Wholesale Area Plugins for WooCommerce: The Definitive Guide

If you sell goods online to the wholesale market, you’ll know that there’s a whole world of choice out there when it comes to organizing and presenting your store. Some of the decisions are the same for any e-commerce website. There are so many e-commerce plugins to choose from that it can sometimes be a… Continue reading Wholesale Area Plugins for WooCommerce: The Definitive Guide

Maximizing Marketing Videos (Tips & Tricks)

If you are a growing brand or business who want to engage your target audience, creating a marketing video is one sure-fire way to propel your business forward. Visual content is a key factor in connecting and reaching out to customers at a much deeper level. With the proliferation of online video content, you need… Continue reading Maximizing Marketing Videos (Tips & Tricks)

Encouraging healthy lifestyle choices with an engaging user experience

Please note: This was a concept project undertaken as part of the User Experience Design Immersive course at General Assembly and is in no way affiliated with Nuffield Health. Nuffield Health is one of the UK’s leading not-for-profit healthcare organisations. They operate a wide variety of facilities and healthcare services, from gym and fitness centres… Continue reading Encouraging healthy lifestyle choices with an engaging user experience

Tips for Designing a Great Looking E-commerce Website + 20 Examples

If you’ve ever spent time buying from an online store, you know that a pleasurable experience would motivate you to return.  Customer satisfaction is key to designing an effective E-commerce site.  An effective E-commerce site allows the products to shine and then allows you to carry out purchases quickly and efficiently.  When designing an E-commerce… Continue reading Tips for Designing a Great Looking E-commerce Website + 20 Examples

Cross-functional Empathy for Designers

A human-centric approach for working with humans As designers, a huge part of our job lies in empathizing with users. It’s exciting to see how far we’ve come as a discipline in becoming more user-centric, more research-driven and better at tying our ideas to actual user needs. Yet many of us struggle with applying that… Continue reading Cross-functional Empathy for Designers

How to Find and Hire The Perfect Freelance Logo Designer for Your Business

It’s not always easy to find the ideal freelancer for your business. It’s especially hard when we’re talking about design, such as when you’re looking for a logo designer. In this article, you’ll find out how to not just find and approach freelance logo designers but also hire and make them part of your team.… Continue reading How to Find and Hire The Perfect Freelance Logo Designer for Your Business

Why You Need to Tempt Blog Readers to Subscribe to Your Email List

Building a large email list is the smartest thing you can do as an online marketer. If done correctly, it’ll boost engagement, improve your brand’s reputation, and drive sales better than any other online communication platform. Here’s why you should be making efforts to add people to your email list in every piece of content… Continue reading Why You Need to Tempt Blog Readers to Subscribe to Your Email List

DevOps Automation with MongoDB Atlas ― Scotch

Configuration Management Configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef and Ansible, which provide the ability to quickly automate config and deployment processes, have become a critical part of many engineering teams’ plans when building new systems. Implementing an additional cloud service should fit alongside the configuration management methods you already use. Luckily, the MongoDB Atlas… Continue reading DevOps Automation with MongoDB Atlas ― Scotch

20 New Professional Catalog Brochure Templates

New creative catalog Brochure Templates of multiple pages. Clean, modern and fully customizable brochures for corporate annual report, fashion booklet, photography photobook or personal portfolio. There brochure templates has all the features you’d expect in a brochures, from placeholders, to text styles, one click infographics, and easy to edit master pages. Brochures are available in different sizes Square, A4 and US… Continue reading 20 New Professional Catalog Brochure Templates

Building brand trust through UX Design

Be Secure Are you building an eCommerce website? Are you going to make the credit/debit card transactions happen on your website? This section is critical. What are the chances you would give your credit/debit card information to any random eCommerce website? None, right? I know your website is not the dodgy site still trying to… Continue reading Building brand trust through UX Design

JWT Authentication in Django

This tutorial will give an introduction to JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and how to implement JWT authentication in Django. What Is JWT? JWT is an encoded JSON string that is passed in headers to authenticate requests. It is usually obtained by hashing JSON data with a secret key. This means that the server doesn’t need… Continue reading JWT Authentication in Django

How To Use Google’s Material Design On Your Own Site

January 29, 2018 by Alex Fox Google Material Design is a major part of the modern web’s design language. This is especially true for mobile websites and apps. It’s a clean, legible design with visually distinct elements to draw the eye and make user interaction simple. Material design apps, by and large, use flat, paper-based… Continue reading How To Use Google’s Material Design On Your Own Site

Freelance Web Designers: 3 Delightfully Easy Ways to Increase Your Productivity

Posted · Category: Best Collections Have you been struggling with bouts of procrastination and lack of focus? Maybe it appears hard for you to find a way to make some positive changes in your work habits? Then take heart! It’s not as difficult as you might have been led to believe. It is possible to… Continue reading Freelance Web Designers: 3 Delightfully Easy Ways to Increase Your Productivity

How ideating with developers can make you a better designer

I haven’t always been as lucky as I am now by being able to work extremely close with an incredible team of developers. Since making the in-house move, I’ve had the chance to work directly with iOS, Android, and Full Stack developers. Each of them is extremely talented, and they truly care about the product.… Continue reading How ideating with developers can make you a better designer

Essential Tips For Designing a Beautiful Website

A website can have the absolute greatest content and value on the internet, but it won’t succeed if it is poorly designed. Web design is an often-overlooked factor in the success of any business and having a great looking and intuitive website can give you a leg up on your competition. There are thousands and… Continue reading Essential Tips For Designing a Beautiful Website

Getting Started With Redux: Learn by Example

Redux helps you manage state by setting the state up at a global level. In the previous tutorial, we had a good look at the Redux architecture and the integral components of Redux such as actions, action creators, the store, and reducers.  In this second post of the series, we are going to bolster our… Continue reading Getting Started With Redux: Learn by Example

Bill Nye the UX Guy

Photo by chuttersnap It was a cold Thursday evening in February and I was less than stoked to be sitting in an 8th grade classroom at St. Catherine’s listening to Deacon Colin’s dry jokes and speech outlining the importance of this marriage preparation course. Trying to look engaged and interested in the conversation at hand,… Continue reading Bill Nye the UX Guy

4 Ecommerce Challenges For Luxury Brands

Have you ever noticed that luxury brands rarely sell online? Sure, big names have elaborate, appealing websites, but many of them have restricted ecommerce offerings because it’s just not exclusive enough. Ecommerce is for the masses and luxury brands thrive on the distinction between those who can afford a product and those who can’t. That… Continue reading 4 Ecommerce Challenges For Luxury Brands

The Secret to Creating Products That Scale

Bigger is better. Right? At least according to conventional startup wisdom, it is. It seems like many entrepreneurs are under constant pressure to scale from advisors and investors. Generally speaking, aggressive scaling involves ramping up sales and marketing, raising sufficient capital, and hiring and managing new people. But for some software companies, there is an… Continue reading The Secret to Creating Products That Scale

Serious products don’t have to be serious

In industries like financial services, we have learned to expect that all communication will be formal, stern and, quite frankly, boring. It’s all insider jargon and confusing acronyms — any sort of personality is a rare sight. But it doesn’t have to be that way… At TransferWise, we have recently launched instant transfers, allowing you to send… Continue reading Serious products don’t have to be serious

Let Your Audience Design Your Website: Why Online Casinos are Built on Logic Not Luck

Taking an activity that primarily existed in the physical world for decades and making it something internet users will enjoy is never easy. Indeed, when you look at the mixed response to online books, you’ll see just how tough it can be to convert people. According to Forbes’ review of Amazon’s Kindle sales in 2013,… Continue reading Let Your Audience Design Your Website: Why Online Casinos are Built on Logic Not Luck

Rippplr

I am still recoiling from the loads of information and knowledge sharing that happened during IxD14 last week. You guys should follow #1xd14 on twitter and catch up on the videos at Vimeo channel. During the conference, I conducted a workshop at the HKU on “Playful Thinking”. To give you a short introduction, ‘Playful Thinking’… Continue reading Rippplr

How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites

While a simple, clean website design might seem easy at first, the fact of the matter is the process is a lot more complex than you think. There’s a lot of stuff going on underneath the surface that makes the clean website functional. Most people don’t need or care about that makes these sites function,… Continue reading How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites

12 Ways to Design the Perfect Site Navigation

Header navigation menus can often be overlooked when it comes to inventive and creative web design. But as the primary way users explore and interact with your website, investing in engaging header navigation means site visitors spend more time on your site and end up seeing much more than just your landing page. There’s no… Continue reading 12 Ways to Design the Perfect Site Navigation