Let Your Audience Design Your Website: Why Online Casinos are Built on Logic Not Luck

Taking an activity that primarily existed in the physical world for decades and making it something internet users will enjoy is never easy. Indeed, when you look at the mixed response to online books, you’ll see just how tough it can be to convert people. According to Forbes’ review of Amazon’s Kindle sales in 2013,… Continue reading Let Your Audience Design Your Website: Why Online Casinos are Built on Logic Not Luck

33 Winter and Christmas Design Elements for the Holiday Season

December 13, 2017 by Alex Fox The holiday season is one of the most important parts of the years for many business. Retail especially revolves around the holiday season, with Christmas sales, special promotions and incentives. All these things need holiday-specific design language, which is where these design elements come in. You’ll need some high-quality… Continue reading 33 Winter and Christmas Design Elements for the Holiday Season

9 ½ Plausible and/or Absurd UX Industry Predictions for 2018

1. Salaries will either increase or decrease, but likely not remain exactly the same With the volatility of our world, who’s to say where salaries will go? 2017 similarly saw salaries go in a direction. 2018 will either see an increase or decrease. This will depend on economies, how many salary negotiation blogs we read, and… Continue reading 9 ½ Plausible and/or Absurd UX Industry Predictions for 2018

UX trends, 2017 highlights, and more UX links this week

The State of UX in 2018 → We have seen quite a lot this year. After curating and sharing 1,926 links with 189,489 designers all over the world, we see a few trends in what our industry is writing, talking, and thinking about. Here is what to expect for UX in 2018.

Beautiful and Simple Logo Design Ideas for Your Inspiration

November 30, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger You have launched your online store, put a social media campaign in place, and created a roadmap of how you can grow your business over time. However, now it’s time for the company branding. So, how do you start with that?Branding comprises of many things- your company’s work culture,… Continue reading Beautiful and Simple Logo Design Ideas for Your Inspiration

15 Great Gifts for Web Designers

November 29, 2017 by Alex Fox Buying gifts for the technologically inclined can be challenging. Here’s fifteen great ideas for gifts for web designers. This unique sketch pad is created to help developers design websites for both desktop and mobile platforms. If you don’t like this pad, UI Stencils has an awesome collection of similar… Continue reading 15 Great Gifts for Web Designers

The Best Email Design Hunt 2017 – Showcase Your Email Design Talent

Emails have paved a long way from being a plain text personal communication to an effective marketing channel with amazing animations and interesting interactive elements. The entire email industry is sure to experience many more revolutionary trends in the years to come. EmailMonks, one of the largest email template production company, is happy to announce,… Continue reading The Best Email Design Hunt 2017 – Showcase Your Email Design Talent

Top 7 Brightest WordPress Web Design Trends We Met in 2017

The year 2017 is slowly running to the end, so we can start drawing the first conclusions in regards to the trends that were in the biggest demand among the web audience. It’s become our good tradition to start every New Year with the series of predictions for the next 365 days and finish the… Continue reading Top 7 Brightest WordPress Web Design Trends We Met in 2017

What designers can learn from the iPhone X

I’ve been playing around with the iPhone X for a couple of days now. The one thing that surprises me the most is how different it is from all the previous models. It’s the most radical deviation from the original iPhone, and yet — or perhaps precisely because of it — the best update so far. With it’s high… Continue reading What designers can learn from the iPhone X

Best PHP Books, Courses and Tutorials in 2017

November 8, 2017 by Alex Fox While JavaScript has gained popularity for animation and interaction, PHP still rules the server-side scripting world. Developers with strong PHP skills are more competitive in the job market, and can build better sites with improved user experiences. If you want to freshen up your PHP skills or get started… Continue reading Best PHP Books, Courses and Tutorials in 2017

Ruby On Rails Isn’t Going Anywhere

November 1, 2017 by Spyrestudios Ruby on Rails has gotten some tough press recently, with programs like Coding Dojo dropping Rails from its boot camps and workshops. What’s happened to the once dominant coding language? Despite the fact that Ruby on Rails is the underlying framework for many of the most popular websites, developers are… Continue reading Ruby On Rails Isn’t Going Anywhere

Avoiding Common Problems with CSS Grid

October 25, 2017 by Alex Fox For many dark days, properly aligning objects on a webpage with CSS alone was close to impossible. With mostly-functional semi-hacks like float, positioning and in-like block,  we could make it work, but it was far from perfect. When vexed by a particularly troublesome layout quirk, some event lamented the… Continue reading Avoiding Common Problems with CSS Grid

Notification overload and coping with dark design patterns.

Design in 2017. Here’s how most of ours days start. We wake up swearing because we need another 2 hours sleep, turn off the alarm and check our phone. When we swipe down the notifications drawer, we see tonnes of work emails, Instagram and Facebook notifications, Slack messages and calendar invites. Even Medium notifies me of… Continue reading Notification overload and coping with dark design patterns.

The Top 7 PHP Frameworks [Infographic]

October 9, 2017 by Noemi Twigg Choosing the most suitable PHP framework can be a challenge if you don’t know what features to compare and prioritize you need lots of experience and time to sort out which the best framework for your task. My Web Programmer has put together a compact yet comprehensive comparison to help… Continue reading The Top 7 PHP Frameworks [Infographic]

The best Slack groups for UX designers

Tons of companies are using Slack to organize and facilitate how their employees communicate on a daily basis. Slack has now more than 5 million daily active users and more than 60,000 teams around the world. But whether the company you work for use Slack or not, you can still use the tool to connect… Continue reading The best Slack groups for UX designers

31 Halloween and Autumn Web Design Elements for Inspiration

October 4, 2017 by Alex Fox Getting started on a new project, or trying to theme an existing project for the brisk autumn weather? Take a look at these Halloween and autumn web design elements for inspiration on your next web design project. Below you’ll find icon packs, backgrounds, web banners and more. Feel free… Continue reading 31 Halloween and Autumn Web Design Elements for Inspiration

5 Tools You Need to Give Your Web Design Business a Boost

September 28, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger Part of the reason many young entrepreneurs are starting their own web design companies in today’s business climate is that there are so many cost-effective and easy-to-use support tools available. If you’re in the midst of launching or growing your own business, it can be helpful to know which… Continue reading 5 Tools You Need to Give Your Web Design Business a Boost

The Top 3 Server Problems to Watch For

September 25, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger Once your website is designed and live, most webmasters sit back and relax a little. It might seem like everything’s permanently in place, but in reality, your website will require ongoing, active monitoring if you want it to succeed. Not only will you need to provide ongoing content for… Continue reading The Top 3 Server Problems to Watch For

Download Free Photos of Cascading Streams

September 12, 2017 by Noemi Twigg We’ve got really great freebies for you today. If you’re working on a nature-themed project, or you just want a beautiful wallpaper, you’re going to love these photos. Thanks to Marc Andre for these wonderful photos! Here’s what he has to say about them. These 8 photos were taken… Continue reading Download Free Photos of Cascading Streams

Why You Should Seriously Consider Outsourcing Web Development

Smart outsourcing is key to the success of most businesses today. The company contracts external professionals to carry out its often non-strategic functions to focus its resources towards more strategic matters. You can have your accounting functions outsourced or your recruitment taken care of by a professional HR agency, or can outsource web development to… Continue reading Why You Should Seriously Consider Outsourcing Web Development

5 One-Page Web Design Templates for Businesses and Brands

September 8, 2017 by Zac Johnson Have you ever wanted to create a website for your brand or agency, but didn’t know how to get started? For most people, WordPress might seem like the best solution around. After all, it’s free to use and powers a great majority of sites on the internet today. However,… Continue reading 5 One-Page Web Design Templates for Businesses and Brands

Tips for Using Gradients In Web Design

Gradients are on-trend for 2017, and they’are a good way to make your design look a little more up to date. They also provide a pleasing illusion of depth and distance, which can add some volume to one-dimensional layouts. Check out these tips for using gradients in web design to get acquainted. Put Gradients in… Continue reading Tips for Using Gradients In Web Design

On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent

On Being Humble Be modest. Your accomplishments to date have brought you this far, but don’t depend on it to bring you any further. That design competition you won, painting sold to a museum exhibition, or local media sensation? Cheers to having your hard work rewarded. Keep it up. Your accomplishments in the future starts with… Continue reading On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent

A Little Help – Developing A Tutorial-Driven Website

September 1, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger It’s harder and harder to carve out a profitable niche among the millions of sites populating the web today, but one option that has stood the test of time is the tutorial website. Based on a constantly evolving knowledge base, innovative presentation styles, and overall profitability, tutorial websites may… Continue reading A Little Help – Developing A Tutorial-Driven Website