Bootstrap Magic: A tool for creating Bootstrap themes

Bootstrap Magic is a free but powerful tool to create custom Bootstrap themes in-browser in minutes. We’ve tried it out and we have to admit that it’s a great product, simple and easy to use thanks to a built-in HTML editor with live reload. Bootstrap Magic leverages Sass’s power to make all helper functions available… Continue reading Bootstrap Magic: A tool for creating Bootstrap themes

Get Started with iPhone’s Taptic Engine.

You’re a UI designer. You’ve heard about the Taptic Engine on the iPhones and watched the developer videos where Apple encourages you to integrate them into your design. At first you thought, it’s only on the iPhone 6S. It’s a small market. Then the next iPhone came and you procrastinated more. And now it’s maybe… Continue reading Get Started with iPhone’s Taptic Engine.

The relationship between design deliverables and presentation skills

In 13 years working in UX, I have joined a considerable number of meetings where UX Designers present their work to the rest of the team. More than I can remember, to be brutally honest. Consumer journeys, sitemaps, wireframes, benchmark audits, personas, user research reports — the list of deliverables designers are creating is huge. Presenting work… Continue reading The relationship between design deliverables and presentation skills

Design Blocks: 170+ HTML components

Design Blocks is a free set of more than 170 responsive components in HTML for assembling a website or an hybrid app in minutes. Design blocks is basically an UI kit providing a wide range of components and layouts such as headers, footers, sections, forms, CTAs, pricing tables, testimonials, etc. Modules are based on Bootstrap… Continue reading Design Blocks: 170+ HTML components

The age of empathy, Slack groups, designing with AI and more UX links this week

If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Stop doing user interviews; start having conversations → There’s something I’ve realized lately, that’s making my user interviews go smoother and getting deeper, more nuanced insights. The key is this: relax. Take a step back, for a moment. What is a user interview? If yours are… Continue reading The age of empathy, Slack groups, designing with AI and more UX links this week

The 5 questions you should be asking yourself all day, everyday #UX

The other day I found myself writing down a list of 5 questions I was asking myself more frequently than ever in the projects I am working on — and decided to pass it on to my team as well. The agency life is extremely fast-paced. Each Experience Designer on my team is simultaneously involved in two… Continue reading The 5 questions you should be asking yourself all day, everyday #UX

Embedded Signing with the HelloSign API — SitePoint

A walkthrough into embedded signing with HelloSign We’ve teamed up with HelloSign to help you get started with their eSign platform. HelloSign is a full-featured eSignature platform with the fastest eSign integration platform in the industry, making it easy for you or your company to manage and sign any legally binding document. In less than… Continue reading Embedded Signing with the HelloSign API — SitePoint

Embedded VS. Non-Embedded Signing with HelloSign — SitePoint

To embed or non-embed? Understand the difference when using HelloSign’s e-sign API We’ve teamed up with HelloSign to help you understand the difference between embedded and non-embedded signing options with the fastest eSign integration API. In less than 3 minutes, we teach you about the difference between embedded signing and non-embedded signing for legally binding… Continue reading Embedded VS. Non-Embedded Signing with HelloSign — SitePoint

Making Your First API Call with HelloSign — SitePoint

We’ve teamed up with HelloSign to help you get started with the fastest eSign integration API in the industry. HelloSign is a full-featured eSignature platform that makes it easy for you or your company to manage and sign any kind of document. Kick-starting eSignature API Calls with HelloSign In just 5 minutes, we’ll show you… Continue reading Making Your First API Call with HelloSign — SitePoint

On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent

On Being Humble Be modest. Your accomplishments to date have brought you this far, but don’t depend on it to bring you any further. That design competition you won, painting sold to a museum exhibition, or local media sensation? Cheers to having your hard work rewarded. Keep it up. Your accomplishments in the future starts with… Continue reading On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent

Piroll: A design template for agency/personal portfolio

Piroll is a PSD design template by Svetlana, UI designer from New York, that you can use for building your own agency or personal portfolio. This template has a minimal and modern look and provides great flexibility: that makes it suitable for designers, photographers, web agencies and studios, freelancers and so on. In the download… Continue reading Piroll: A design template for agency/personal portfolio

Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events

Hello, old friend. We all reach a point in our careers when we start speaking in public. Designers, in particular, are pretty good at organizing conferences, panels, meetups, livestreams and other forms of publicly sharing knowledge with fellow designers. Speaking at design events is not only important for the design community as a whole, but also… Continue reading Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events

Need help choosing a WP Theme for a Startup or Small Business? Check these options

Posted · Category: Best Collections Do you or your client have a well-established or a startup? If your answer is positive, then I bet you strive to acquire new customers and retain the existing ones. In today’s business environment, a carefully constructed, optimally-planned website is essential. If you hope to make the search for clients… Continue reading Need help choosing a WP Theme for a Startup or Small Business? Check these options

7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers

There are many tools out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why we are sharing 7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers. So, without any further ado let’s take a look at these and feel free to share this post with others.… Continue reading 7 Great (Yet Free) Web Tools For Bloggers, Web Designers & Developers

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

21 Examples of Highly Rated Web Tools & Services

Say welcome to a new showcase of 21 examples of highly rated web tools and services. These showcases are a great help for all of you and as we are getting excellent feedback, we will continue the series. You will find solutions from many services like WordPress plugin for signing online contracts and documents, website… Continue reading 21 Examples of Highly Rated Web Tools & Services

They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”

We’re living in the era of the “UX enthusiastics”: some people just feel they have a natural talent about anything related to “user” AND “experience” and this enables them to randomly act and feel as UX designer. Someone should tell them that this is one of those cases when a natural talent in not enough… Continue reading They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”

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

Dynamic Icons in Sketch

Two years ago, I had a grand total of zero minutes played in Sketch. Today — let’s do the math — I have approximately 18 months in Sketch x 172 working hours per month, equalling 3,132 hours. In that time I’ve discovered the best solution for tedious icon creation problems that zap your time. In the past, designers spent… Continue reading Dynamic Icons in Sketch

Walking Through Design in Tokyo

People push past me as I exit the train at Shibuya station, and I start looking for the Hachiko statue. My friends told me to meet there before dinner, but ten minutes later I’m still lost. Thankfully once I slow down and look at my surroundings, I see guides all around me. At its size… Continue reading Walking Through Design in Tokyo

Top 20 Multiple Services WordPress Themes with a Simple Clean Design

Oftentimes, it is quite a tricky task to find a beautiful template to fit your corporate branding. Whether you need a website for a small-sized business, a corporate or company homepage, a car wash or cleaning service project, our collection of Top 20 Multiple Services WordPress Themes will come in handy. All of these special… Continue reading Top 20 Multiple Services WordPress Themes with a Simple Clean Design

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