Tag: great

7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX

A great user experience starts with the designer. You have to imagine and create something that people will want to touch and engage with, time and time again. Sounds easy, right? The key to delighting users is to think like one. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel with every new design project; use tools and… Continue reading 7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX

Exploring WordPress Managers: ManageWP, CMS Commander & MainWP

In the previous part of this series, we talked about two popular WordPress managers out in the field. In this second part, we’ll be checking out a few more of them. Also, there will be one bonus tip about a core WordPress feature that may help you manage your (or your clients’) websites. So, without… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: ManageWP, CMS Commander & MainWP

Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP

When you have a lot of clients with WordPress-powered websites, or a lot of WordPress projects that you work on, it might get messy to deal with all those updates and maintenance. Logging in to each website with different usernames and passwords, then moderating comments, updating plugins and themes, maybe occasionally (or periodically) making database… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP

25 Beautiful Card-Based WordPress Themes

Card-based designs got popular with the rise of Pinterest in the realm of social media. The image sharing website’s card-based website had led to a rising trend of cards in user interfaces of websites and mobile applications. It is an excellent solution for the specific demands of mobile devices (which are typically smaller) and interfaces,… Continue reading 25 Beautiful Card-Based WordPress Themes

The Best New Portfolio Sites, February 2016

Welcome everyone to February’s portfolio roundup. It’s time to fall in love with all-new work, by all-new designers. Yes, I went there. So, when looking at this list, I recommend that you take inspiration from the good ideas, and simply ignore the bad. All right, let’s do this… Taiki Kato Taiki Kato’s portfolio proclaims him… Continue reading The Best New Portfolio Sites, February 2016

20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources

As a developer, your design skills may not be that great. But you want your applications to look great. Right? In this quick tip, I list 20 graphic resources for iOS you can find on GraphicRiver. Not only will they save you time, they will make your applications look great. 1. Application Icons The application… Continue reading 20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources

Top New WordPress Themes of 2016

2016 is already and off and running. It’s time to take action!  Are you wanting to kickstart your business and launch a new website? Or is your current site falling behind and in need of a fresh design reboot? It would take some heavy lifting to design a WordPress theme on your own. It’s a… Continue reading Top New WordPress Themes of 2016

Designers Freebie Pouch of February, 2016

Designers Freebie Pouch is a monthly collection of the latest design freebies from all over the internet. In this pouch, you will find the freshest design resources like icons, mockups, UI kits, textures, templates and much more. Use these freebies to learn new techniques, bootstrap your next project or build your business, but always remember… Continue reading Designers Freebie Pouch of February, 2016

Developing a Static Site Generator Workflow

Nobody likes finding bugs. Even worse, no one enjoys finding bugs while shopping for digital products. That is why, as a company providing a web-based bug tracking tool to tens of thousands of users, we have to ensure a bug-free environment. With our increasing number of web pages – and therefore increasing lines of code… Continue reading Developing a Static Site Generator Workflow

How to Grow Your App Team

You can find a lot of online resources that help you on your way to make a successful app. Once you reach that point, you’re looking to retain or even expand on that success. This is the moment that you, a single person who has built an app, grows into something bigger, a team that continues… Continue reading How to Grow Your App Team

Add Gold/Silver Effects in One Click

Add Gold/Silver Effects in One Click 5.00/5 (100.00%) 3 votes Download this free set of Gold and Silver textures by SparkleStock. These Photoshop styles let you add gold/silver/rose-gold textures to your layer in one click. They’re a great way to make text look fancy without doing much. Examples How to Use After downloading the file, extract the… Continue reading Add Gold/Silver Effects in One Click

Illustrating the Web: deconstructing the trend

Illustrations are taking over the Web. Designers are creating websites with everything from full-screen illustrations to hand-drawn divots that are used throughout projects. It’s a trend that’s likely to keep growing because illustrations make a design feel custom (even if it’s not). Here’s how to make the most of them in your design. Website illustration… Continue reading Illustrating the Web: deconstructing the trend

CSS And Javascript Animation Libraries To Create Awesome Effects

Velocity.js Velocity is an animation engine with the same API as jQuery’s animate(). It works with and without jQuery. It’s incredibly fast, and it features color animation, transforms, loops, easings, SVG support, and scrolling. It is the best of jQuery and CSS transitions combined. Vivus Vivus is a lightweight JavaScript class (with no dependencies) that… Continue reading CSS And Javascript Animation Libraries To Create Awesome Effects

Redesign concepts for popular websites #1

Ebay Redesign by Tintin s. “I tried to redesign Ebay but I realised this is just make it cleaner, I expect to make it all new but I am not pro with ux. so this is quiet play safe. If you want to critic or share some idea how to redesign, don’t hesitate to comment,… Continue reading Redesign concepts for popular websites #1

20 Templates For Creating High-Fidelity Wireframes

Wireframing can be something quick and dirty, or it can be a large task that takes time to perfect. So here are some wireframe templates to help you save ton of time. With these templates you can easily create effective mockups and prototype of your web and mobile apps in no time. This is the… Continue reading 20 Templates For Creating High-Fidelity Wireframes

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

International Artist Feature: Germany

For this article in the international artist series we turn to Germany, featuring seven illustrators and designers who create fantastic work from digital paintings to textile design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Cloudy Thurstag Cloudy is an illustrator and designer… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Germany

An Introduction to Intel RealSense Technology for Game Developers

Intel RealSense technology pairs a 3D camera and microphone array with an SDK that allows you to implement gesture tracking, 3D scanning, facial expression analysis, voice recognition, and more. In this article, I’ll look at what this means for games, and explain how you can get started using it as a game developer. What is… Continue reading An Introduction to Intel RealSense Technology for Game Developers

Web Designers: Roll up Your Sleeves and Sketch!

Let’s talk about why you, as a web designer, should be using pens and pencils more often. I’m going to give you some tips, tool suggestions, and plenty of reasons to roll your sleeves up and sketch! Step Away From the Computer The design process tends to isolate designers from the rest of the team, meaning… Continue reading Web Designers: Roll up Your Sleeves and Sketch!

A Collection Of Useful Photoshop Typography Tutorials

Type art is popular at the moment for all sorts of reasons – and it’s a highly versatile skill to have. You can use illustrated lettering in projects ranging from posters to brochures – making it a great technique to add to your creative toolset. But beware: type art is so popular at the moment… Continue reading A Collection Of Useful Photoshop Typography Tutorials

20 Free Vectors to Use in Your Designs

If you’ve been searching far and wide for high-quality free vector graphics, a quick look through the superb selection should convince you that your efforts have finally been rewarded. Most of these are royalty free and many are yours for the asking. Vector graphicsserve a multiplicity of purposes.You can use them tohighlight your brand. Some… Continue reading 20 Free Vectors to Use in Your Designs

How To Create Impressive Websites

Image source: reuters.tv[2] As we already mentioned, ‘wow’ is the word we want our users to say when they open our website. It shows that they are amazed by what we’ve done and that our work was successful. You could appreciate them liking the site or addressing it as nice, but it is much better… Continue reading How To Create Impressive Websites

Inspiring Sites of the Week: Best Portfolio Websites

217 Views January 18, 2016 Nis, Serbia Inspiration 1 min read Inspiring Sites of the Week is a weekly series where we feature the latest and hottest websites targeting the design world from around the globe. If it’s creative, unusual, has great functionality and is built using the cutting-edge technology we feature them here. Get inspired… Continue reading Inspiring Sites of the Week: Best Portfolio Websites