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Designing for Color Blindness With Chrome DevTools (in Just 4 Clicks)

Color blindness and vision deficiencies are hard to imagine if you are not affected by them. However, it’s important to take people with visual impairments into consideration when designing a color palette for a website or application. If you don’t, they might be unable to use vital features such as clicking links or buttons, or… Continue reading Designing for Color Blindness With Chrome DevTools (in Just 4 Clicks)

Popular Design News of the Week: September 21, 2020 – September 27, 2020

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: September 21, 2020 – September 27, 2020

Customize Your WooCommerce Store With Elementor Template Kits

Elementor Pro’s built-in templates are a great way to style an individual page, but why customize your online store on a product-by-product basis, when you can use Elementor Template Kits to design your entire eCommerce site? Countless businesses use WordPress to sell their products and services, thanks to the popular WooCommerce plugin. In the previous… Continue reading Customize Your WooCommerce Store With Elementor Template Kits

How to Build a WooCommerce Store With Elementor

Elementor and WooCommerce make it easy to create an online store. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use WooComerce, WordPress, and Elementor to build an online store complete with products, categories, and an Amazon-style dropdown menu. Why WooCommerce? WordPress is one of the world’s most popular blogging platforms, but countless businesses also use… Continue reading How to Build a WooCommerce Store With Elementor

Popular Design News of the Week: September 14, 2020 – September 20, 2020

Popular Design News of the Week: May 25, 2020 – May 31, 2020

Popular Design News of the Week: April 27, 2020 – May 3, 2020

Creating an Accessible Range Slider with CSS

April 29, 2020 I’ve always loved exploring how to make semantic, accessible elements aesthetically pleasing. And yes, it is possible. Challenging myself to do this has improved my CSS skills. Today we are going to talk about input[type=”range”]. These inputs where you select a value from a slider that has a thumb on it. You… Continue reading Creating an Accessible Range Slider with CSS

Designing for different screen sizes & devices — responsive images and more

Krisztina Szerovay Follow Mar 27 · 7 min read Summary sketch of this article This is my second article on designing for different screen sizes and devices. In the previous part I outline the basics of fixed layouts, adaptivity, fluiditity and responsivity. In this article, I discuss some more important aspects, for instance responsive images,… Continue reading Designing for different screen sizes & devices — responsive images and more

Design for Browser Inconsistency With Lambdatest

When the web was young, a 56k connection was fast, CSS was new, and Flash was but a glint in Macromedia’s eye, there was a phrase that graced half of all splash screens: Best viewed in IE6. You see, back in the early 00s, the web was a lot less competitive. It was perfectly possible… Continue reading Design for Browser Inconsistency With Lambdatest

7 Simple Steps to Get Started with Instagram Ads

Why Instagram? With an advertising reach of 849.3 million users and growing, the marketing potential of this social media platform is something that is simply hard to ignore. But if we’re going to play the numbers game, Facebook’s 2 billion users certainly dwarfs the number of Instagram users. So why not just place all your… Continue reading 7 Simple Steps to Get Started with Instagram Ads

Designing for Google Glass

Since scheduling interviews with doctors proved challenging, I opted to test the prototypes internally. I recruited 10 employees with various levels of experience using Glass. The group’s experience level was similar to our doctor population. Each participant went through three prototypes. Initially, some newcomers struggled with the swipe down gesture but eventually, they got it.… Continue reading Designing for Google Glass

A/B fails, Figma community, awesome plugins — and more design links this week

[unable to retrieve full-text content] A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. All them A/B tests that never happened →When A/B tests become less about user validation and more about having a escape hatch for lack of product vision. UI Learnability →How to measure learnability of a… Continue reading A/B fails, Figma community, awesome plugins — and more design links this week

Popular Design News of the Week: October 14, 2019 – October 20, 2019

Designing With Data: How to Improve UX Using Customer Data

Do you always follow your gut when making decisions for your website? Designing your website often starts with what you feel will make a website look good. However, you’ll most likely be changing your plans when the results of your efforts come in. But this is okay because tracking and measuring your site’s performance from… Continue reading Designing With Data: How to Improve UX Using Customer Data

Designing a better borrowing experience

What we’ve been learning while trying to solve a challenging problem and make borrowing work for everyone Juliana Martinhago Follow Sep 26 · 6 min read The Lending business is hard. Same as banking, it has been historically frustrating to borrow money — loans, overdrafts, credit cards… Fees are not transparent, the price you see… Continue reading Designing a better borrowing experience

Popular Design News of the Week: September 23, 2019 – September 29, 2019

5 Best Magento Extensions That Can Boost On-page SEO

Doing business online and ignoring SEO is parallel to opening a shop in far-flung areas where nobody bothers to visit. Your on-page and off-page SEO efforts bring your website to the limelight by elevating its ranking in search engines. There is no doubt that Magento is a leading eCommerce platform, but it still lacks the… Continue reading 5 Best Magento Extensions That Can Boost On-page SEO

Designing for user environments

Matt WeinbergBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jun 27 Last weekend, I was lucky enough to experience the Our Happy Life exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, which explores the way affect and emotion are quantified and used as a basis on which our built environments are designed. The exhibit juxtaposes dystopian descriptions of ultimately sterile or jarring spaces… Continue reading Designing for user environments

Designing towards live parking map — a UX case study

Florent LenormandBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 15 Background Context Parking is a huge problem in major cities. Drivers spend an average of 17 hours a year searching for parking spots. The hunt adds up to an estimated $345 per driver in wasted time, fuel, and emissions. SpotAngels is a community-based app that helps drivers find parking thanks to… Continue reading Designing towards live parking map — a UX case study

Designing type: a HackWeek diary

Florian GaefkeBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Apr 7 At our company, we have this quarterly HackWeek, where employees from different backgrounds — developers, product managers, and UX designers alike — have the freedom to collaborate and work on self-initiated projects. The best thing is that there are no limitations. So — you can rethink existing products, conceptualizing something completely new. Various kinds of projects are… Continue reading Designing type: a HackWeek diary

10 Great Tips for Custom Logo Designers

Logos are a brand’s face. You can judge that by the fact that all popular brands and companies are known because of their logo. Have a look at Apple, Samsung, Toyota and the countless other brands of the world. In a second you can recognize any of them. Judging from that you can imagine how… Continue reading 10 Great Tips for Custom Logo Designers

12 Biggest UX Flaws Hijacking User Experience (and How to Fix Them)

Undeniably, website designing is a cut and dried chore these days. First off, you get a simple layout ready. Next, you paint it with combination simpler colors. Then you stuff it with simplest words possible. Get set go! However, in their eagerness to launch their site in a hurry, most website owners forget to address… Continue reading 12 Biggest UX Flaws Hijacking User Experience (and How to Fix Them)

Designing a complex table for mobile consumption (nom)

The User Loss-prevention consultants inspect residential and commercial buildings to help ensure systems (such as fire protection systems and fuel-fired equipment systems) meet local, national, and industry standards. These consultants compare different risk factors across multiple assigned locations. This comparison allows them to make recommendations to property owners of how to mitigate risks and thus… Continue reading Designing a complex table for mobile consumption (nom)