A set of WebGL demos that show an exploding 3D object animation inspired by “Kubrick Life Website: 3D Motion”. From our monthly sponsor: HelloSign API: Everything IT wants and developers love. Try it free today. Today we’d like to share an exploding object experiment with you. The effect is inspired by Kubrick Life Website: 3D… Continue reading Exploding 3D Objects with Three.js
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Which Should You Use and When?
Flexbox and CSS Grid are two CSS layout modules that have become mainstream in recent years. Both allow us to create complex layouts that were previously only possible by applying CSS hacks and/or JavaScript. Flexbox and CSS Grid share multiple similarities and many layouts can be solved with both. When to use which is another… Continue reading Which Should You Use and When?
7 Excellent Web Designing Tips and Trick that Boost Your SEO
No matter who you are or what you do, as long as you have a website, you want people to see it. The more people that see the website, the better you feel. It could be an information you want to share or pass across, or it could be a product you want to sell.… Continue reading 7 Excellent Web Designing Tips and Trick that Boost Your SEO
What I wish I’d known before designing digital products and user interfaces
2. Hick’s Law Delivering a good user experience requires that first you find out the functionalities that will answer their needs; second, you need to guide them to the specific functions they need most. If users end up stuck in the decision-making process of “what next?”, they may become confused, frustrated, or leave your website. Hick’s… Continue reading What I wish I’d known before designing digital products and user interfaces
4 Best Practices for Professional Website Design
Business owners today face the constant challenge of trying to keep up with the latest digital marketing trends. One of the major priorities for any business offering services, selling products or providing valuable information is to have an ingenious website that has a compelling design, thought-provoking content, a design style that feeds into user experience… Continue reading 4 Best Practices for Professional Website Design
Design Conferences are broken, but we can fix them
I just got back from a design conference. It was just one in a sea of poorly-designed design conferences I’ve attended over the years. I wont beat around the proverbial bush. Here are 3 easy ways for organizers to step up their game and put on an impactful, memorable, and successful design conference. Speakers are… Continue reading Design Conferences are broken, but we can fix them
Inclusive Design Mindset
At the end of a 72-hour race to complete the Student Design Challenge (SDC) hosted by Microsoft at IxDA this year, I was prompted to think about how my experience could not only benefit future designers, but also public school teachers. The challenge was to design an interactive way to teach rhythm to a student… Continue reading Inclusive Design Mindset
How to Properly Load Test a WordPress Website
WordPress is without a doubt the most popular content management system in the history of the web. The power and versatility of the combination of technologies like SQL, PHP and web browsers have made it possible to produce a system that can be adapted for nearly any purpose including photo galleries, online comic books, and… Continue reading How to Properly Load Test a WordPress Website
Thousands of Free Fonts to Preview, Select, and Download
Posted · Category: Best Collections Just imagine – you’re presented with an opportunity to preview thousands of font types. You can select and download up to 50 free fonts per day. You’ve got to be wondering what the catch is. There is none, aside from a 50 font type limit. If you need to download… Continue reading Thousands of Free Fonts to Preview, Select, and Download
UX is a Process. SEO, too.
TL;DR: Most people consider the value of both UX and SEO in the same way. Instead, we need to emphasize that both are about the process and an end result, not a product or deliverable. The Internet is a crazy place. Where else can you find a whirlwind of scholarly papers one minute and an… Continue reading UX is a Process. SEO, too.
How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites
While a simple, clean website design might seem easy at first, the fact of the matter is the process is a lot more complex than you think. There’s a lot of stuff going on underneath the surface that makes the clean website functional. Most people don’t need or care about that makes these sites function,… Continue reading How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites
The Best Way To Validate Email Addresses
It seems like it should be easy to validate email addresses. After all, it’s pretty easy to recognize a valid email address on sight. Shouldn’t that make it easy to validate one with a computer? If only we were so lucky. That Dragon, Email Validation Designed by Freepik For a long time, web designers worked… Continue reading The Best Way To Validate Email Addresses
Are You Using The Right CMS Platform?
CMS is short for Content Management System – and it’s easy to understand why many novices find the term confusing. Broken down, it sounds like a specialized tool, something you might use to store and organize materials before putting them online or saving reference materials. In reality, though, CMS platforms are everywhere. WordPress is a… Continue reading Are You Using The Right CMS Platform?
10 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Mobile App Developer
Two years ago, Arthur Aron and others published the results of a study about intimacy. They developed a list of 36 questions that could eventually bring two people closer. The point was not to give or get the right answers. Rather, asking the 36 questions, the two have to disclose some uncomfortable truth about themselves.… Continue reading 10 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Mobile App Developer
6 SEO Must-Haves for Web Designers & Developers
February 24, 2017 by Veronika The design and development work on a website doesn’t end with setting it live. Having a clean, W3C-validated code and an eye-catching design will surely help you get on the railroad to success. Yet, if you’re looking into building a website that truly stands out from the rest and provides… Continue reading 6 SEO Must-Haves for Web Designers & Developers
Futuristic Text Effect Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials (25 Tuts)
Fresh new Text Effects design Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials for beginners and advance graphic designers. There are 2D and 3D text effect tutorials to create posters, flyers, calendar and giving your typography a fresh touch with traditional and digital media, mixing patterns and textures to give your work outstanding spark. You can use illustrated lettering and typography in posters, brochures or… Continue reading Futuristic Text Effect Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials (25 Tuts)
Stressful Holiday? This Tool Will Make Next Year Easier
Posted · Category: Tools There’s no doubt that the Q4 holiday shopping season is the busiest time of year for online store owners and ecommerce businesses. If your freelance business or agency works with these online merchants, the last few weeks have almost certainly been hectic and stressful. Performing last minute site updates, troubleshooting broken… Continue reading Stressful Holiday? This Tool Will Make Next Year Easier
Create an Aquarium Inside a Light Bulb with Photoshop
Learn how to combine stock photos to create a saltwater aquarium inside a light bulb. This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to combine and warp images and apply easy color correction. Final Results Tutorial Resources Free stock photography can sometimes disappear. If one of the link is broken, try using the “Alternative” link instead.… Continue reading Create an Aquarium Inside a Light Bulb with Photoshop
What Apple Pay Can Teach Us About Email Encryption
What You’ll Be Creating Preview image mashup credit: Email Self Defense – the Free Software Foundation. This is a continuing episode in my tutorial series on email privacy and security. Earlier episodes detail a variety of ways to encrypt and secure your email. This episode will talk about how we as technologists can rebuild email for… Continue reading What Apple Pay Can Teach Us About Email Encryption
Create An Emotional Photo Manipulation Of A Sad Angel In Photoshop
Rate this post Learn how to create a fantasy photo manipulation of a desperate angel in sorrow and bleak rainy scene with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create your winged angel with ordinary stock images, do some retouch and enchantment on the angel with shadows and lighting, then complete it with rain… Continue reading Create An Emotional Photo Manipulation Of A Sad Angel In Photoshop
10 jQuery snippets every designer should know
jQuery is used on thousands upon thousands of web pages. It’s one of the most common libraries to insert into pages, and it makes DOM manipulation a snap. Of course, part of jQuery’s popularity is its simplicity. It seems we can do almost anything we like with this powerful library. For all the options… Continue reading 10 jQuery snippets every designer should know
HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know
In my previous article, we covered some of HTTP’s basics, such as the URL scheme, status codes and request/response headers. With that as our foundation, we will look at the finer aspects of HTTP, like connection handling, authentication and HTTP caching. These topics are fairly extensive, but we’ll cover the most important bits. HTTP Connections… Continue reading HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know