Tag: Design

10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects

There is an open area in Photoshop to experiment with some amazing effects. You can play with any image in Photoshop creating some Lighting Effects which can be used in your upcoming print or web design. This article provides some Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects.   Advanced Glow Effects Show me the light –… Continue reading 10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects

A Simple Look Into Adaptive and Responsive Web Design

The decision for a developer to use an adaptive or responsive web design is dependent on the intended use of the web page. In a short comparison, an adaptive web design is made to deliver content accommodating to the type of browser enabled. While a responsive web design is designated to fit the original web… Continue reading A Simple Look Into Adaptive and Responsive Web Design

The Best Place for WordPress Devs to Get Design Work Done

Envato have recently launched a new service, currently in beta, called Microlancer. It’s a place where people can sell their creative services, or get creative work done. What’s Microlancer? The difference between Microlancer and other freelance job sites is that every Microlancer service is sold at a fixed price. Services are also generally smaller jobs… Continue reading The Best Place for WordPress Devs to Get Design Work Done

Design a Roll-up Banner Stand in Photoshop

For many web and digital designs, the designer’s intent is to make the viewer feel like they’re visiting in person. Not every interested customer can physically visit your storefront, conference, event, or sale, so it’s important to invite them and accommodate them online. One way to achieve this is to allude to items they might… Continue reading Design a Roll-up Banner Stand in Photoshop

Web Design Trend Showcase: Big Video Headers

Following on from my recent showcase of websites featuring full screen videos, today’s post looks at the sub-trend of big video headers in web design. HTML5 and jQuery make it easy to add dynamic video content to your site without bogging down the browser with Flash. This means designers can start to play with video… Continue reading Web Design Trend Showcase: Big Video Headers

45+ Flat Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

Flat web design is a real trend buster right now, and this comes with good reason! Not that long ago the use of 3D effects, textured surfaces, light and gradient effects were trending elements in web design. However, with the changing times so comes new trends within web design. The tendency right now leans towards… Continue reading 45+ Flat Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.193)

If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the design community, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or by subscribing to our RSS feed. Looking Into the Future of Sass by Hugo Giraudel Step-by-Step UX Improvement by Matt… Continue reading Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.193)

Sketching and Your Design Workflow

Once you’ve finished working with your content – great news! You get to start thinking about the actual design. But not so fast – don’t jump onto a computer straight away. If you talk to designers, most of them will tell you that it’s a massive part of their workflow to firstly sketch out any… Continue reading Sketching and Your Design Workflow

Weekly Design News Roundup – 21 July 2013

The week is coming to an end and that means it is time for us to look back on the week that passed, the best design news, resources and other goodies. This week we look at great Photoshop tutorials, Sand Textures, flat WordPress designs, beautiful parallax scrolling and much more.   How to modify Bootstrap… Continue reading Weekly Design News Roundup – 21 July 2013

20 Effective Examples Of Minimal Web Design

In this post I am showcasing some beautiful minimalistic website designs for your inspiration. Dodge & Burn Studio Faculty Ghostly Ferns The Gold of the Andes Nicolas Tarier Cyclemon PH Digital Labs Mixd Fashion Rikcat Industries Mark Boulton Design Finch Nathan Carnes Chris Garrett Media Ltd Monty Lounge Industries el Candor Pixelcraft MediaFlex just.dot Visualbox… Continue reading 20 Effective Examples Of Minimal Web Design

Design & Code – free PSD theme by Diogo Dantas

Diogo Dantas has released Design & Code – free PSD theme, simple, minimal and clean that can be used as personal / startup portfolio. Features: – Multipurpose Template – Flat Design – 3 Colors Available – Full Layered – 5 Pages – 960 Grid System based Preview Download Diogo Dantas

Interactivity Is King

There is no way to deny that fact static pages just don’t cut it anymore. With every company combining social media profiles with their standard websites, designers are discovering more and more that creating a successful site means embracing interactivity. Internet users view countless websites each day, so as a brand you need to figure… Continue reading Interactivity Is King

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

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #124

There is no limit for inspiration and when it comes to webdesign this is much more unlimited. As usual,we continue to showcase beautiful and interesting website examples that we came across during the week.If you want to take a look at our past website collections,you can visit our css gallery.Hope you like this week’s collection.… Continue reading Weekly Web Design Inspiration #124

The Web Designer’s Cheat Sheet

When working on a new site, most web designers are no stranger to all-nighters, copious amounts of coffee and even repetitive strain injury (ouch!). No surprise then that the best coders are lazy coders that are always looking for anything that makes coding quicker, less tedious and more fun. To make your life easier, we… Continue reading The Web Designer’s Cheat Sheet

Long Shadow in Flat Design: 50 Beautiful Examples

Long shadow a new trend after the flat design. The trend is impacting UI elements and icons the strongest, and designers also start using into other parts of website design and mobile user interface. Long shadow design has been mostly used in icons and logos. Shadows live within the element canvas and often extend outside an… Continue reading Long Shadow in Flat Design: 50 Beautiful Examples

The best Design related articles of the month

A lot of professionals have created in the latest years a strong bond with the web to the point of almost total dependence; designers, programmers, writers, marketers, photographers, illustrators and much more fit in this. We, together, have created a sort of ecosystem by making contributions everyday. Call it design tips, plugins, PSD freebies, tutorials,… Continue reading The best Design related articles of the month

40 Stunning Green-Colored Web Design Layouts

The color green often imparts a sense of nature. The beauty of trees, shrubs, flowers, and other natural plants we can find on this Earth. But money can also symbolize other things to people such as money, health, and communication. The use of green is so widespread over so many various hues that it could… Continue reading 40 Stunning Green-Colored Web Design Layouts

Guidelines Of Using Colors In Web Design

When creating a website or any other type of application, you must be aware that the colors used in it are vital for the overall user experience. If the viewer find it difficult to use the application because of its colors, then you have a big problem. In order to avoid this situation, you should… Continue reading Guidelines Of Using Colors In Web Design

A Round-Up Of 45 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials And Techniques

Graphic designers and web designers are ready all the time to welcome Adobe Photoshop Tutorials. There are so many reasons behind this like Adobe Photoshop can easily use, you can easily learn from it, and most important is that Adobe Photoshop comes with so many varieties of highly developed tools which give outstanding and inspiring… Continue reading A Round-Up Of 45 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials And Techniques

Use of Flat Design in Mobile App Interfaces, Best Examples

Emphasis on typography, roomy widgets, muted color palette, one-colored or blurred background, grid or horizontal stripe layout, inornate graphics, 2d illustrations – all these can be easily attributed to flat style, that recently got its second rebirth. Microsoft’s “Metro” aesthetic has captured the minds of a great deal of designers, pushing them on eschewing shadows,… Continue reading Use of Flat Design in Mobile App Interfaces, Best Examples