Stopping Endless Client Revisions with Be Theme and 260+ pre-built websites

Posted · Category: Best Collections If a seemingly unending stream of client revisions is starting to get to you, it is time to do something about it. In fact, this something can also be appealing to your clients. You shouldn’t be stuck with the same project week after week while neglecting other projects. There is… Continue reading Stopping Endless Client Revisions with Be Theme and 260+ pre-built websites

5 Steps to Create Your Own e-Commerce Site from Scratch

Being a designer nowadays goes hand in hand with staying up-to-date with technology; owning a high-spec PC or Mac is quintessential and knowing every Photoshop and Illustrator shortcut like the back of your hand is a given. Yet building your own website from scratch in order to showcase or even sell your work is a… Continue reading 5 Steps to Create Your Own e-Commerce Site from Scratch

Hey Designer, why so fragile?

The Why Praise overdose If you visit the comment section of behance.com and you manage to see through all the self-promotion, you’ll find that the comments are unusually polite and positive. Every project seems to have really positive feedback, the only thing that really distinguishes projects is the amount of praise they get. The reason… Continue reading Hey Designer, why so fragile?

12 Helpful jQuery JSON Plugins

For this round up, we have collected 12 best jQuery JSON plugins for you. JSON or JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight data-interchange format. JSON plugins are designed to help developers to use JSON data mapping and convert to JSON from jQuery and back to jQuery again with ease. There are many plugins available on… Continue reading 12 Helpful jQuery JSON Plugins

Design for a Cause

Personal Design Projects Apart from the professional design work, most designers, especially aspiring designers invest a reasonable amount of time on personal ‘side projects’. These projects typically include redesign or UX analysis of an existing product, concept product design, usability testing etc. They are really good for practicing UX skills. Simultaneously, most designers showcase them in… Continue reading Design for a Cause

The Myth of “Unlimited Everything” Hosting Plans — SitePoint

More from this author WordPress: A World-Class Content Management System 5 Time-Saving Uses for WP-CLI Automation Whether you’re building your hundredth client website, or you’ve just finished up Responsive Web Development and are looking for a host for your first portfolio site, you’re hunting for the best hosting provider. Because you’re probably looking for both… Continue reading The Myth of “Unlimited Everything” Hosting Plans — SitePoint

3 Ways to Fund Your Professional Website Development Project

April 28, 2017 by David Jones You’ve launched a business but you still need a website; however, you’re not sure how to create one. You’ve seen DIY platforms like Wix, Weebly, and WordPress, but you also know people who have had a custom website developed. Which route should you take? Though many people are perfectly… Continue reading 3 Ways to Fund Your Professional Website Development Project

Getting traction for experience design

Back in the eighties the job of design was to make things work reasonably. Technologies were in such a struggle to stay stable that any extra quality seemed unnecessary. In those times your computer would crash five times a day. So, worrying about beauty or engagement seemed like a somewhat unnecessary luxury. Fast-forwarding to 2007.… Continue reading Getting traction for experience design

10 Places to Find Free Graphic Design Mockups

Looking for free graphic design mockups? This collection of template resource websites has everything you need to create the perfect mockup for your design project. A design file resource website that’s focused entirely on delivering free graphic design mockups. Mockup World has everything you can hope for from a mockup freebies website. The site has various… Continue reading 10 Places to Find Free Graphic Design Mockups

How to Order and Align Items in Grid Layout

In this tutorial, you will learn how to control the order in which items are placed using the Grid Layout module. After that, we will discuss how to control the alignment of different items in the grid. In the past, we covered a few important Grid-related topics. We began by learning about different ways of… Continue reading How to Order and Align Items in Grid Layout

Skillfully Swapping Faces In Photoshop Without Making It Noticeable

March 10, 2017 by davidjones Photoshop offers complete control over picture editing. From editing people into famous places around the world to replacing animal faces with human faces, Photoshop fanatics display all sorts of skills. If you are one too and want to learn to skilfully swap faces in Photoshop without letting anyone figure it… Continue reading Skillfully Swapping Faces In Photoshop Without Making It Noticeable

8 Best Tools For Making Animated Videos

March 2, 2017 by Veronika This collection of free and premium video creation tools can help you create your very own 2D and 3D character animations and bring your ideas to life. Targeted at both professional animators and amateurs in the marketing and freelance industry, this list of tools is suitable for anyone who’s interested in… Continue reading 8 Best Tools For Making Animated Videos

Propeller: CSS framework based on Google Material and Bootstrap

Propeller is a responsive CSS framework that combines Google Material Design and Bootstrap components into a new library. It may be useful to drastically reduce the amount of decisions to make when writing code, and focus on logic rather than on semantics and formatting. Super useful to create quick prototypes and Minimum Viable Products! View project page

Best Places to Find Transparent PNG Images

February 23, 2017 by Veronika As browser-based graphic design tools gain popularity among amateurs and professional designers there is an increased demand for ready-to-use transparent PNG images. Sure, raster design software, like Photoshop and its free alternatives (GIMP and Pixlr) can help you easily trace and cut out the unnecessary segments of a photo and… Continue reading Best Places to Find Transparent PNG Images

10 Resource Sites For Free Website Background Images

February 16, 2017 by Veronika Building an entire website on your own requires special attention to details and a good eye for design. We’ve covered plenty of topics on website design, including essential features, user experience, and search engine optimization. We’ve listed plenty of free design resources but when it comes to something as simple as… Continue reading 10 Resource Sites For Free Website Background Images

Honing Crazy Eights with randomness

We use Crazy Eights often during ideation at Philosophie including during our Design Sprints (as does Google Ventures). They are great for diverging to lots of ideas before we start to build prototypes. You run the Crazy Eights exercise by quickly sketching a bunch of ideas as a team. Often it is done on a… Continue reading Honing Crazy Eights with randomness

The Best Free and Premium WordPress Themes Comparison

If you were surfing the global net in search of something interesting, here it is! Be aware that this post is remarkably fascinating and may come of use to everybody. Today is the moment when we will try to figure out the answer on one of the toughest question. It affects many of internet users… Continue reading The Best Free and Premium WordPress Themes Comparison

How to Completely Remove Comments from WordPress

WordPress comments are an integral part of building a community with a WordPress blog. They allow your audience to connect with you by responding directly to your posts. They allow you to extend the conversation surrounding the topic you wrote your post about by letting members of your community pitch in. They even allow members… Continue reading How to Completely Remove Comments from WordPress

The best new portfolio sites, October 2016

Hello readers! World events have been very interesting lately, but now it’s time for what we all know is really important: other peoples’ portfolios! Okay, it’s not that important in the grand scheme of things, but design is one thing we can all agree o… ahahaha. I can’t even properly finish that sentence. Not even… Continue reading The best new portfolio sites, October 2016

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

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

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

The Principles Of Information Architecture

Advertisement At the heart of online design sits information architecture. In fact, a large proportion of our function as online designers is devoted to supporting users when it comes to locating the content that they need, and driving them towards the content that website owners would like them to interact with. As such, we incorporate… Continue reading The Principles Of Information Architecture

Cloudinary Adds HTTP/2 Support

Posted · Category: Information Cloudinary, a provider of solutions for managing images and video in the cloud, is offering HTTP/2 support, enabling developers to further optimize the user experience. To take advantage of HTTP/2, Cloudinary users don’t have to do a thing – it’s been automatically integrated into the online tools. Websites have changed dramatically… Continue reading Cloudinary Adds HTTP/2 Support