It’s Tough Out There: A Look at Brutalism in Web Design

Brutalist websites were thrust into the spotlight recently when Pascal Deville’s brutalistwebsites.com hit Hacker News and went viral. This collection showcases the less warm and fuzzy side of the web–let’s take a look and see if we can pull some inspiration from brutalism. Brutal Buildings “Brutalism” (or “New Brutalism”) is a term which has been rattling… Continue reading It’s Tough Out There: A Look at Brutalism in Web Design

Envato Tuts+ Community Challenge: Created by You, March Edition

Welcome to our monthly feature of fantastic tutorial results created by you, the Envato Tuts+ community! Every day, visitors like you take the time not only to read our tutorials but also to try them out. This is an assortment of those comment submissions found throughout the Design & Illustration section. Check out this set… Continue reading Envato Tuts+ Community Challenge: Created by You, March Edition

Weekly Inspiration: Scrollin’, Scrollin’, Scrollin’

Web browsers all have one thing in common: almost without exception they allow us to scroll through content. Scrolling gets us from the top of a document, to the bottom. But it allows much more than that–and for better or worse, web designers have been challenging the scrollbar for some time now, seeing how else… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Scrollin’, Scrollin’, Scrollin’

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

Designing For Small Businesses: 10 Websites That Can Change The Game

Source: Be Digital[2] First impressions count. This is where pre-built websites can play a key role in creating any business-oriented website. There has to be a follow-through of course, but the importance of creating a great first impression can never be overemphasized. The problem facing the web designer is what makes a great first impression… Continue reading Designing For Small Businesses: 10 Websites That Can Change The Game

Project: Build a Complete Website With Middleman

In part three of this series we’re going to get our hands dirty and start building a site for a fictitious podcast site: “Matcha Nerdz”. We’ll be using Middleman, Bourbon, Neat and Bitters. Let’s go! In This Post Roadmap Basic Blog Setup LiveReload Organizing Posts GitHub Pages Deployment Smarter Assets Bourbon Setup Normalize and jQuery… Continue reading Project: Build a Complete Website With Middleman

How to Grow Your App Team

You can find a lot of online resources that help you on your way to make a successful app. Once you reach that point, you’re looking to retain or even expand on that success. This is the moment that you, a single person who has built an app, grows into something bigger, a team that continues… Continue reading How to Grow Your App Team

International Artist Feature: Germany

For this article in the international artist series we turn to Germany, featuring seven illustrators and designers who create fantastic work from digital paintings to textile design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Cloudy Thurstag Cloudy is an illustrator and designer… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Germany

International Artist Feature: Spain

For this article in the international artist series, we turn to Spain, featuring four illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from lettering to character design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Baimu Studio Baimu Studio focuses on Art Direction and… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Spain

25 Free Gesture Icons Packs for Your Mobile App

Finally, you are ready to put a new mobile app on the market. Surely you expect it to take the audience by storm. As we all know, people buy not only the product but also its packaging. So without a well-thought-out presentation, chances are, it simply won’t do. Presentations of old won’t do either, neither… Continue reading 25 Free Gesture Icons Packs for Your Mobile App

You Want to Create An App? Check Out These Prototyping and Building Tools

Wireframing for websites, web apps, and mobile apps that you make is as vital as laying the foundations of a tall building before moving on to its walls and roof. Web designers and web developers really need to pay attention during this stage, and perfect the user experience of your app/website with thorough prototype testing… Continue reading You Want to Create An App? Check Out These Prototyping and Building Tools

10 Resources and Promotion Facts for Freelance Designers

The most successful freelancers are the ones that do the best job of getting their name out there. Being able to successful showcase and promote your own work is key to gaining more clients and becoming well-known for what you do.   It’s definitely hard to stand out in the crowd sometimes when you’re a… Continue reading 10 Resources and Promotion Facts for Freelance Designers

Are You A Web Developer Without Any Graphic Skills? Then Check Out These 25 Gorgeous Website .PSD’s

Creating a website is not an easy thing because it requires a lot of steps; from the planning and all the way to functionality testing, the process of designing and developing a website needs people with various skills. You need a good graphic designer, a good web designer, a talented web developer, a great content… Continue reading Are You A Web Developer Without Any Graphic Skills? Then Check Out These 25 Gorgeous Website .PSD’s