Recently, I was part of a 3-person team of consultants who in 12 weeks built the foundations of a new design system. That design system is now used in multiple products and is contributed to by other developers and designers. In this post you’ll find some of the techniques we used to make the project… Continue reading 8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System
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Ways to Make Investments an Amazing Side Hustle
There are tons of people who are afraid of investing. They don’t like the idea of losing money. While it’s not fun for anyone to lose money, it’s important to remember that a person loses more money by purchasing fast food instead of cooking meals at home. Depending on the type of investment, you don’t… Continue reading Ways to Make Investments an Amazing Side Hustle
17 MailChimp Templates for Every Purpose and Occasion
In this article we list 17 different MailChimp templates to help you make the most of your email marketing efforts, no matter the occasion or purpose. These templates have been selected for their amazing designs, and fully functional and customizable structure. Your aim with these is to create highly converting and effective email campaigns. So,… Continue reading 17 MailChimp Templates for Every Purpose and Occasion
How to Create Impactful Mobile Strategy for Your Business
A mobile strategy for making your business successful is a way ahead to building a creative path that gets the users involved in the business. Things are pretty much in favor of smartphone if we talk about mobile strategies in order to grow the business. In today’s digital world a strategy to streamline the business… Continue reading How to Create Impactful Mobile Strategy for Your Business
Giclee Printing: A Guide for Beginners
For those who work in graphic design, giclee printing will be a familiar concept. Favoured by artists, art lovers and professional printers worldwide, giclee printing is considered the gold standard for the creation of quality reproductions. But what is it about giclee printing that separates it from more conventional printing methods? More importantly, under what… Continue reading Giclee Printing: A Guide for Beginners
Becoming the Next Tinder in 2018
Your first dating app will take a lot of work and development skills on your end. Fortunately, you can create a team of designers, coders, and marketers to help you along the way. And with this guide, we’ll give you some insight on how to create the next Tinder. Why Create a Dating App? Dating… Continue reading Becoming the Next Tinder in 2018
Which Print-On-Demand T-Shirt Fulfillment Company Should You Use?
So you decided to start a print-on-demand t-shirt business. One of the most important decisions you will make is choosing the print-on-demand fulfillment company. You should take this decision very seriously because it can make or break or business. Can you imagine ordering a t-shirt online and getting a low quality product? You’d never buy… Continue reading Which Print-On-Demand T-Shirt Fulfillment Company Should You Use?
5 Best Entry Level Cameras for Amateur Photography
Your entire photography portfolio looks like blurry iPhone pictures of your food. Guess what? It’s time to level up. Don’t go out and buy a camera just yet. Some of the best cameras you can find are confusing and way out of your budget. It’s not that these cameras are forever out of your reach.… Continue reading 5 Best Entry Level Cameras for Amateur Photography
Why You Need Video For Design and Marketing
Before we dive deep into the topic let’s consolidate few numerical facts regarding the beneficiary of having the video for your product and marketing campaign. 90% of online shoppers stated that a video helps them to make a decision whether to buy the product, service or not 83% of businesses say that video provides the… Continue reading Why You Need Video For Design and Marketing
UX is a Process. SEO, too.
TL;DR: Most people consider the value of both UX and SEO in the same way. Instead, we need to emphasize that both are about the process and an end result, not a product or deliverable. The Internet is a crazy place. Where else can you find a whirlwind of scholarly papers one minute and an… Continue reading UX is a Process. SEO, too.
Ruby On Rails Isn’t Going Anywhere
November 1, 2017 by Spyrestudios Ruby on Rails has gotten some tough press recently, with programs like Coding Dojo dropping Rails from its boot camps and workshops. What’s happened to the once dominant coding language? Despite the fact that Ruby on Rails is the underlying framework for many of the most popular websites, developers are… Continue reading Ruby On Rails Isn’t Going Anywhere
4 Great Design to WordPress Services You Need to Try
Posted · Category: Best Collections You’ve worked hard to transform your design concept into a finished design for an app or website. Yet, there is an obstacle between handing over the final design and product launch. It’s called “development”; a task that very few web designers are willing, or indeed able, to take on. Fortunately,… Continue reading 4 Great Design to WordPress Services You Need to Try
Why You Should Seriously Consider Outsourcing Web Development
Smart outsourcing is key to the success of most businesses today. The company contracts external professionals to carry out its often non-strategic functions to focus its resources towards more strategic matters. You can have your accounting functions outsourced or your recruitment taken care of by a professional HR agency, or can outsource web development to… Continue reading Why You Should Seriously Consider Outsourcing Web Development
How to Design a Website That Gets Conversions
If you want your startup business website to produce sales, use the many web tools available that make online selling easy. Don’t be fooled into thinking that an attractive website is all you need. Talk to a shrewd website designer and you will discover there is often a difference between a nice-looking website and one… Continue reading How to Design a Website That Gets Conversions
Design makes AI smarter
Designers today most likely have been designing for products that use some level of AI for automation. We have been designing in the first stage of AI, artificial narrow intelligence. To get to the second stage of AI, artificial general intelligence, we need user data. Lots of it. How do we get this information? To… Continue reading Design makes AI smarter
5 Steps to Create Your Own e-Commerce Site from Scratch
Being a designer nowadays goes hand in hand with staying up-to-date with technology; owning a high-spec PC or Mac is quintessential and knowing every Photoshop and Illustrator shortcut like the back of your hand is a given. Yet building your own website from scratch in order to showcase or even sell your work is a… Continue reading 5 Steps to Create Your Own e-Commerce Site from Scratch
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
Driving innovation [1/2]: a portfolio perspective
In every sector, it’s possible to notice growing efforts towards innovation. More and more organizations do not take their market and own relevance for granted, and realize that some [widely applied] strategies to maintain and grow their businesses [like plain price competition, and aggressive portfolio expansion, among others] may incubate serious near and long term… Continue reading Driving innovation [1/2]: a portfolio perspective
Purchasing an APM for Your Business: Are Your Stuck?
For any application technology to succeed, it has to provide the end-users with the quality experience. What APM (Application Performance Monitoring/Management) does is to ensure that the application program that you develop performs optimally as expected. It could be that you have disappointed your customers for so long with frequent crashes of your apps and… Continue reading Purchasing an APM for Your Business: Are Your Stuck?
23 Modern Responsive HTML5 WordPress Themes
New modern HTML5 WordPress themes with responsive design specially designed corporate business, portfolio and online eCommerce websites. Multipurpose best WordPress themes will help you create amazing website with tons of highly SEO optimized and easy-to-edit elements that allow you to change the look and feel of your theme to match your brand or represent your… Continue reading 23 Modern Responsive HTML5 WordPress Themes
How to Create a Website to Compliment Your Logo
When it comes to creating your website and logo design, nothing but the best will do. You need to consider your branding always when creating any STD or web property. You also should consider your logo design and how your website works with your logo to help your branding. Remember that branding is a concerted… Continue reading How to Create a Website to Compliment Your Logo
Starbis – All in 1 HTML5 Theme for Bloggers, Businesses & Web Stores
Bloggers, freelancers and web design studios are rapidly shifting towards building web resources on the basis of multi-purpose website templates. A broad spectrum of customization features, multiple ready-made layouts, child themes, and rich UI kits lure people’s attention, turning them into avid fans of fit-it-all designs. Today, we are going to bring your attention to… Continue reading Starbis – All in 1 HTML5 Theme for Bloggers, Businesses & Web Stores
The Verge gets a redesign
Okay, let’s just get this out of the way: on this, the verge of a new year, the Verge got a redesign. Now the punnery is over and we can get on with our lives. It had to be done, or I could not call myself a writer. So let’s get to the good bit:… Continue reading The Verge gets a redesign
What Multipurpose WordPress Theme Should You Pick?
Posted · Category: Best Collections Most web designers work with a variety of website types, and they prefer multipurpose themes for that reason. This is especially true when they need to deliver websites to multiple clients with different needs. Each of the multipurpose WP themes presented here features pre-designed website or layout selections from which… Continue reading What Multipurpose WordPress Theme Should You Pick?