WordPress is a pretty popular CMS that you can use to create and publish thousands of posts. How does WordPress uniquely identify all these posts? It does so with the help of IDs. All pages and posts that you create in WordPress will have their own unique ID. The IDs are not limited to just… Continue reading How Can I Find a WordPress Page ID?
How to remove wrinkles from clothes in Photoshop
Discover a quick tip on how to remove clothing wrinkles in Photoshop, without an actual iron! How to edit wrinkled clothes in Photoshop Step 1 For starters, grab any garment photo for this tutorial on how to remove wrinkles from clothes in Photoshop, like this White Folded T-Shirt from Envato. There are many methods… Continue reading How to remove wrinkles from clothes in Photoshop
12 Best Email Marketing Services for 2022 (Ranked)
A robust email marketing strategy is a great way to reach your target audience directly. But your email marketing campaign success rests on whether you used the best email marketing services. No two email marketing services are equal. So you must choose carefully. We created this guide and ranked the 12 best email marketing services… Continue reading 12 Best Email Marketing Services for 2022 (Ranked)
Personas should be living and breathing
Too often, designers create a persona at the start of a project, then put it up on a wall like a graduation picture and simply leave it there to be looked at and referenced occasionally…pulling out interesting stories when the situation demands. But your persona should be alive. It should live, grow, evolve and adapt.… Continue reading Personas should be living and breathing
AI tools to assist your design and development workflow
The rise of AI has been accompanied by a lot of hype and fear. People are excited that it will completely transform the creative industry, while others are concerned it could replace their job entirely. The reality is that neither of those realities are likely to come about very quickly. We are at the beginning… Continue reading AI tools to assist your design and development workflow
AI is going to change UX research forever
The rise of AI will impact everyone. But in what way can UX designers use AI to their benefit? And how do we design AI systems? AI will revolutionize every sector, but unexpectedly UX research might suffer a huge impact. Photo by me. The rise of AI is creating a lot of buzz in almost every modern… Continue reading AI is going to change UX research forever
AI’s race to convert your images to 3D and videos: Meta vs. Google
For the first time, text-to-image AI has evolved to video, all out of the box in a matter of seconds. From the Author Can a zebra walk on the surface of the moon alongside an astronaut? Can high rise buildings that are 80 stories in the middle of the Saharan desert sway dangerously? None of… Continue reading AI’s race to convert your images to 3D and videos: Meta vs. Google
How Can I Make a Page Private in WordPress?
Whenever you publish a post or page in WordPress its visibility is set to Public by default. Did you know that there are three different visibility settings for any post or page that you publish in WordPress? In this quick tip, I will show you how to make a page or post private in WordPress.… Continue reading How Can I Make a Page Private in WordPress?
How Do You Spell Check in Affinity Publisher?
Did you know that you can easily use Affinity Publisher spell check to review your work for errors? Whether you’re working with Affinity Publisher templates or building a design from scratch, checking your work is essential. Thankfully, it’s quick, simple, and super convenient to do, right from within Publisher. Download this and many more Affinity… Continue reading How Do You Spell Check in Affinity Publisher?
How to Create a Sitemap in WordPress
Optimizing your website’s content (pages and posts) for search engines increases the likelihood of them showing up in search results, which is a great way to drive organic traffic to your website. One vital SEO practice is to include a sitemap on your website. This is what search engines will use to access the different… Continue reading How to Create a Sitemap in WordPress
How to Get the Featured Image in WordPress?
In this quick tip, I will show you how to get the featured image for a post or page in WordPress. What is a Featured Image? A featured image in WordPress is the image that we use to represent a particular blog post or page. Another name for featured images is post thumbnails. The featured… Continue reading How to Get the Featured Image in WordPress?
What Font Does Tiffany & Co Use?
Are you in love with that iconic Tiffany blue and the equally unforgettable brand font? Today we’re taking a dive into the world of Tiffany questions, like “What font is the Tiffany and Co logo?” We will also look at the story behind the brand and showcase a few luxury fonts similar to the Tiffany… Continue reading What Font Does Tiffany & Co Use?
Shhh: don’t tell anyone, Figma’s latest feature, Design in uncertain times
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. You say you won’t detach instances. You will detach instances. Shhh: don’t tell the new designers →By Michael McWatters The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 500k+ designers every week. Editor picks Design in uncertain times →How design can shape our… Continue reading Shhh: don’t tell anyone, Figma’s latest feature, Design in uncertain times
Envisioning 3D design systems for the Metaverse
How to scale 3D content design for the next-generation internet Puzzle BLOCKHAUS Metaverse seems like a glamorous futurist proposition, that “one day” we will have virtual worlds that billions of people are willing to “live in”. Obviously, we haven’t seen a real “metaverse” product yet, and it’s unlikely to see such a product in 3–5… Continue reading Envisioning 3D design systems for the Metaverse
3 things to consider before you implement CAPTCHA for accessibility
What are you bothered by the most when you use digital products? For me, it’s e-mail and phone verification, pincode, setting complex passwords and not remembering them… and I especially find one particular thing obnoxious, and it’s CAPTCHA. Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a tool very commonly used… Continue reading 3 things to consider before you implement CAPTCHA for accessibility
How Google Search is reinventing itself in 2022
The evolving digital landscape has changed people’s search behaviours forever. Photo by Firmbee.com on Unsplash Google is completely changing the way that search engines operate. Search behaviours encompass much more than simply asking a question and looking for an answer. Often, people don’t have a specific question in mind, but are curious to explore a… Continue reading How Google Search is reinventing itself in 2022
Which Should You Use in 2022?
Blogger and WordPress.com are both popular blogging platforms. Both allow you to set up a complete blog for free in a matter of minutes. In this article, we’ll compare WordPress.com with Blogger to find out which of the two is a better solution for your blogging needs. Comparing Blogger With WordPress.com Before we get started… Continue reading Which Should You Use in 2022?
A to Z of Cricut: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks!
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Your Cricut is so much more than a machine that you can make T-shirts with. With an ever-growing list of design features and machine capabilities, your Cricut machine can help you to craft just about any project. Fan of video tutorials? In this A-Z video from the… Continue reading A to Z of Cricut: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks!
What is Procreate? Procreate FAQs and Asset Downloads
There are lots of programs you can use to get creative work done, but there are few like Procreate. If you’re unfamiliar with what it is, we’ve answered your burning questions here. We’ve also thrown in some of the best premium Procreate assets and free resources online. And if you prefer a visual lesson to… Continue reading What is Procreate? Procreate FAQs and Asset Downloads
Digital humans are here. They sound and look just like us.
Now digital humans are here. They sound and look just like us. Digital humans, AI-powered digital counterparts, are going to change how we interact with the world around us. https://medium.com/media/5d057cb8920f355e7fa126d3cedcac2c/href In 2016 Miquela Sousa, or @lilmiquela, quickly grew to be one of Instagram's top influencers. At a first glance, there is little wrong with the 19-year-old Brazilian-American… Continue reading Digital humans are here. They sound and look just like us.
Re-contextualizing symbols — a study of phenomenology
Oct.21.10–Nov.25.10 Publication front cover Global wordless communication Artist Ryan McGinness once stated that visual symbols are read as embedded forms of cultural knowledge. We no longer consciously acknowledge graphic symbols. Contemporary audiences are intimately familiar with visual iconography. Wordless communication systems are interpreted effortlessly, subconsciously. The information conveyed is internalized, requiring minimal energy deployed for… Continue reading Re-contextualizing symbols — a study of phenomenology
How To Make Your Designs Scannable (And Why You Should)
Jakob Nielsen’s How Users Read on the Web is 25 years old this week, and one glance at an eye-tracking study will tell you its key observations are still relevant today. Simply put, users don’t read a web page; they scan it for individual words and sentences. A typical pattern shown in eye-tracking reports is that… Continue reading How To Make Your Designs Scannable (And Why You Should)
Gaining data visualization insight via color deficiency transformations
How Green and Cyan become a Yellow and Purple Contrast or a Turquoise Sequence. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Why you should care about design in uncertain times
Pandemic, war, climate crisis, racism, nationalism… We’re going through tough times in history, it’s hard to deny it: every day seems like a challenge. If we can’t be sure about tomorrow, why should we care about the present time? We’re scared of reality, we’re scared of the future. Our world is collapsing in ashes and… Continue reading Why you should care about design in uncertain times