Tag: approach

Designing For Small Businesses: 10 Websites That Can Change The Game

Source: Be Digital[2] First impressions count. This is where pre-built websites can play a key role in creating any business-oriented website. There has to be a follow-through of course, but the importance of creating a great first impression can never be overemphasized. The problem facing the web designer is what makes a great first impression… Continue reading Designing For Small Businesses: 10 Websites That Can Change The Game

How to Grow Your App Team

You can find a lot of online resources that help you on your way to make a successful app. Once you reach that point, you’re looking to retain or even expand on that success. This is the moment that you, a single person who has built an app, grows into something bigger, a team that continues… Continue reading How to Grow Your App Team

15 Responsive Design Tools for Savvy Designers

Having a responsive website is a necessity for almost any business in 2016. As a designer, you’re always faced with the pressure to deliver quality results as quickly as possible. Today we are reviewing some of the responsive design tools that will provide for a stellar user experience on multiple devices. These are the kind… Continue reading 15 Responsive Design Tools for Savvy Designers

Ditching Large Images: The Absence of Large Header Background Images

Although the utilization of impressive images as a header background is considered to be a huge web design trend, it seems that not everyone has a burning desire to follow the tendency and join the mainstream. Instead, some folks go for opposite tactics and prefer ditching wide-screen pictures in favor of clean, solid color backdrops.… Continue reading Ditching Large Images: The Absence of Large Header Background Images

10 Terrific Time-Saving CSS Cleanup Tools

The benefits of having clean, organized CSS are numerous. A site with immaculate CSS will load more quickly, appear more prominently in search results, and serve as a stellar testament of your professionalism for future clients. Everyone from the everyday visitor to the most scrutinous fellow designer will benefit from your diligent, clean CSS markup. … Continue reading 10 Terrific Time-Saving CSS Cleanup Tools

How to build standards-compliant responsive design using @viewport

One of the key concepts in any responsive design is the change of viewport size. That’s because mobile viewports vary greatly from desktop viewports. To control the viewport size we traditionally use the viewport meta tag. However, the viewport meta tag, like all the worst browser developments of the last forever, isn’t W3C valid. It… Continue reading How to build standards-compliant responsive design using @viewport

The Future of Web Design is in Our Hands

For the past 20 years, the Web has evolved via a single portal (the desktop browser) and a single paradigm (the page). In the last two years both have been obliterated by the proliferation of new Internet-connected devices and browser technology. The Web as we know it is undergoing a transformational shift in how information is delivered, created,… Continue reading The Future of Web Design is in Our Hands

50+ Great Resources for Finding Design Freebies

No matter what kind of task you have or problem you need to solve, it is often a bad strategy to start from scratch. In the design space, it is a common approach to look for ideas and inspiration and to collect a sizeable toolbox of design elements to kick start a project and test… Continue reading 50+ Great Resources for Finding Design Freebies

Cardinal: A Small & Mobile First CSS Framework

Cardinal is a small, “mobile first” CSS framework with some useful default styles, scalable typography, reusable modules, and a simple responsive grid system. Cardinal provides a new approach to scaling web typography and layout across multiple devices. It places little emphasis on pixel-precision, but does not restrict its usage. Instead, Cardinal leverages modular scale, unit-less… Continue reading Cardinal: A Small & Mobile First CSS Framework

New Features of Edge Reflow CC

Edge Reflow application is used by web designers to create a native web surface with CSS design and layout features in a familiar and intuitive way. Edge Reflow helps designers to create resizable layouts that simulate the look and feel of both desktop and mobile devices; control media query breakpoints in design for custom device sizes, add typography to their projects using the integrated Edge Web Fonts, and preview their work on desktops as well as mobile devices using the integrated Edge Inspect plug-in. You can extract CSS code and hand off to developers with confidence that your design vision will remain uncompromised throughout development.

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10 Extremely Gorgeous Google Web Fonts

We all know how important a good typography is on any type of design; it acts as a non verbal connection between the viewer and the message which must be delivered. Even if we are able to create the most intricate and amazing designs which can boost the interaction to the sky, if you don’t… Continue reading 10 Extremely Gorgeous Google Web Fonts

23 Flat Design iPhone Apps

Flat design is becoming increasingly popular in the design and development space. When we say “flat” we are referring to the minimalist approach to design. We remove borders, shadows, variants, 3d elements to come up with a very clean simple and yes flat design. Minimal design has been popular for a while and it seems… Continue reading 23 Flat Design iPhone Apps

Put More Personal Work In Your Portfolio

Anyone here have a bunch of strange, unusual, or, shall we say, “quirky” hobbies? Perhaps you like to collect bottle caps from around the world and photograph them as found typography. Or maybe you recycle old computer parts to fashion into handmade art pieces? Come on, you’re designers – I know there’s something juicy you… Continue reading Put More Personal Work In Your Portfolio

45 Awesome Design Fonts for Minimalist Design

Taking a minimalist approach for your website or a graphic project requires that you use fonts that match the simple and uncluttered setup of your design. Clean and light fonts can profoundly complement your minimalist design as they appear laid back and subdued. Their somewhat subtle appearance would give you a breathing space to admire… Continue reading 45 Awesome Design Fonts for Minimalist Design

Adobe Improves 3D Functionality in Photoshop CS6.1

Adobe made some rather significant changes to its 3D features in Photoshop CS6. In CS6.1, they have made a handful of tweaks that you should be aware of. These new features include a way to generate bump map textures from flat artwork, using the Normals menu; smoother previewing of soft shadows; full-image ray tracing, replacing… Continue reading Adobe Improves 3D Functionality in Photoshop CS6.1