WeTransfer is one of the mostly widely admired start-ups of the last decade. In many ways it embodies what we tell our clients to aspire to: a simple idea, solving a common problem, well executed. What really makes WeTransfer standout is the high-value it places on design; since its launch in 2009, WeTransfer has used… Continue reading WeTransfer reveals new brand identify and UI
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The evolution of political campaign logos
The most successful brands understand that knowing their audience and how to communicate with them is vital to their success. For better or worse, it often comes down to a simple logo. We’ve all seen our fair share of re-brandings and logo transformations. The history behind an established brand is essential and changing something familiar… Continue reading The evolution of political campaign logos
5 years of Foundation: a look back
This month, ZURB celebrates the 5th birthday of its Foundation front-end framework. This popular framework is known for its responsive grid, CSS and HTML user-interface components, code snippets, and templates. What makes it stand out as well is that it’s an open-source project. In a blog post earlier this month, Danny Codella, ZURB’s marketer, wrote… Continue reading 5 years of Foundation: a look back
What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do
The term ‘design’ can be a deceptively simple one. It sounds curiously vague, and when offered in response to most people, it elicits a degree of confusion. For example, when somebody says ‘Oh, I work as a designer,’ a lot of people do not entirely understand what this means. This is because, for such a… Continue reading What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do
Eye Candy User Interface Design Inspiration
Advertisement When designing a web-based app or mobile app, you must not only think about the content of the app but also about the functionality. In many cases, you must focus even more on the functionality of an app and use a great UI design in order to create an app that is not only… Continue reading Eye Candy User Interface Design Inspiration
Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Head Turn
What You’ll Be Creating Today we are going to learn how to animate a character turning his head. You’ll find that you will be animating head turns a lot when you do character animation. A head turn is challenging to animate because the mass and shape need to be consistent, as do the elements of… Continue reading Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Head Turn
Taking Control of the tvOS Focus Engine
Introduction On iOS, users normally interact with your apps via the device’s touch screen. On tvOS, however, user interaction is handled by moving the current focus between views on the screen. Luckily, the tvOS implementations of the UIKit APIs handle the changing of focus between views automatically. While this built-in system works very well, for specific… Continue reading Taking Control of the tvOS Focus Engine
Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles
Cocycles is a new code search service that enables code to be found by functionality. In this article, Cocycles team member Jonathan explains the idea behind this approach to code searching. We’re all familiar with it: that moment when you’re forced to abandon your code editor, interrupt your workflow and open your browser to search… Continue reading Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles
Facebook OS X design concept
Today we want to show you a Facebook design concept for OS X. Lorenzo Bocchi, the designer, has completely redesigned the classic user interface providing new pages, grid views and other UI elements. Last but not least, he has released the Sketch project file on his personal page for free… it’s worth a look! Download freebie
WP REST API: Internals and Customization
In the previous part of the series, we learned about creating, updating, and deleting content remotely through the WP REST API. It allows us to create platform-independent applications that work seamlessly with a WordPress powered back-end, providing a rich experience to the user. In the current part of the series, we will take a look at… Continue reading WP REST API: Internals and Customization
Android From Scratch: Setting Up the Development Environment
So you’ve decided to take your first steps into learning about Android app development. Great choice. Android is currently the most widely used smartphone platform in the world and it is a fun operating system for app development. This article shows you how to set up Android Studio, the official IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for… Continue reading Android From Scratch: Setting Up the Development Environment
Psychology, Counseling & Medical Website Template — MentalPress (Health & Beauty)
MentalPress is a premium Website Template for psychiatrists built with HTML5 and CSS3. It is our most advanced and sophisticated website we built so far. It is very easy to setup and use. Well Documented. Available only on ThemeForest! Main Features Responsive & Retina-Ready MentalPress looks great on any device, from mobile to desktop and… Continue reading Psychology, Counseling & Medical Website Template — MentalPress (Health & Beauty)
How to Use Swift on Linux
1. State of the Union As with any new and emerging technology or language, it is always important to stay on top of the latest news and updates. Swift as a language is no different. Apple has released many new updates and enhancements in the short time that Swift has been in existence. So you first… Continue reading How to Use Swift on Linux
How to Streamline Your Logo Design Process
Creating a identity that is unique any brand can be quite a challenge, because there are so many things to factor in. The process is not as simple as throwing your creative juices into the project – that’s just a fraction that is small of. Company logo demands a great deal more from any musician,… Continue reading How to Streamline Your Logo Design Process
Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern
What You’ll Be Creating This Islamic tiling pattern is atypical in its use of curves, as most of the traditional designs are made up solely of straight lines (even though circles are used extensively to create the underlying grids). It is based on the seven-circle grid which we learned to draw in more detail in… Continue reading Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern
A Beginner’s Guide to AJAX with jQuery
In the first article of this series, we covered the fundamentals of AJAX. In the second, we looked at a working example using vanilla JavaScript. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through a few of jQuery’s AJAX-related functions and methods. More specifically, we’ll take a closer look at the shorthand load method and the generic ajax… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to AJAX with jQuery
Top Free Photoshop Watercolor Brushes for Designers
Design styles can be created with free resources like icons, vectors, custom illustrations, and notably brushes. Free brush packs are available all over the web dating back to Photoshop 7. There are now thousands of brush packs online made specifically for digital designers. This collection of free Photoshop watercolor brushes can be perfect for anyone… Continue reading Top Free Photoshop Watercolor Brushes for Designers
How to Create Custom View Controller Transitions and Animations
Introduction UIKit is a very powerful framework and provides various ways to transition between view controllers. Some of the animations provided by UIKit include horizontal sliding (via a push segue), vertical sliding, cross fade, and page curl. Sometimes, however, you need to have a custom transition between view controllers to create a compelling design or… Continue reading How to Create Custom View Controller Transitions and Animations
Tools and Resources for web designers and developers, May 2015
Hello, coders out there! We have an exceptional freebie pack for all of you today. Our team has been scouting for the best, freshest material over the last few weeks and this is what they’ve come up with, all kinds of sliders, plugins and other tools to make your developments easier are now at your… Continue reading Tools and Resources for web designers and developers, May 2015
Free Beautiful UI Elements For Your Next Web Application Design
Web app development has gone from strength to strength over the last 5 or so years. From frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django for Python, it’s never been easier to get into coding web apps. But one thing that’s always been time consuming (at least for me) has been building out the UI. HTML… Continue reading Free Beautiful UI Elements For Your Next Web Application Design
How To Create an Ornate Compass Rose in Illustrator
I recently shared some tips with a subscriber about how to create a nautical star design in Illustrator, which then prompted me to research traditional nautical star and compass rose layouts and construct an ornate design of my own. The process makes use of lots of simple but really useful techniques in Illustrator to build… Continue reading How To Create an Ornate Compass Rose in Illustrator
Impressive Parallax Javascript Plugin That Supports Gyroscrope
Parallax effect is one of the coolest animation in web design industry. Its sibling – Parallax scrolling has been quite a famous web layout since last year! We found this pretty cool Javascript plugin that bring parallax effect to a new level. Parallax.js reacts to the orientation of your smart device, offsetting layers depending… Continue reading Impressive Parallax Javascript Plugin That Supports Gyroscrope
Build a Freshly Squeezed Responsive Grid System
I’d like to talk to you about Lemonade. Not the refreshing citrus drink, but a grid system I created. Lemonade is a grid system that was built in order to give designers and developers the confidence to make fully responsive websites, eliminating the frustration of flicking between browsers looking for bugs and errors. Let’s look… Continue reading Build a Freshly Squeezed Responsive Grid System
30 New Free Graphic Resources for Web Designers
The Web often surprises us with beautiful and useful free stuff. In the last 2 months, I took on the task of compiling the newest free, high-quality web and UI design resources I could find that feature the latest design trends (flat UI, long shadows, iOS 7, minimalism, etc.). I would like to share my discoveries with… Continue reading 30 New Free Graphic Resources for Web Designers