5 Trends In IT Outsourcing (and How To Capitalize Them)

The pandemic has certainly revolutionized the way we all work. It turned remote working into a new standard of doing business, forced companies to reinvent themselves and provide new services, and even changed how people relate to businesses everywhere. All of those will surely have lasting effects that we can fully fathom today. There are… Continue reading 5 Trends In IT Outsourcing (and How To Capitalize Them)

20 Freshest Web Designs, September 2020

This month we’re going big and bold. Oversized type, strong colors, in-your-face layouts, and little touches of playfulness exude confidence and make a statement. There are some quieter moments too, with thoughtful illustration and more gentle use of color. Animation still features strongly in the details, with circles proving popular in rollover effects. Enjoy. Fledge… Continue reading 20 Freshest Web Designs, September 2020

How to Choose the Best Font for your Website

5 Shares Designing websites is a very intense process that entails lots of hard works. There are various things that you need to think about, such as the logo, color scheme, layout, text designs, and navigation. But the trickiest of designing a website perhaps lies in getting all the elements together to come up with… Continue reading How to Choose the Best Font for your Website

When Does Emotional Design Cross a Line?

Designing for emotion in and of itself is not a problem. Websites are bound to elicit an emotional reaction from visitors, even if it’s as simple as them feeling at ease because of the soft, pastel color palette you’ve designed the site with. I don’t want to outright villainize emotional design. Unless there is some… Continue reading When Does Emotional Design Cross a Line?

Lessons from setting up an internal research participant panel at Atlassian

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Sign up page for the Atlassian Research Group My first UX Research role was at a small digital agency, where the discipline was still new. Sales teams would frequently sell clients research, without fully budgeting in participant recruitment. Shoestring budgets meant I often had to find my participants using creative, scrappy… Continue reading Lessons from setting up an internal research participant panel at Atlassian

Web Design: 35 Creative UI/UX Websites for Inspiration

44 Shares Website landing page should be aesthetically pleasing, clean and elegant. It should be simple to understand yet it must have all the information that the website wants to convey to the visitor of the website. It should appeal to the visitor and the design and colors used should be attractive and related to… Continue reading Web Design: 35 Creative UI/UX Websites for Inspiration

Comic Sans: The Font We Love to Hate? Plus Fonts Similar to Comic Sans

Derided by design fans but loved by millions of Microsoft users, Comic Sans is one of the most popular—and divisive—fonts ever created. Since its release in 1994, Comic Sans has been a consistent feature of everyday life, with the typeface being used on signage, menus, logos… and even tombstones.  Given the widespread popularity of the… Continue reading Comic Sans: The Font We Love to Hate? Plus Fonts Similar to Comic Sans

15 Best Free Twitch Overlays (Including a Free Twitch Overlay Maker)

Look, we get it. Money is tight, but you’re getting into streaming and need a well-designed Twitch stream overlay for your channel. Find the right Twitch Overlay Template for you at Placeit.net Well, we’ve got the perfect solution for you. We’re going to share how you can find top-quality free Twitch overlay templates at Placeit… Continue reading 15 Best Free Twitch Overlays (Including a Free Twitch Overlay Maker)

Mobile App UI Design: Latest Trends

About half of all web traffic now comes from mobile devices. To ensure that they are providing a good experience for their customers, businesses have had to change how they present themselves online. Some have chosen to optimize their websites for mobile devices, while others have decided to develop separate mobile apps. If you’ve decided… Continue reading Mobile App UI Design: Latest Trends

How to Design the Perfect Developer Portfolio

As a freelance web developer, how many clients do you get from your website? If you’re like most, you’re probably lucky to get one client every 2-3 months. Unfortunately, that’s very common. These days it’s not enough just to be a web developer if you want to make really good money. You have to be… Continue reading How to Design the Perfect Developer Portfolio

Get Started With WPBakery (Formerly Visual Composer)

Writing HTML, CSS, and PHP code to build or customize a WordPress site can be incredibly time-consuming, even for an experienced web developer. That’s probably why much of the WordPress community has moved on to using page-builder plugins instead. WPBakery Page Builder (formerly called Visual Composer) is the most flexible and feature-rich WordPress page-builder plugin you… Continue reading Get Started With WPBakery (Formerly Visual Composer)

The Latest Research for Web Designers, September 2020

In today’s look at the latest research for web designers, we’re going to look at studies and reports from Payoneer, Robert Half, Hootsuite, and Contentsquare to see what they have to say about things like: Current freelancer demand Web designer earning potential A change in ecommerce shopping trends Unseen content rates 1. There’s Light At… Continue reading The Latest Research for Web Designers, September 2020

The evolution of style guides to AI writing assistants

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Style guides have a long history in the writing process. They’ve always affected more than what counts as good content. They affected our writing process and behaviors, our sense of community, even our egos. As AI pushes the style guide another step, how will it push us along too? Stacking style manuals… Continue reading The evolution of style guides to AI writing assistants

30 Beautiful Modern Script Fonts (Typefaces for 2020)

Your designs aren’t complete without the perfect font! Find amazing script styles in this  collection for 2020. 30 Beautiful Modern Script Fonts There’s nothing more satisfying than pairing the right script font with a design. It’s a simple yet effective trick to take your work to the next level. And script typefaces are a perfect… Continue reading 30 Beautiful Modern Script Fonts (Typefaces for 2020)

50 Best Sans-Serif Fonts For Graphic Designers

73 Shares Due to living in a digital age, we seldom see handwritten or casual script on websites. However, that is gradually changing. The sans-serif fonts are very useful font style and typeface that is now being used in numerous design projects. This typeface is greatly used in casual script, despite not being used in… Continue reading 50 Best Sans-Serif Fonts For Graphic Designers

25+ Best Free Distressed Fonts (& Grunge Fonts)

If you want to give your text a weathered look, use a grunge or distressed font. Depending on the context, these fonts can convey either an edgy urban vibe or a vintage style. Portico Urban Rough is just one of many awesome distressed fonts available at Envato Elements Check out this list of the 25+ best… Continue reading 25+ Best Free Distressed Fonts (& Grunge Fonts)

How to Make a Rap Album Cover Art (Using an Album Cover Maker)

If you’re an aspiring rap artist, independent rap label, or an MC spitting lyrics, at some point you’re going to need a cool album cover design to promote your work.  The Placeit album cover maker app offers a wide selection of album covers that you can customise in a matter of minutes to create amazing… Continue reading How to Make a Rap Album Cover Art (Using an Album Cover Maker)

24 Best jQuery Image Sliders

Add a full-featured and easy-to-implement jQuery image slider to your website to help you keep your visitors’ attention.  CodeCanyon offers some of the best jQuery image sliders available on the web for a low one-time payment. Slider Revolution is one of the best-selling jQuery image sliders available on CodeCanyon. Images are an integral part of… Continue reading 24 Best jQuery Image Sliders

What Is Art Nouveau?

The ornamental Art Nouveau design style emerged in France in the late 19th century and became widely popular across Europe, with the style applied to art, architecture, posters, jewellery, furniture, and textiles.  Alphonse Mucha’s artwork for Dance, 1898. Although Art Nouveau had fallen out of fashion by 1910, contemporary designers and illustrators are now revisiting… Continue reading What Is Art Nouveau?

What Font Looks Like Handwriting?

There is a multitude of fonts that look like handwriting available for free on the internet. Handwritten fonts are on trend right now and are commonly used in graphic design and web design.  These kinds of fonts are great for statement designs and pieces. Statement arts, web headers, and more. These kinds of handwritten fonts are… Continue reading What Font Looks Like Handwriting?

3 Essential Design Trends, August 2020

Do the lazy days have you longing for a new design technique to try? You are in luck. This month’s collection of essential design trends is packed with functional ideas to spruce up design projects. And all of them are fairly easy to accomplish and will give your project a modern – or intentionally old-school… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, August 2020

The dangers of emotive writing in a post-rational era

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Hot damn! We writers never had it so good — and we all know the reason why: the written word has never been as pervasive, powerful or emotionally loaded as it is today. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a copywriter, UX writer, journo, speech writer, influencer, blogger, swivel-eyed Facebook ranter or whatever. You’re… Continue reading The dangers of emotive writing in a post-rational era

How Custom Software Development Boosts Businesses

The demand for business software solutions isn’t something new. From supply chain management, operations, administration, analytics, and customer satisfaction, software is a required part of nearly every aspect of modern business. Without it, chaos and mismanagement run rampant. When it comes to technology, businesses have more diverse and complex needs today than they have ever… Continue reading How Custom Software Development Boosts Businesses

Important Skills Every Web Designer Needs

July 24, 2020 by Spyre Studios Learning web design skills can lead to a fulfilling and exciting career, especially if you’re a problem-solver or are creative. But it can seem overwhelming to get started, especially if you don’t know what skills you’ll need. If you’re wondering if this is the right career, it’s easier than… Continue reading Important Skills Every Web Designer Needs