[unable to retrieve full-text content] A UX design and ethical analysis of Google’s UX Design Professional Certificate Course. A screenshot of Google’s UX design course on Coursera I usually only binge-watch Netflix shows. But after reading about Google’s plan to disrupt the college degree, following an announcement from Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, on March 11… Continue reading Putting to the test Google’s plan to disrupt the university degree
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38 Best Fantasy Fonts to Download (Great for Book Covers and More!)
If you’ve written an amazing fantasy novel or created a fabulous fantasy flick, then you’re going to need the right graphics to call attention to your masterpiece. Check out our list of the 38 Best Fantasy Fonts for download Today we’re featuring the 38 best fantasy fonts to be found at Envato Elements and GraphicRiver. Check… Continue reading 38 Best Fantasy Fonts to Download (Great for Book Covers and More!)
How to Work With Cookies in PHP
You might have heard about cookies, but what exactly are they and what can we actually do with them? In this tutorial, we will focus on the basics of cookies, and learn about their functionality in various web applications and site environments. We will also learn how to work with cookies in PHP. Cookies vs… Continue reading How to Work With Cookies in PHP
Flexbox Align: When to Use Auto Margins Instead of Flexbox Center
Flexbox alignment properties are superb and they solve lots of layout problems, especially where the common “vertical and horizontal center” layout is needed. However, there are times when aligning with auto margins is safer and more flexible. This tutorial will show you when! Get Started with Flexbox If you’re just stepping into the world of… Continue reading Flexbox Align: When to Use Auto Margins Instead of Flexbox Center
10 Great Tips For Redesigning A Website in 2021
16 Shares Whether you call it the first impression of your brand or consider it to be an indispensable asset of your branding elements, your website is the most critical element of your digital strategy. Let’s look at what the data tells us: It takes all of 50 milliseconds for a visitor to form an… Continue reading 10 Great Tips For Redesigning A Website in 2021
Quickly Build a PHP CRUD Interface With the PDO Advanced CRUD Generator Tool
In this tutorial, we’re going to review PDO CRUD—a form builder and database management tool. PDO CRUD helps you build forms for your database tables with just a few lines of code, making it quick and easy to bootstrap a database application. There are plenty of extensions available for database abstraction and specifically CRUD (create,… Continue reading Quickly Build a PHP CRUD Interface With the PDO Advanced CRUD Generator Tool
Lessons from Spotify: using multiple touchpoints to build an identity
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Digital-first design is well and truly here and COVID-19 has accelerated the trend. Increasingly, people are aware that a digital brand is a brand built on quality experience and design. Today brands literally live and die in the consumer's hands, and often digital experience is baked into the DNA of… Continue reading Lessons from Spotify: using multiple touchpoints to build an identity
2 Smartest Ways to Structure Sass
Sass – the extended arm of CSS; the power factor that brings elegance to your code. With Sass, it is all about variables, nesting, mixins, functions, partials, imports, inheritance, and control directives. Sass makes your code more maintainable and reusable. And now, I will show you how to make your code more structured and organized.… Continue reading 2 Smartest Ways to Structure Sass
Uploading Files With AJAX
I can’t seem to reach the end of the fun stuff you can do with web technologies. Today, I’m going to show you how to upload files via AJAX. First, we’ll see how to upload files using vanilla JavaScript. And later on, I’ll show how you could use the DropzoneJS library to implement drag-and-drop file uploads. Looking… Continue reading Uploading Files With AJAX
Help Is Here: 5 Indispensable Web Tools for Student Entrepreneurs
If you are a student planning to launch a startup or already have an operating enterprise, you should know that being a young entrepreneur isn’t a piece of cake. With so many tasks, chores, and challenges going on, it can be hard to stay on the right track. To complicate matters, you are still a… Continue reading Help Is Here: 5 Indispensable Web Tools for Student Entrepreneurs
How to Use PHP in HTML
In this article, I’ll show you how to use PHP code in your HTML pages. It’s aimed at PHP beginners who are trying to strengthen their grip on the world’s most popular server-side scripting language. Again, PHP is a server-side scripting language. That means a PHP script is executed on the server, the output is… Continue reading How to Use PHP in HTML
How to Paint Watercolor Flowers in Clip Studio Paint
What You’ll Be Creating If you want to learn how to paint watercolor flowers digitally, in this tutorial I’ll show you how to make a watercolor effect in Clip Studio Paint. I’ll show you what brushes to use, how to shade the flowers, how to create a watercolor edge, and how to finish it all… Continue reading How to Paint Watercolor Flowers in Clip Studio Paint
“Roxxe” Shopify Theme Review: Multipurpose, Easy to Set up
In this theme review we’ll take a look through a multipurpose Shopify theme called Roxxe. Shopify allows you to quickly create your own online store, and when armed with the right theme you can be up and running in no time. So let’s have a look at Roxxe, talk about its pros and cons, and… Continue reading “Roxxe” Shopify Theme Review: Multipurpose, Easy to Set up
The ABCs of attitude-based archetypes in design
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Much of our work as user experience designers is understanding the whys and why nots of our audiences’ decision making. In a previous post, I explored why people decide to switch or stay with products, focusing mainly on circumstances, the “where” and “when” of a job. The circumstances in which… Continue reading The ABCs of attitude-based archetypes in design
WP_Query Arguments: Categories and Tags
In the earlier parts of this series, you’ve learned how WP_Query is structured and what its properties and methods are. The next stage is to understand the various arguments you can use with it and how best to do so. WP_Query has a large number of possible arguments, which makes it extremely flexible. As you can use it… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Categories and Tags
10 Best Graphic Design Courses to Take Online
10 Shares Working in the graphic design industry is an amazing experience as it allows an individual to express one’s creativeness while making money. If you are just beginning your career path or considering a change of direction, graphic design is a viable option. It’s a great choice because it provides an ability to work… Continue reading 10 Best Graphic Design Courses to Take Online
Why Freelance Web Designers Should Be Using Sales Funnels
October 18, 2020 by Spyre Studios Your freelance web design business depends on your ability to land more sales, generate more revenue, and nurture a bigger customer base. But optimizing your sales strategy is difficult for a number of reasons. For starters, you’re an expert in web design, not sales. You don’t know what you… Continue reading Why Freelance Web Designers Should Be Using Sales Funnels
A semiotic perspective on product design
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Dealing with illness. The creativity and sensitivity of designers can be put at the service of the needs of particular categories of users such as people suffering from chronic diseases and subject to long-term treatments. I will demonstrate that through the analysis of a new object designed to facilitate the administration… Continue reading A semiotic perspective on product design
How to Use AJAX in PHP and jQuery
Today, we’re going to explore the concept of AJAX with PHP and JavaScript. The AJAX technique helps you to improve your application’s user interface and enhance the overall end user experience. If want to learn JavaScript, check out our free online course on JavaScript fundamentals! FREE JavaScript Modern JavaScript Fundamentals Dan Wellman What Is AJAX? AJAX… Continue reading How to Use AJAX in PHP and jQuery
7 Reasons Why Explainer Videos Should Be In Your Digital Marketing Plan
Nowadays, every page on the internet is flooded with videos, specifically animated videos. Believe it not; almost every business is harnessing the power of videos. They believe that conveying the information in an innovative way will inspire the target audience to make an informed decision. According to the statistics, 63% of the businesses are using… Continue reading 7 Reasons Why Explainer Videos Should Be In Your Digital Marketing Plan
PHP Namespace Tutorial: The Basics
In this tutorial, I’ll go through the basics of namespaces in PHP. I’ll explain why you might need namespaces, and I’ll show you how to use PHP namespaces in your day-to-day development. More often than not, you will end up using third-party libraries from different vendors in your PHP applications. Now, there could be collisions… Continue reading PHP Namespace Tutorial: The Basics
Why UX Personas Matter in Web Design (+2 Persona Examples)
What’s the one thing that designers, coders, and writers all seek in unison? Besides an easy to work with clients, of course. It’s clarity. When achieved, it makes quick work of even the most daunting task. If absent, even a mind-numbingly menial job can break a seasoned professional down to tears. It’s always a lack… Continue reading Why UX Personas Matter in Web Design (+2 Persona Examples)
How to Autoload Classes With Composer in PHP
In this article, we’ll discuss the basics of autoloading in PHP and how to autoload PHP classes with Composer. I’ll explain why autoloading is so important and show you how to use Composer for autoloading step by step. I’ll also explain the difference between the different kinds of autoloading in Composer. Why Do We Need… Continue reading How to Autoload Classes With Composer in PHP
'Knowing what you're looking at' – JS tips for new React developers
August 17, 2020 I have a confession to make. While I have been a professional web developer for over 6 years, I didn’t feel comfortable with JavaScript until a year and a half ago. I still don’t feel like I know a lot of things. There’s a lot that still confuses me. But I’ve grown… Continue reading 'Knowing what you're looking at' – JS tips for new React developers