The RecyclerView widget is an integral part of most Android applications today. Ever since it was added to the Android support library in late 2014, it has eclipsed the ListView widget as the most preferred widget for displaying large, complex lists. However, there’s one important feature missing in it: support for selecting and tracking list items. RecyclerView… Continue reading How to Add Multiple Selection to Android RecyclerView
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Choosing the Right Platform to Manage Multiple Sites at Once
Do you operate a web development agency? Do you build, launch, host and manage your clients’ websites for them? If you’ve been in this line of work for a few years and are experiencing significant growth in customer volume, then you’re already aware that site design, administration and updates is extremely time-intensive. Working on many… Continue reading Choosing the Right Platform to Manage Multiple Sites at Once
How to Formulate an Email Design and Development Strategy
In this tutorial I’ll explain how to focus your efforts on the email clients and webmail clients being used by your target audience. Note: this tutorial is part of a whole week’s worth of email content on Tuts+ Web Design–check out the Mastering HTML Email learning guide for more! 1. Understand the Importance of a Strategy Your target… Continue reading How to Formulate an Email Design and Development Strategy
8 New Ways to Refactor Your Code With Swift 4
Swift is one of the fastest-growing languages in history, due to its elegance, simplicity, and “safety by design”. In fact, Swift’s official mantra is “to make programming simple things easy, and difficult things possible”. In this post, you’ll learn how to use Swift to its fullest by refactoring your code. While a lot of the… Continue reading 8 New Ways to Refactor Your Code With Swift 4
The Best Promotional Tool for Your Online Business
When you have an online business, there are three things you need to keep in mind to be successful: credibility, visibility, and promotion. Having these three things down can seem difficult but if you have the right tools up your sleeve it shouldn’t be. Placeit is an online tool that enables you to generate graphics… Continue reading The Best Promotional Tool for Your Online Business
Understand Arrays in PHP
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;} In this post, you’ll learn the basics of arrays in PHP. You’ll learn how to create an array and how to use associative and multidimensional arrays, and you’ll see lots of examples of arrays in action. What Is an Array? In PHP, an array is a data… Continue reading Understand Arrays in PHP
Understanding the Messy “Define” Stage
In our previous articles, we’ve discussed the basics of design thinking and immersive empathy. In this post, we’ll dive a little deeper into what we refer to as the “define” stage in that process. Warning: it’s messy! So let’s first remind ourselves where it sits in the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design’s proposal: Image source: Interaction Design… Continue reading Understanding the Messy “Define” Stage
4 Strategies to Ensuring the Success of Your Mobile App
Today, the entire world has undoubtedly gone mobile as more people access data and information via digital devices, tablets and smartphones. Apps are commonplace for shopping, connecting with people, navigation and managing data. In fact, mobile apps are today more interactive, attractive and easy to integrate with various smartphone features. The current apps trend is… Continue reading 4 Strategies to Ensuring the Success of Your Mobile App
Examining the Importance of Logo Design
No matter how organised a business may be behind the scenes, it must present the right image to its clients. This means having the right logo. Many customers first become aware of a business through its logo. Or it might be the first thing they see when searching for a product or service. If the… Continue reading Examining the Importance of Logo Design
The Impact WordPress Has Had on the Web
WordPress recently celebrated its 15th birthday. Not only is it quite an achievement for anything web-related to last that long, it’s also impressive to see that the content management system is still at its peak relevancy. That got me thinking about the impact WordPress has had on the web and specifically on web designers. Frankly,… Continue reading The Impact WordPress Has Had on the Web
Pre-built websites: How to Refresh a Website’s Look on Fast-Forward
Posted · Category: Best Collections There’s an awful lot of dull, unattractive websites out there that are in dire need of upgrading or total redesign. The owners of those websites are either unaware of the problem or hesitant to ask how much redesign would cost. Web designers would of course welcome the work, even though… Continue reading Pre-built websites: How to Refresh a Website’s Look on Fast-Forward
The importance of Design QA in digital product design
Great customer experiences don’t happen by accident. In digital product design, the customer experience encompasses everything that the product team does; development, design, DevOps, and QA — everyone’s role impacts the customer experience but especially the design and user experience. Since I’m a product designer, there’s a particular part of the process that I’m obsessed with, and… Continue reading The importance of Design QA in digital product design
Take Control of Your Projects with these Design Collaboration Tools
Posted · Category: Best Collections You might be building a website for your own needs and doing all the work yourself. In this case, you may think there’s no need for a collaboration tool to smooth out your workflow. Still, having one or more extra pairs of eyes looking over your work can be beneficial.… Continue reading Take Control of Your Projects with these Design Collaboration Tools
7 Signs Your Web Designer Knows About SEO
A web designer refers to a person who is an IT professional. These are the people who are responsible for making the layout of your website. They are also responsible for the visual appearance and, of course, the usability of your website. You can consider that a web designer is good if they have the… Continue reading 7 Signs Your Web Designer Knows About SEO
Why Should You Outsource Software Development?
As the technology revolution took the world by the storm, it also affected the corporate ecosystem and reshaped the business environment. Although the new breed of entrepreneurs already acknowledges and comfortably embrace the need to develop technology-driven business systems, conventional entrepreneurs still find it difficult to digest the changing dynamics of the business world. Over… Continue reading Why Should You Outsource Software Development?
Why Choosing the Right Typography Improves the Rate of Graphic Design Success
When it comes to creating a design, factors like picking the right color, choosing the correct layout, and selecting the right font need your special attention. The common myth that surrounds people’s mind is that a great font that will go well with the theme can be easily determined by simply visualizing the preview of… Continue reading Why Choosing the Right Typography Improves the Rate of Graphic Design Success
Amelia – The Next-Level Booking Software Your Business Needs to Get More Clients
Posted · Category: Best Collections Taking appointments might seem like a minor task. After all, it’s simply a matter of picking up the phone or answering an email. The reality is that doing so takes a lot of your available time. It also takes away your business’s money. In addition, managing those appointments can take… Continue reading Amelia – The Next-Level Booking Software Your Business Needs to Get More Clients
How to Boost Instagram Engagement for Your Brand/Business
If you’re an online brand or business then you’re well aware of how important it is to garner engagement on your posts. Not only does engagement help build your overall brand identity, but it also provides vital feedback to your and your team as well as keeps you in front of the Instagram algorithm (we’ll… Continue reading How to Boost Instagram Engagement for Your Brand/Business
Writing Snapshot Tests For React Components With Jest ― Scotch
In this tutorial, we will be looking at what snapshot tests are and how we can use snapshot testing to ensure our User Interface does not change without the team knowing about it. To get started, you will need to familiarize yourself with the following NodeJS – A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript… Continue reading Writing Snapshot Tests For React Components With Jest ― Scotch
Getting Started with Yoga and Prisma for Building GraphQL Servers ― Scotch
By now, you have probably heard a lot of buzz about GraphQL going around and how it’s going to replace REST but you don’t even know where to begin. You hear a lot of buzzwords about mutations and queries but what you’re used to is GET and POST requests on your different endpoints to fetch… Continue reading Getting Started with Yoga and Prisma for Building GraphQL Servers ― Scotch
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?
Why SEO Matters More Than Ever
If you aren’t familiar with the acronym, SEO stands for search engine optimization. When you plug in a question, product, or item you’re looking to purchase on Google, the results are far from arbitrary. Search engines like Google use a complex algorithm to produce results for whatever your query might be. If you want your… Continue reading Why SEO Matters More Than Ever
4 Best Practices for Professional Website Design
Business owners today face the constant challenge of trying to keep up with the latest digital marketing trends. One of the major priorities for any business offering services, selling products or providing valuable information is to have an ingenious website that has a compelling design, thought-provoking content, a design style that feeds into user experience… Continue reading 4 Best Practices for Professional Website Design
Shhh… a UX designer’s mistakes
A few days ago was my 2 year anniversary at StatMuse (visit us) and subsequently also my 2 year anniversary as a UX/UI Designer! Although I am happy that we’ve shipped multiple responsive websites, a brand new iOS app, and a some platform bots, I do recognize that I’ve made a whole bunch of mistakes… Continue reading Shhh… a UX designer’s mistakes