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Comics of the week #361

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world… Continue reading Comics of the week #361

A Collection Of Beautiful Typography Designs

Since the invention of the printing press, typography has evolved to become a complicated and beautiful element of modern design. Typography is ubiquitous in daily life; every single piece of media you see was meticulously crafted to give you a specific impression of the product and brand. The appropriate use of typography can elevate a… Continue reading A Collection Of Beautiful Typography Designs

Sportify: A small UI Kit for fitness apps

This week featured freebie is Sportify, a small UI kit for fitness apps made of 5 awesome Sketch screens exclusively for Freebiesbug. This free kit is part of a full pack released on DesignerBundle that is worth to be checked out! Download freebie

What You Need To Do To Be A Great UX Designer

The concept of user experience design is a relatively new idea, and now it is an appropriate time to find a way of defining it, by identifying UX design skills and by looking at how these need to be put into practice. In design terms, everything that goes into user experience can make UX a… Continue reading What You Need To Do To Be A Great UX Designer

A Collection of Repeatable SVG Background Patterns

Posted · Category: License Free, Patterns Hero Patterns is a collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your digital projects. With SVG quickly growing as the preferred method for using graphics on the web, there are still few resources available in this format. Steve Schoger created Hero Patterns so that you… Continue reading A Collection of Repeatable SVG Background Patterns

What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do

The term ‘design’ can be a deceptively simple one. It sounds curiously vague, and when offered in response to most people, it elicits a degree of confusion. For example, when somebody says ‘Oh, I work as a designer,’ a lot of people do not entirely understand what this means. This is because, for such a… Continue reading What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do

Designing for Tech Clients – How Pre-built Websites Will Help

Posted · Category: Best Collections If you are reading this article, you most likely have worked with a tech company or startup. You’ve noticed that this niche has its own rules. And you probably had to answer some hard questions. What’s the audience’s main treat? What’s the suited design style for tech clients? Do web… Continue reading Designing for Tech Clients – How Pre-built Websites Will Help

Burnt Out Vs. Time for a Change

Posted · Category: Information It’s all too easy to fall into the trap of trying to move up the ladder, through trying to demonstrate your work ethic to managers and coworkers. While there’s certainly nothing wrong with that, it’s not always easy to recognize when this pattern has gone too far and has taken a… Continue reading Burnt Out Vs. Time for a Change

Automatic Art Direction with Cloudinary’s Responsive Images Breakpoints Generator

Posted · Category: Tools Earlier this year, Cloudinary released the Responsive Breakpoints Generator to help developers automate the process of generating optimal sets of responsive image resources. This tool makes it easy to generate *resolution-adaptable* images – upload any high-resolution image to get the responsive image markup and an optimal set of resources to back… Continue reading Automatic Art Direction with Cloudinary’s Responsive Images Breakpoints Generator

Create a Sci-Fi Chamber Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Learn how to create a sci-fi photo manipulation of a mysterious chamber with amazing light flares and great entrance with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to contruct your own chamber with textures , place a model in front of the entrance and then complete it by adding realistic shadows and lighting effect Throughout… Continue reading Create a Sci-Fi Chamber Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

One-Click Desktop, Cam, & Mic Recording Tool for Chrome

Posted · Category: License Free, Video Opentest is the fastest way for you to share knowledge and collaborate more easily through video. The seamless experience makes it perfect for: Walking a co-worker through a project, Bug tracking/QA (both web & mobile), Personalized sales demos, Customer support. Opentest let’s you do all that for free without… Continue reading One-Click Desktop, Cam, & Mic Recording Tool for Chrome

Build Human-Friendly Databases for Free with Airtable

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Airtable is not just a spreadsheet replacement, nor just a user-friendly database. Their mission is to democratize software creation by enabling anyone to build the tools that meet their needs. Creators and creatives around the world use Airtable to do everything from cattle tracking to filmmaking, and they have.… Continue reading Build Human-Friendly Databases for Free with Airtable

Cool Posters Design Inspiration – 37 Examples

Some people use to say that posters are a dying art, that they are not used anymore as often as they were before the internet era. It is true that posters had their golden age when everybody used almost only posters for advertising. That age, however, is not fully gone. In fact, it’s not gone… Continue reading Cool Posters Design Inspiration – 37 Examples

The Best Watercolor Brushes You’d Download

Advertisement The watercolor brushes give you a chance to make a connection between traditional art and digital art. Designing with watercolor effects in one of the most popular concepts in recent years, and has ensured a place both in web design and out-of-the-box photo editing. Some people argue that replicating watercolor effects in the digital… Continue reading The Best Watercolor Brushes You’d Download

UI Movement – The Most Popular Design Animations

Posted · Category: Inspiration, License Free UI Movement started out as a newsletter that featured the best UI designs every day. The main real difference between UI Movement and other design inspiration sites, is that they focus exclusively on UI designs. Since the original, simple newsletter format, UI Movement has been updated to make for… Continue reading UI Movement – The Most Popular Design Animations

Free Stock Photos – Where To Get Them From

Advertisement One thing that has always been a very integral part of web design is photography. One of the most unfortunate things about this, however, is that we’ve come across nothing but mediocre stock photos of men in suits shaking hands. In addition to not only being extremely tacky, these kinds of photos can also… Continue reading Free Stock Photos – Where To Get Them From

Looking for a Prototyping Tool? Here are Some Very Good Ones

Posted · Category: Best Collections First of all, how exactly do you intend to present your design, or elements of it, to others, or test the UX? With a prototype of course, but there are also wireframes and mockups to consider. All three serve a purpose, but they are not one and the same. The… Continue reading Looking for a Prototyping Tool? Here are Some Very Good Ones

Turn Your Web App Into A Native App

Posted · Category: Tools Web apps are awesome, but many are not optimized for mobile, or are done so in ways that leaves much to be desired. These days, a poor mobile experience can quickly drive away users and kill engagement. While app users’ attention spans are shortening, they increasingly demand truly native mobile app… Continue reading Turn Your Web App Into A Native App

Vectr – Free Graphic Editor Used to Create Vector Graphics

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Design software shouldn’t bring people a sense of struggle, yet that’s exactly how the troublesome design software we grew up on made us feel. With their incredibly steep learning curve and counter-intuitive tools, they would deter our potential as designers rather than helping us to unleash it. We’ve all… Continue reading Vectr – Free Graphic Editor Used to Create Vector Graphics

Meet the Latest Monstroid WordPress Theme Update and Save 40%

Posted · Category: Best Collections We are excited to bring your attention to the most recent update of Monstroid – a multipurpose WordPress theme packed with premade designs, tools for developers, plugins, and many other awesome features.We have already featured Monstroid in one of our posts, and even hosted a giveaway. Today you have a… Continue reading Meet the Latest Monstroid WordPress Theme Update and Save 40%

SVG Tools And Resources You Might Want To See

Advertisement SVG, also known as Scalable Vector Graphics, is one of the fastest and best tools being utilized by web developers, especially those who are looking to have different animations placed into the many websites and apps that they design. As mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets become more and more popular throughout the… Continue reading SVG Tools And Resources You Might Want To See

Every Designer Should Know The Importance Of Prototyping

Advertisement The importance of prototyping should be obvious to anyone involved in designing website or mobile apps. A prototype allows a designer or developer to create a form out of a concept, so that everyone who is involved in the process can give their feedback and make necessary adjustments before a final version is produced.… Continue reading Every Designer Should Know The Importance Of Prototyping

Which Technical Skills Will Earn You the Most Money?

Posted · Category: Information If you work in or near technology, you are well-versed in the high-stakes economy of engineering salaries. All engineers are in super high demand for sought-after (and well paid) positions, the collective narrative goes. Hired’s first-ever Hiring Pulse Report: Q2 2016 adds some nuance to that narrative. TL;DR: Engineers are still… Continue reading Which Technical Skills Will Earn You the Most Money?