A career as a web designer can be extremely lucrative. The average web designer in the US makes around $50-55,000 per year, equating to an hourly rate of around $25. Of course, not every designer will automatically get a full-time, high-paying job as soon as they earn their web design credentials. Sometimes, you might need… Continue reading Side Hustles for Web Design Professionals: How to Make Some Extra Cash
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16 Free Looped Animation and Samples to Use for Your Projects
October 4, 2021 by Sangalang Kristine Leave a Comment Animation in websites has reached new, incredible levels since the increased availability of free looped animation on the internet. The great news is that there are numerous sources available. These could be samples, templates, or ready-to-use animations you can simply embed on your website. Why Use Looped… Continue reading 16 Free Looped Animation and Samples to Use for Your Projects
5 Easy Hacks for Designers to Boost Their Personal Brand
Stop procrastinating and get unstuck with these tips to enhance your branding and attract clients. You’re a busy freelance designer. You’re always hustling hard to make sure that your clients are taken care of — a bit too hard, in fact. You consistently deliver amazing design work for your clients, but you’ve been procrastinating on investing… Continue reading 5 Easy Hacks for Designers to Boost Their Personal Brand
5 Platforms to Showcase Your Work as a Beginner Designer
2 Shares Social media are one of the marvels introduced to us by the internet. It allows us to communicate and share anything we want from anywhere. And that provides countless opportunities for those who want to earn money by doing art. But where do I start as a beginner designer? What platforms are the… Continue reading 5 Platforms to Showcase Your Work as a Beginner Designer
Popular Design News of the Week: August 3, 2020 – August 9, 2020
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: August 3, 2020 – August 9, 2020
Why Do Websites Look the Same (And Should We Care)?
If we don’t question this kind of design homogenization, do we put ourselves at risk of perpetuating the same mistakes in the years to come? Or is it even a mistake to begin with? Today, I’m going to look at four things that are likely causing this, and what you can do to break the… Continue reading Why Do Websites Look the Same (And Should We Care)?
10 Tools I Can’t Design Without
No matter how skilled you are as a designer, you need tools. A surgeon can’t operate without a scalpel; the same goes for designers. To get the job done effectively, you need to right tools in your arsenal. Tools certainly don’t make the craftsman, but they do make your job easier (and mostly fun). There… Continue reading 10 Tools I Can’t Design Without
In defence of Dribbble and artsy UI’s
In the recent years I’ve seen dozens of articles saying that Dribbble is destroying the design community, promoting the wrong mindsets and taking value away from real Design Work™. While it’s hard to doubt some of these claims, I decided to stop being negative (like I was with UX has pretty bad UX) and this… Continue reading In defence of Dribbble and artsy UI’s
Ouch: free illustrations for websites and interfaces
How to build a product that people will love? Just give them what they need. This is the basic principle behind Ouch, a library of interface illustrations created by Icons8 team. It’s not a secret that most websites and interfaces need to have a face. When a user is engaging with a project, they want… Continue reading Ouch: free illustrations for websites and interfaces
Is Dribbble Worth Your Time?
The online community has been around since 2010 and is one of the top platforms where designers can share work, or shots, and get feedback. The invite-only community is a showcase of portfolio projects and personal artwork for digital graphics and user interface design, illustrations, animations, and pretty much any other design work you can… Continue reading Is Dribbble Worth Your Time?
Templates, Icons, UI Kits, and More
Figma came out as a strong new player in 2016 allowing design and software development teams to collaborate on any platform. This browser-based application eliminated problems such as updating software, syncing screens, and waiting for a team member to upload the latest design. Real-time collaboration is where Figma shines most. It launched with features like… Continue reading Templates, Icons, UI Kits, and More
Enterprise design stack: the tools we use to design the datacenter operating system
I love reading about how other Design teams are working together and what tools they’re using. It’s reassuring to know teams you admire and respect use the same tools you do. It’s also usually a trigger for me to try some other tools that either I haven’t heard of or that I’ve been meaning to… Continue reading Enterprise design stack: the tools we use to design the datacenter operating system
How to develop an eye for Design
When I started off in design, I sucked. I was obsessed with copying pieces of the trending Dribbble shots, but oblivious to how all the pieces worked together. If you could see the harsh drop shadows and unnecessary flourish I added to things, you would gasp in horror. Though I was no product design prodigy,… Continue reading How to develop an eye for Design
How to get work as a freelance digital designer
Getting started as a creative professional is never easy. Although the market for freelance and independent digital designers is booming at the moment, most newbies still find it hard to get their foot in the door. Here are some of the ways you can get started and find work in the industry: 1. Join an… Continue reading How to get work as a freelance digital designer
Stop Being an Ego Designer
Wow! The new client project has landed and you will be the lead designer! Great, everybody has to do your biddings. Gnaar! Thats wrong, dude! Photo by: Nik MacMillan I believe that every project and teamwork will push you more into the character of an altruist. Designing a digital product with your ego creates a… Continue reading Stop Being an Ego Designer
8 Essential Tools To Build Your Online Portfolio Fast & Easy
In the world of internet, you will find so many tools that are available for creating a wonderful websites or portfolios. But in this collection, we are showcasing some outstanding, useful and superb tools for building websites or portfolios. When you see this collection, you will find all these tools fresh, simple to use, you… Continue reading 8 Essential Tools To Build Your Online Portfolio Fast & Easy
Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools
There are more ways than ever to get yourself (and your work) seen online. Whether yours is a design, illustration, photography, code, or product portfolio, take a look at some of these tools for getting it out there. Dunked Brainchild of Orman Clark and chums, dunked is a platform offering an account where you can upload… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools
Jona Dinges Low Poly Designs
It never ceases to astonish me personally associated with level of design you are able to achieve with minimalism. Having less matter to utilize, forces one to maximize everything you got. Minimal poly design, in 3D, represents what I refer to. Wanting to produce a model because of the amount that is lowest of polygons… Continue reading Jona Dinges Low Poly Designs
10 fresh examples of diffuse shadow UIs
It seems like some of web design trends aren’t going anywhere soon. We’ve seen Material Design initiation and evolution, advanced animations and microinteractions, vibrant color schemes, beautiful typography, great use of minimalism, new responsive design technique and tools and much more interesting stuff. We also noticed a new trend that is making its way through… Continue reading 10 fresh examples of diffuse shadow UIs
20 Extremely Popular Dribbble Freebies to Download
Dribbble is an amazing source of inspiration for designers! There are so many amazing free design freebies shared in this community! You’ll find lots of freebies, design tools and downloadable graphic elements you can use in your own work. Today we created a list with 20 extremely popular Dribbble freebies. All of these Dribbble freebies are very high quality and they’re just waiting to… Continue reading 20 Extremely Popular Dribbble Freebies to Download
Ready to Use SVG Icons from Dribbble
Baptiste Briel is a 20 years old front end developer & designer from Nantes, France. He has created a set of Ready to use SVG icons for the web. All those icons are from free Dribbble ressources with the original link so you could download them. Simply click on the icon, and then you can… Continue reading Ready to Use SVG Icons from Dribbble
20 Useful Dribbble Tools for Designers
If you’re a graphic or web designer, then you definitely must bookmark all the websites in the list below! These are some awesome Dribbble tools for designers! You’ll find lots of freebies, design tools and downloadable graphic elements. Among the great Dribbble tools in this list are: online color pickers, Dribbble freebies compilation websites, apps… Continue reading 20 Useful Dribbble Tools for Designers
55 Stunning Freebies from Dribbble
Dribbble is awesome source of inspiration, cool stuff and useful elements. But what is the most awesome – there are tons of quality free stuff!I adore freebies from Dribbble! You can find there cool designed UI kits, icons, buttons, forms, patterns, textures, psd files and so on. All kinds of graphic materials are waiting for… Continue reading 55 Stunning Freebies from Dribbble