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

3 Top Responsive Web Design Traps You Should Avoid

No designer can ignore the call of the mobile. Mobile is the wave of the future and there is a tremendous surge in website designs that cater exclusively to the mobile. But separate mobile websites cannot stand firm against the onslaught of dozens of new mobile devices. Designers need to create designs that display attractively… Continue reading 3 Top Responsive Web Design Traps You Should Avoid

FROONT: Responsive Web Design in the Visual Way

FROONT is a web-based design tool that runs in the browser and makes responsive web design accessible to all kinds of visual designers, even those without any coding skills. FROONT makes responsive web design visual. Design can be done in-browser with intuitive drag-and-drop tools. After all, humans judge design with their eyes therefore it seems… Continue reading FROONT: Responsive Web Design in the Visual Way

Ultimate Collection of Free Vector Elements For Infographics Design

This is the big list of Vector Elements which are great for infographics designing. Info-graphics are graphic visualization and representations of data and information. Designers using graphic elements to explain complex information, numbers or data in quick and effective manner. It is usually used in statistics, business plans, feasibility studies, web analytic and more. Infographics includes different visual elements,… Continue reading Ultimate Collection of Free Vector Elements For Infographics Design

How to use the Gestalt principle in your web design projects

Web designers are constantly looking for new ways of improving their projects and therefore they are introducing in their works elements from mathematics, marketing, photography, psychology, and the list may continue. As far as psychology is concerned, the Gestalt principle is widely known among web designers since it relates so good to the field of… Continue reading How to use the Gestalt principle in your web design projects

Design Patterns in WordPress: The Simple Factory Pattern

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Design Patterns in WordPress In this series, we’re taking a look at design patterns and how we can leverage them to our advantage when building products on top of WordPress. The nice thing about design patterns is that they aren’t explicitly limited to themes or… Continue reading Design Patterns in WordPress: The Simple Factory Pattern