How letting go of the familiar can help product designers become more creative. The pursuit of knowledge — challenging the old & embracing the new (‘School of Athens’ by Raphael) Kids are more imaginative than adults. Not only is this pretty commonly observed, but it’s scientifically proven too. In 1968, George Land conducted a longitudinal study where he… Continue reading The art of unlearning
Pillars, objectives, and OGSMs
TL;DR: In this article of our Design Team Strategy series, we explore how to define the most critical topics of a design team’s strategy by brainstorming current and future objectives, clustering them into overarching themes, prioritizing them, and formulating corresponding OGSMs. By following these steps, you create the pillars of your team’s Strategy House, which… Continue reading Pillars, objectives, and OGSMs
An Updated Guide to SEO for 2023
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a constantly evolving field, and it’s important to stay up-to-date on the latest trends in order to remain competitive. And while ranking factors don’t necessarily change all that much from year to year, there have been some significant shifts over the past few years you should know about. Keeping up… Continue reading An Updated Guide to SEO for 2023
Best AMP Plugins for WordPress Compared
Do you want to create a mobile-friendly version of your WordPress website so it can load instantly on mobile phones? Your regular WordPress website functions efficiently on desktops and tablets but it can be fatally slowly on mobile phones. It has too much code for smaller devices to handle. The solution is to create AMP… Continue reading Best AMP Plugins for WordPress Compared
How to Make a Custom Mouse Cursor with CSS or JavaScript
Back in the early stages of web development, websites ran rampant with all sorts of wacky features: galaxy-themed backgrounds, colorful fonts to the point of illegibility, and marquees galore. Source: cameronsworld.net Now we’ve more or less calmed down when it comes to web design but that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun features on our… Continue reading How to Make a Custom Mouse Cursor with CSS or JavaScript
How To Replace URLs in WordPress in 5 Minutes
In this article, I’m going to show you how to instantly replace all URLs in your WordPress website and database using a single plugin. Before proceeding, ensure that you have access to your WordPress admin dashboard. Let’s say you host all of your website’s images on an external site like Dropbox. But one day you… Continue reading How To Replace URLs in WordPress in 5 Minutes
Turning users into AI, UX personality test, modeling components in Figma
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. Modern products often have a large amount of user research data from different sources: user research interviews, intercom conversations, customer e-mails, surveys, customer reviews on various platforms, and whatnot. Making sense of all that data is a challenging task. A traditional way to do that is to maintain a… Continue reading Turning users into AI, UX personality test, modeling components in Figma
How Tinder nails activation with push notifications
Normally, I’m a no-push sort of person. I like my days distraction-free. But after hearing that Tinder converts 8% of singles into customers, I had to take a look. Mobile push notifications are one of the most essential CRM channels to activate and retain users — there’s a reason why apps are stickier and drive… Continue reading How Tinder nails activation with push notifications
Free Download: Education Icons
We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Some of our partners may process… Continue reading Free Download: Education Icons
HTML Element: form
Example Syntax 1 <form action=”https://google.com/search” method=”get”> 2 <input type=”search” name=”q” placeholder=”Search…”> 3 <input type=”submit” value=”Search Google…”> 4 </form> Result Browser Support The HTML <form> tag is supported in all modern browsers. Read more on caniuse.com. Attributes The <form> tag supports Global Attributes in HTML. Global Attributes are common to all HTML elements and can be… Continue reading HTML Element: form
Best Free WordPress Promo and Notification Bar Plugins
Notification bars or promo bars provide an easy way for website owners to grab the attention of viewers. They use a limited amount of screen space while still prompting them to take an action. You can use a promo bar or a notification bar for a lot of things such as getting customers to sign… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Promo and Notification Bar Plugins
The UX of Sweetgreen
Sweetgreen seems to have its mind in the right place when it comes to embracing present and future technologies to offer an amazing UX. Image by Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen has come a long way since opening its first Washington, D.C. salad bar in 2007. 15 years have passed, and they are now on track to reach over 200… Continue reading The UX of Sweetgreen
Discovering Creativity: On Your Unique Blob and the Threat of Normalcy
“You don’t look like a designer,” someone told me at the conference. I clearly remember myself that day. I was wearing a boring striped cardigan and jeans and had an ordinary look. I remember being surprised to hear that observation; it never occurred to me that I should look like someone to be someone. Why… Continue reading Discovering Creativity: On Your Unique Blob and the Threat of Normalcy
How to build a JavaScript page loading animation
To better understand what we’re going to build, check out the demo page. Be sure to click on the menu links to repeat the page loading JavaScript animation. As both JS animations have similarities, I’ll borrow some content sections from the previous tutorial. This will help keep each tutorial detailed and independent. Web page loading… Continue reading How to build a JavaScript page loading animation
Boosting UX visibility across the organization
Educating stakeholders and advocating for UX and research Continue reading on UX Collective »
Why play is more important than talent for creativity
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” Rei Inamoto (l) and Ian Spalter during a podcast recording session in Tokyo in 2022 Ian Spalter (Ian Spalter), the man behind the design of Instagram, cited this quote when I caught up with him not too long ago in Japan. Last fall, I started a… Continue reading Why play is more important than talent for creativity
How to Slice in Cricut Design Space
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Cricut slice feature to slice text in Cricut Design Space. First you will learn how to slice text in Cricut Design Space, and then I will show you how to slice an image. What You’ll Learn in This Cricut Slice Tutorial How to slice text… Continue reading How to Slice in Cricut Design Space
14 Best Plugins for Embedding YouTube and Vimeo in WordPress
Are you looking to stream YouTube or Vimeo videos directly from your website so visitors don’t have to leave your page? Video is an extremely powerful marketing tool that vastly improves traffic to your website, promotes your products, increases engagement, drives leads, and boosts revenue. But video uses a lot of bandwidth and can slow… Continue reading 14 Best Plugins for Embedding YouTube and Vimeo in WordPress
How to Fix a “WordPress Not Sending Email” Issue
WordPress not sending emails correctly, or at all, is an issue that a lot of WordPress website owners have experienced. Failure to resolve the issue on time can lead to unhappy customers, loss of potential customers, and as a result, loss of revenue. In this article, I’m going to show you how to fix the… Continue reading How to Fix a “WordPress Not Sending Email” Issue
How to Start With a Blank Design in WordPress
A blank design allows us to start afresh and customize our website to fit our exact needs and preferences. Starting from scratch gives us more control over the design and layout of our website because we get to choose exactly what elements to include and how they should be placed. Starting with a blank slate… Continue reading How to Start With a Blank Design in WordPress
40+ Best Shadow Fonts (Drop Shadow Effect on Text)
This subscription-based marketplace offers tons of fonts, logos, graphic templates, add-ons, and more, all for one low monthly fee. 40+ Best Shadow Fonts 1. Sevastian Shadow Font (TTF) Let’s kick things off with Sevastian Shadow Font. Use this impressive sans serif to add depth and visual interest to your projects. The font includes seven layers with different… Continue reading 40+ Best Shadow Fonts (Drop Shadow Effect on Text)
Can technology generate serendipity?
Serendipity by design Ideas for applying serendipity principles in the digital world (I) An (un)expected discovery I love flea markets. Whenever I go there, I usually don’t look for anything specifically; I am just opening myself to chance, to discovery by luck. I suppose most of the people coming to this place do the same: they expect… Continue reading Can technology generate serendipity?
So, are fonts cut from paper now?
On this issue of Type Founds, we’ll be taking a look at trending type designs that imitate paper cut-outs, and how they might have originated from thinner, Brutalist fonts. It was a hazy memory, but I think I saw it once on someone’s Twitch stream. He was scrolling through this beautiful website called fiskprojects.com, and… Continue reading So, are fonts cut from paper now?
Lazy Loading Images Using HTML and JavaScript
I have previously written a tutorial that discusses how to preload images on a webpage using HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. The reason we went to the trouble of preloading images was to provide a better browsing experience to users so that they don’t have to wait for an image to load. The same philosophy of… Continue reading Lazy Loading Images Using HTML and JavaScript