2020 has rung in the new decade, and what a decade it has been so far! It has brought with it a new evolution of design within the graphic design world. Almost as if marking the start of a new era, new trends, ideas and looks have started appearing and making themselves seen and heard… Continue reading Biggest Graphic Design Trends for 2020
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Case Study: 8 Design Tips That Increased My Ecommerce Conversions By 42%
When it comes to increasing sales for your ecommerce store, there are 3 levers you can pull: You can increase your average order value; You can increase the amount of traffic to your site; You can increase your conversion rate. While all of the above are important, the cheapest, most effective way to grow your… Continue reading Case Study: 8 Design Tips That Increased My Ecommerce Conversions By 42%
How to Create a Stylish Magazine Layout in Affinity Publisher
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a simple and stylish magazine spread using Affinity Publisher, the great-value and easy-to-use alternative to Adobe InDesign. Affinity Publisher templates are great foundations for creating your own unique magazine designs—here you’ll learn how to create an editable magazine spread for an online magazine,… Continue reading How to Create a Stylish Magazine Layout in Affinity Publisher
How to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and SEO
Contentful; Webster’s Dictionary defines “contentful” as… not found. Clearly someone made up this word, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. The world of user experience metrics is moving quickly, so new terminology is needed. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of a number of metrics measuring the render time of content on a… Continue reading How to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and SEO
A Quick Guide to Figma’s Image Fill Settings
In this tutorial you’ll learn all about Figma’s image fill settings. There are 4 in total, and each one allows you to manipulate an object’s image fill differently. So with that said, let’s take a look! Image Fill Settings in Figma Here’s a complete video version of this quick tutorial. Follow along with us over on… Continue reading A Quick Guide to Figma’s Image Fill Settings
Photoshop Basics: How To Rotate Text in Photoshop
July 15, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine Not all edited images require texts. However, there are many instances when texts are unavoidable. This is why learning how to rotate text in Photoshop is important. The addition of texts can be used when creating advertisements or flyers. It adds substance to the image and creates an identity… Continue reading Photoshop Basics: How To Rotate Text in Photoshop
Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2020
Some of the changes we are seeing with where we work are starting to pop up in the type of new tools made for designers and developers. More tools with remote collaboration as a key feature are increasing in popularity. (You’ll find a few of those here.) Here’s what new for designers this month. Webdesign… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Affinity Designer Brushes
What You’ll Be Creating Welcome to this Affinity Designer tutorial, in which you’ll learn everything you need to know about Affinity Designer brushes, from how to create and install brushes to how to use Photoshop and Illustrator brushes in Affinity Designer. You’ll also learn where you can find Affinity Designer halftone brushes and other valuable… Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Affinity Designer Brushes
8 Design Secrets of B2B Vs B2C Websites
Web design clients come from a wide variety of backgrounds. One day, you’ll be designing a portfolio website for a voiceover artist, the next you’ll be creating a comprehensive ecommerce site for a leading retailer. In an ideal world, you’ll get to a point where you eventually specialize in a niche. However, you’ll need to… Continue reading 8 Design Secrets of B2B Vs B2C Websites
Photoshop Basics: How to Deselect in Photoshop
July 6, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine How to deselect in Photoshop is a basic, but essential, skill. The Select Tool on Photoshop allows the users to choose specific areas of an image. These selected parts of an image may be edited, zoomed, or deleted. Basic Photoshop is a much-needed skill in photography. Image Source: Pixabay… Continue reading Photoshop Basics: How to Deselect in Photoshop
10 Tips for a Content Marketing Plan to Expand Your Business
15 Shares Content marketing is a marketing strategy plan that focuses on creating, sharing, and using relevant and engaging content. The purpose of content marketing is to attract users and clients to contribute to the sales and revenue of a firm. According to Statista, in 2019, a third of small businesses used content marketing as… Continue reading 10 Tips for a Content Marketing Plan to Expand Your Business
What is the Android SDK and How to Start Using it
Android SDK is a software development kit developed by Google for the Android platform. The Android SDK allows you to create Android apps, and you don’t need to be an expert to use it. In this tutorial, I’ll explain what the Android SDK is and how to get started with it. Android SDK comes bundled… Continue reading What is the Android SDK and How to Start Using it
Photoshop Basics: How to Zoom in Photoshop
July 1, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine How to zoom in photoshop is one of the most basic, yet important, know-how when learning how to use Photoshop. Usually zooming an image allows for detailed editing. Or simply put, to get a better view of the portion of an image being edited. Please remember one important thing: simply… Continue reading Photoshop Basics: How to Zoom in Photoshop
3 Essential Design Trends, July 2020
The biggest trend we’re talking about this month started at WWDC as Apple provided a glimpse of what’s coming next for their operating systems. This time around there’s a distinct design element. Did you catch it? Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. Text Highlights and Underlines There’s always been an unwritten rule in… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, July 2020
How to Enhance Your Website Layouts With SVG Shapes
In this new tutorial, we’ll get rid of the usual boring rectangular boxes and learn to build a landing page full of complex SVG shapes. We’ll even enhance it with Bootstrap styles as well as a full-screen background video. The best way to understand what we’re going to build is by checking out the demo, so it’s… Continue reading How to Enhance Your Website Layouts With SVG Shapes
10 Tools I Can’t Design Without
No matter how skilled you are as a designer, you need tools. A surgeon can’t operate without a scalpel; the same goes for designers. To get the job done effectively, you need to right tools in your arsenal. Tools certainly don’t make the craftsman, but they do make your job easier (and mostly fun). There… Continue reading 10 Tools I Can’t Design Without
5 Open Source Website Builders for the Newbie Web Designer
In this day and age of the internet, building a basic webpage does not require too much technical know-how. Usually, there are multiple opensource ‘drag-and-drop’ website builders that are available within everyone’s reach. In fact, individuals who are “non-techie” who wish to create their own blogs or pages may use page builders easily. A number… Continue reading 5 Open Source Website Builders for the Newbie Web Designer
50+ Best Heart Graphics (Vector, Clip Art, Pixel)
Hearts are among the most popular of graphics, so today we’re focusing on heart graphics. This heart shape vector is just one of many heart graphics you can find at Envato Elements Here comes a whopping list of over 50 of the coolest heart graphics to be found at Envato Elements. Enjoy! Heart Graphics at Envato Elements (Unlimited Downloads) If you love… Continue reading 50+ Best Heart Graphics (Vector, Clip Art, Pixel)
20 Best Gay Pride Wallpaper Designs to Show Your Support
As a commemoration of the Stonewall Riots that ended in 1969, the LGBTQ+ community has always celebrated pride month in June. Changing web page design with gay pride wallpapers is a great way to support pride month. There are many reasons why pride month is celebrated all over the world. But the most important would… Continue reading 20 Best Gay Pride Wallpaper Designs to Show Your Support
How to Design an Excellent Sci-fi Book Cover
They say, “don’t judge a book by its cover”. While this may be good advice as a metaphor, the truth is, when it comes to actual books, we do judge them by their covers. The cover is the first thing we see on the shelf and one of the main things that draw in and… Continue reading How to Design an Excellent Sci-fi Book Cover
Perfect Your Feedback Process With BugHerd
When you’re designing a website, the single most important thing you can do is gather strong feedback, so your team knows what’s approved, what needs improvement, and what direction to take the project. Unfortunately, the most important group to gather feedback from, your stakeholders, is also all-too-often the least technically able. BugHerd should be your… Continue reading Perfect Your Feedback Process With BugHerd
33 Best Facebook Covers Using a Facebook Cover Photo Maker
Your Facebook cover photo occupies one of the most noticeable areas on your Facebook page—the top third of the page. Whether you’re just using your page to connect to friends and family or you’re a business looking to raise brand awareness, generate leads, or close deals, it’s critical that you know how to use and… Continue reading 33 Best Facebook Covers Using a Facebook Cover Photo Maker
3 Essential Design Trends, June 2020
Sometimes website design trends are strong and hit you in the face; others are subtle and require a second look. This month, you’ll get a little of each. The first trend in our collection is a strong and subtle, trend No. 2 is mostly subtle unless you have a keen eye for typography, and trend… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, June 2020
Quick Tip: How to Create a Simple Fade Effect on Scroll
In today’s super quick tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a simple, yet useful scroll effect. As we scroll within the page, the visibility of two elements will change depending on the scroll position. As the saying goes: “a picture is worth a thousand words”, so let’s have a look at what we’re going to create (scroll… Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Create a Simple Fade Effect on Scroll