Pattern

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Design Patterns in WordPress In this series, we’re taking a look at design patterns and how we can leverage them to our advantage when building products on top of WordPress. The nice thing about design patterns is that they aren’t explicitly limited to themes or… Continue reading Design Patterns in WordPress: The Simple Factory Pattern

20 Beautiful Flat Web and Mobile Designs

Every year in the design community, new trends come out of the woodwork — some simply being reworks of old ideas while others are completely new. Among the design trends like infinite scrolling, minimally-​​designed landing pages, and large photographic backgrounds, there is the design trend of flat design that is currently making the rounds. What is flat… Continue reading 20 Beautiful Flat Web and Mobile Designs

How To Make Your Usability Test An Engaging Experience

In my first usability test, I met a dear old woman who didn’t know how uses a mouse. She lifted it up and pointed it at the screen, encouraging the cursor in verbal tones! At the test’s conclusion I got completely nothing. But I quickly learned the importance of laying down very exact criteria for… Continue reading How To Make Your Usability Test An Engaging Experience