Summary: When users don’t clearly understand how systems function, they develop unique (and often incorrect) theories to explain their experiences. In user research, we often hear people describe how they think technology works. Sometimes, those theories are accurate, but most often, they are not. Through the many user interviews, field studies, and user testing sessions… Continue reading Technology Myths and Urban Legends
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Objection Handling: The Secret to Improving Your Website Conversion Rate
Let’s face it, users are naturally cautious online. They’ve got questions buzzing in their heads and concerns that need addressing before they’ll even think about clicking that “Buy Now” button. In the digital marketplace, understanding and addressing these customer objections is crucial for success. In this article, I will explore sales objection handling techniques, its… Continue reading Objection Handling: The Secret to Improving Your Website Conversion Rate
How To Create a WordPress Child Theme
By building a child theme you’ll preserve all your custom styles and functions through every theme update, ensuring your site retains its unique charm. Create a child theme on your WordPress website by setting up a new directory and then adding a style.css file to hold your custom designs. Then, with a bit of coding… Continue reading How To Create a WordPress Child Theme
JavaScript for Web Designers (Free Course)
We’ll start off simple by discussing variables, data types, and loops. Then, we’ll move on to more complicated concepts like functions, selectors, and events. You’ll even get a chance to apply the skills you’ve learned by putting together some examples – perfect for any web designer! What You’ll Learn What JavaScript is and how it… Continue reading JavaScript for Web Designers (Free Course)
How to Make a Seamless Brick Pattern in Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a vector brick wall using a brick pattern in Illustrator. If you prefer to follow along with a video tutorial, don’t miss this new video from the Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel: What You’ll Learn in This Illustrator Tutorial How to save the… Continue reading How to Make a Seamless Brick Pattern in Illustrator
How to Make an App Wireframe, Flowchart, Logo, and Prototype with Mockitt
You’re undoubtedly already familiar with design and prototyping tools like Figma, Adobe XD and Sketch; wireframing tools like Balsamiq, Mockflow and Axure; and flowchart tools like Visio, Miro and Lucidchart. You’re probably using one or more of these applications right now in your UI/UX workflow. And you might also be paying for a couple of… Continue reading How to Make an App Wireframe, Flowchart, Logo, and Prototype with Mockitt
How to Make a Brochure
Brochures may be one of the oldest marketing tools, but they’re a tried and tested technique that all sorts of businesses use to reach potential customers. A poorly designed brochure might be tossed in the trash, but a creative and beautiful one will be kept and pored over and can directly lead to sales for… Continue reading How to Make a Brochure
Design with the web in mind
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Back button, URL design, keyboard shortcuts, and other things we often forget about. When designing an application, there are 3 major variations — mobile app, web app, and desktop app. *It’s actually more complicated than this, but we’ll ignore that for now. Check out my other post to find out more about the different… Continue reading Design with the web in mind
30 Best Landing Page Templates Of 2020
57 Shares A landing page should be aesthetically pleasing, clean and elegant. It should be simple to understand yet it must have all the information that the website wants to convey to the visitor of the website. It should appeal to the visitor and the design and colors used should be attractive and related to… Continue reading 30 Best Landing Page Templates Of 2020
Developing a WordPress Website 101: The Important Five C
Recently I’ve been given a task to build and develop a website from scratch. When I say from scratch, I meant from nothing, no hosting, no direction on what the website will be, only a concept from the client that needs to build a website with niche toward or something similar to lifestyle blog as… Continue reading Developing a WordPress Website 101: The Important Five C
How to Build a Grayscale to Color Effect on Scroll (CSS & JavaScript)
In this new tutorial, we’ll start with some grayscale images and learn how to smoothly reveal their colored variants on scroll. To achieve the desired effect, we’re going to take advantage of different modern front-end features like CSS Grid, the clip-path property, and the Intersection Observer API. Our Grayscale to Color Effect Without further intro, let’s check… Continue reading How to Build a Grayscale to Color Effect on Scroll (CSS & JavaScript)
10 Inspiring Side Projects From Designers
Side projects can help to demonstrate your passion and enthusiasm for design to future clients or employers and can create a great new addition to your design portfolio. Side projects are a way you can work on things you want to work on — rather than just ones which are bringing in the money. Whether… Continue reading 10 Inspiring Side Projects From Designers
Popular Design News of the Week: January 13, 2020 – January 19, 2020
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: January 13, 2020 – January 19, 2020
Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, November 2019
This month, the slow decline of minimalism continues, and color is everywhere. There’s some awesome type, and video-based maximalism seems to be gaining a foothold. Enjoy! Another Colour I adore Another Colour’s site. It takes incredible complexity to produce an effect this simple. The landing page is a looping rainbow gradient, and the gradient strip… Continue reading Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, November 2019
Popular Design News of the Week: November 11, 2019 – November 17, 2019
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: November 11, 2019 – November 17, 2019
3 Top WP Tools and Services: Any of Them Will Make Your Site Better
Posted · Category: Best Collections With roughly 55,000 WordPress Plugins and Services to choose from, you shouldn’t have any trouble finding one or more that can take your business to the next level Right? The answer is “No”. Sifting through all 55,000 tools and services will not only take up a huge amount of your… Continue reading 3 Top WP Tools and Services: Any of Them Will Make Your Site Better
Top 7 Anti-Trends on Instagram
If years ago Instagram was just another website for people to share their news and recent pictures at, today it can also serve as a major platform for designers and photographers to promote themselves and their work. Being such a popular resource, it is only natural that Instagram has its own trends. As a photographer… Continue reading Top 7 Anti-Trends on Instagram
How to Make a Business Brochure in InDesign
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a business brochure with a clean, corporate style in Adobe InDesign. Business brochure templates are quick and simple to put together in InDesign, and can be easily adapted with your own text and images. This eight-page brochure design has a clean and modern… Continue reading How to Make a Business Brochure in InDesign
Getting Started with CSS Grid Layout ― Scotch
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Introduction CSS Grid Layout allows us to construct custom grids with more flexibility and control than ever before. Grid Layout gives us the ability to divide a webpage into rows and columns with simple properties. It also allows us to position and size each element inside the grid using CSS only, without any change to… Continue reading Getting Started with CSS Grid Layout ― Scotch
7 Design Myths That Will Wreck Your Site
When I was a junior designer I made plenty of mistakes. I believed false assumptions mostly because I did not have the experience yet to know better. I still don’t know it all. But, I am always eager to learn new things about design and to see which preconceived notions are accurate or a complete… Continue reading 7 Design Myths That Will Wreck Your Site
How to Create a Retro Funfair Vector in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating Wanna have some fun in the amusement park? Then join me in this tutorial and create a retro-style flat funfair scene, inspired by the Grease movie! No special drawing skills are required here—we’ll be working with simple geometrical shapes and the Pathfinder operations of Adobe Illustrator. What is more, we’ll learn… Continue reading How to Create a Retro Funfair Vector in Adobe Illustrator
Designing an iOS App in Sketch
In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) we’ll be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Before we start the tutorial, there’s a few things you’ll need: Once you have the items installed, let’s go ahead and create some awesome… Welcome Screen Let’s… Continue reading Designing an iOS App in Sketch
5 Things to Consider Before Becoming a Freelance Web Professional
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;} If you’re working as a web professional for an employer, chances are you occasionally daydream about going it alone. Maybe you do some freelance work in your spare time and would love to extend that to full time, or maybe you just want the freedom of being… Continue reading 5 Things to Consider Before Becoming a Freelance Web Professional
Vintage is Back in Trend: Best Retro Website Designs
Fashion for retro and vintage style has gradually moved from podiums and fashion shows to website design. It has been actively used in a variety of contexts: in advertising, corporate design, blog design, etc. Moreover, nowadays you can even find webdesign studios that specialize in vintage designing only. Retro Website Design There are several old-fashioned… Continue reading Vintage is Back in Trend: Best Retro Website Designs