Tag: Find

Taking Control of Your Design Leadership Role: A Comprehensive Guide

If you’re a design leader, I bet you’ve had moments where you’ve questioned your role and impact. You’re not alone. Many UX professionals, including myself, have found themselves in leadership positions with high expectations but little clarity on how to navigate their responsibilities. This disconnect can lead to frustration, ineffective design efforts, and missed opportunities… Continue reading Taking Control of Your Design Leadership Role: A Comprehensive Guide

The Biggest Challenges Practitioners Encounter Working in UX

Summary:  We surveyed 126 practitioners, uncovering the biggest challenges in the UX field. Almost all responses originated from the same core problem: perception of UX. The Best — and Worst — Things About UX Earlier this year, we surveyed UX practitioners through our newsletter and LinkedIn channel. We asked respondents to reflect on their careers and answer… Continue reading The Biggest Challenges Practitioners Encounter Working in UX

Icon Usability: When and How to Evaluate Digital Icons

Summary:  Effective icons depend on recognizability and interpretation. Evaluate them with methods appropriate for your specific research questions Icon Usability Effective icons can increase usability by helping users understand and interpret available functionality. However, when poorly implemented, they harm usability and introduce confusion. In Digital Icons That Work, I emphasize the importance of two variables… Continue reading Icon Usability: When and How to Evaluate Digital Icons

How to Find and Prepare Images for Photo Manipulation

How to Prepare Images Whether your assets are stock photography, 3D assets, or Gen AI, the ways in which you edit and composite them are all going to be the same, so let’s jump right into preparing the images. Although I don’t recommend Generative AI to make any creative decisions, I do use the generative… Continue reading How to Find and Prepare Images for Photo Manipulation

How to Find a Pantone Color in Photoshop

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Today we’ll take a look at how to find a Pantone color in Photoshop. If you’re a graphic designer or someone who works with colors, you probably know the importance of using the right color for your projects. Luckily, Photoshop has all of the Pantone colors built… Continue reading How to Find a Pantone Color in Photoshop

15 Tips & Tricks All InDesign Users Should Know

Learn how to enhance your Adobe InDesign skills with these 15 essential tips and tricks. From shortcuts to lesser-known features, you’ll learn how to streamline your design process and create professional-level graphics in no time. Discover how to generate QR codes, create visually stunning designs by masking letters, and animate assets for interactive PDFs. If you’re… Continue reading 15 Tips & Tricks All InDesign Users Should Know

Affinity Publisher for Beginners (Landing Page)

1. How to Use the Affinity Publisher Interface 1.1 Introduction to the Course Watch Video Lesson (1 minute) ↗ Welcome to the Affinity Publisher course! We’re going to walk through some essential Publisher basics, while also creating a simple project. No experience is necessary, and by the end of the course, you’ll have created a… Continue reading Affinity Publisher for Beginners (Landing Page)

A radical opinion on ChatGPT

Churn out every idea and then burn it down. We need to talk about ChatGPT. Actually, not just ChatGPT but all AI-powered content development tools. Whether it’s text-to-image AIs, or those capable of generating conversational text, computer code, poetry, and more in response to prompts. Artificial Intelligence has been chipping at creatives for a while, and this… Continue reading A radical opinion on ChatGPT

How to Change the Color of Clothing in Photoshop

If you want to learn how to change the color of clothes in Photoshop, in this tutorial I’ll show you a very simple method that works for all colors—even for changing a black shirt into a white shirt! What You’ll Learn in This Photoshop Tutorial How to change the color of clothes in Photoshop … Continue reading How to Change the Color of Clothing in Photoshop

How to find your designer self — and understand how YOU approach design

How to find your designer self — And understand how YOU approach design We all know the feeling. The identity crisis that comes with being a designer is not easy to overcome. Somehow we are solving problems for others all the time, but when it comes to ourselves it feels impossible. The good news is you already have… Continue reading How to find your designer self — and understand how YOU approach design

10+ Best HTML Templates for NFT Websites 2022

Everything related to cryptocurrency and NFTs are extremely popular right now, which has motivated a lot of people to jump into the industry quickly. Because of this, the desire to make a website for promoting or selling NFTs is strong. Perhaps you want to make your own NFT marketplace? Or maybe you simply wish to… Continue reading 10+ Best HTML Templates for NFT Websites 2022

15 Best Lingerie, Swimwear, and Bikini Shopify Themes 2022

Creating an online store is an excellent way to reach more customers. And what better platform to create an online store with than Shopify? Shopify is easy to use and allows you to build an online store quickly — without any coding.  What’s more, there are numerous Shopify themes available for online stores that have… Continue reading 15 Best Lingerie, Swimwear, and Bikini Shopify Themes 2022

How to Build a UIkit Lightbox With Dot Navigation

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Have you ever worked with the UIkit front-end framework? Its current version at the time of writing is 3.9.4, and in the next few months, YOOtheme (the team behind it) plan to release v4. This isn’t the first time I’ve written about UIkit; some years ago, while still… Continue reading How to Build a UIkit Lightbox With Dot Navigation

Where to Find the Best Avatar Graphics, Or Simply Create Your Own

November 24, 2021 by Sangalang Kristine Leave a Comment An avatar is a digital representation of a person or a user on a platform. Avatars are normally used in gaming, it is always fun to see a digitized version of yourself, right? Avatar graphics are limited in the past. This means that there are often… Continue reading Where to Find the Best Avatar Graphics, Or Simply Create Your Own

15 Best Web Fonts That Look Great at Small Sizes

Beautiful web fonts aren’t particularly difficult to find. A quick search will undoubtedly turn up a number of attractive typefaces that will complement your website’s look and messaging. However, many of these fonts tend to have very specific use cases. For instance, a wide font may be perfect for header text but would work poorly… Continue reading 15 Best Web Fonts That Look Great at Small Sizes

30 Best Handwritten Fonts

Calling all font lovers with a great eye for detail! This collection of incredible premium assets features 30 stunning handwritten script fonts you’ll want to download today! A beautiful font can make or break your design. And handwritten calligraphy fonts often add a certain level of charm unmatched by other font styles. This cool handwritten… Continue reading 30 Best Handwritten Fonts

31+ Best Brush Fonts (Script, Paint, and More!)

Find the best brush fonts handcrafted by pro designers. Check out this list for great inspiration. 33 Best Brush Fonts (Script, Paint, and More!) You can achieve wonders with a spectacular brush font. They make the perfect addition to any wedding invitation or a compelling header for your website. Handcrafted with expertise, these top brush… Continue reading 31+ Best Brush Fonts (Script, Paint, and More!)

42 Best Web Fonts (Ready to Download and Use)

Looking for cool fonts for web design or some new web fonts to use on your website? In this article, we’ll take a look at some serif web fonts, sans serif web fonts, and other stylish fonts you can use on your website today. Whether you’re looking for the best web body fonts or some… Continue reading 42 Best Web Fonts (Ready to Download and Use)

Exciting New Tools for Designers, January 2021

The new year is often packed with resolutions. Make the most of those goals and resolve to design better, faster, and more efficiently with some of these new tools and resources. Here’s what new for designers this month. Radix UI Radix UI is an open-source UI component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, January 2021

Observed tensions in the user experience design field progression

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Observed tensions in the user experience career progression I’ve met user experience designers that are happy doing what they love with a strong sense of mission to change the world. I've also seen many of us going through an existential identity crisis with comparable intensity due to the vagueness of… Continue reading Observed tensions in the user experience design field progression

Starting Your Own Web Design Business

December 3, 2020 by Spyre Studios Running your own web design business is a big step for any freelance designer or developer. It doesn’t only allow you to showcase your skills, but it could actually serve as a bridge for bigger clients and even more opportunities in your field, especially if you managed to show… Continue reading Starting Your Own Web Design Business

9 Productivity Tips Everyone Studying Online Should Use

If you want to succeed in online learning, the key thing to keep in mind is that courses taught through the Internet are just as rigorous and intensive as traditional classes at a college. No matter how comfy you may feel, it takes discipline and dedication to stay productive. To help you get on the… Continue reading 9 Productivity Tips Everyone Studying Online Should Use

How to stand out on Twitter using color theory

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Standing out on Twitter can be hard for newcomers. You can get better results by only choosing a color for your entire content. I analyzed +200 Twitter profiles to find what color performs better. What color should you choose? #TwitterInColors According to my research, this is the portcetange of usage: Yellow: 25.92% ||||| Black: 22.22% ||||… Continue reading How to stand out on Twitter using color theory