Tag: Designing

The Building Blocks of Designing UX For Kids

Designing for kids is a unique and challenging situation for any UX professional. While many principles and practices span across all ages, there are many issues which arise exclusively when dealing with children. In this introductory article we’ll look at kids and the specific issues that they bring about. We’ll also examine some guidelines, constraints,… Continue reading The Building Blocks of Designing UX For Kids

20 Photoshop Poster Tutorials

These 20 inspiring Photoshop poster tutorials in this post will teach you the basics of Photoshop, and also some advanced manipulations techniques for creating amazing designs. These tutorial are ideal for print designers or any other designers who want to improve their Photoshop skills. Which one is your favorite? Let us know in the comments… Continue reading 20 Photoshop Poster Tutorials

20 Really Helpful Responsive Web Design Tutorials

These days, making your website responsive is a MUST! With so many mobile devices out there, you’ll be missing a lot of visitors if you won’t modify your website and make it responsive too. If you are a beginner web designer or just want to improve your skills, here are 20 really helpful responsive web… Continue reading 20 Really Helpful Responsive Web Design Tutorials

10 Tips for Designing Logos That Don’t Suck

So you’re designing a logo. It sounds like an easy enough task, right? Draw a circle, type in the company name and you’re done (I’ve literally heard a designer suggest that very process). Unfortunately, if you’re really worth the money the client is paying you, there’s a lot more to it than that. There are… Continue reading 10 Tips for Designing Logos That Don’t Suck

Anatomy of a Perfect Sidebar – The Nuances of a Good Design

In the previous part of the series, we’ve gone through the definition and the importance of the “sidebar” element on WordPress blogs and checked out layouts with one, two, three and four sidebars (and no sidebars). In this second part, we’re going to see how to design a sidebar and order the elements – specifically,… Continue reading Anatomy of a Perfect Sidebar – The Nuances of a Good Design

45 Fresh Web And Mobile UI Kits With PSD Files For Designer

In this post, we are showcasing an irresistible and great collection of free and fresh UI design kits especially for the designers. These wireframing and UI design kits come very handy for the designers when they want to mock-up a user interface. Web user interface, mobile user interface and wireframe kits are useful for the… Continue reading 45 Fresh Web And Mobile UI Kits With PSD Files For Designer

Designing a Website Around Your Products

Branded website design is ultimately centered around two things: product and audience. Meaning, the site’s design needs to effectively showcase products in a way that will resonate with the target audience. Once a designer identifies where a brand’s product and audience meet, the visual problem-solving process becomes streamlined and simplified, and the site’s design becomes… Continue reading Designing a Website Around Your Products

How to Design a Website for Worldwide Users

Want to take full advantage of the worldwide aspect of the web? It all begins with web design. The choices you make here can make or break your efforts to reach global markets. Aim to build in internationalization right from the get-go. It will save many a battle with multilingual content further down the line. Keep the… Continue reading How to Design a Website for Worldwide Users

Useful Tips That You Should Consider When Designing A Website

Websites have flooded the way in which we perform in our day to day lives; they have changed the very world we live in and taken the shopping industry by storm. It is estimated that a visitor on a website stays for around 8 seconds before clicking the “Back” button and leaving, it is through… Continue reading Useful Tips That You Should Consider When Designing A Website

Web Designing is All About Stirring Up the Right Emotions – 5 Emotions that Make a Website Work

The focus on aesthetics in website designing remains as is, but another element has been added to the mix, which is Emotion. A mixture of emotions and aesthetics helps you design user experiences that effectively capture the mood of the website and help deliver the website’s message effectively. You might not have thought about it,… Continue reading Web Designing is All About Stirring Up the Right Emotions – 5 Emotions that Make a Website Work

Designing an Advertisement

Working non-destructively doesn’t restrict your workflow. In fact, working non-destructively can help you to be more creative. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use non-destructive photo editing techniques to create a basic advertisement. In the process, we will also explain a bit about color profiles. Let’s get started!   Final Product What… Continue reading Designing an Advertisement

Building a Better User Experience by Designing in the Browser

As a web designer at Four Kitchens, part of my job is leading the production team’s visual design objectives. A key part of this process is ensuring the client’s satisfaction with the overall look and feel of the site. Since most of my projects utilize an agile development process, I am no stranger to shifting… Continue reading Building a Better User Experience by Designing in the Browser

40+ Awesome Photoshop Poster Tutorials For Your Inspiration

Creating your own creative poster in Photoshop is fun and challenging. If you are not yet an expert, then don’t worry! You can find tons of easy to follow poster design tutorials for Photoshop. Most of them will guide you “step by step” to make sure you learn every step involved in the process. A… Continue reading 40+ Awesome Photoshop Poster Tutorials For Your Inspiration

Beautiful Map Illustration Design Inspiration

Designing a map does not seem like something very original, but why should maps have to be boring? Whether it’s a town map, a real or imaginary country map, whether it is functional, or simply decorative, there is plenty of room for fun and creativity in this field. Fortunately some great designers out there have… Continue reading Beautiful Map Illustration Design Inspiration

The Science behind a Business Card

Whenever a new technology gains mainstream use, methods once prevalent are usually rendered obsolete. However, even with the greater integration of the Internet and mobile devices in the business world through high-speed connections and wide-reaching networks, business cards still exist. Companies keep handing them out to potential customers, clients and partners to let them know… Continue reading The Science behind a Business Card

10 Very Creative And Fresh Free Fonts For Your Designing Projects

Hi guys, I’ve collected latest, unique and useful trendy fonts for our designer community. Being a graphic designer myself I perfectly know how these fonts play the essential role in today’s graphic designing and to find a perfect font or simply making it can take a lot of precious time which can other wise be… Continue reading 10 Very Creative And Fresh Free Fonts For Your Designing Projects

Take Control and Save Time When Designing for Clients

At FHOKE we’ve managed hundreds of projects in many ways. With our team’s industry experience, running, or working within studios, we’ve seen it all; ways that have worked and others that have failed. Over the years we’ve refined our process and found a great staged approach that works well for all our clients. It saves… Continue reading Take Control and Save Time When Designing for Clients

Designing for Performance

Designers have a tremendous impact on site performance based on how they design for the web, before a single line of code is written. This article will cover how performance can be designed and what it takes to make it happen. Speed is a fundamental part of user experience on the web. Web performance has… Continue reading Designing for Performance