Tons of companies are using Slack to organize and facilitate how their employees communicate on a daily basis. Slack has now more than 5 million daily active users and more than 60,000 teams around the world. But whether the company you work for use Slack or not, you can still use the tool to connect… Continue reading The best Slack groups for UX designers
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Photoshop Tutorials – 35 New Tutorials to Learn Advance Techniques Of Photo Manipulation
There are thirty five new Photoshop tutorials to learn amazing photo manipulation, retouching and lighting effects and PS actions making in Adobe Photoshop. These latest tutorials are helpful to learn beginning and advance techniques to enhance and improve your digital photo editing skills. The amazing Photoshop tutorials give your photos and artwork a great and unique look without learning a countless photo manipulation and… Continue reading Photoshop Tutorials – 35 New Tutorials to Learn Advance Techniques Of Photo Manipulation
UX overload, toolkit of a product designer, testing words, and more UX this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????. You don’t need to know everything about UX → I find myself saying this to other people quite often. You don’t need to be a specialist in all possible verticals within User Experience Design. And you probably can’t. A lot of people are starting in UX… Continue reading UX overload, toolkit of a product designer, testing words, and more UX this week
Kotlin From Scratch: Packages and Basic Functions
Kotlin is a modern programming language that compiles to Java bytecode. It is free and open source, and promises to make coding for Android even more fun. In the previous article, you learned about ranges and collections in Kotlin. In this tutorial, we’ll continue to learn the language by looking at how to organize code using… Continue reading Kotlin From Scratch: Packages and Basic Functions
25 Summer Website Themes and Summer Design Templates for Inspiration
August 16, 2017 by Alex Fox It’s summertime, and the designing is easy. In these dog days of summer, designers are pulling out all the stops to grab the last licks of warm weather and beach vacations for their clients and viewers. Many fashion websites embrace this in particular, using sun-bleached photos and vacations vistas… Continue reading 25 Summer Website Themes and Summer Design Templates for Inspiration
Sketch Gists — Useful snippets for plugin development
Last week I was developing an internal tool to create a design workflow for my workplace. The process involved creating a style guide for a new project by setting up the branding colours, typefaces, shadows and scrim. All went well until it was required to convert the text layers into symbols so as to generalise… Continue reading Sketch Gists — Useful snippets for plugin development
Hey Designer, why so fragile?
The Why Praise overdose If you visit the comment section of behance.com and you manage to see through all the self-promotion, you’ll find that the comments are unusually polite and positive. Every project seems to have really positive feedback, the only thing that really distinguishes projects is the amount of praise they get. The reason… Continue reading Hey Designer, why so fragile?
How to Optimize a Web Design for Video Content
July 31, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger As videos become more widely used across the internet, more and more websites are starting to incorporate video content as well. Often however this is done fairly haphazardly, without taking into account that video by its very nature is different from other forms of content. Frankly speaking, slapping a… Continue reading How to Optimize a Web Design for Video Content
The Company Name on a Logo: How to Make It Work
The name of your company incorporated into its logo isn’t always a right solution but sometimes it is really perfect for your company’s introduction. So, in which cases will it be highly beneficial for companies to implement their names into their logos? A logo can be described as your company’s face, while your corporate style… Continue reading The Company Name on a Logo: How to Make It Work
Useful Tips to Design a Website Homepage That Draws Visitors
Creating a website for your company, firm or organization is a very useful way to advertise and inform the users and people what your product or agency is about. But more important than that is making the people actually stay on your website to read up about it. You need to make your website’s homepage… Continue reading Useful Tips to Design a Website Homepage That Draws Visitors
11 Communication Techniques for Designers
You have spent years getting this far — going to university, taking regular courses and workshops, going to conferences, reading countless books, articles, and listening to weekly podcasts — only for a stakeholder to steamroll your design expertise.Here are 11 techniques for improving your communication skills and getting your designs approved. There comes a point in every designers career… Continue reading 11 Communication Techniques for Designers
Atomic Design & creativity
I’ve been using atomic design in my projects over the last 2 years now. And since then, I can’t help but talk about it to everyone around me ;) Quick reminder : Atomic Design is a methodology, invented by Brad Frost and based on the idea that designing interface should always rely on the smallest part of… Continue reading Atomic Design & creativity
Is your WordPress Website Fast Enough for Mobile Users?
Do you ever bother if your WordPress website is fast enough? Maybe you’re or maybe you’re not. In either case, since you haven’t figured it out yet. I am going to provide you some useful inputs to find out if your website is fast enough for mobile users or not. If it’s not fast enough… Continue reading Is your WordPress Website Fast Enough for Mobile Users?
Losing customer trust is easy
Photo by www.stylecraze.com Today I tried to book a class in my fitness club where I pay a monthly fee for unlimited access to anything they have on the offer. To my surprise, I got the following message: “You are not allowed to book another class until 10.06 because you have already canceled two classes… Continue reading Losing customer trust is easy
15 Best Sliders and Galleries For Your Next Project
If you want to grab a visitor’s attention by displaying a set of images, sliders are a great way to get that done. The best sliders are attention-getting, with attractive animations that match the tone and purpose of your site. We’ve collected a list of some of our favorite sliders and galleries below. Fair warning:… Continue reading 15 Best Sliders and Galleries For Your Next Project
How to Connect Your Api.ai Assistant to the IoT — SitePoint
Building an AI assistant with Api.ai If you’re keen to learn more on AI, check out our screencast Microsoft Cognitive Services and the Text Analytics API, for AI sentiment in your bot. The potential of a personal assistant gets exciting when it has access to personal data and the real world via the Internet of… Continue reading How to Connect Your Api.ai Assistant to the IoT — SitePoint
Total – Responsive MultiPurpose WordPress Theme
To be very precise WordPress themes makes web development very flexible along with its easy to use features; for both: the developers and the clients. WordPress themes comes along with entire web development solution. It consists of thousands of features, which are very much useful and handy as well. In this very article we will… Continue reading Total – Responsive MultiPurpose WordPress Theme
The Cutting Edge Of Website Design
Ultra-Responsive Mobile Websites Touchscreen technology isn’t historically “new”; it’s been around for decades. But responsive touchscreen technology that can be properly utilized by the public is an innovation that was untenable for a long time. The technology can be traced back to the dawn of computers; the forties, as a matter of fact. When this… Continue reading The Cutting Edge Of Website Design
ooto: A free dashboard template for Sketch
Today we are glad to present you a fresh new dashboard/admin design template: it’s ooto, a set of 4 dashboard screens designed by Adrian Madacs – UI Designer from Denmark – and released exclusively for Freebiesbug! This freebies consists of four Productivity Dashboards. The first one is called Sessions with a focus on 1on1 sessions within the team.… Continue reading ooto: A free dashboard template for Sketch
Tent CSS: An essential framework
Time to present you a fresh new CSS framework: that’s Tent CSS, a survival kit for front-end developers including only the essentials to get started with website design! I am not a big fan of full featured frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation because they include much more components than one may need. Most of the times a good… Continue reading Tent CSS: An essential framework
3 Months with Figma: Why it Changes Design Forever
Like most designers, I started with Photoshop, using it for over half a decade. From there, Sketch burst onto the scene and did not take long to announce itself as the go-to tool for designers. For the last three months, I have been using Figma each and every day, integrating it into my workflow and… Continue reading 3 Months with Figma: Why it Changes Design Forever
A letter from Sol LeWitt about creative block, read by Benedict Cumberbatch
In 1960, pioneering American artists Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse met for the first time and instantly clicked, quickly forming a strong, deep bond that would last for ten years and result in countless inspirational discussions and rich exchanges of ideas. In the video below, Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter sent from Sol to Eva… Continue reading A letter from Sol LeWitt about creative block, read by Benedict Cumberbatch
Interaction Awards, Chatbot Interactions, Empathy as Faux Ethics, and more UX this week
What’s hot in UX this week: Notifications: an Interview with John Saito, from Dropbox → We dream of a future with connected and ubiquitous experiences, but we still feel overwhelmed with the notifications across all our devices. In this last piece of our series we interviewed John Saito, ‘designer of words’ at Dropbox, about how we… Continue reading Interaction Awards, Chatbot Interactions, Empathy as Faux Ethics, and more UX this week
Stressful Holiday? This Tool Will Make Next Year Easier
Posted · Category: Tools There’s no doubt that the Q4 holiday shopping season is the busiest time of year for online store owners and ecommerce businesses. If your freelance business or agency works with these online merchants, the last few weeks have almost certainly been hectic and stressful. Performing last minute site updates, troubleshooting broken… Continue reading Stressful Holiday? This Tool Will Make Next Year Easier