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

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

How to make smart group decisions on food — iPhoneX experience design

Step 3. Key findings from User Research Most people handle food decisions over text or email. Cite: This data comes from a research called Looking at the Food [data], conducted by Hannah Moyers. The results are from a survey which has gained 150 responses, with half of them coming from the US. 2. Users chat (physically or… Continue reading How to make smart group decisions on food — iPhoneX experience design

25 Ways To Improve Your Business And Work

Prepare yourself to find out 25 ways that will help you improve your business and work. More exactly, we are talking about 25 web tools and services, tested and well researched, from different fields like cloud storage solutions, event ticketing system, web development services with excellent track record and many others. Find below small reviews… Continue reading 25 Ways To Improve Your Business And Work

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

Grab Our Free Printable Markdown Cheat Sheet — SitePoint

HTML has revolutionized the way we communicate. It formats the colossal amounts of information we read online, and is often used beyond the web to format books and other reading materials. Yet, until the advent of Markdown, it was a clumsy exercise to mark up plain text with HTML tags. It’s virtually unthinkable to go… Continue reading Grab Our Free Printable Markdown Cheat Sheet — SitePoint

Looking for the Best WordPress Themes for 2017?

Posted · Category: Best Collections Looking for the right WordPress theme can be a chore if this is your first attempt, or if you’re not exactly sure what you should be looking for. The economics are such, that premium themes are usually no more expensive than those having somewhat less to offer. It’s worth noting… Continue reading Looking for the Best WordPress Themes for 2017?

Looking for a Prototyping Tool? Here are Some Very Good Ones

Posted · Category: Best Collections First of all, how exactly do you intend to present your design, or elements of it, to others, or test the UX? With a prototype of course, but there are also wireframes and mockups to consider. All three serve a purpose, but they are not one and the same. The… Continue reading Looking for a Prototyping Tool? Here are Some Very Good Ones

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

What does simplicity in UX design look like?

For over a decade, designers have debated what constitutes simplicity in user experience design. As Robert Hoekman Jr. points out in his article When It Comes to UX Design, Simplicity is Overrated, the variation in semantics is confusing. Simplicity could refer to a clean design (then there’s the disparity of what “clean” actually looks like), the… Continue reading What does simplicity in UX design look like?

Looking to Code Your Designs? 9 Hand-Picked Services

Most website designers leave the coding to professional developers; since they have neither the time, the inclination, nor the necessary skills to do so themselves. Even designers who are proficient in coding, often prefer to leave the work up to professionals who they know will get the job done right. If you’re still fairly new… Continue reading Looking to Code Your Designs? 9 Hand-Picked Services

10 Tips for Improving Your Photo Manipulation Skills

Over it’s 20+ year history, Photoshop has proved itself useful for a great many things. One of the primary applications is photo manipulation. In fact, it’s photo manipulation that is meant by the colloquial term “to Photoshop”. Yet pulling off a successful photo manipulation isn’t quite as easy as it sounds.  So whether you are… Continue reading 10 Tips for Improving Your Photo Manipulation Skills

5 Things to Consider Before Becoming a Freelance Web Professional

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;} If you’re working as a web professional for an employer, chances are you occasionally daydream about going it alone. Maybe you do some freelance work in your spare time and would love to extend that to full time, or maybe you just want the freedom of being… Continue reading 5 Things to Consider Before Becoming a Freelance Web Professional

WordPress Help: 25 Blog and Resource Websites

The open source PHP/MySQL WordPress platform is one of the most stable scripts for any webmaster. With the advent of Custom Post Types it is now possible to turn any WordPress website in a full-blown gallery of social network. I have been so impressed with recent advancements that I feel it’s worth cataloging some of… Continue reading WordPress Help: 25 Blog and Resource Websites

How To Build a Range Slider Input with jQuery UI

Looking at the HTML5 range input element you can see a number of advancements. Forms are able to take in restricted information from users sliding between number segments. But unfortunately these HTML5 inputs are only supported in modern browsers. So although there are a few limitations we can try to work around them. I want… Continue reading How To Build a Range Slider Input with jQuery UI

30+ Web Design Gallery Websites – Looking For Inspiration?

Web design gallery websites provide developers and designers creative inspiration for their own projects. By collecting the best web designs all over the internet, such websites serve as a key spot for fresh creative ideas. In This post, I have featured more than 40 examples of web design gallery websites that you can use for… Continue reading 30+ Web Design Gallery Websites – Looking For Inspiration?

Web Design Workshop #36: Gateway Learning

Web Design Workshop is our regular community project where we ask readers to submit their work for your friendly, constructive criticism. It’s the perfect way to learn, offer opinions and have your own work critiqued! This week, something you may have already seen if you follow Dan Eden..   Rules of Engagement Play nice! We… Continue reading Web Design Workshop #36: Gateway Learning

Looking for Cool Photoshop Brushes?

If you`re a graphic designer or a web designer and you need to use Adobe Photoshop brushes every day, then you`re probably tired of using the same old standard options. You know better than anyone how competition is nowadays and how hard it is to look for ways to make your projects stand out. Plus,… Continue reading Looking for Cool Photoshop Brushes?