Tag: Design

A Look at Flat Design and Why It’s Significant

There has been a growing tidal wave of flat designs on the web, and recent trend reports have confirmed that they’re only increasing in popularity. Of course it’s easy to dismiss flat design as yet another fleeting aesthetic trend. But further investigation into this new philosophy reveals that flat design is a lot more than… Continue reading A Look at Flat Design and Why It’s Significant

Create a Better Responsive User Experience

The mobile market is exploding with unprecedented growth, and marketers are no longer hesitating to embrace responsive web design. As more and more businesses choose to adopt this new approach, it has become crucial for anyone in the web industry to understand the implications of creating a responsive user experience. It’s become our responsibility as… Continue reading Create a Better Responsive User Experience

Web Design Trends of Video Backgrounds

Websites do not have to be static all the time. Websites are not in hardcopy, rather softcopy which allows making them more dynamic and providing visitors an ameliorated user experience. With the ever advancing technology and designing techniques it is now possible to implement videos as backgrounds easily and quickly – thanks to HTML5. If this is… Continue reading Web Design Trends of Video Backgrounds

40 Popular Website Job Boards for Design Inspiration

Freelance job boards were not so common looking back 5 or 6 years. But nowadays modern businesses are more willing to work with each other and hire freelancers from anywhere in the world. This is great news for people who work online because the options are practically endless. But what about new webmasters who are… Continue reading 40 Popular Website Job Boards for Design Inspiration

40 Beautiful Flat Icon Sets For Web UI Design

This simple design school does not employ any three dimensional effects. This means no embossing, bevels, drop shadows, gradients or such tools that create a sense of depth. It is straight to the point and fresh. But flat design is not completely devoid of any effects. It adds some extras to create a sense of artificial… Continue reading 40 Beautiful Flat Icon Sets For Web UI Design

Responsive Web Design – 35 Fresh Examples

The concept of responsive development lies on the principle of change of layout of a website according to the resolution of the screen that a user is using. Thus there is a visible change in the video or image size and the amount of text that can be viewed. Thus, the layout of the website… Continue reading Responsive Web Design – 35 Fresh Examples

Building a Better User Experience by Designing in the Browser

As a web designer at Four Kitchens, part of my job is leading the production team’s visual design objectives. A key part of this process is ensuring the client’s satisfaction with the overall look and feel of the site. Since most of my projects utilize an agile development process, I am no stranger to shifting… Continue reading Building a Better User Experience by Designing in the Browser

How to Improvise Cheerful Forest Character Design in Adobe Illustrator

A lot of the pieces created in Adobe Illustrator are planned out well in advance. Sketches are imported, previous work traced, and you might build images with simple shape elements for graphic work. This tutorial will take you through improvising a character in the program from start to finish.   1. Build Up Your Characters… Continue reading How to Improvise Cheerful Forest Character Design in Adobe Illustrator

30+ Web Design Gallery Websites – Looking For Inspiration?

Web design gallery websites provide developers and designers creative inspiration for their own projects. By collecting the best web designs all over the internet, such websites serve as a key spot for fresh creative ideas. In This post, I have featured more than 40 examples of web design gallery websites that you can use for… Continue reading 30+ Web Design Gallery Websites – Looking For Inspiration?

11 Useful CSS Tools To Speed Up Your Design Process

Here we are presenting 11 extremely useful CSS tools that will help you quicken your design process. CSS is the most popular and most widely used programming language that has been used for the website development. This is mainly because CSS is relatively easy to learn as compared to other programming languages. Another reason is… Continue reading 11 Useful CSS Tools To Speed Up Your Design Process

Create a Retro and Futuristic Design in Photoshop

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Model Nebula Background Abstract Spheres Landscape Step 1 First, start Photoshop and create a new document. This tutorial is also going to be a wallpaper, so the size i’m using is 1920 x 1200. You can follow all the individual settings as shown in the diagram below. Background Create… Continue reading Create a Retro and Futuristic Design in Photoshop

Benefits and Drawbacks to Freelancing

Many designers contemplate the thought of whether being self employed as a freelancer, or working for a design firm. Of course there are many benefits and drawbacks to each of them, but your decision is based on whether these benefits and drawbacks are worthy for making your decision.We explain several benefits and drawbacks to freelancing… Continue reading Benefits and Drawbacks to Freelancing

23 Flat Design iPhone Apps

Flat design is becoming increasingly popular in the design and development space. When we say “flat” we are referring to the minimalist approach to design. We remove borders, shadows, variants, 3d elements to come up with a very clean simple and yes flat design. Minimal design has been popular for a while and it seems… Continue reading 23 Flat Design iPhone Apps

40+ Awesome Photoshop Poster Tutorials For Your Inspiration

Creating your own creative poster in Photoshop is fun and challenging. If you are not yet an expert, then don’t worry! You can find tons of easy to follow poster design tutorials for Photoshop. Most of them will guide you “step by step” to make sure you learn every step involved in the process. A… Continue reading 40+ Awesome Photoshop Poster Tutorials For Your Inspiration

10 great web tutorials on pixel perfect design

Below you’ll find bet 10 tutorials on pixel perfect design available on the web.   Pixel perfect design is something of a lost art, you know. Mostly because it’s an incredibly laborious and long work; it’s a technique that requires dedication, effort and an almost obsessive level of attention to detail and not many designers… Continue reading 10 great web tutorials on pixel perfect design

20 Latest Photoshop Tutorials To Improve Your Skills

It’s been quite a long time for detailed photoshop tutorial collection and so today we are bringing latest photoshop tutorials released in 2013.You can find from novice to expert photoshop tutorials and we are sure you will learn some new techniques from these tutorials.As always the collection consists of photo manipulations,drawing tecniques as well… Continue reading 20 Latest Photoshop Tutorials To Improve Your Skills

Web Design Workshop #36: Gateway Learning

Web Design Workshop is our regular community project where we ask readers to submit their work for your friendly, constructive criticism. It’s the perfect way to learn, offer opinions and have your own work critiqued! This week, something you may have already seen if you follow Dan Eden..   Rules of Engagement Play nice! We… Continue reading Web Design Workshop #36: Gateway Learning

How to Make the Design of Your Website Attractive to Audiences

Web design is all about making your website look beautiful, attractive, and professional. As it is, web design is vital because it is a representation of a brand, product, or service. The right web design is capable of capturing visitors and converting them to customers. Since web design is what any visitor first notices in… Continue reading How to Make the Design of Your Website Attractive to Audiences

29 New Black & White Website Designs for 2013

It is difficult to locate websites which are designed following a strict black-and-white theme. Remember that colorful tones and imagery will catch the eye when it contrasts off a colorless canvas. It offers a unique sensation in websites and very few designers venture into this area. For this gallery I have rummaged through the Internet… Continue reading 29 New Black & White Website Designs for 2013

10 Things You Don’t Want to Hear About Web Design

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Given that the web design field flourishes in the face of honest and open feedback, we thought we would put together a post that discusses some things that we as an industry need to hear, that we perhaps don’t want to. Or that aren’t always the easiest to hear.   1 – Not Always Room… Continue reading 10 Things You Don’t Want to Hear About Web Design

A Great UI is Invisible

A really well designed user interface is one that goes unnoticed by the user, whereas a poorly designed user interface forces the user to pay attention to it instead of the content. Users come to websites in order to achieve a goal: buy a new book, learn about jQuery, share an article with friends, find… Continue reading A Great UI is Invisible

Tricks of Web Design that Would Make You Site Go Viral

The importance of web design is known to almost all entrepreneurs who are looking forward to venture in this swarming market. Be it in any field, the level of competition is skyrocketing thick and fast. In order to keep up with this volatility, entrepreneurs are in a constant endeavor to improve their online presence.Web design… Continue reading Tricks of Web Design that Would Make You Site Go Viral

Beautiful Map Illustration Design Inspiration

Designing a map does not seem like something very original, but why should maps have to be boring? Whether it’s a town map, a real or imaginary country map, whether it is functional, or simply decorative, there is plenty of room for fun and creativity in this field. Fortunately some great designers out there have… Continue reading Beautiful Map Illustration Design Inspiration