There are zillions of words written about how customer centricity leads companies to success. However, the “customer-centric” term is sometimes misused as a catchall for customer feedback or customer satisfaction results, but making people happy is not enough. To have sustained success, companies must genuinely understand what the customer wants and needs, and implement the… Continue reading ‘Hire’ this article if you’re struggling to understand your customer needs
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Happy New Year 2018
Wishing you all a Fantastic, Remarkable, Incredible & Amazing Happy New Year 2018. May this New Year bring new hopes, new promises and new reasons to celebrate your presence in your life. Have a Joyous New Year 2018. Hurray! Thank you, thank you thank you… all for your help, advice, support, kicks from behind to keep me… Continue reading Happy New Year 2018
Tips On Educating Your Web Design Clients
You’ll often find that your web design clients simply do not know web design the way you do. They don’t follow the trends, they don’t really understand the terminology, and they don’t understand the reasoning behind certain web design decisions. You certainly know all those things. After all, it’s your job. You’re a web designer.… Continue reading Tips On Educating Your Web Design Clients
Canny Edge Detector Using Python
Edge detection is an essential image analysis technique when someone is interested in recognizing objects by their outlines, and it’s also considered an essential step in recovering information from images. For instance, edge detection can extract important features like lines and curves, which are then normally used by higher-level computer vision or image-processing algorithms. A… Continue reading Canny Edge Detector Using Python
15 Great Gifts for Web Designers
November 29, 2017 by Alex Fox Buying gifts for the technologically inclined can be challenging. Here’s fifteen great ideas for gifts for web designers. This unique sketch pad is created to help developers design websites for both desktop and mobile platforms. If you don’t like this pad, UI Stencils has an awesome collection of similar… Continue reading 15 Great Gifts for Web Designers
The Best Email Design Hunt 2017 – Showcase Your Email Design Talent
Emails have paved a long way from being a plain text personal communication to an effective marketing channel with amazing animations and interesting interactive elements. The entire email industry is sure to experience many more revolutionary trends in the years to come. EmailMonks, one of the largest email template production company, is happy to announce,… Continue reading The Best Email Design Hunt 2017 – Showcase Your Email Design Talent
Copyright, Creative Commons and Licensing For Web Developers
What is copyright? Very few people outside the creative industry have a strong or accurate understanding of copyright law. Let’s review some copyright basics, from the ground up. What is copyright? Copyright occurs as soon as an idea is “fixed in a tangible medium.” It does not require registration or a fee. The moment you… Continue reading Copyright, Creative Commons and Licensing For Web Developers
How Non-Digital Elements Can Improve UX
Designers draw ideas for website design and best user experience (UX) from everywhere – not just the digital sphere. If it annoys in real life, it can hinder user experience online. If it uplifts emotions or forms connections in the outside world, chances are it can be used for inspiration in designing online experiences as… Continue reading How Non-Digital Elements Can Improve UX
4 Great Design to WordPress Services You Need to Try
Posted · Category: Best Collections You’ve worked hard to transform your design concept into a finished design for an app or website. Yet, there is an obstacle between handing over the final design and product launch. It’s called “development”; a task that very few web designers are willing, or indeed able, to take on. Fortunately,… Continue reading 4 Great Design to WordPress Services You Need to Try
Uppercase vs. Lowercase: How to Send the Right Message Across When Choosing a Logo Font
When it comes to designing a logo for your brand, the usual tips are hard to miss: keep it simple, keep it clean, and make it memorable. Many hugely successful logos rely on symbols and images and can send their message across without featuring any text at all, but usually logos showcase the company behind… Continue reading Uppercase vs. Lowercase: How to Send the Right Message Across When Choosing a Logo Font
Key Logo Design Elements That Resonate Your Brand
On having a glance at what went before, one will notice that even retrospectively, an artisan who was bothered about his ability and trade would have always left some kind of a mark on its artifact, to distinguish it from others. In order to make people aware that these are the items that has been… Continue reading Key Logo Design Elements That Resonate Your Brand
Websites Design with Parallax Effect – 32 Creative Examples
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
10 Useful PHP Tools For Developers
PHP is very famous among web developers due to its awesome resources like documentations, tutorials, tools and so many. This collection is also about PHP tools which we gathered for web developers all over the web. PHP also makes the better and well organized web environment for the web developers. In this collection you will… Continue reading 10 Useful PHP Tools For Developers
29 Free Ecommerce UI Kits for Web and App Designers
UI kits are great time-savers. They reduce the workload of busy designers and help them to increase their productivity – it is the very reason why designers love them, and when great UI kits are offered for free, they become even more beneficial and desirable. We know that ecommerce web design projects are time-consuming –… Continue reading 29 Free Ecommerce UI Kits for Web and App Designers
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 New Skeuomorphism is in Your Voice Assistant
Google Home and Amazon Echo Yay, we killed Skeuomorphism! Not too long ago humanity left behind its skeuomorphic interfaces. Skeuomorphism meant using references to real world surface textures on visual interfaces to enhance their comprehensibility. We stripped our visual interfaces off their ornamentations to allow a more authentic approach to visual aesthetics. Killing skeuomorphism made us… Continue reading The New Skeuomorphism is in Your Voice Assistant
A Beginners Guide To Making Yourself Artificially Intelligent • (It’s A Lot Easier Than You Think)
If you are helping somebody, you are awaking somebody. A High-Level Overview Of The Design This is an awesome chance to begin to think about what you wear everyday. Sitting down, and analyzing what you like to wear allows you to refractor your personal source code that is written via the Python Script inside you. Let’s… Continue reading A Beginners Guide To Making Yourself Artificially Intelligent • (It’s A Lot Easier Than You Think)
Designing Accessible Products
2. Focus Focus is one of the most important accessibility features that enables users to use a computer with only a keyboard without the need for a mouse. Most reset stylesheets have this one line of code that causes major accessibility failure – :focus {outline: 0;} This is an anti-pattern that needs to be avoided… Continue reading Designing Accessible Products
How to Draw Bar Charts Using JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas
In an earlier tutorial we covered how to draw a pie chart or doughnut chart using HTML5 canvas. In this tutorial I will show you how to use JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas as a means to graphically display data by using bar charts. There are easier ways to create charts than coding one from… Continue reading How to Draw Bar Charts Using JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas
Stack Motion Hover Effects With CSS and jQuery
This is an experimental hover effects that reveal a stack of multiple colored cards behind the hovered item. It’s been developed by Codrops. The concept stems from the hover effect seen on Merci-Michel which has a really nice feel to it because of its fluidity. The idea is to show a stack behind the hovered… Continue reading Stack Motion Hover Effects With CSS and jQuery
Connections and creativity.
In 1978, scientist and historian James Burke produced a ten part documentary called ‘Connections’. In this documentary series he traced back a (then) modern invention through the history of connected ideas that led to it. Across the ten episodes the viewer goes on many weird and wonderful journeys learning such things as: how the concept… Continue reading Connections and creativity.
Streetlayer – Free Address Validation & Autocomplete API
Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Obtaining international addresses from clients and customers just got a whole lot easier. Streetlayer offers a seamless address data processing add-on. The JSON API helps to analyze, validate, and format international addresses immediately upon entering the system. The primary benefit is that you get higher quality data sets. The… Continue reading Streetlayer – Free Address Validation & Autocomplete API
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
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