UX portfolios, writing products, discoverability in touchscreens, and more UX this week

How to build a UX portfolio if I have never worked in UX? → A lot of user experience professionals who are active in our industry today have faced the question above when starting their career. Let’s be honest: it’s a bit unfair. “Portfolio” is a mandatory field in almost every job application form, regardless of… Continue reading UX portfolios, writing products, discoverability in touchscreens, and more UX this week

Different Strokes: How Brands Build Logos Using Typeface

The concept of something as intangible as a design calling consumers’ attention to a tangible product is a concept that goes back more than one hundred years with brands such as Pepsi, Valvoline and Jack Daniel’s. These logos of yesteryear might be largely unfamiliar, but the way designers chose how to construct a likable image… Continue reading Different Strokes: How Brands Build Logos Using Typeface

The Perfect Product Label

When trying to create the perfect product label, there are certain fundamental steps you must adhere to in order to reach the right design. Labels for products have to convey a lot of information while also appealing to customers and standing out from the competition so going through the right process to get the perfect… Continue reading The Perfect Product Label

Grab This Month’s (Nov.) FREE MultiConcept eCommerce Shop Template

AllStore is a premium HTML online ecommerce store template. It is easy to use, customize and fully responsive in design. Although this theme can be used for selling almost anything it is most suitable for clothing shop, fashion store, furniture ecommerce, selling electronics, gadgets and accessories. The template layout is well structured and has been… Continue reading Grab This Month’s (Nov.) FREE MultiConcept eCommerce Shop Template

The 6 Elements of an Effective Logo

The signature of your company, a strong logo has the power to make people think your name without actually seeing the words. It’s your symbol, and as such it should immediately telegraph what you stand for in the minds of your customers. This is why it’s important to consider the attributes of your primary customer… Continue reading The 6 Elements of an Effective Logo

Embedded Signing with the HelloSign API — SitePoint

A walkthrough into embedded signing with HelloSign We’ve teamed up with HelloSign to help you get started with their eSign platform. HelloSign is a full-featured eSignature platform with the fastest eSign integration platform in the industry, making it easy for you or your company to manage and sign any legally binding document. In less than… Continue reading Embedded Signing with the HelloSign API — SitePoint

Making Your First API Call with HelloSign — SitePoint

We’ve teamed up with HelloSign to help you get started with the fastest eSign integration API in the industry. HelloSign is a full-featured eSignature platform that makes it easy for you or your company to manage and sign any kind of document. Kick-starting eSignature API Calls with HelloSign In just 5 minutes, we’ll show you… Continue reading Making Your First API Call with HelloSign — SitePoint

4 Considerations for Choosing a Web Host

Managing and maintaining a successful small business website is a full-time job. There are countless elements to manage, hundreds of things to consider and thousands of new things to learn to improve the efficiency of the site. Whether you need to learn about vector artwork, find out how to reduce bounce rates or decide how… Continue reading 4 Considerations for Choosing a Web Host

How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design

The better designed the website and the better the usability, the more likely people will come back to use it  – and the more views, the more conversions and the better the website performs. Gaming websites need to be at the very height of attractive web design, especially in such a saturated sector. The look… Continue reading How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design

Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events

Hello, old friend. We all reach a point in our careers when we start speaking in public. Designers, in particular, are pretty good at organizing conferences, panels, meetups, livestreams and other forms of publicly sharing knowledge with fellow designers. Speaking at design events is not only important for the design community as a whole, but also… Continue reading Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events

Stopping Endless Client Revisions with Be Theme and 260+ pre-built websites

Posted · Category: Best Collections If a seemingly unending stream of client revisions is starting to get to you, it is time to do something about it. In fact, this something can also be appealing to your clients. You shouldn’t be stuck with the same project week after week while neglecting other projects. There is… Continue reading Stopping Endless Client Revisions with Be Theme and 260+ pre-built websites

Uppercase vs. Lowercase: How to Send the Right Message Across When Choosing a Logo Font

When it comes to designing a logo for your brand, the usual tips are hard to miss: keep it simple, keep it clean, and make it memorable. Many hugely successful logos rely on symbols and images and can send their message across without featuring any text at all, but usually logos showcase the company behind… Continue reading Uppercase vs. Lowercase: How to Send the Right Message Across When Choosing a Logo Font

Diversity is Punk Rock

I used to think “diversity” meant the need for the representation of a particular set of perspectives or cultures, i.e., “there are lot of men in this room, therefore we need women.” This idea prevented me from participating in the discourse in the past because I’ve never felt like I identify with any single community.… Continue reading Diversity is Punk Rock

31 New Trend Website Design Examples

Creating a website for your company, firm or organization you must follow the new trends. Creative ideas and modern trends can make your web design more attractive and eye catching. In past few years web design trends improvements very amazingly and growing up too fast like flat design and retro/vintage effect, big background, video with sound are… Continue reading 31 New Trend Website Design Examples

35+ Best Corporate WordPress Themes

Best collection of Corporate WordPress Themes and templates with professional layout design and fully mobile responsive WordPress themes for your website. All best themes are highly customizable, HTML5 and CSS3 coded, SEO friendly and fast loading. The powerful WP theme Options Panel paired with intuitive page options panels, a widgetable areas manager and a custom tailored Visual Composer, drag and drop… Continue reading 35+ Best Corporate WordPress Themes

Color Schemes in 2017 Web Design: Basics and Modern Trends

Choosing a color scheme for your website may not seem a time-consuming enterprise. However, if you truly understand the importance of making this choice, you may be rather puzzled and lurk in hesitation for a pretty long time. To go for the color scheme that would be the best match for your website, you should… Continue reading Color Schemes in 2017 Web Design: Basics and Modern Trends

11 Free High-Quality Line Icon Sets

  ADVERTISEMENT The concept of minimalism in web development industry has been welcomed open heartedly, and it refers to a design style where design and graphics elements have been reduced to its bare elements in order to concentrate on the main and important elements like content and navigation. Though there are many ways to achieve a… Continue reading 11 Free High-Quality Line Icon Sets

5 Trends Web Designers Can’t Ignore in 2017

Each year brings new trends and innovations. In this post, let’s discover together what you should consider in 2017 when creating a website. Every year, the web design industry goes through some sort of evolution cycle to stay relevant and inspiring. As technology advances and becomes more ingrained into every facet of our daily lives,… Continue reading 5 Trends Web Designers Can’t Ignore in 2017

Web Design Trends and Styles You Should Know About

Web design has truly come a long way. As technology gives designers the power to explore beyond the boundaries, we’ve seen some pretty classy trends being born. Of course, as these new trends are born, some older ones have had to give way. For instance, in 2016, we saw flat design for the first time.… Continue reading Web Design Trends and Styles You Should Know About

Top 20 Multiple Services WordPress Themes with a Simple Clean Design

Oftentimes, it is quite a tricky task to find a beautiful template to fit your corporate branding. Whether you need a website for a small-sized business, a corporate or company homepage, a car wash or cleaning service project, our collection of Top 20 Multiple Services WordPress Themes will come in handy. All of these special… Continue reading Top 20 Multiple Services WordPress Themes with a Simple Clean Design

5 Best Designed Websites in 2017

The web industry appears to be an extremely evolving space. It introduces some latest techniques and technologies letting developers implement the best website designs as well as meet their users’ expectations. New design trends appear very quickly. They create an award-winning symbiosis with some classics like retro style, patterns, and techniques that launch a web… Continue reading 5 Best Designed Websites in 2017

Getting traction for experience design

Back in the eighties the job of design was to make things work reasonably. Technologies were in such a struggle to stay stable that any extra quality seemed unnecessary. In those times your computer would crash five times a day. So, worrying about beauty or engagement seemed like a somewhat unnecessary luxury. Fast-forwarding to 2007.… Continue reading Getting traction for experience design