Tag: Design

28 Photoshop Tutorials for Learning New Web Design Techniques

Some designers advocate skipping the Photoshop process and moving from wireframes directly into HTML/CSS. This is possible for smaller projects but not always advisable. Adobe Photoshop offers the best tools for testing color schemes, gradients, icons, and detailed page elements before moving the layout into your browser. If you’re a little rusty in Photoshop then… Continue reading 28 Photoshop Tutorials for Learning New Web Design Techniques

The Design Pattern & Wireframe Libraries Guide

In this article, Chris Bank of UXPin – The UX Design App details many of the top sources for finding wireframe examples, design patterns, templates, stencils, sketches, and other examples of web and mobile user interface designs for endless wireframing and prototyping inspiration. According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, “(Design) is a journey, not a destination.”… Continue reading The Design Pattern & Wireframe Libraries Guide

How Wearable Technology Will Impact Web Design

Remember how wearing a calculator watch back in the day made you feel like George Jetson or his boy Elroy? Technology has come a long way from spelling out naughty words (upside down) on your calculator. These days, you can make calls, record videos, check your health, and buy coffee from your smartwatch–and that’s just… Continue reading How Wearable Technology Will Impact Web Design

Full Throttle Development: Website Design Software Webydo Goes Parallax – Participate in The Closed Beta (Invite Only)

Webydo’s developers must be on steroids. The community-driven development process sparks more innovation in a few months than other companies find in their whole lifetime. The latest feature announcement promises the availability of one of the hottest trends in web design today, Parallax Scrolling. And it promises to deliver it code-free and with pixel-perfect accuracy.… Continue reading Full Throttle Development: Website Design Software Webydo Goes Parallax – Participate in The Closed Beta (Invite Only)

How To Make Your Graphic Design Practices Sustainable

2014’s hottest trends in graphic and web design revolve around reducing visual clutter and minimizing work for users. A new frontier in design, though, is going to be reducing pollutants and minimizing environmental waste. Hopefully, your design firm is already aware of the need to reduce your environmental impact. Reducing waste is necessary for every… Continue reading How To Make Your Graphic Design Practices Sustainable

Design Freebies For Creatives: May 2014

The May edition of the ongoing iDevie freebies series features a diverse range of really cool design goodies. This month I have found some really nice icons which I already made use of in a project and some pretty cool free PSD’s which are super helpful for a small side project or quick mockup. Download,… Continue reading Design Freebies For Creatives: May 2014

How to Deal with Web Design Clients You’ve Never Seen

“I could never work for someone I’ve never met.” My friend was discussing my freelancing career with me and she couldn’t imagine working for clients she’d never met in person. But freelance web designers and other freelancers do it all the time. Many freelancers connect with their clients primarily through the Internet. Their clients might… Continue reading How to Deal with Web Design Clients You’ve Never Seen

The Gap between UI and UX Design – Know the Difference

Do you know that UI and UX are not the same concepts? Surely, they are closely connected, even mutually penetrated and rarely exist without each other. Would you like to study the differences between UI and UX design in detail? This article will give you such an opportunity. We believe that it is impossible to… Continue reading The Gap between UI and UX Design – Know the Difference

The Effective Use of 3D Elements in Web Design

With the current, huge trend of flat design, we don’t see so many 3D elements used in web design these days. Perhaps you can take the creativity out of design, but it is difficult to take the creativity out of the designer, and flat design doesn’t offer many opportunities for amazing creativity, so we are… Continue reading The Effective Use of 3D Elements in Web Design

Examples of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) in Web Design

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images offer web designers a flexibility with imagery they have not previously known. Now compatible with all current web browsers and most mobile device platforms, here is another technique that is threatening the popularity of Flash. SVG images are small in file size and they scale pretty much to any size… Continue reading Examples of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) in Web Design

Design Dilemma: Are You the Right Person for the Right Job?

You show a prospective client your portfolio. They like it, hire you and the project starts. You deliver sketches and then, after everything is approved, the finished design. The client then informs you the solution didn’t meet his/her “vision” and refuses all offers to adjust the work to meet his/her vision. Final payment and further… Continue reading Design Dilemma: Are You the Right Person for the Right Job?

Design a Travel Startup Landing Page Using Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I’ll be using Photoshop CS6 to design a simple, clean, landing page for a fictional traveling startup. During this process we’ll look at creating custom grids with guidelines, styling typefaces, using lots of white space and composing our website’s content in a very clean and professional manner. The… Continue reading Design a Travel Startup Landing Page Using Photoshop

Freebies For Creatives: April/May 2014

This is the second instalment of the ongoing DesignWoop freebies series, a monthly design and development freebie collection. The free design goodies included in this months round-up feature some quality PSD templates, coded HTML templates, backgrounds and some super nice fonts. The free typeface called ‘Adam’ really caught my eye and was rather quickly download… Continue reading Freebies For Creatives: April/May 2014

An Overview of Recent WordPress Theme Design Trends: 2013 to 2014

A common trait among most successful web designers – they’re very passionate about their work. If they don’t like something, they won’t spend another second on that train of thought. To keep their creative juices alive and afresh, they seek inspiration from various things, random things – a calendar picture, a random collage of colours,… Continue reading An Overview of Recent WordPress Theme Design Trends: 2013 to 2014

28 Tutorials about SVG Images in Web Design

Scalable images have become a lot more popular in recent years. As modern browsers slowly accept the notion of SVG images we can see many techniques being released out on the web. These range from scalable responsive logos to animated line drawings – all through the use of dynamically-generated images. This collection of tutorials should… Continue reading 28 Tutorials about SVG Images in Web Design

Free PSD Files: 35 New UI Design PSD Files for Designers

This is an another big list of free PSD files released in 2014, which are very helpful for designers to design beautiful UI with amazing UX. Free download Photoshop PSD Files on GDJ. This is a best place to download new PSD files for web design, vector graphics and layered PSD files. In this collection we are gathered free premiere… Continue reading Free PSD Files: 35 New UI Design PSD Files for Designers

Roundup of the Best Free Icon Fonts for Web Design

Icon fonts are extremely useful resources for web designers. There’s so many benefits to using a icon webfont over traditional image sprites, such as the ability to have the icon infinitely scale and retain perfect quality; easily change the colour of the icon artwork using CSS; and have a whole library of glyphs available within… Continue reading Roundup of the Best Free Icon Fonts for Web Design

33 Remarkable examples of Typography Design

This beautiful collection of typography design have handmade, design lettering, calligraphic quotes and illustrated typography for your inspiration. Typography design are just awesome and great trend.  Experimenting with the right choice of font, splashing with  bold or plain colors,  and designing it in different perspective are elements that works on typography. It uses on logos, posters, and websites. It… Continue reading 33 Remarkable examples of Typography Design

25 Design and Development Tools, Analytics Solutions and More

In the following article – Marcin Treder, CEO and Co-founder of UXPin – the UX Design Platform shares the story of company’s early days and the list of tools that let them get the first 1000 paying customers. Building an internet product and growing its customers base is a combination of skills and effort in… Continue reading 25 Design and Development Tools, Analytics Solutions and More

17 New Vector Design & Illustrator Tutorials

In this article we are gathered seventeen new adobe illustrator tutorials which can really helpful to improve your design and illustration knowledge. We hope you’ve learnt a great thing from these tutorials to improve your skills. How to Turn a Sketch into Vector Art In Illustrator In this tutorial, you will learn how to use of Adobe Illustrator is… Continue reading 17 New Vector Design & Illustrator Tutorials

Why a Responsive Web Design Will Help You Get More Visitors

If you don’t have a responsive web design, then chances are you’re missing out on a lot of potential visitors and customers. You may even be losing some. Here’s why a responsive web design will help you get more visitors, and how not implementing this design could be handicapping your business: You cater to mobile platforms… Continue reading Why a Responsive Web Design Will Help You Get More Visitors