In the simplest of explanations, Google developed Material Design to unify the experiences users have across various Google platforms. Additionally, this unification is to bring improved overall experience a user has with technology by making the interaction easier, simpler and more intuitive. Tell Me, What is Google? Google is a very big company, which includes… Continue reading What is the Point of Material Design?
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Abandon Skeuomorphism with these 30 Free Icon Sets in Flat Design
The modern way of emphasizing cleanliness, sharpness and objectivity in your designs is by trying to avoid all lavish stylistic choices such as textures, fake feeling of 3d dimension, illusory decorations, shiny/glossy effects and giving the flat style a shot. Being here not just since yesterday, it certainly becomes obvious that this trend not only… Continue reading Abandon Skeuomorphism with these 30 Free Icon Sets in Flat Design
The Most Complete iOS Design Kit You’ve Ever Seen
InVision are obsessed with helping people become better product designers, thinkers, and creators of web and mobile products. That’s why they are so excited to introduce you to TETHR. TETHR is the most beautiful, complete iOS design kit you’ve ever seen, and it also happens to be free. The kit features retina-ready, clean modern designs… Continue reading The Most Complete iOS Design Kit You’ve Ever Seen
Think Your App Is Beautiful? Not Without User Experience Design
Lately, every app is “beautiful”. If you read tech news, you’ve seen this pageant: Beautiful charts and graphs1. Beautiful stories 2. Beautiful texting3. Beautiful notebooks4. Beautiful battery information5. Aspiring to beauty in our designs is admirable. But it doesn’t guarantee usability, nor is it a product or marketing strategy. Like “simple” and “easy” before it,… Continue reading Think Your App Is Beautiful? Not Without User Experience Design
25 Fresh Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
When you are considering graphical editing or effects or visual enhancements, you go Photoshop. Photoshop is the most widely used software in any matter where graphical designing and refurnishing is concerned as it offers one of the most dynamic graphics editing practices ever. Anyone related to field of visual graphics depends on Photoshop as air… Continue reading 25 Fresh Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
A Simple Responsive Email Design Tutorial
If you are looking to familiarize yourself with responsive emails this is a perfect place for you. In this quick tutorial I will be going over how to code a simple and minimal typography based responsive email. It will provide you a fundamental understanding how responsive emails work. Responsive Design Because this is a typography… Continue reading A Simple Responsive Email Design Tutorial
Free PSD UI Kits and PSD UI Design Elements for Designers
Interface design PSD UI kits with vector shape Photoshop PSD files available for free download. Here are useful free PSD UI Kits for mobile app and website GUI. These user interface kits are completely free for download with fully customizable and well organized layered PSD files. GDJ is the best place to download lots of high quality… Continue reading Free PSD UI Kits and PSD UI Design Elements for Designers
32 Simplistic Line Icons for UI Design Inspiration
The newer iOS software comes with a redesigned interface for iPhones and iPads. The familiar tab bar icons are now typically replaced by smaller line icons – often very thin yet easy to interpret based on the design style. Line icons have grown to encompass website layouts and other types of interfaces. This gallery includes… Continue reading 32 Simplistic Line Icons for UI Design Inspiration
Problems With Offshore Web Design Firm And Overcoming Them
Offshore outsourcing is a perfect answer to the slow economy that we have today. Offshore web design service provider not only offers you the desired expertise, but also allows you to focus on core managerial aspects of your businesses. However, there are some issues faced by service seeker when he or she is dealing with… Continue reading Problems With Offshore Web Design Firm And Overcoming Them
20 of the Best Award Websites Design 2014
Let’s take a quick look at some amazing new trends of web design in 2014 to keep in mind when designing your next web design project. KLM Flat or Not Visit Website Adventure.com Visit Website Montage Visit Website Cantina Valpolicella Negrar Visit Website ipsoCreative Visit Website NYCFC: Badge of Badges Visit Website The Chess Hotel… Continue reading 20 of the Best Award Websites Design 2014
Everything You Need To Know About Responsive Design – The Theoretical Side
The concept of responsive design has been around for quite a few years but it is in the past two years, responsive design has really become the talk of the town. Almost everywhere you see designers and website owners are talking about responsive designs. Some readers would find a lacuna in understanding the real definition… Continue reading Everything You Need To Know About Responsive Design – The Theoretical Side
25 Web and Graphic Design Studio Websites for Your Inspiration
It’s always interesting to see what design creative studios and agencies crafted for themselves. These people design websites for the whole world and come up with new trends and tendencies to follow. Someone may think they would use the craziest and far-out designs. But you’d be surprised to know that these creative agencies and design… Continue reading 25 Web and Graphic Design Studio Websites for Your Inspiration
How Do You Design Interaction?
If you have to design an interface it’s almost obvious to think to begin the process by drawing. But is this the best way? I once casually started by writing an imagined human-computer conversation, and only afterwards I continued by drawing. This changed my way of thinking and I never went back to drawing first.… Continue reading How Do You Design Interaction?
Beginner’s Tips & Tricks for Learning Icon Design
Aside from regular web & graphics design, the process of designing icons is vast and complex. Iconography can be created with a sketch or from a blank document in digital software. Digital icons can be created using either pixels or vectors. There are many options and the outcome is heavily reliant on the medium, such… Continue reading Beginner’s Tips & Tricks for Learning Icon Design
Understanding The Phase of Website Design
Design phase consists of all the activities that ensure that page elements, colors and graphics all work together to provide an enjoyable experience for the customers while projecting a professional image for the business. Design of a Web project is the next most important and popular Web development phase. The focus of the design phase… Continue reading Understanding The Phase of Website Design
Top 10 Web Design Trends This Year
The battle for fashion statement no more just encompasses clothing, jewelry or stylized watches. Most competed area of making a fashion statement is on the web itself. Yes, in look, feel and smart user interfaces or in facilitating more user preferences for accessing the web, innovation and creativity are the driving force now for an… Continue reading Top 10 Web Design Trends This Year
200 Portfolio Sites for Web Design Inspiration
Designers and developers are growing in numbers and plenty of these folks have outstanding portfolios. The common advantage of the Internet is that anybody from anywhere in the world can check out your projects during any time of the day! If you wish to land more freelance work then I would recommend taking a peek… Continue reading 200 Portfolio Sites for Web Design Inspiration
The Problems With Flat Design and How to Solve Them
Flat design has made a huge name in the designing world by completely taking over the graphic design in a short period of time. The biggest interface to go flat was Windows 8 but, it was also left behind when Apple released its iOS 7 in summer 2013. With the launch of Apple’s iOS 7,… Continue reading The Problems With Flat Design and How to Solve Them
Web Design Trend Showcase: “Tools of the Trade”
Every so often strange trends appear in the web design industry. One of those little trends is the presentation of “tools of the trade” on the forefront of the website, where a series of objects that relate to a specific industry are neatly laid out on a tabletop, or a product is shown during its… Continue reading Web Design Trend Showcase: “Tools of the Trade”
Tips for Getting a Web Design from Illustrator into the Browser
Scenario: someone hands you an Illustrator document with their latest web layout and it’s your job to convert it into working HTML and CSS. Let’s take a look how you can do that. Note: The aim of this tutorial is not to perfectly recreate the design for web use. Instead, we’re going to use it… Continue reading Tips for Getting a Web Design from Illustrator into the Browser
How to Use Cool Color in Design Projects
Cool and warm colors. These descriptions are commonly used to describe hue choices in a variety of conversations – fashion, beauty, decorating and design. But while we commonly talk about warm and cool, do you really know what these terms mean and how to use the colors? Today, we will look at using cool color… Continue reading How to Use Cool Color in Design Projects
Rapid Prototyping for Web Design: Basic Tips and Resources
If you’ve never heard about rapid prototyping it can be defined by the two individual terms. “Rapid” means a speedy action taking place over a short period of time, and a prototype is typically the first model of a project. This process requires fast iterations of design to implement features, test how they work, and… Continue reading Rapid Prototyping for Web Design: Basic Tips and Resources
How to Predict Web Design Trends
So how will you know the next big thing when you see it? Flat design took designers by storm — evolving from a few simple projects to becoming a significant part of web, and especially application, design. But what’s next on the horizon? And how will you know it? Here are a few ways to… Continue reading How to Predict Web Design Trends
45 Examples of Company Branding in Print Design Work
Print work covers such an array of ideas that it’s tough to pigeonhole one single aspect. When mentioning a company’s brand I typically think about logo designs for banners or business cards. There’s many other styles out there including letterhead samples from previous galleries. But a company’s branding needs to work well in both digital… Continue reading 45 Examples of Company Branding in Print Design Work