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
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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.
10 Resource Sites For Free Website Background Images
February 16, 2017 by Veronika Building an entire website on your own requires special attention to details and a good eye for design. We’ve covered plenty of topics on website design, including essential features, user experience, and search engine optimization. We’ve listed plenty of free design resources but when it comes to something as simple as… Continue reading 10 Resource Sites For Free Website Background Images
27 Web and Interactive Websites for Inspiration
Beautiful and creative web-interactive websites roundup for inspiration. In this website showcase we are gathered Business & Corporate, Promotional, Web & Interactive websites, created with modern technologies HTML5 and CSS3, jQuery and fully Responsive Design websites. Web/Interactive web design engage students and professionals by providing information and resources along with practice, simulations, and other learning activities. We saw some… Continue reading 27 Web and Interactive Websites for Inspiration
Digital suffocation.
It’s dawned on me how incessant and intrusive phone notifications are. I may be realising this late. About two months ago I installed an app called 360 Security on my Android phone. One of the many functions it had was a ‘Notification Manager’. I switched it on and let it do it’s thing. A week… Continue reading Digital suffocation.
11 Online Tools For Magazine and Presentation Design
There are all sorts of web design tools out there that offer users the opportunity to build their own content, from social media post designs, to web-based portfolios, microsites and many others. Yet, if you’re looking for an online design platform tailored especially for designing digital magazines and presentations, you should take a look at… Continue reading 11 Online Tools For Magazine and Presentation Design
7 Tips for eCommerce Web Design
Of all the ways to make money on the internet, eCommerce is one of the most popular. Selling products online is much more cost-effective than in a brick-and-mortar store. Even sellers who do have physical locations recognise the importance of using online revenue channels. When you decide to sell products online, the design of the… Continue reading 7 Tips for eCommerce Web Design
30 Inspirational Architecture Firm Website Designs
February 5, 2017 by Jake Rocheleau Agency websites have become much more commonplace relative to the growth of online businesses. Different styles will benefit different agencies and this is especially true of architecture firms. As the old saying goes: measure twice, cut once. If you’re designing an agency website these examples should help you measure… Continue reading 30 Inspirational Architecture Firm Website Designs
25 Remarkable Lettering and Typography Design for Inspiration
Beautiful hand-drawn and digital lettering and typography designs created by professional artists and designers. This showcase contains different artwork of calligraphy, quotes, handmade lettering, typography posters, brushes with bristle effects and watercolor style typo all are great for inspiration. You may be interested in the following articles as well. Please join us & follow on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ for updates. Subscribe to… Continue reading 25 Remarkable Lettering and Typography Design for Inspiration
Aganè: A free font designed for UIs
Aganè is a free typeface designed by Danilo De Marco, a a Graphic Type and UI designer who work between Italy and Switzerland. Aganè font is a tribute to Adrian Frutiger, father of Frutiger and Avenir, and Bob Noorda, creator of Noorda. It is made of 4 different style and it’s ideal to be used in user interface design beacuse… Continue reading Aganè: A free font designed for UIs
Bakken & Bæck – Handbook
Flex it up We use a flexible working hours’ scheme at B&B, meaning that you are your own boss when it comes to define your daily 8-hour timetable. We know, however, that we do our best work and have the most fun when we are together in the office as much as possible. Working remotely… Continue reading Bakken & Bæck – Handbook
Designing Anticipated User Experiences
Anticipatory Design is possibly the next big leap within the field of Experience Design. “Design that is one step ahead” as Shapiro refers to it. This sounds amazing, but where does it lead us? And how will it affect our relationship with technology? I’ve dedicated my Master thesis to this topic to identify both ethical… Continue reading Designing Anticipated User Experiences
ZIPL Web Studio
INTRODUCTION This is one of our most favorite websites. When the client contacted us, we didn’t even think this project would become one of our calling cards. ABOUT THE CLIENT Very Berry is an event agency from Odessa, specializing in weddings, children and private events, corporate parties. The primary and the most developed direction of… Continue reading ZIPL Web Studio
A Step by Step Guide to the Auto-Placement Algorithm in CSS Grid
In this tutorial, I’ll be going over all the steps the auto-placement algorithm of the CSS Grid Layout module follows when positioning elements. These steps are controlled by the grid-auto-flow property. In Introducing the CSS Grid Layout and Seven Ways You Can Place Elements Using CSS Grid Layout, I gave an overview of the CSS… Continue reading A Step by Step Guide to the Auto-Placement Algorithm in CSS Grid
5 Above the Fold Elements that Get Your Audience’s Attention
An old study from Nielsen states that web visitors spend 80.3% of their time above the fold – the top area of your site that’s immediately viewable upon loading. Furthermore, Google found out that ads above the fold had 68% viewability, as opposed to ads below the fold with only 40%. Naturally, a lot of… Continue reading 5 Above the Fold Elements that Get Your Audience’s Attention
Get Inspired by Hundreds of Thousands of Emails
Posted · Category: License Free, Webmail Really Good Emails said “Some people have explained to them that is like a modern-day museum, full of the emails that they probably deleted. Then our parents ask why we would keep stuff that people actively delete… which is followed with a different analogy they don’t really understand. It… Continue reading Get Inspired by Hundreds of Thousands of Emails
Web Design Inspired by The Pantone 2017 Color of The Year
Pantone’s color of the year choice is a symbolic color pick by the famous American color corporation. It is a representation of the current global state of mind. Since the beginning of the 21st Century, Pantone has picked 17 unique colors which have served as trend guides for industry professionals. The company’s yearly color views… Continue reading Web Design Inspired by The Pantone 2017 Color of The Year