[unable to retrieve full-text content] When I was a kid, before we had our personal desk computer, we would listen to stories from our grandfather on how, in the beginning, computers were the size of a warehouse, how the computer instructions were manually inserted in the form of punched cards, and how many men would… Continue reading Make users think: a way for design innovation
How to Choose a Tattoo Font
What You’ll Be Creating Planning to get a lettering tattoo with some cool words and wondering how to choose a tattoo font? Or maybe you want to know more about lettering tattoo styles? Today, we’ll discover different lettering styles for your new tattoo and take a look at the best tattoo fonts available on Envato… Continue reading How to Choose a Tattoo Font
Quiz: Find Your Design Career Heaven
Psychologists tell us that by answering a handful of oblique questions, we can gain greater insight into our real desires. Today, we’re going to put that to the test with a simple fill-in-the-gaps story that will help you determine your ideal career in design. We’ll tell you a short story, and ask you to add… Continue reading Quiz: Find Your Design Career Heaven
How to Build a Simple REST API in PHP
In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to build a simple REST API with PHP and MySQL. REST has become the de facto standard when it comes to exposing data via APIs and building web services. In fact, most web applications these days access and expose data via REST APIs. With the popularity of front-end… Continue reading How to Build a Simple REST API in PHP
Crash Course in the PHP Ternary Operator With Examples
In this article, we’ll discuss the ternary operator in PHP. Along with the syntax, we’ll go through a couple of real-world examples to understand how it works. What Is the Ternary Operator? The ternary operator (? and :) is a conditional operator which allows you to execute a condition, and based on the result of… Continue reading Crash Course in the PHP Ternary Operator With Examples
30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners
This tutorial is specifically for those who are just diving into web development. If you have one year of experience or less, hopefully some of the tips listed here will help you to become better, quicker! 1. Always Close Your Tags Back in the day, it wasn’t uncommon to see things like this: <li>Some text here.… Continue reading 30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners
How Canvas Prints Can Brighten A Space During The Summer
1 Share No matter the season—spring, fall, summer, or winter, we love to surround ourselves with vivid hues, luminous tones, and tropical shades. If you’re anything like us, we won’t let you give up on vibrant and enjoyable colors for the season. Hanging some colorful wall artworks is one way to ensure that they remain… Continue reading How Canvas Prints Can Brighten A Space During The Summer
35+ Best Photoshop Actions for Designers & Photographers
64 Shares The best professional Photoshop actions can make your photographs unique and attention-grabbing. The hand-picked high quality Photoshop actions that will transform your Photographs into Oily effect, newspaper print, abstract, watercolor effect, comic and dots effects within a seconds. Mostly Photoshop actions available with video tutorials that shows how to setup action files and… Continue reading 35+ Best Photoshop Actions for Designers & Photographers
What Is Shape Design? (And How You Can Use It)
Shape design is not really a new concept. It is a method which uses a shape (or shapes) as the most endearing element in the design, against all other elements which are present. To point it out, it is not just uses standard shapes against a basic background. It is using lines, curves, and symmetry… Continue reading What Is Shape Design? (And How You Can Use It)
Start Using a Smart DAM and Image Optimization Stack
Asset management and website performance optimization are two of those unavoidable headaches faced by every website owner. A digital asset management (DAM) platform can provide centralized asset repositories with intuitive dashboards to help you manage assets. On the other hand, an image CDN can help you get rid of that messy responsive syntax and provide… Continue reading Start Using a Smart DAM and Image Optimization Stack
20 Most Popular Sans Serif Fonts for 2021
Let’s take a look at some of the most popular sans serif fonts for 2021. What is a sans serif font? We’ll show you, with some inspiring sans serif font examples you can download now. So sit back, enjoy the type inspiration, and pick out the best sans serif fonts for your next design project. … Continue reading 20 Most Popular Sans Serif Fonts for 2021
Lessons learned from designing a VR app
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4 Questions to Ask Your Clients When They Request Basic SEO Services
Most top designers and top programmers are separate individuals. Although most professional designers know JavaScript, it’s rare to find one person who is a master of both design and programming (beyond JavaScript). The same is true for search engine optimization (SEO). As a designer, you probably know your way around basic SEO strategies, but you… Continue reading 4 Questions to Ask Your Clients When They Request Basic SEO Services
Figma design kit for Tailwind CSS
This week freebie is a free set of UI components and pages designed to integrate with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS. It’s a great resource for Tailwind front-end developers who need a ready-made styleguide, and a few components to get started with. Free file includes a color palette, a typography scale, header and sidebar… Continue reading Figma design kit for Tailwind CSS
24 Brilliant Shopify Store Designs
There are numerous brilliant Shopify store designs in the world. Shopify, one of the most popular e-commerce platforms, is a go-to CMS for store owners and brand managers. The user-friendly management system, the customizability, the variety of design options, the thousands of themes – these are just some of the reasons why designers prefer offering… Continue reading 24 Brilliant Shopify Store Designs
20 Best New Websites, May 2021
This month we have several examples of brutalism used to good effect as a foil to showcase products and/or work. By contrast, at the other end of the scale, we have brands who have chosen to go more of an immersive experience route, using full-screen images, sound, animation, and even VR. Both are valid approaches,… Continue reading 20 Best New Websites, May 2021
Women in UX: Leah Buley
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Popular Design News of the Week: May 17 2021 – May 23, 2021
Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: May 17 2021 – May 23, 2021
A Comprehensive Guide to Flexbox Alignment
Alignment is probably the most confusing aspect of flexbox. The flexbox layout module has a handful of alignment properties that behave differently under different circumstances, and when using them you might not necessarily understand what is happening or why. However, if you know what to pay attention to, alignment is less complicated than it first… Continue reading A Comprehensive Guide to Flexbox Alignment
5 Great Landing Page Examples You Can Learn From
1 Share Your landing pages are incredibly important, as they often provide the first experience people will have with your website. They’re typically created with the purpose of converting your website visitors into leads or customers, so they have to be well-designed, attention-grabbing, and compelling enough to convince people to take action. There are so… Continue reading 5 Great Landing Page Examples You Can Learn From
Professional Business Card PSD Templates (26 Print Design)
34 Shares An elegant business cards with classy, stylish, beautiful, modern design, perfect for any business. Ideal for personal / professional branding and more. Clean business card templates easy to edit and text layers can be changed with one click. All objects can be resized without any quality loss (shapes). Fully layered Photoshop PSD and… Continue reading Professional Business Card PSD Templates (26 Print Design)
25+ Best Free Wedding Fonts (For Invitations, Signs, and More)
The right wedding font is indispensable for your wedding stationery and keepsakes. And when you are on a strict budget, finding the best fonts is critical. That’s why today we are featuring the best affordable and free wedding fonts you can find at Envato Elements. Unlimited Wedding Fonts Downloads at Envato Elements We all can relate to… Continue reading 25+ Best Free Wedding Fonts (For Invitations, Signs, and More)
Poll: Will You Adopt Google’s Material You?
This week at I/O, Google unveiled the latest version of its Material Design design system, Material You. Initially presented as an upgrade for Android 12, Material You is the biggest revision to Material Design since its launch in 2014 and will be rolling out across all Google products in the coming year. Material You is… Continue reading Poll: Will You Adopt Google’s Material You?
SVG Viewport and viewBox (For Complete Beginners)
In this quick SVG viewport and viewBox tutorial, we’re going to break down exactly what viewport and viewBox are in SVG for the web. You’ll learn: The difference between the viewport and viewBox The aspects of your SVGs you can control with each How they are each applied Let’s begin! SVG Viewport If you literally… Continue reading SVG Viewport and viewBox (For Complete Beginners)