3 Essential Design Trends, September 2021

Do you ever get bored with design projects? Feel like you keep designing the same things on repeat? This collection of trends – from fun angles to illustrations where you wouldn’t expect them to cool three-dimensional concepts – is sure to help you think a little more out of the box. It might be just… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, September 2021

3 Essential Design Trends, August 2021

Sometimes the designs that make the most impact do a lot of unexpected things and break some of the most tried and true rules of visual theory. Sometimes these design elements work brilliantly, and other times they are fleeting or fall flat. This month all of the examples here seem to break some conventional design… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, August 2021

6 Essentials in Creating Successful Facebook Ads

It’s been a while since the traditional advertising industry yielded to the more multi-functional advertising medium – social media marketing. As the unequivocal leader of this new marketing realm, Facebook keeps enticing internet entrepreneurs to promote their businesses through this universal hub of virtual interaction. To date, Facebook marketing has been the most effective advertising… Continue reading 6 Essentials in Creating Successful Facebook Ads

Your Fees are Too Low: Your Expertise is Worth More Than You Think

October 10, 2019 by Spyre Studios If you’re not charging a premium for your experience as a website developer, your fees are too low. Even if your routine projects are generic, you bring some kind of expertise to the table that deserves additional compensation. Your expertise could be development speed, access to a network of… Continue reading Your Fees are Too Low: Your Expertise is Worth More Than You Think

Interactive Repulsion Effect with Three.js

A tutorial on how to recreate the interactive repulsion effect of grid items seen in BestServedBold’s Dribbble shot “Holographic-Interactions”. This tutorial is going to demonstrate how to build an interesting repulsion effect for a grid of elements using three.js and TweenMax (GSAP). The effect is a recreation of BestServedBold’s Dribbble shot Holographic-Interactions. Attention: We assume… Continue reading Interactive Repulsion Effect with Three.js

5 Above the Fold Elements that Get Your Audience’s Attention

An old study from Nielsen states that web visitors spend 80.3% of their time above the fold – the top area of your site that’s immediately viewable upon loading. Furthermore, Google found out that ads above the fold had 68% viewability, as opposed to ads below the fold with only 40%. Naturally, a lot of… Continue reading 5 Above the Fold Elements that Get Your Audience’s Attention

Animated Animals in CSS and SVG

Learn some interesting animation techniques involving Sass and SVG filters for realistic motion effects on the example of animated animals. View demo Download source Today we want to show you how the clever use of HTML, CSS sequenced animations, and SVG filters can bring to life one of the most unlikely (yet adorable) things to… Continue reading Animated Animals in CSS and SVG

Polaroid Stack to Grid Intro Animation

A tutorial on how to create an intro animation where a decorative Polaroid stack becomes a grid similar to the effect seen on the takeit website. View demo Download source Today we’d like to show you how to create a very simple intro effect similar to the one seen on the takeit website where a… Continue reading Polaroid Stack to Grid Intro Animation

Micro UX Effects: Bring Websites to Life with Microscopic Attention to Detail

We are accustomed to taking different helpful elements that are inbuilt into website design for granted. For example, a small load dynamic icon that allows controlling volume of sound seems to us a matter of course. Various effects that transform integral elements into brisk eye-catching items also do not cause delight. Trendy techniques of using… Continue reading Micro UX Effects: Bring Websites to Life with Microscopic Attention to Detail

Mind-Blowing Long Exposure Photos Which Will Definitely Capture Your Attention

Long exposure photography is a technique which involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements. The paths of moving light sources become clearly visible. Long exposure photos are extremely interesting because they are showing a different world that you can’t see it you your own… Continue reading Mind-Blowing Long Exposure Photos Which Will Definitely Capture Your Attention

Capture Your User’s Attention With These 15 Absolutely Gorgeous Retro Icon Sets

Every project’s success depends on how great it runs and how gorgeous it looks. It doesn’t matter if you have an application which is working flawlessly and covers all the user’s needs; if it doesn’t have a great interface then there is a high probability that it will fail. Nowadays, user’s demands are getting increasingly more  sophisticated… Continue reading Capture Your User’s Attention With These 15 Absolutely Gorgeous Retro Icon Sets