Tag: Design

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

20 Useful and High Quality Web Design Tutorials and Resources

Web designers and developers must know various important components to develop a beautiful website. All tricks and tools can not able to learn within few days. It requires long practice and hard work. To help those guys I today going to present 20 Useful and High Quality Web Design Tutorials and Resources.   How to… Continue reading 20 Useful and High Quality Web Design Tutorials and Resources

20 Timesaving Web Design UI Freebies

Across Dribbble and Behance designers are creating some awesome UI kits, often providing their UI kits for free download. Today I have put together a pretty awesome collection of free UI kits you can download and use in your next design project. UI kits are a great way to speed up your design process and… Continue reading 20 Timesaving Web Design UI Freebies

20 Stylish Examples of Flat Illustrations in Web Design

The over-simplied style of illustration was around well before the flat trend in web design, but it has definitely increased in popularity as we’re seeing more flat designs make use of stylised drawings made from solid colours and basic shapes. This post rounds up 20 fantastic examples of websites that feature trendy flat illustrations are… Continue reading 20 Stylish Examples of Flat Illustrations in Web Design

How Human Centric Web Design Improves Your Workflow

Human-centric and user-centric design are two terms we often hear in the industry, though sometimes both designers and developers consider them to mean the same. User-centered design is something most of us aim to put high on our list of priorities; having the end-user in mind and reflecting this philosophy in our products. Human-centered design… Continue reading How Human Centric Web Design Improves Your Workflow

10 Digital Design Terms You Need to Know

Design jargon is everywhere. And you need to be able to speak the language. Working on digital projects has its own set of terminology. From dither to color values to fluid or fixed layouts, there are a few terms every designer needs to have a grasp of. So we’ve made it easy for you, and… Continue reading 10 Digital Design Terms You Need to Know

40 Free Fonts for Flat Design

Flat design is one of the hottest web trends of 2013. Even before it was featured in the latest iOS redesign, many designers were already smittened with the simplistic and minimalistic design that is flat design. It is a combination of colors and typography having no use of textures, fancy 3D effects and drop shadows.… Continue reading 40 Free Fonts for Flat Design

Incorporating Subtle Patterns and Minimalism into Web Design

Web design used to be about flashy, bright colors, attention-getters and flash animations that were full of movement and activity designed to be extremely noticeable. Front-end design standards have come a long way since those days, with flash quickly becoming a thing of the past and the professional standard for becoming more sophisticated than it… Continue reading Incorporating Subtle Patterns and Minimalism into Web Design

20 Posters with Inspirational Quotes for Designers

Inspiration, we all need it! Whether it comes when we look a someone else’s creative work or when we read some beautiful, inspirational quotes, the result is the same! If you love prints then you should have at least one of these quotes hanged up in your office. Which one of these posters with inspirational… Continue reading 20 Posters with Inspirational Quotes for Designers

Logo Design Guidelines

Design a logo and a visual identity goes way beyond the free form and artistic side of what most people think. There is all the rational part including proportions, scaleability optical adjustments and reproduction that has to be thought in order to create an efficient and well design logo. The visual design guidelines will provide… Continue reading Logo Design Guidelines

5 Things to Keep in Mind When Choosing a WordPress Theme

With so many WordPress themes around, it’s important to choose just the right one for your needs. Business websites, personal blogs and artist portfolios may have different requirements, which will influence your choice of theme. However, there are certain factors you need to take into account regardless of the type of a website you have.… Continue reading 5 Things to Keep in Mind When Choosing a WordPress Theme

Ultimate Collection of Fresh Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop is forever paradise in digital designing world and an every designer’s best friend. Since the mark of its introduction in designing field, Photoshop has been in a constant spotlight of excellence, extensively utilized by everyone linked with digital designing no matter how. Whether its retouching or manipulations, matte painting, illustrations, texturing, designing of packages, logos,… Continue reading Ultimate Collection of Fresh Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

45 Fresh And Useful Photoshop Tutorials

Here we have come up with another fresh collection of some high quality and very useful Adobe Photoshop tutorials that have been released in last few months. There is no second opinion that Adobe Photoshop is the most powerful and necessary tool for designing and you cannot complete your designing work without using Adobe Photoshop.… Continue reading 45 Fresh And Useful Photoshop Tutorials

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