Need to extend the functionality of your WordPress dropdown menus? Not sure what the best dropdown menu plugins are? WordPress dropdown menu plugins help you organize your websites structure and give your website visitors a better user experience. WordPress dropdown menu plugins range from simple to more complex menus that offer countless new ways to… Continue reading 5 Best Free Dropdown Menu Plugins for WordPress
How to Find Attachment IDs in WordPress
Need to know the attachment IDs of your WordPress media files? Not sure how you can find the attachment IDs? WordPress is the backbone of countless websites worldwide. Its flexibility is largely due to various features, including the Media Library. This is a user-friendly tool for managing media files. Within this library, every file is assigned… Continue reading How to Find Attachment IDs in WordPress
Discover 10 Best Multipurpose WordPress Themes to Use in 2023
Posted · Category: Best Collections, Design, Tools Some people may tell you that anything worth inventing has already been invented. That is not true, it probably never will be, and it certainly will not be the case for the website design world, which just keeps growing and improving. Website requirements keep becoming more and more… Continue reading Discover 10 Best Multipurpose WordPress Themes to Use in 2023
Getting Started With GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code
GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programming tool. This is a fancy way of calling it a “second programmer” that works within your source code editor. Copilot gives you autocomplete-style suggestions as you code, helping you code faster and more efficiently. This article will walk you through the steps for installing and setting up GitHub… Continue reading Getting Started With GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code
Supercharge Customer Support With a Help Desk for Your Website
If you’re a business owner who sells products or services then you know how important it is to provide excellent customer support. Managing customer inquiries and support requests can be a challenge if you do it via email or social media, but with a help desk solution you can streamline your process and provide top-notch… Continue reading Supercharge Customer Support With a Help Desk for Your Website
Aha moments: one of the most important ways to engage users
How designing for value can lead to greater user engagement Continue reading on UX Collective »
Understanding the price of privacy
“If something is free, you’re the product.” — Richard Serra, 1973 We are living in a digital age accelerated by the access to data and what we can do with it. So many things have become faster and simpler because of the presence of data, computing power, and algorithms. As a UX Designer, it’s very… Continue reading Understanding the price of privacy
How to Find Word Count in InDesign
Need to figure out your word count in InDesign? In this quick tutorial, we’ll show you both how to find the word count and how to check the word count in InDesign, quickly and easily. 1. How to Check the Word Count in InDesign Step 1 First, let’s start with how to find the word… Continue reading How to Find Word Count in InDesign
Affinity Publisher for Beginners (Landing Page)
1. How to Use the Affinity Publisher Interface 1.1 Introduction to the Course Watch Video Lesson (1 minute) ↗ Welcome to the Affinity Publisher course! We’re going to walk through some essential Publisher basics, while also creating a simple project. No experience is necessary, and by the end of the course, you’ll have created a… Continue reading Affinity Publisher for Beginners (Landing Page)
Trick or treat? Unraveling the UX of Samsung’s secret moon zoom AI
This moon was haunted when she trained her phone’s lens on it. For unbeknown to her the camera had been trained on it already, on countless copy-nights before. The latest thing with memories was that they were built into things and no longer had to be your own… Image by the author. Moon-based UX These beginnings of… Continue reading Trick or treat? Unraveling the UX of Samsung’s secret moon zoom AI
High-contrast UX, Midjourney for branding, regenerative design
“By now, it’s no secret that AI will considerably impact the future of branding and design — making us question how we can continue to provide irreplaceable value as designers. Some creatives like Alif Ibrahim from It’s Nice That have suggested it be used to automate mundane and repetitive tasks like resizing, exporting, or mindless… Continue reading High-contrast UX, Midjourney for branding, regenerative design
How Web Designers Can Make Themselves Competitive in the Age of AI
Does AI pose a threat to web designers? If not now, will it in the near future? This post will look at the best and worst case scenarios as well as what we can do to minimize its effects on the design space. Everywhere you go these days, it seems like businesses are finding more… Continue reading How Web Designers Can Make Themselves Competitive in the Age of AI
What Are Core Web Vitals? A Detailed Introduction to Google’s Web Performance Metrics
In this article, we’ll look into Google’s Web Vitals initiative and the three Core Web Vital metrics. I’ll show you how they measure web performance, summarize their pros and cons, and explain how you can optimize your website for them. Core Web Vitals are Google’s core metrics to quantify the overall vitality of a web page from the… Continue reading What Are Core Web Vitals? A Detailed Introduction to Google’s Web Performance Metrics
An urban planner’s guide to designing software
Urban planners have been designing for human experiences for nearly 200 years, UI/UX designers can learn from this It’s July of 2016. The augmented reality game Pokémon GO was just released. Within days, millions of teens and Millennials are suddenly spending hour upon hour outside in search of rare Pokémon, battling one another, and living in… Continue reading An urban planner’s guide to designing software
What’s the place of ‘PLACE’ in regenerative design?
Illustration of how people can co-evolve with nature. I’m taking the Regenerative Development and Design course by Regenesis at https://www.regenerat.es/trp/ and thought I could share some key learnings before I get overwhelmed. The most exciting lesson for me is the concept that Regenesis calls the ‘Story of Place™’, but if you are new to regeneration,… Continue reading What’s the place of ‘PLACE’ in regenerative design?
100+ Best Marble Patterns & Textures (High Resolution)
And best of all, for one low monthly fee, this subscription-based marketplace also offers tons of other graphic templates, logos, fonts, add-ons, and more. 1. Marble Texture Photoshop (JPG) Marble Texture Photoshop offers a pack of ten gorgeous marble patterns. Choose from the one that works best for your project and apply it to your stationery,… Continue reading 100+ Best Marble Patterns & Textures (High Resolution)
How data-informed UX helps avoid Minimum Viable Product bloat
The most important question designers need to ask is what value are we providing to users? Continue reading on UX Collective »
Employee experience is the foundation of customer experience
Throughout tech’s numerous seismic labor-market fluctuations of the past five years, one thing has remained true for companies regardless of their scaling plans; losing key people unexpectedly is enormously expensive and disruptive. Tech suffers from above average annual turnover rates anyway (20% higher than national stats), and significantly lower average tenure per employee, with even… Continue reading Employee experience is the foundation of customer experience
12+ dashboard UI concepts to inspire your designs
Using a dashboard UI concept can help you jumpstart your project. Designing a visually appealing and user-friendly dashboard is crucial for enhancing user experience and boosting the overall performance of your application. Dashboard UI concepts can be a game-changer for developers and designers, offering inspiration and guidance to create stunning dashboard interface designs. 15 dashboard… Continue reading 12+ dashboard UI concepts to inspire your designs
How to Take Time Off Without Losing Revenue or Clients
In this post we’re going to look at 7 things you can do to ensure that you’re taking enough time for yourself throughout the year. When you work for yourself, it can be hard to justify taking a day off, let alone an entire week or two. Heck, it can be difficult to step away… Continue reading How to Take Time Off Without Losing Revenue or Clients
5 insight gathering techniques to build a successful product
How to never run out of valuable product insights Continue reading on UX Collective »
Fonts can die. Are we doing enough to save them?
Have you ever heard of a font called Arabesque? Well, you can’t download it online, if that’s what you’re wondering. It’s estimated to be around 171 years old and can be found in an 1858 type catalogue. As the name suggests, Arabesque is highly decorative in appearance, featuring wavy, leaf-like strokes that appear to have… Continue reading Fonts can die. Are we doing enough to save them?
The Power of Place in Photography
Place in photography is everything to the photographer, as it helps him capture and investigate various concepts such as culture and identity, traditions, and environmental challenges. But also, place plays a more significant role in the photograph’s appearance and can give you a bad day at the office if not controlled. Although place can add… Continue reading The Power of Place in Photography
UX cheat sheet: Preview and full display
Explore the different ways you can preview and display content to make navigation easier for your users. Continue reading on UX Collective »