4 tips to take your school design projects to the next level

Courtesy of Green Chameleon from unsplash.com. Having attended public portfolio review events as well as getting a good dose of portfolio critique myself, I’ve noticed a few patterns in feedback — particularly about projects coming from school and bootcamps. While I haven’t attended a UX design bootcamp or gone back for a Master’s degree (yet), I’ve jotted… Continue reading 4 tips to take your school design projects to the next level

Maximizing Marketing Videos (Tips & Tricks)

If you are a growing brand or business who want to engage your target audience, creating a marketing video is one sure-fire way to propel your business forward. Visual content is a key factor in connecting and reaching out to customers at a much deeper level. With the proliferation of online video content, you need… Continue reading Maximizing Marketing Videos (Tips & Tricks)

Planguru: Free UI kit for event and planning apps

Planguru is a free UI Kit for Sketch and Photoshop that you can use to get started with an event or planning app. Planguru includes 18 beautifully designed screens and a bunch of components covering many necessities for an app of that kind: a calendar for scheduling events, a group chat, notification system and more. Nice… Continue reading Planguru: Free UI kit for event and planning apps

The state of UX in Colombia, 2018

The local UX scene Medellín I’m pleased and humbled to announce that I’ve just become the Local Leader of IDF Medellín at the Interaction Design Foundation. This means that, in the coming months, I’ll be taking up the responsibility (and pleasure) of building a vibrant and meaningful community of UX Designers in Medellín and helping the… Continue reading The state of UX in Colombia, 2018

How to Build Own Mobile App For Conferences?

Nowadays it’s possible to find a mobile app for any purpose. Need to book a hotel? Just a few taps and you can choose from hundreds of them from all over the world. Decided to organize a party but forgot about snacks? Fifteen minutes and a delivery guy will appear on your doorstep with a… Continue reading How to Build Own Mobile App For Conferences?

Freelance Web Designers: 3 Delightfully Easy Ways to Increase Your Productivity

Posted · Category: Best Collections Have you been struggling with bouts of procrastination and lack of focus? Maybe it appears hard for you to find a way to make some positive changes in your work habits? Then take heart! It’s not as difficult as you might have been led to believe. It is possible to… Continue reading Freelance Web Designers: 3 Delightfully Easy Ways to Increase Your Productivity

Using the UX process to create a date planning app — and a happy couple.

UX case study for Concept project WeDate App Methods Concept mapping, Storyboard, User flow, Wireframes, Paper prototyping Tools Marvel User research- Asking the right questions. On my second day of my General Assembly UX Immersive course I was tasked with creating an app that solved a problem for the person sitting beside me. I began… Continue reading Using the UX process to create a date planning app — and a happy couple.

Human Centered Automation

Embraer 190 Flight Deck Redundancy is one of the ways for develop error resistant design, every important system have a backup (sometime backups) operation alternatives. It’s is also true for human actions, that’s why we have this pilot plus co-pilot operation. In the past we had 5 humans operating a cockpit, as automation increases, less people… Continue reading Human Centered Automation

Creating GraphQL Subscriptions in Express ― Scotch

Introduction This section focuses on creating realtime applications using GraphQL, and the best way to achieve that is through subscriptions. The code in this section is a continuation of Part 1 of this series, and I would advise going through it before moving forward. This is a critical and essential part to future implementation of… Continue reading Creating GraphQL Subscriptions in Express ― Scotch

The 6 Elements of an Effective Logo

The signature of your company, a strong logo has the power to make people think your name without actually seeing the words. It’s your symbol, and as such it should immediately telegraph what you stand for in the minds of your customers. This is why it’s important to consider the attributes of your primary customer… Continue reading The 6 Elements of an Effective Logo

Draggable: A lightweight drag & drop JS library

Draggable is a modern, responsive and lightweight drag & drop library released by Shopify. The library abstracts native browser events into a complex API to create a custom user experience. It’s the ideal choice for adding slick native-feeling drag and drop behaviour to your web apps thanks to a lot of features such as fast DOM reordering,… Continue reading Draggable: A lightweight drag & drop JS library

Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Components

Building single-page applications is an art, with many impressive frameworks to choose from. One of the most intuitive and widely used frameworks for building both web and mobile applications is Angular. Today, Angular 10 is out, and there are many impressive features. However, you need to master components before you dig deep.  First Things First:… Continue reading Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Components

Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events

Hello, old friend. We all reach a point in our careers when we start speaking in public. Designers, in particular, are pretty good at organizing conferences, panels, meetups, livestreams and other forms of publicly sharing knowledge with fellow designers. Speaking at design events is not only important for the design community as a whole, but also… Continue reading Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events

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

Three Facebook Ad Tips That’ll Help You Increase Conversions

If you’ve spent any time on a marketing or design blog lately (other than this one), you’ve probably noticed a lot of buzz around Facebook advertising. Something like, “10 Ways Facebook Can Get Your Products to Fly Off the Shelf,” and other grand promises. Unfortunately, a lot of these posts lack any real value. Most… Continue reading Three Facebook Ad Tips That’ll Help You Increase Conversions

Creative Photography Business Cards | Design

Creative, modern and clean photography business card templates for professional photographers and designers. You can easily customize and use these cards for photo studio, personal identity, name cards, calling cards, launches, events, invites, promotion and more. All business cards are fully customizable and well organized in Photoshop .PSD files. All texts are editable and colors can be easily change… Continue reading Creative Photography Business Cards | Design

The best European design events and conferences in 2017

September 2017 Reasons to: Design, Code & Create Design, Code, Create & Come Together Reasons to: is the award winning 3 day international conference with a festival vibe, held annually in Brighton UK, every first Mon, Tue, Weds of every September. Each year the very best international creative and developer speakers take to the stage to… Continue reading The best European design events and conferences in 2017

The Evolution of Minimalism [Infographics]

May 1, 2017 by Spyre Studios Are you aware of the role that artists like Lichtenstein and Rothko played in the development of the minimalist movement? The act of cutting back to the core essence of something actually has roots in high art. While the concept definitely draws on tenets Buddhism and has been translated… Continue reading The Evolution of Minimalism [Infographics]

Top 8 Magento Resources to Sharpen your Skills

Magento is currently among the top E-Commerce platforms out there and is being used actively by the largest retailers on the internet due to the many benefits it provides. Not only does it serve as a highly versatile, E-Commerce system, it is relatively simple to understand with an abundance of resources available for that purpose.… Continue reading Top 8 Magento Resources to Sharpen your Skills

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

Amazing Digital Illustrated Posters by Aleksey Rico

Today we are featuring digital illustrator and graphic designer Aleksey Soloviev, with his amazing poster illustration artwork. He was from Izhevsk, Russian Federation. He love to do posters, logotypes and illustration. In this posts, we will showcase his best work for your inspiration. You can catch him behance.net/AlekseyRico. You may be interested in the following modern related articles as well.… Continue reading Amazing Digital Illustrated Posters by Aleksey Rico

25 Fresh Creative HTML5 Website Templates (PSD & HTML)

New responsive HTML5 website templates are suitable for any type of business, portfolio, freelancers, travel, creative agency, corporate magazine, Blog, e-Commerce and mobile application sites. All web templates are easy to customize and hundreds of icons can be added dynamically and by using shortcodes. Responsive HTML5 Templates are perfect for landing pages with multi-pages and one page options. You… Continue reading 25 Fresh Creative HTML5 Website Templates (PSD & HTML)