To mark the day, we’re celebrating some incredible Indigenous designers from around the world, as well as sharing some interesting research carried out by the University of Newcastle which focuses on things to remember for Indigenous web design. But first… Did You Know? Globally, 47% of all employed Indigenous peoples have no education, compared to… Continue reading Incredible Indigenous Web Design From Around The World
How to Customize Your WooCommerce Pages with Elementor
There are 3 methods you can use to customize WooCommerce with Elementor. In this tutorial, we’ll break down these fast and intuitive customization options. WooCommerce is hands down the best WordPress plugin for setting up an online shop. The only problem is, while it gives you control over a good majority of store settings, and… Continue reading How to Customize Your WooCommerce Pages with Elementor
How to Etch Glass with Cricut
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to etch glass with your Cricut machine, and we’ll also learn some fun uses for etched glass vinyl projects. This Cricut glass etching tutorial will teach you everything you need to know about what you need for your etching project as well as how to etch into glass. We’ll… Continue reading How to Etch Glass with Cricut
30+ Best Tri-Fold Menu Templates (PSD, InDesign and More)
Is your restaurant in need of a new, fresh, and modern tri-fold food menu? You’re in the right place! Maybe you work in the food business or you’re a graphic designer with multiple clients in the industry. Regardless, every restaurant needs a clear food menu with an outstanding design. And here’s where tri-fold menu templates… Continue reading 30+ Best Tri-Fold Menu Templates (PSD, InDesign and More)
12+ Best Adobe XD Wireframe UI Kits for Designers
There’s no doubt that Adobe XD is a powerful and versatile design tool. But like any other design software, it can be tricky to figure out where to start when you’re creating your first wireframe. That’s where UI kits come in handy! A UI kit collects all the necessary resources you need to create a… Continue reading 12+ Best Adobe XD Wireframe UI Kits for Designers
10 Great Places to Find Music for Videos
Creating videos for social media or to embed on your site can be a fun and creative way to promote your brand or business. More importantly, time spent on a page is a significant SEO ranking factor, so providing a video to watch is of enormous benefit. However, coming up with the music for your… Continue reading 10 Great Places to Find Music for Videos
Vector animations with Figma and SVG-Animate
Have you ever gotten frustrated because you couldn’t describe complex animations to your developers? Finding references, polishing details… Continue reading on UX Collective »
Thinking colors: Balancing between visual and abstract
In a digital world, colors are represented as coordinates in one of the color models: RGB, HSL, HCL, etc… Some are made for machines (RGB literally represents the way displays work) while others (HSL, HCL) try to be more designer-friendly by providing a more natural way to navigate the color space. For designers colors are… Continue reading Thinking colors: Balancing between visual and abstract
How to Create Your Website’s Homepage with Elementor
In this tutorial, we’re going to walk through the various ways you can create a homepage with Elementor. Then, we’ll take a look at some tips to help you get better results—with visitors and search engines—from your homepage. The homepage is arguably the most important page on a website. Even if visitors don’t initially land… Continue reading How to Create Your Website’s Homepage with Elementor
Making websites sharable on social media
A guide on how to include open graph tags to your website, and a svelte template to do so. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Understanding accessibility makes you a better [insert your name here]
Accessibility isn’t something that you can “add in at the end”. It’s not the icing on a cake, it’s the eggs that make the cake. Understanding what accessibility is, how you can create accessible digital experiences, and the fact that it impacts each of us in different ways, is an essential part of being a… Continue reading Understanding accessibility makes you a better [insert your name here]
What Is Adobe Illustrator?
What is Adobe Illustrator used for, and how can you use it in your design work? We’ll cover all of that in this comprehensive article. Illustrator is a very popular vector design program, with loads of powerful features to help you create illustrations, icons, patterns, logos, and much more. We’ll go through everything you need… Continue reading What Is Adobe Illustrator?
The Best CSS and JavaScript Carousel Tutorials on Tuts+
Interested in building a carousel but don’t know where to start? You’re in the perfect place! Today we’ll explore the best CSS and JavaScript carousel tutorials Envato Tuts+. What is a carousel on a website used for? Carousels are often found on the front pages of website. They serve a variety of purposes, from aesthetic… Continue reading The Best CSS and JavaScript Carousel Tutorials on Tuts+
The Best CSS and JavaScript Carousel Tutorials on Tuts+
Interested in building a carousel but don’t know where to start? You’re in the perfect place; today we’ll explore the best CSS and JavaScript carousel tutorials that are available on Envato Tuts+. 9 CSS and JavaScript Carousel Tutorials From tutorials explaining how to use the Bootstrap carousel component, various JavaScript carousel and slideshow libraries, and… Continue reading The Best CSS and JavaScript Carousel Tutorials on Tuts+
How IBM revolutionized corporate America with design
For more than 100 years, IBM has been one of the prominent names among computing giants, dominating the early global market with technical and service superiority. They forged a path of innovation leading to Nobel Prizes, lucrative defense contracts, and they even helped to put a man on the moon. IBM CEO, Thomas J. Watson Jr.… Continue reading How IBM revolutionized corporate America with design
5 more lessons I wish I had learned earlier as a design manager
DESIGN LEADERSHIP From handling user interfaces to handling people: Part II I’m a designer by profession and a cheater in people management. I was lucky enough to know the bitter truth about management in advance but couldn’t believe it was true. My wife, an expert in this area, always told me stories from her work,… Continue reading 5 more lessons I wish I had learned earlier as a design manager
JavaScript Form Validation (Practical Tutorial)
In this tutorial, we’ll build a simple login form and add front-end validation with vanilla JavaScript. The overarching goal is to provide helpful feedback to the end-user and ensure the submitted data is what we want! info This tutorial is written so that beginners can follow along—but some basic JavaScript knowledge and understanding of coding… Continue reading JavaScript Form Validation (Practical Tutorial)
Be a cultivator of ideas to achieve trust, buy-in, and design excellence
Be a cultivator of ideas because you are more likely to achieve design excellence when you include ideas from a diverse group of people. Field Of Sunflowers by Matthew T Rader One of the UX Designer‘s primary roles is to not generate all the ideas but to cultivate ideas from the various stakeholders in a project. Early… Continue reading Be a cultivator of ideas to achieve trust, buy-in, and design excellence
UX principles for AI art tools like DALL·E
Setting a course for better image-generation tools. A composite image made with DALL·E, using the prompt: ‘1980s illustration of a face with a visible brain that’s exploding in shapes and colours’ For the past year, I’ve been experimenting with several AI art image generating systems: VQGAN+CLIP and Diffusion notebooks on Google Colab, Midjourney, a text-based… Continue reading UX principles for AI art tools like DALL·E
5 annoying UX mistakes in iPad apps
A guide for building great iPad apps — because over-stretched iPhone apps don’t count. Continue reading on UX Collective »
4 killer examples of personalized UX
Image by Mo on Unsplash. A key component to creating excellent User Experiences is personalized content. You have been — either consciously or unconsciously — a part of hundreds of personalization experiments. Every time you log in to Netflix to watch some series or scroll down TikTok while going to work. UX design plays a… Continue reading 4 killer examples of personalized UX
Cricut Fonts and Resources: The Ultimate Guide
Cricut. A word that sounds cute and fun the first time you hear it. But what is Cricut and what can you do with a Cricut machine? Whether you’re just starting in the digital crafting world or you hold experience under your belt, in this Cricut Ultimate Guide you’ll find the answers to these questions… Continue reading Cricut Fonts and Resources: The Ultimate Guide
Quiz: The Super-Difficult Website Speed Quiz
Users expect websites to load quickly. As a result, companies like Amazon and Target spend millions of dollars optimizing their sites to make them load as fast as possible because there is a direct correlation between site speed and conversions. Websites typically don’t have load bars, so a user waiting for a site to load… Continue reading Quiz: The Super-Difficult Website Speed Quiz
Choosing the right mindset to design complex applications
How to prepare your mental game to tackle user experience for complex products. Continue reading on UX Collective »