Cross-functional Empathy for Designers

A human-centric approach for working with humans As designers, a huge part of our job lies in empathizing with users. It’s exciting to see how far we’ve come as a discipline in becoming more user-centric, more research-driven and better at tying our ideas to actual user needs. Yet many of us struggle with applying that… Continue reading Cross-functional Empathy for Designers

Popular Design News of the Week: December 25, 2017 – December 31, 2017

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: December 25, 2017 – December 31, 2017

Precision in UX, Face ID and accessibility, conversation starters, and more UX this week

The burden of precision → Design tools today confine us to an unrealistic and ill-advised goal: one of perfection. Tools like Photoshop and Sketch are highly precise, and demand precise output from Designers. We measure the pixels between elements, the exact colors in multiple color spaces, and present these masterpieces in meetings before they’re handed… Continue reading Precision in UX, Face ID and accessibility, conversation starters, and more UX this week

Ruby On Rails Isn’t Going Anywhere

November 1, 2017 by Spyrestudios Ruby on Rails has gotten some tough press recently, with programs like Coding Dojo dropping Rails from its boot camps and workshops. What’s happened to the once dominant coding language? Despite the fact that Ruby on Rails is the underlying framework for many of the most popular websites, developers are… Continue reading Ruby On Rails Isn’t Going Anywhere

A Worth Checking Out Collection Of Free Graphics Files for Designers

  ADVERTISEMENT It is a big task to find out high quality PSD files that you can use in your work, but when you succeeded in finding out your desired PSD files, it is nothing short of a blessing. Keeping this in mind, we thought to compile a useful collection of high quality PSD files, and… Continue reading A Worth Checking Out Collection Of Free Graphics Files for Designers

How To Design For Digital Products

It is really difficult to talk about static elements on the web: the design process is changing rapidly; and inefficiency is no longer allowed. The reason is competition; and designers’ will to plan their project in advance and to apply purposeful methods. The crucial discovery was the connection between design quality and experience outcome; and… Continue reading How To Design For Digital Products

Public speaking, embracing the idle mind, principles of data viz, and more UX links this week

If you like the links, don’t forget to ???? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????. Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events → We all reach a point in our careers when we start speaking in public. Designers, in particular, are pretty good at organizing conferences, panels, meetups, livestreams and other forms of publicly sharing knowledge with fellow… Continue reading Public speaking, embracing the idle mind, principles of data viz, and more UX links this week

35 Free Flat Graphics and Web Elements for Designers

Great new collection of Flat design graphics and free web interface design resources for designers. Many websites, graphics and mobile apps are using Flat UI. Flat design trend is very popular and its become more attractive and beautiful with Long Shadow. In this post, I just gathered a fresh free high-quality flat PSD files are all free to download for commercial… Continue reading 35 Free Flat Graphics and Web Elements for Designers

Hey Designer, why so fragile?

The Why Praise overdose If you visit the comment section of behance.com and you manage to see through all the self-promotion, you’ll find that the comments are unusually polite and positive. Every project seems to have really positive feedback, the only thing that really distinguishes projects is the amount of praise they get. The reason… Continue reading Hey Designer, why so fragile?

Design for a Cause

Personal Design Projects Apart from the professional design work, most designers, especially aspiring designers invest a reasonable amount of time on personal ‘side projects’. These projects typically include redesign or UX analysis of an existing product, concept product design, usability testing etc. They are really good for practicing UX skills. Simultaneously, most designers showcase them in… Continue reading Design for a Cause

New Awesome & Futuristic Free Fonts for Designers

New futuristic typefaces, free fonts collection of modern and innovative design. These fonts are suitable for headings, headlines, logos, badges, party posters, wedding invitation, greeting cards, graphic design, or anything that looks stylished and futuristic. All fonts are come-up with standard glyphs and alternate characters. All are free to download with commercial licence. You may be interested in… Continue reading New Awesome & Futuristic Free Fonts for Designers

Fresh Free Fonts for Designers (21 fonts)

Fresh free fonts download for web and graphic design. This is another collection of free fonts posted on every week. These fonts are perfect for logos, badge, insignia, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel, greeting card, and wedding invitation. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and fit for any artwork. Take a look at beautiful commercial fonts… Continue reading Fresh Free Fonts for Designers (21 fonts)

10 Fresh Icon Designs For Free Download

  ADVERTISEMENT Another amazing and creative collection of 10 latest, trendy and stylish icon designs are presented here only for your inspiration and free download. All these wonderful and superb icon designs are presented in high quality and are free so you can easily download your favorite icon design without paying any cost. Now you do… Continue reading 10 Fresh Icon Designs For Free Download

General Design Elements For Basic Website Development

The concept of web design can easily appear to be intimidatingly complicated. Designers are expected to achieve versatility and visibility, deliver information in an enticing and enriching manner, and be technically sound as well as visually coherent in one robust package. It sounds like a pretty daunting task, especially when you recognize that many developers… Continue reading General Design Elements For Basic Website Development

Web Design Trends and Styles You Should Know About

Web design has truly come a long way. As technology gives designers the power to explore beyond the boundaries, we’ve seen some pretty classy trends being born. Of course, as these new trends are born, some older ones have had to give way. For instance, in 2016, we saw flat design for the first time.… Continue reading Web Design Trends and Styles You Should Know About

15 Brand Building Tips for Designers

Project such as designs for the designer are an extremely appreciated services or deals to have for businesses. Your very designer brand and on Demonstration of it, to the very clients you anticipate respect for the same as well. What you do really is something that worth a lot. Worth yourself in the sense that,… Continue reading 15 Brand Building Tips for Designers

40 Best Free Brush Fonts for Designers

Here is the top 40 free brush fonts for graphic design artwork and design projects. All are free and available for commercial use. In this best fonts article you will enjoy the handpicked collection of hand-drawn, handwritten brush fonts. High-quality fonts can significantly improve your design by simply included them in the project you are working on. You can use… Continue reading 40 Best Free Brush Fonts for Designers

31 New Useful Free Photoshop PSD Files for UI Designers

New highly useful Photoshop and Illustrated free PSD files for web and graphic UI designers. These PSD graphics are very easy to use with the Smart Object and available in fully editable layered files. Free PSD graphics included PSD logos, App UI, Flyers, Business Card Templates, Vector Icons, Web Templates, Mock-ups and more useful free psd files for… Continue reading 31 New Useful Free Photoshop PSD Files for UI Designers

Popular design news of the week: February 20, 2017 – February 26, 2017

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: February 20, 2017 – February 26, 2017

Prospero | Proposals For Creatives

Prospero | Proposals For Creatives Log InPricing Professional proposals in minutes We know that writing a winning proposal is a headache. It’s also not why you chose to become a freelancer.  Prospero will make creating proposals fast and painless, so that you can go back to working on what matters most. Built forCreative Freelancers Designers… Continue reading Prospero | Proposals For Creatives

Weekly Inspiration for Designers #88

via Muzli design inspiration Delivery service dashboard by Messaki UID_07 by bill_uid Braun site exploration by Eddie Lobanovskiy for unfold Video First Dashboard by Suthan S. for MetaLab Flower Shop mobile app by Messaki Master Chef by Aswin Biji Hop on the bus Gus by R A D I O Unicorn by Aslan A. for Fireart Studio Sneak peek by Eran Mendel Yes and… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration for Designers #88

Weekly Inspiration for Designers #86

via Muzli design inspiration UID_05 by bill_uid Metrics by Justin Greene Landing page by Goutham Trip Guide App by Nur Praditya Wibisono Exchanger — Dashboard (.sketch) by Alan Podemski Jack by Vitalik 2 Dribbble Invites Giveaway by Vladimir Gashenko for Zajno Crew Pew Pew Pew! by Chris Fernandez Abu Shanab by Omar Labbad by Fran Solo Defrost by Zhivko Terziivanov space grannies ios game by Artyom Burykin… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration for Designers #86

20 Free CV / Resume Templates 2017 with Cover Letter & Portfolio Pages

New fresh free cv / resume templates are professionally designed to make a lasting impression when applying for your dream job. These Free Resume Templates are well organized and easy to customized to meet all you needs, available in Photoshop PSD, EPS, AI and MS. Word formats. The creative Resume Templates are very helpful to make your online CV and Resume. All template… Continue reading 20 Free CV / Resume Templates 2017 with Cover Letter & Portfolio Pages

Weekly Inspiration for Designers #85

via Muzli design inspiration Illustrator interface by Shan Zi Travel Calendar App by Riko Sapto Dimo Daft punk by Ted Kulakevich for unfold Daily UI #021 Home Monitoring Dashboard by Irene Nam FFM — Music by Messaki Vehicle XOS — Logistics App Screens by Raaz Das Fire Rooster Walk Cycle by Mantas Bačiuška Hungry Dog by Mattia Leoni The gear trio by Tony Babel Twitter: A Few Bad… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration for Designers #85