Parallax scrolling is the best choice for those of you who want to wow the audience, making them stay on your web page for longer. Rather than the traditional horizontal page view that was so popular for quite a while, parallax sites embrace a completely different approach – vertical storytelling. This is the technique frequently… Continue reading Websites Design with Parallax Effect – 32 Creative Examples
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Solving the right problem, VR needs UX, github for designers, and more UX this week
A year ago… A psychological approach to designing interfaces → Do you ever get that feeling when you’re in a supermarket, looking at a sea of different types of toothpaste and you have no idea what to get? The reason why you get overwhelmed by these excessive options has to do with, you guessed it, psychology.… Continue reading Solving the right problem, VR needs UX, github for designers, and more UX this week
The Core Elements of Product Design: Strategy, Pillars and Principles
Establish these core elements up front to clarify your best product solution You can quote my partner-in-[design]crime and I on that. I’ve dedicated most of my career to digital design within the walls of big business. The endless uphill battle never ceases to remind me that traditional business models have yet to fully adopt design into… Continue reading The Core Elements of Product Design: Strategy, Pillars and Principles
Split A/B Testing Graphical Elements of Your Landing Pages: Best Practices to Test and Quantify Conversion Value of Landing Page Elements
It is a known fact that one of the best ways of generating high conversion rates is by having high-converting landing pages. Landing pages are standalone web pages with a single purpose – to act as a point of entry for a particular website. Study has shown that designers have just 50 milliseconds to make… Continue reading Split A/B Testing Graphical Elements of Your Landing Pages: Best Practices to Test and Quantify Conversion Value of Landing Page Elements
From Human-centered design to design for enhancing human ability
The role of design is consequently evolving. From initially being a domain of communication with a predominant aesthetic focus design has taken a key role in the creation of products and has become a human advocacy. Design has moved into the C-Suite with the appointment of Chief Design Officers (CDO) while Design Thinking shifted the… Continue reading From Human-centered design to design for enhancing human ability
They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”
We’re living in the era of the “UX enthusiastics”: some people just feel they have a natural talent about anything related to “user” AND “experience” and this enables them to randomly act and feel as UX designer. Someone should tell them that this is one of those cases when a natural talent in not enough… Continue reading They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”
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
6 Tips for Growing Your Web Design Business
You’ve developed your web design skills and landed a few clients. Now, it’s time to grow your business and share your talents with the world. You can choose your own hours, work wherever you want, and make money as you go. To gain the financial freedom you need and grow your business, here are some… Continue reading 6 Tips for Growing Your Web Design Business
Aol – One Of The Boldest Logo Rebranding Cases Ever
The history of Aol branding is a story of bold decisions and risky moves. It shows how much can be achieved when you have the audacity to push the boundaries of design. It also shows that extraordinary problems require extraordinary solutions. How loss of clients creates necessity for bold actions The online environment has changed… Continue reading Aol – One Of The Boldest Logo Rebranding Cases Ever
The Smartphone’s Stunning Design Evolution
Today, practically everyone has an advanced smartphone that can do amazing things for you. Smartphone designs, however, have changed greatly since they were first introduced in the mid-1990s. You’ll gain a bigger appreciation for your current smartphone after you consider how the design for these devices has evolved over the years. The Big Brick IBM built… Continue reading The Smartphone’s Stunning Design Evolution
Introducing the New Installer for Be’s 250+ Awesome Pre-built Websites
Posted · Category: Best Collections The New Be Pre-Built Installer The old Be prebuilt-website installer got the job done, but it wasn’t entirely free of issues. Installing a website was easy, but the actions you had to take before doing the install were not all that user friendly. Quite simply, neither the UI nor the… Continue reading Introducing the New Installer for Be’s 250+ Awesome Pre-built Websites
Extending HTML by Creating Custom Tags
In this tutorial I will show you how easy it is to extend the HTML language with custom tags. The custom tags can be used to implement various behaviors, so they are a very convenient way to write less code and keep your HTML documents simpler. What Is a Custom HTML Tag? With HTML you… Continue reading Extending HTML by Creating Custom Tags
An engineering manager’s guide to rebranding —
Anytime a company launches a rebrand there’s the obligatory “how we did it” blog post. Uber did it, AirBnB did it and we did it. Usually these posts jump right from “good looking people putting post-it notes on a glass wall” to “unveil on an unsuspecting public” stage, and completely skip the really tricky part — going… Continue reading An engineering manager’s guide to rebranding
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50 Best Minimal Resume Templates
Best professional & clean Minimal Resume Templates are perfect for any opportunity and help you to get your dream job. Super clean design resumes with cover letter are made in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In-design and MS Word. This simple and clean Resume Templates are professionally organized and labeled so every beginner can edit it like a professional.… Continue reading 50 Best Minimal Resume Templates
Driving innovation [1/2]: a portfolio perspective
In every sector, it’s possible to notice growing efforts towards innovation. More and more organizations do not take their market and own relevance for granted, and realize that some [widely applied] strategies to maintain and grow their businesses [like plain price competition, and aggressive portfolio expansion, among others] may incubate serious near and long term… Continue reading Driving innovation [1/2]: a portfolio perspective
The best YouTube channels for designers and developers
I just recently realized how much time I spend on YouTube everyday. To be more precise, about 50 minutes every single day. About three years ago I started developing the habit of opening the YouTube Subscriptions page every day to check out new videos from the channels I had subscribed to. More recently, I decided… Continue reading The best YouTube channels for designers and developers
5 UX Trends That Will Change The Web in 2017
March 6, 2017 by Veronika With an increased prevail of AI services and personalization over static UX, 2017 holds a lot of changes for desktop and mobile design that are going to change the way users interact on the Internet. This article takes a closer look at some of the top UX trends for 2017… Continue reading 5 UX Trends That Will Change The Web in 2017
Why human-centered design is an expectation.
Human-Centered Design, in short, is the practice of a management and problem solving process that places people (your customer) at the center of every decision. It requires curiosity and contextual observation, empathy, ideation, iteration, and implementation. “Human-centered” is the core of user, customer, and service experience design (UX, CX, SX). Almost every company has a… Continue reading Why human-centered design is an expectation.
Designing Anticipated User Experiences
Anticipatory Design is possibly the next big leap within the field of Experience Design. “Design that is one step ahead” as Shapiro refers to it. This sounds amazing, but where does it lead us? And how will it affect our relationship with technology? I’ve dedicated my Master thesis to this topic to identify both ethical… Continue reading Designing Anticipated User Experiences
Ideas for block reveal effects with 3D Transforms
Latest experiment by Codrops consists of a small set of block reveal effects uncovering content of any kind in a schematic box look. On the demo page you can also find nice ready-made examples for revealing menus, modals, forms, etc. This approach takes advantages of scrollMonitor (a simple API to monitor elements as you scroll) and Flexbox and 3D Transforms, so… Continue reading Ideas for block reveal effects with 3D Transforms
6 Online Tools for Graphic Design To Keep an Eye on in 2017
December 15, 2016 by Veronika The online design sphere is constantly advancing and welcoming new platforms to its previously humble list of tools. The demand for quick and intuitive design on the go has inspired the creation of many browser-based online design tools. In this article, we’ll examine some of the newest additions to the… Continue reading 6 Online Tools for Graphic Design To Keep an Eye on in 2017
Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers
If you’re a long-time freelance web designer, you may be experiencing a rather common problem. As freelance web designers gain experience, they naturally become more proficient. This generally leads to attracting more clients, and results in taking on more work. Freelancers have obvious benefits. Like not having to work to someone else’ schedule, not having a… Continue reading Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers
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
Open Source Week at SitePoint
If you are reading this, chances are you have stumbled upon something remotely related to Open Source. opensource.com defines it in a simple manner: More from this author Ilya Gelfenbeyn, CEO of Api.ai, on AI and the IoT Why the Internet of Things Still Has a Long Way to Go The term “open source” refers… Continue reading Open Source Week at SitePoint