Tag: Designer

Designer engagement report

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Top 3 problems for designers: no research, no design strategy, and no career progression Image by Matej Latin (Author) It’s been a horrible year for design. Mass layoffs from 2023 continued and got even worse. AI is threatening to take creatives’ jobs, designers need to go through up to 11 rounds… Continue reading Designer engagement report

Re-opening my weekly design mentorship sessions in 2023

After a brief pause, I decided to re-open my free mentorship slots for 2023. Every Friday I’ll be dedicating time to meet with folks and chat about any of the topics below: Portfolio review and feedback Interview tips, advice, mock interviews Design, hard- and soft-skill building, career growth Working abroad, cultural adjustments, language learning Writing and publishing design-related content… Continue reading Re-opening my weekly design mentorship sessions in 2023

Modern Business Cards Templates (27 Print Design)

81 Shares Best modern Business Cards Templates available in .AI, .PSD, .EPS format. Clean and professionally designed business cards can make a lasting impression, so it is important to choose only high quality Business Card Templates for your business or personal branding. An elegant business cards design with classy, stylish, beautiful, modern design, perfect for any… Continue reading Modern Business Cards Templates (27 Print Design)

Designer’s Guide – Choosing a Cost-Effective Ink for Printing

September 12, 2020 by Richie KS A designer that works in the digital design field knows the values of good ink. The colors and prints quality of digital media and advertisement prints is important when presenting your work to your client. An unbalance and washed-out colors or low-quality prints will ruin your work and future… Continue reading Designer’s Guide – Choosing a Cost-Effective Ink for Printing

Important Skills Every Web Designer Needs

July 24, 2020 by Spyre Studios Learning web design skills can lead to a fulfilling and exciting career, especially if you’re a problem-solver or are creative. But it can seem overwhelming to get started, especially if you don’t know what skills you’ll need. If you’re wondering if this is the right career, it’s easier than… Continue reading Important Skills Every Web Designer Needs

How to Find the Best WordPress Gallery Plugins for Images or Video

How you present your visual content is key to the success of your website or online store. When visual content is done beautifully it encourages visitors to stay longer on your website. It also improves your SEO ranking and make your website easier to find in search results.  However, creating a beautiful gallery for your… Continue reading How to Find the Best WordPress Gallery Plugins for Images or Video

International Artist Feature: Jordan

Welcome back to our International Artist Series. Today, we’re catching up with four amazing artists from Jordan, a Middle Eastern country that is home to ancient monuments and an incredible history. I asked each artist how their country and culture influenced their work, and they delivered great responses. Moh’d M. Khatib Our first… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Jordan

How to Grow Your Authority as a Designer

Becoming discovered as a web designer on the internet is not as plausible as it was 10 years ago. The online market has since been flooded with tough competition and free platforms for business owners to design websites themselves. The internet is supposed to be a lucrative tool for designers, and it will be painful… Continue reading How to Grow Your Authority as a Designer

Your Guide to InDesign’s New Rival

Adobe InDesign has long been the market leader in publishing software. But rival layout design programs are starting to make waves in the market, with Affinity Publisher being the latest to offer a competitive alternative to InDesign. If you’re a seasoned print designer or are looking to dip a toe into publishing design, you’ll want… Continue reading Your Guide to InDesign’s New Rival

Creative Portfolio & Resume / CV WordPress Theme

This is a one page & Multi Pages WordPress portfolio & CV / Resume theme for Designer, Developer, Freelancer Artist, Photographer & Can be use for Personal Pages. The theme is well organized with proper naming conventions so you can easily access and change things according your needs. This theme is very flexible, easy for… Continue reading Creative Portfolio & Resume / CV WordPress Theme

8 Best Job Board Plugins For WordPress

March 10, 2017 by Veronika In the past, employers often strayed away from hiring remote workers due to low network connectivity speed and risks of security breaches that open internet networks pose. Today, the numerous online tools for secured connection have rapidly raised people’s interest in remote working which allowed IT professionals to easily telecommute… Continue reading 8 Best Job Board Plugins For WordPress

Bodo: A free HTML Personal / Portfolio template

Bodo is a free one page HTML template that you can use for getting started with a personal / portfolio website.  It is basically made of sections, includes a few useful components (carousel slider, skills bars, forms, etc.) and is featured by subtle but elegant animations. The package – released exclusively for Freebiesbug – has been designed and… Continue reading Bodo: A free HTML Personal / Portfolio template

25 Beautiful Card-Based WordPress Themes

Card-based designs got popular with the rise of Pinterest in the realm of social media. The image sharing website’s card-based website had led to a rising trend of cards in user interfaces of websites and mobile applications. It is an excellent solution for the specific demands of mobile devices (which are typically smaller) and interfaces,… Continue reading 25 Beautiful Card-Based WordPress Themes

What is an Interaction Designer?

These two little words are being used a lot in the design sphere these days. But what truly is interaction design? And what makes you an interaction designer? Here, we’ll answer both of those questions and offer a showcase of some great interaction design work. Interaction Design 101 Interaction design is a process in which… Continue reading What is an Interaction Designer?

16 Premium Plugins Designer and Developer Should Consider Using

Crafting websites for all sorts of clients is an art. Like all art forms, it takes perseverance, open-mindedness, and an acute sense for aesthetics. Web developers and designers know this, along with the fact that all project outcomes are only as strong as the resources that stand behind them. In other words, the choice and… Continue reading 16 Premium Plugins Designer and Developer Should Consider Using

5 Deadly Mistakes a Graphic Designer Shouldn’t Make

Editor’s Note: This post was written by Shayne Moore, a Director at a leading design agency in Christchurch, having a pool of professional graphic designers who design and build beautiful designs. Shayne is passionate about digital marketing and loves to share his creative ideas on the latest design trends. You can know more about him on… Continue reading 5 Deadly Mistakes a Graphic Designer Shouldn’t Make

80 Free Vector Graphics Every Designer Should Have

Sometimes designing your own graphics from scratch can be a timely and daunting task, and going to the professionals can be very costly. In this post the team at Designrfix have hand picked an amazing collection of well designed free vector graphics that we do think are worth mentioning…for example; Banners, Business Cards, Icon Packs… Continue reading 80 Free Vector Graphics Every Designer Should Have

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

7 Adobe Illustrator Alternatives for the Casual Designer

Last year I posted a roundup of the best Photoshop alternatives aimed at casual designers or hobbyists who wants to fulfill their creative passion, but don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive industry standard software. I’m a big Illustrator fan myself and I post loads of Illustrator tutorials here on my blog, but… Continue reading 7 Adobe Illustrator Alternatives for the Casual Designer

Designer Toolbox: 10 Fresh Fonts For Your Collection

On a recent design project I was on the search for some new fonts to use, I usually bookmark or download my favourite fonts I come across in order to keep my font collection fresh and increase my choices. Today I wanted to share some of the lovely fonts I recently came across, hopefully you… Continue reading Designer Toolbox: 10 Fresh Fonts For Your Collection

Google Web Designer ? Cool HTML5 and CSS3 Animation Made Easy

The web giant has released a tool called Google Web Designer. I downloaded it but haven’t got a time to play with it yet. After I run the app, first thing came into my mind- it looks like Adobe Flash. Second thing came into my mind – I think Google is trying to kill Flash… Continue reading Google Web Designer ? Cool HTML5 and CSS3 Animation Made Easy