Anytime a company launches a rebrand there’s the obligatory “how we did it” blog post. Uber did it, AirBnB did it and we did it. Usually these posts jump right from “good looking people putting post-it notes on a glass wall” to “unveil on an unsuspecting public” stage, and completely skip the really tricky part — going… Continue reading An engineering manager’s guide to rebranding
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Best Places to Find 3D Printing Templates
March 30, 2017 by Veronika 3D printing is a relatively new field where three-dimensional design projects are being translated to the real world with the help of special printers. This 21st century design field is getting more and more popular with year passing year. 3D printers are becoming more available for the mass consumers which… Continue reading Best Places to Find 3D Printing Templates
Magento Website Designs To Inspire You
March 28, 2017 by Veronika Magento is known as one of the most popular content management systems for eCommerce websites. Being used by millions of websites on the Web, Magento also has some of the best examples of eCommerce UX and UI design done right. You can get inspired to build your next online shop… Continue reading Magento Website Designs To Inspire You
Why The Design Aspect Of Web Design Is Stuck In A Rut
March 27, 2017 by Spyre Studios Are you bored with your website? Are you bored with everyone else’s website? If you’ve started to notice that almost every website looks the same, you’re not alone. Tons of people these days are surfing the web, feeling that odd sense of déjà vu wherever they go. And we… Continue reading Why The Design Aspect Of Web Design Is Stuck In A Rut
Connections and creativity.
In 1978, scientist and historian James Burke produced a ten part documentary called ‘Connections’. In this documentary series he traced back a (then) modern invention through the history of connected ideas that led to it. Across the ten episodes the viewer goes on many weird and wonderful journeys learning such things as: how the concept… Continue reading Connections and creativity.
30 New Modern Line Art Logo Designs for Inspiration
Line art logos are very simple and minimal design with modern art concept logos. Today we are gathered new minimal line art logo designs. This collection consists of different designs that use thin line techniques to create minimal and clean logos that many will appreciate. Scroll down and you’ll see that simplicity is definitely a beauty. Come, take… Continue reading 30 New Modern Line Art Logo Designs for Inspiration
Driving innovation [1/2]: a portfolio perspective
In every sector, it’s possible to notice growing efforts towards innovation. More and more organizations do not take their market and own relevance for granted, and realize that some [widely applied] strategies to maintain and grow their businesses [like plain price competition, and aggressive portfolio expansion, among others] may incubate serious near and long term… Continue reading Driving innovation [1/2]: a portfolio perspective
How to Order and Align Items in Grid Layout
In this tutorial, you will learn how to control the order in which items are placed using the Grid Layout module. After that, we will discuss how to control the alignment of different items in the grid. In the past, we covered a few important Grid-related topics. We began by learning about different ways of… Continue reading How to Order and Align Items in Grid Layout
Women in UX, YouTube channels for designers, Bots from Hell, and more UX this week
What’s hot in UX this week: 30 Women Rocking in UX to Celebrate the International Women’s Day → Last Wednesday was International Women’s Day. According to Wikipedia, in different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women for their economic, political and social achievements. That’s what we’re… Continue reading Women in UX, YouTube channels for designers, Bots from Hell, and more UX this week
Purchasing an APM for Your Business: Are Your Stuck?
For any application technology to succeed, it has to provide the end-users with the quality experience. What APM (Application Performance Monitoring/Management) does is to ensure that the application program that you develop performs optimally as expected. It could be that you have disappointed your customers for so long with frequent crashes of your apps and… Continue reading Purchasing an APM for Your Business: Are Your Stuck?
23 Modern Responsive HTML5 WordPress Themes
New modern HTML5 WordPress themes with responsive design specially designed corporate business, portfolio and online eCommerce websites. Multipurpose best WordPress themes will help you create amazing website with tons of highly SEO optimized and easy-to-edit elements that allow you to change the look and feel of your theme to match your brand or represent your… Continue reading 23 Modern Responsive HTML5 WordPress Themes
23 New Exciting Adobe Photoshop Tutorials to Enhance Your Skills
In these new Photoshop tutorials you will learn how to create an exciting photo manipulation effects. The latest released Adobe Photoshop CC tutorials are just amazing and helpful to learn beginning and advance techniques to enhance and improve your digital photo editing skills. Today we are gathered twenty three new Adobe Photoshop Tutorials to learn how to edit photos, creating photo… Continue reading 23 New Exciting Adobe Photoshop Tutorials to Enhance Your Skills
How UberEats could make ordering for groups of friends simpler — a UX case study
The Problem — I find myself using UberEats (launched early last year) more frequently than the likes of DoorDash primarily because of two reasons: Continuous promotions — They have had some really cool promotions all this while. (No delivery cost upto $5 for an order) Ordering experience — From searching for food to ordering and waiting for it, the… Continue reading How UberEats could make ordering for groups of friends simpler — a UX case study
How fast is your site and is there a way to control the response time for the clients?
It is known that response time of a web server has a great role in indexing of the hosted sites in search engines. The slower is a web site, the lower is its rate among the competitors. Nobody is going to like such consequences: site is displayed on the bottom of the search, less clients… Continue reading How fast is your site and is there a way to control the response time for the clients?
8 Best Tools For Making Animated Videos
March 2, 2017 by Veronika This collection of free and premium video creation tools can help you create your very own 2D and 3D character animations and bring your ideas to life. Targeted at both professional animators and amateurs in the marketing and freelance industry, this list of tools is suitable for anyone who’s interested in… Continue reading 8 Best Tools For Making Animated Videos
5 Key Areas to Help Manage Your Design and Content Creation Team
Even more radical than funny cat videos and memes in GIF form, the rise of the Internet has really empowered companies of all sizes to work with remote teams all around the world. This has dramatically impacted how modern business is being conducted because you could have team members everywhere from Sacramento to Sri Lanka. In addition… Continue reading 5 Key Areas to Help Manage Your Design and Content Creation Team
Logo Templates: 25 Custom Logo Design Templates
A superb and modern logo templates that you can use for branding projects, labels, apparel design, typography and any business logo design. They’re all fully editable with well organized Photoshop PSD layers and Illustrated, groups and folders. These logos are designed using creative methods so that you can easily make a guess about the brand by… Continue reading Logo Templates: 25 Custom Logo Design Templates
The Three Photo Effects in Luminar You’ll Fall in Love With
Posted · Category: Stock Photos Every image, in every webpage you work on, should be flawless in terms of its quality, and its ability to fit with the concept or idea behind the page. An image should also fit in contextually with the accompanying text. These considerations, and how cleverly you apply them, can make… Continue reading The Three Photo Effects in Luminar You’ll Fall in Love With
Overcoming Material Design.
Okay, I’m going to start this off with one statement; Material Design is great. It has helped unify user interfaces across platforms, and it provides designers with awesome resources (the icons especially ????????). And while some of you may use aterial Design as your UI-North-Star (why are you doing that to yourself), I am not… Continue reading Overcoming Material Design.
4 Ways Designers Can Use Asana to Organize Their Work
Collaboration, organization, and communication are important to making a design process flow smoothly–especially when you’re dealing with multiple stakeholders or cross-functional teams. After all, nothing is worse than having to waste time digging around Google Docs for a product roadmap from last month or not getting enough context for a mockup you’re about to work… Continue reading 4 Ways Designers Can Use Asana to Organize Their Work
9 Best WordPress Plugins for Use in 2017
Posted · Category: Best Collections WordPress has many pluses, but it’s not necessarily the most glamorous platform to work with. Still customize it with themes and plugins to fit a designer’s needs has made it the most popular CMS. Plugins are great to have access to when you need to embed certain functions into your… Continue reading 9 Best WordPress Plugins for Use in 2017
Form is Functional: Why Design is More Than Gold Plating
When budgets are tight in the software world and companies want to save money, form is usually the first to go. In these situations, the design tends to be considered ‘gold plating’ and not a necessity. It’s thought to only make the product ‘look nice’. This assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. Form has… Continue reading Form is Functional: Why Design is More Than Gold Plating
A letter from Sol LeWitt about creative block, read by Benedict Cumberbatch
In 1960, pioneering American artists Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse met for the first time and instantly clicked, quickly forming a strong, deep bond that would last for ten years and result in countless inspirational discussions and rich exchanges of ideas. In the video below, Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter sent from Sol to Eva… Continue reading A letter from Sol LeWitt about creative block, read by Benedict Cumberbatch
Why human-centered design is an expectation.
Human-Centered Design, in short, is the practice of a management and problem solving process that places people (your customer) at the center of every decision. It requires curiosity and contextual observation, empathy, ideation, iteration, and implementation. “Human-centered” is the core of user, customer, and service experience design (UX, CX, SX). Almost every company has a… Continue reading Why human-centered design is an expectation.