How to Develop a WordPress Theme from the Ground Up

Having your website is one thing. But developing a WordPress theme is another. Why? It’s because your site’s theme is the one which brings personality to your site. Not to mention, a WordPress theme optimized for performance like the ones seen here at Colorlib is what differentiates you from your competitors. It is what defines you… Continue reading How to Develop a WordPress Theme from the Ground Up

35 Best Mockups: Download Realistic PSD Mock-ups

New Photo Realistic presentation PSD mockups can save your time and make your brand look eye-catching with this real effects. These mock-up templates are easy to use with smart objects, simply double-click the Smart Layer, copy & paste your artwork, save your project and it’s done. In this premium collection we are included only highest… Continue reading 35 Best Mockups: Download Realistic PSD Mock-ups

How to Optimize a Web Design for Video Content

July 31, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger As videos become more widely used across the internet, more and more websites are starting to incorporate video content as well. Often however this is done fairly haphazardly, without taking into account that video by its very nature is different from other forms of content. Frankly speaking, slapping a… Continue reading How to Optimize a Web Design for Video Content

Key Logo Design Elements That Resonate Your Brand

On having a glance at what went before, one will notice that even retrospectively, an artisan who was bothered about his ability and trade would have always left some kind of a mark on its artifact, to distinguish it from others. In order to make people aware that these are the items that has been… Continue reading Key Logo Design Elements That Resonate Your Brand

UX & Psychology go hand in hand— How Gestalt theory appears in UX design?

Source: iStock In the age of AI and “Human Centered Machine Learning”, it’s essential that we understand the needs and behaviour of our users. This is doubly true as a UX designer. In order to create work that better serves the needs of our users, it’s important to understand some basic psychological principles. Which is… Continue reading UX & Psychology go hand in hand— How Gestalt theory appears in UX design?

18 New Creative Brochure / Catalog Templates

New Corporate multipurpose Brochure Templates for business annual report, fashion catalog or photography or personal portfolio. Professional brochure templates has all the features you’d expect in a modern brochures, from placeholders, to text styles, customizable infographics, and easy to edit master pages. Brochure templates are available in different sizes Square, A4 and US Letter. Creative corporate Tri-Fold, Bi-Fold… Continue reading 18 New Creative Brochure / Catalog Templates

10 3D-Modeling Tools You Can Use For Free

Are you looking for some free to use 3D-Modeling Software? Well, if your answer is yes, then you are lucky enough to land on the right page. In this round up, we are presenting 10 most useful 3D modeling software that you can use for free. These software will allow you to turn individual ideas… Continue reading 10 3D-Modeling Tools You Can Use For Free

Animated Image Pieces | Codrops

A set of experiments with an animated image pieces effect where an image gets shattered into rectangular fragments. Powered by anime.js. After making the Developer/Designer Page Layout Concept we wanted to try out some different effects for the pieces animation on the image. There are quite a lot of possibilities to animate the fragments, so… Continue reading Animated Image Pieces | Codrops

Diversity is Punk Rock

I used to think “diversity” meant the need for the representation of a particular set of perspectives or cultures, i.e., “there are lot of men in this room, therefore we need women.” This idea prevented me from participating in the discourse in the past because I’ve never felt like I identify with any single community.… Continue reading Diversity is Punk Rock

Free PSD Mockup Templates (30 Fresh Mock-ups)

Free download PSD Mockups and create a realistic presentation of your work. All mockup templates are perfect to showcase your artwork with professional look. These mockup templates are very easy to use,  just put your photos, design into a smart object and choose shadow style for better presentation. There are different types of presentation mockups included in this… Continue reading Free PSD Mockup Templates (30 Fresh Mock-ups)

Tips for Training Your Clients to Use WordPress

As WordPress continues to power more and more websites, it stands to reason that many site owners will want to learn how to use it. One of the strengths of any CMS is the ability to login remotely and add/edit content or perform other maintenance tasks. WordPress especially excels in this area and includes some… Continue reading Tips for Training Your Clients to Use WordPress

How To Create a Great Looking Layout For Your Website

The foundation of any website is its layout. It is there to guide the site’s visitor and highlight the important things. The entire site’s aesthetic depends on its layout, so it is very important to plan ahead on how to compose it. Finally, a good original layout improves the user’s experience, which goes a long… Continue reading How To Create a Great Looking Layout For Your Website

How to Gain Insights from Emotionally Charged Questions

http://www.gratisography.com In product design, we are taught that we shouldn’t ask leading questions in interviews / testing. Don’t you hate when XXX happens?Isn’t it harder that you don’t have XXX in your life?Wouldn’t your life be simpler if you had XXX product? We avoid asking leading questions like those. But why? Generally it is true… Continue reading How to Gain Insights from Emotionally Charged Questions

Make War, Not Interfaces

A Product Designer riding into battle — Andrew Yardley Product Design is a lot like warfare. Think about it. Users are the enemy. Like Clone Troopers straight out of Episode II, they are legion. Their numbers are seemingly without end. Without fail and without relent they will come at you, poking holes in your design, finding its fatal… Continue reading Make War, Not Interfaces

Gorgeous Decade-by-Decade Fashion Illustrations (8 total)

Fashion illustrators have a lot of freedom with artistic style and emotion, since they are not limited to photography alone. Hand sketching is anything but dead and there are many artists who are creating street style images, runway looks, magazine editorials and imaginative drawings. If you appreciate retro fashion sketches, you can find some beautiful… Continue reading Gorgeous Decade-by-Decade Fashion Illustrations (8 total)

7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers

There are many tools out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why we are sharing 7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers. So, without any further ado let’s take a look at these and feel free to share this post with others.… Continue reading 7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers

Don’t have a Mobile Friendly Site yet? You will need one!

In the mobile world that we live in, by next year, it is expected that as much as 80% of all internet traffic will be mobile. So anything from a dating site to an online pet store will need to be mobile friendly and so, it is now more important than ever before. While desktop… Continue reading Don’t have a Mobile Friendly Site yet? You will need one!

Useful Tips to Design a Website Homepage That Draws Visitors

Creating a website for your company, firm or organization is a very useful way to advertise and inform the users and people what your product or agency is about. But more important than that is making the people actually stay on your website to read up about it. You need to make your website’s homepage… Continue reading Useful Tips to Design a Website Homepage That Draws Visitors

Solving the right problem, VR needs UX, github for designers, and more UX this week

A year ago… A psychological approach to designing interfaces → Do you ever get that feeling when you’re in a supermarket, looking at a sea of different types of toothpaste and you have no idea what to get? The reason why you get overwhelmed by these excessive options has to do with, you guessed it, psychology.… Continue reading Solving the right problem, VR needs UX, github for designers, and more UX this week

Atomic design: how to design systems of components

Today, the idea of Atomic Design is to begin with common raw material (atoms) with which we can build the rest of the project: Today: we start from atoms and we build the rest from there We have thus not only an “air de famille” between all the screens, but also a system which offers infinite… Continue reading Atomic design: how to design systems of components

Atomic Design & creativity

I’ve been using atomic design in my projects over the last 2 years now. And since then, I can’t help but talk about it to everyone around me ;) Quick reminder : Atomic Design is a methodology, invented by Brad Frost and based on the idea that designing interface should always rely on the smallest part of… Continue reading Atomic Design & creativity

They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”

We’re living in the era of the “UX enthusiastics”: some people just feel they have a natural talent about anything related to “user” AND “experience” and this enables them to randomly act and feel as UX designer. Someone should tell them that this is one of those cases when a natural talent in not enough… Continue reading They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”

Free Text Effect Tutorials (26 Tuts)

Free tutorials of amazing Text Effects ideal to create vintage, retro, neon and glitch effects on your text and lettering with few Photoshop and Illustrator steps. These tutorials are perfect for beginners and advance graphic designers. There are 2D and 3D text effect tutorials to create posters, flyers, calendar and giving your typography or lettering a fresh touch… Continue reading Free Text Effect Tutorials (26 Tuts)

How to choose your first design gig: startup, corporate, or freelance?

The startup route is for designers who are also entrepreneurial souls. If you are the type to grind your way through to success, and love a high risk but high reward environment, then this might be the first job for you. There could also be a general lack of structures, systems, and processes. It is… Continue reading How to choose your first design gig: startup, corporate, or freelance?