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
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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
How To Make Infographics Properly
Advertisement I know you are interested in learning how to make infographics. Before getting there, we need to start with the beginning. Since the dawn of time humans have used visuals to communicate with one another. Cave paintings have been discovered across Asia and Europe dating back as far as 40,000 years ago. Fast forward… Continue reading How To Make Infographics Properly
Learn Xcode And Swift To Develop iOS Apps
Advertisement I know you want to learn Xcode and you are not the only one. Yet, you might think that creating an app for use on an iPhone or iPad is too complicated and simply out of your reach. However, app design and creation has never been simpler than it is today. Using tools such… Continue reading Learn Xcode And Swift To Develop iOS Apps
How to Fix Wide Angle Distortions Fast
If you shoot with ultra wide angle lens, you know the distortions it creates. Photoshop has a tool called “Adaptive Wide Angle” which can correct this but it has its flaws including the amount of time it takes to do it. In this tutorial, you’ll learn a technique called “Volume Deformation” which will save you… Continue reading How to Fix Wide Angle Distortions Fast
How to Make Pixel Characters
What You’ll Be Creating If you’ve ever thought about creating pixel art, here’s a very quick and easy introduction to one of the most fundamental aspects of it: characters. We’ll be creating an extremely simple character, but although it will be simple, it will still allow a decent amount of detail, so it will work… Continue reading How to Make Pixel Characters
9 Best jQuery Autocomplete Plugins
For today’s round up, we have collected 9 best jQuery auto complete plugins for you. Auto complete feature lets your users to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values that they have previously saved in the form. This will result in saving lots of time and energy. This is exceptionally helpful for… Continue reading 9 Best jQuery Autocomplete Plugins
Sushi Bar Responsive Website Template
Over the past few years, sushi continues to win hearts of people throughout the world, and for part of the population Japanese cuisine enters a daily diet. There is a question, why people begin to give their preference to this beautiful and tasty dish? It seems very simple – boiled rice, nori, raw fish and… Continue reading Sushi Bar Responsive Website Template
Designing for Apple Watch: Designing a Glance in Sketch
What You’ll Be Creating If this is the first time you are designing for a wearable device, you will notice that there are some key differences compared to designing a product for a smartphone or a desktop computer. In this quick tip, I cover some of these differences while also teaching you how to design… Continue reading Designing for Apple Watch: Designing a Glance in Sketch
Designing for Apple Watch: Product Strategy
When Apple launched the Apple Watch, there was a lot of excitement. Wearables are a new category to design experiences for. The caveat? Translating your app to a smartwatch experience is different from building a responsive product for example. It’s not a matter of fitting content onto a smaller screen. In fact, it starts much… Continue reading Designing for Apple Watch: Product Strategy
13 Abstract & Colorful Desktop Wallpapers
ADVERTISEMENT Here is another wonderful compilation of 13 abstract and colorful desktop wallpapers for you. Many computer owners use desktop wallpapers to spice up their desktop and bring some life into it. Knowing how much of a hot commodity wallpapers are to the design and development community, and to anyone in general who tends to… Continue reading 13 Abstract & Colorful Desktop Wallpapers
12 WordPress Plugins For Handling Malicious Code
With this collection, we are aiming to present some of the finest examples of WordPress plugins that can handle malicious code for you. Take a peek over the list and see if anything catches your attention. We spent a large amount of time basking in the glow of a computer screen to sort out the… Continue reading 12 WordPress Plugins For Handling Malicious Code
How to Work With WordPress Metadata
If you’re someone who is just getting started working with WordPress, then it’s natural to be curious about some of the advanced features offered by its API. So where might you stand regarding your experience? Maybe you’ve tweaked the code in a few themes. Perhaps you’ve altered the functionality of a couple of plugins. Maybe… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Metadata
10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame
The design field is pretty crowded. If this is your “calling,” then you have to accept that you are in competition with a lot of creatives that may know more than you. You have to accept that you will have to take all of that creativity you have and translate it into products that others… Continue reading 10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame