Human-centric and user-centric design are two terms we often hear in the industry, though sometimes both designers and developers consider them to mean the same. User-centered design is something most of us aim to put high on our list of priorities; having the end-user in mind and reflecting this philosophy in our products. Human-centered design… Continue reading How Human Centric Web Design Improves Your Workflow
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The Best Free Script Fonts for Creating Vintage Logos
You have three options when it comes to creating a trendy vintage style logo or insignia: Buy a premium script font, draw your own or use a free font. The free option sounds great but it can be difficult picking out quality typefaces from the hoards of cheesy display fonts that litter free font libraries.… Continue reading The Best Free Script Fonts for Creating Vintage Logos
Building a Prelaunch “Coming Soon” Site with WordPress
While you might be tempted to keep your site offline prior to its completion, or hold off from creating a web presence until your product or service is ready, it might be a better idea to create a coming soon page to use during your prelaunch phase. Even you if think your site or project… Continue reading Building a Prelaunch “Coming Soon” Site with WordPress
45+ Free GUI Sets For Your Web and App Projects
Free GUI set are in high demand there days. A lot of web designers experience an increasing competition and everyone work hard to become the best of the best. With thousands of skilled designers online it is essential to stand out from the crowd and know how to work smarter than your competitors. Having the… Continue reading 45+ Free GUI Sets For Your Web and App Projects
Detect Browser CSS Support With @supports Rule
Since browsers have their own decision of what features to include, we web developers frequently have to identify if the browser supports particular features, then we fill in the gap using Polyfills (if required). The popular way of handling this kind of situation is by using Modernizr but do you know that we can also… Continue reading Detect Browser CSS Support With @supports Rule
30+ Websites Offering Free Icon Sets For Download
Free icon sets of high quality can be really useful for busy web designers to speed up the creative process. Icons play an important role in blog- and website design for attracting the attention of visitors to specific content, menu items and so forth. While there are tons of premium icons available for anyone willing… Continue reading 30+ Websites Offering Free Icon Sets For Download
Inspirational Showcase of iPhone App Website Designs
Websites for iPhone apps are amongst the best for discovering new trends, inspirational designs and clever effects. Their job is simply to promote and describe the purpose of its related app, which leaves the designer plenty of room for experimentation. Today’s web design showcase is a collection of some of the best app websites around,… Continue reading Inspirational Showcase of iPhone App Website Designs
Free Long Shadow Flat Icons
Looking for long shadow style icons? Good, then you came to the right place! Flat design has been continuing virtually unchallenged for some time now, and it’s started to develop sub-styles. One of the most popular new trends is long shadow design, and you’d have to have been living under a rock not to have… Continue reading Free Long Shadow Flat Icons
20 Posters with Inspirational Quotes for Designers
Inspiration, we all need it! Whether it comes when we look a someone else’s creative work or when we read some beautiful, inspirational quotes, the result is the same! If you love prints then you should have at least one of these quotes hanged up in your office. Which one of these posters with inspirational… Continue reading 20 Posters with Inspirational Quotes for Designers
Pros and Cons of Flat Design
There’s not denying that flat design is the big thing in design these days. It’s everywhere. And not just flat design, but now with almost flat design as well. The arguments about the validity and application of the style are raging. The super-trendy design style elicits an opinion from almost everyone. So let’s take a step back… Continue reading Pros and Cons of Flat Design
45 Fresh Web And Mobile UI Kits With PSD Files For Designer
In this post, we are showcasing an irresistible and great collection of free and fresh UI design kits especially for the designers. These wireframing and UI design kits come very handy for the designers when they want to mock-up a user interface. Web user interface, mobile user interface and wireframe kits are useful for the… Continue reading 45 Fresh Web And Mobile UI Kits With PSD Files For Designer
45 Free Photoshop Brushes
Brushes can save you some serious time when it comes to adding design flourishes, so we’ve rounded up our favourite free Photoshop brushes. The web is absolutely full of free Photoshop brushes – there are thousands of sites offering free brushes just a click away, but this makes it incredibly difficult to find good quality,… Continue reading 45 Free Photoshop Brushes
10 Wicked Freebies That Every Designer Should Download
Sometimes designing your own graphics from scratch can be a timely and daunting task, and going to the professionals can be very costly. In this post I have assembled an amazing collection of well designed free graphic elements that we do think are worth mentioning…for example; Flat icons, Flat design UI Kit, PSD website template… Continue reading 10 Wicked Freebies That Every Designer Should Download
20 Latest Retina Responsive WordPress Theme for 2013
Check out these latest 20 retina responsive wordpress themes from 2013. The responsive trend has been ongoing since 2012. It is now a pretty standard fare for any themes developed after 2012 to be have a responsive template. At the same time, iPad users have been growing exponentially, which requires wordpress themes to be retina… Continue reading 20 Latest Retina Responsive WordPress Theme for 2013
30 Free Colorful Vector Background Graphics
There are some colorful vector background graphic designs out there which are great for design inspiration, and sweet to use on your website background and other graphic design works. Vector Background having a good and suitable color theme on your Vector Design Background will give users a pleasing user experience while surfing through the designed. Colorful vector… Continue reading 30 Free Colorful Vector Background Graphics
Freebie: 7 Abstract Photoshop Actions
Plexiglass Photoshop Actions Preview Plexiglass is a set of Photoshop actions that adds abstract overlays to your photos. They’re great for posters, covers, or even as backgrounds for images. What’s cool about these actions is that you can resize or crop your image and the effects will update itself to fit your new image dimension.… Continue reading Freebie: 7 Abstract Photoshop Actions
Dominating Bold Type in Website Design: New Examples
What makes great website design great? Your answer will definitely vary: advanced animations, spectacular captivating photos, uncommon video intros, high-detailed artistic illustrations, flawless execution of popular styles, creative solutions and much more – all these aspects depend on kind and purpose of website itself, but there is undoubtedly one thing that you find in common… Continue reading Dominating Bold Type in Website Design: New Examples
12 Unique Freebie Graphics for Web Designers
New PSD and AI vector graphics are released online every day. Freebies have become a tremendous market themselves, gathering support from designers and developers alike. There are many freebie directories but it can be tough finding exactly what you need. In this article I would like to share a small collection of freebies which are… Continue reading 12 Unique Freebie Graphics for Web Designers
My Top Links of the Week for August 2nd 2013
I regularly post links to interesting design tutorials and articles over on my Twitter and Facebook accounts, but in case you missed them here’s a roundup of my top pickings from my recent browsing of the web. This week we have some great content from Vectips, PSDFan, Vectortuts+ and Codrops. The Fundamentals of Shape… Continue reading My Top Links of the Week for August 2nd 2013
20 Free High Quality PSDs and Actions for Creating Mock-ups
Presentation is a very important part of a project. It doesn’t matter if you have an awesome concept, if your presentation is poor the client may reject the idea. That is why we’ve searched for the best mock-ups to help you showcase your project in a professional way. These mock-ups are very useful for project… Continue reading 20 Free High Quality PSDs and Actions for Creating Mock-ups
10 Ways Of Giving Your Website The Retro Look
A few days ago, I was watching the The Artist, a 2011 movie shot in the style of a black and white silent film, which got a lot of critical acclaim and won seven Oscars. While the movie deserved all the accolades it received, one of the reasons for its popularity was that it took people… Continue reading 10 Ways Of Giving Your Website The Retro Look
Responsive Design / Retina Ready WordPress Themes
Responsive and Multipurpose WordPress themes with modern design are very flexible for all devices. Premium themes are more easily to customize with immense possibilities. All themes are 100% responsive, each element, shortcode, slider and fully responsive, you can disable/enable responsive mode from the theme options. Multi-purpose responsive design themes are best suited for magazine websites, blog websites, and users who want to showcase their work on a… Continue reading Responsive Design / Retina Ready WordPress Themes
Ornamental Nature – Websites featuring Handwritten Fonts
Hand drawn typography is no longer associated with doodles in average school workbook; it has firmly entrenched in print, graphic and web designs. Among all variety of adorned fonts that give opportunity not only represent content in the best light, but also play as a decorative tool – it is definitely undisputed leader. Unlike most of… Continue reading Ornamental Nature – Websites featuring Handwritten Fonts
Useful Hacks to Make WordPress Work Better
If you came here looking for ways to break into someone’s WordPress site, you choose the wrong definition of the word hack. No, this article is all about ways to make WordPress work better for you and your visitors by getting your hands dirty with WordPress’ actual code, you know the functions.php files, .htaccess and… Continue reading Useful Hacks to Make WordPress Work Better