Do you love terrazzo patterns and textures? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a terrazzo pattern in Photoshop for all your design projects. I’ll explain everything in so much detail that everyone can create the terrazzo pattern, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time. What You’ll Learn in This… Continue reading How to Create a Terrazzo Pattern in Photoshop
How to Create a Fox Head Logo
What You’ll Be Creating In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a fox logo design from scratch using Adobe Illustrator. If you don’t have the time to make your own vector fox logo, then Envato Elements is the solution. This subscription-based marketplace has over 2,000 Illustrator add-ons you can download without restrictions! Check… Continue reading How to Create a Fox Head Logo
How To Change Your Username in WordPress
Now that the plugin is installed, we can change the username. Click on your profile in the top-right corner of the screen, then select Edit My Profile from the dropdown menu. Click the Edit Profile menu option in the top right corner. Scroll down to the Username field, click on the Change Username link, and… Continue reading How To Change Your Username in WordPress
How to Recession-Proof Your Web Design Business
In this post, we’re going to look at 8 steps you can take to fortify your business and protect your earnings during a financial crisis. The best time to prepare for a recession is before the economy ever gets to that point. That’s not always feasible though and that’s okay. Now is as good a… Continue reading How to Recession-Proof Your Web Design Business
The ability to do DIY user research is becoming a more valuable skill
User Research is starting to get outsourced. You still need in-house research Continue reading on UX Collective »
Your team needs a better balance between starters and finishers
Delving into the different UX mindsets of starters and finishers in the tech world Starters and finishers (Image by author via Midjourney) Ever wondered how some people seem to have the knack for coming up with brilliant ideas and getting them off the ground, while others excel at bringing projects to successful completion? Or why… Continue reading Your team needs a better balance between starters and finishers
How to Change the WordPress Favicon Settings
If you want to replace or change your favicon in the future, simply follow the same steps. Best Practices for Creating a Favicon Creating a favicon that is optimized for different devices and browsers is crucial for website design and development. Here are some best practices for creating a favicon: Size: Favicons should be either… Continue reading How to Change the WordPress Favicon Settings
HTML Element: select
Examples Syntax 1 <select name=”name” required> 2 <option value=”1″>John</option> 3 <option value=”2″>Jane</option> 4 <option value=”3″>Donald</option> 5 <option value=”4″>Chuck</option> 6 <option value=”5″>Leslie</option> 7 </select> A select element with the multiple attribute enabled (true) allows for multiple options to submit with a form submission. 1 <select multiple name=”name” required> 2 <option value=”1″>John</option> 3 <option value=”2″>Jane</option> 4 <option… Continue reading HTML Element: select
14 Best Themes for Shopify Art Stores, Artisanal, Craft, and Handmade Product Shops
Shopify is the perfect platform if you want to sell art, crafts, artisanal, or handmade products. There are plenty of Shopify art store exaples made specifically for these niches—let’s take a look! Shopify Art Stores (Best Themes for 2024) If you’re looking to metaphorically climb the Shopify Mountain when it comes to setting up shop,… Continue reading 14 Best Themes for Shopify Art Stores, Artisanal, Craft, and Handmade Product Shops
The Best Artisanal, Art, Crafts, and Handmade Product Store Themes for Shopify
Shopify is the perfect platform if you want to sell art, crafts, artisanal, or handmade products. There are plenty of Shopify themes made specifically for these niches—let’s take a look! Clayttery is an example of Shopify Art and Craft store theme on ThemeForest. If you’ve never used Shopify before these tutorials will help you get… Continue reading The Best Artisanal, Art, Crafts, and Handmade Product Store Themes for Shopify
What if AI tools paid artists?
Exploring solutions and challenges for the controversial debate about AI art Salvador DALL•E (Source: Year 2049) It’s been less than a year since DALLE•2 was released and blew our minds away with the variety of art it could generate from a simple yet descriptive prompt. Other tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion quickly followed. The initial stages… Continue reading What if AI tools paid artists?
Impetus of imagination
How imagination can become the driving force for a better tomorrow A child astronaut imagines its future made in Midjourney by Timo Wagner /Imagine… What a great and inspiring prelude. An invitation to be creative. An explicit request to think beyond your personal horizons. So simple, yet powerful. This is how every adventure starts at… Continue reading Impetus of imagination
How to Create a MySQL-Powered Forum From Scratch in Laravel
In this tutorial, we’re going to build a PHP/MySQL-powered forum from scratch in Laravel. What Is Laravel? From the official documentation: Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation—freeing you to create without sweating the small things. It’s an open-source PHP web application framework designed for… Continue reading How to Create a MySQL-Powered Forum From Scratch in Laravel
How people read online
Tips for accessible text. What makes a text nice to read? To know more about this, it is important to take a closer look at how people are reading. Additionally, it may be the case that someone is impaired, physically or mentally, to read a text. How does it work? Saccades, fixations, and breaks The reading process… Continue reading How people read online
5 design projects using non-human personas to give nature a voice
Interviews with practitioners show how digital designers can use non-human personas to design more planet-friendly experiences Photo by Scott Carroll on Unsplash Over the last few years, the discussion has grown about non-human personas — personas representing natural environments and animals for designers to consider their needs as well as humans. But how can digital… Continue reading 5 design projects using non-human personas to give nature a voice
How to smooth a background in Photoshop
Have you taken a photo that would be perfect if it weren’t for the distracting wrinkles on the backdrop? Learning how to smooth a background in Photoshop will help you salvage it. Keep reading to learn how to remove creases from a backdrop in Adobe Photoshop. Step 1 Take the Magic Wand Tool (W) and… Continue reading How to smooth a background in Photoshop
Can You Use ChatGPT in Web Design? More Importantly, Should You?
The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 got everyone talking about AI. At first there were rumblings about how it would make copywriting and web design much easier. Then came talk of how AI content generators would render writers and designers obsolete. In this post, I want to examine how accurate these claims and concerns… Continue reading Can You Use ChatGPT in Web Design? More Importantly, Should You?
The art of unlearning
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