Graphic designers use typography as a form of communication. Both the appearance of text and the readability of this text in a visual product have an impact on user experience. Typography speaks to users, and may, therefore, be considered the voice of design. This is because typography sets a mood for a website and shares… Continue reading Typography Tips You Should Know When Designing a Website
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Different Strokes: How Brands Build Logos Using Typeface
The concept of something as intangible as a design calling consumers’ attention to a tangible product is a concept that goes back more than one hundred years with brands such as Pepsi, Valvoline and Jack Daniel’s. These logos of yesteryear might be largely unfamiliar, but the way designers chose how to construct a likable image… Continue reading Different Strokes: How Brands Build Logos Using Typeface
7 E-Commerce Design Boo Boos
Appearances matter. It takes one twentieth of a second for your site visitors to judge you. What can people take in in 0.05 sec? Looks are the only thing a prospect can absorb so quickly. You will lose a prospect instantly if your e-commerce page has any of these seven design flaws. Your chances of… Continue reading 7 E-Commerce Design Boo Boos
7 Design Myths That Will Wreck Your Site
When I was a junior designer I made plenty of mistakes. I believed false assumptions mostly because I did not have the experience yet to know better. I still don’t know it all. But, I am always eager to learn new things about design and to see which preconceived notions are accurate or a complete… Continue reading 7 Design Myths That Will Wreck Your Site
Optimizing Google PageSpeed to 100 in WordPress
What You’ll Be Creating How to Reach a PageSpeed of 100 Welcome to part two of our series on Google PageSpeed. In the first episode, I optimized the PageSpeed of my site’s then theme, MySiteMyWay’s Construct. I managed to get to 70 Mobile and 86 Desktop. However, with MySite’s closure, I chose a new theme and reached… Continue reading Optimizing Google PageSpeed to 100 in WordPress
Hands On Improving Google PageSpeed
What You’ll Be Creating What Is Google PageSpeed? Google PageSpeed is a free tool that assesses the performance and usability of your website for mobile and desktop platforms. It’s extra important because Google uses it in determining key elements of our SEO ranking, i.e. how high we appear in their search results. If you want more background… Continue reading Hands On Improving Google PageSpeed
What Apple Pay Can Teach Us About Email Encryption
What You’ll Be Creating Preview image mashup credit: Email Self Defense – the Free Software Foundation. This is a continuing episode in my tutorial series on email privacy and security. Earlier episodes detail a variety of ways to encrypt and secure your email. This episode will talk about how we as technologists can rebuild email for… Continue reading What Apple Pay Can Teach Us About Email Encryption
20 Time Saving & Free Photoshop Plugins
There are many rivals to Photoshop. Sketch app, Acorn, Gimp, Autodesk Pixlr, PaintShop Pro and others. I can honestly say that all of these tools are really nice and good. But it’s really hard to compare with the Photoshop. The interface of the tools I’ve mentioned before is really nice, it’s easier to use it,… Continue reading 20 Time Saving & Free Photoshop Plugins
20 Templates For Creating High-Fidelity Wireframes
Wireframing can be something quick and dirty, or it can be a large task that takes time to perfect. So here are some wireframe templates to help you save ton of time. With these templates you can easily create effective mockups and prototype of your web and mobile apps in no time. This is the… Continue reading 20 Templates For Creating High-Fidelity Wireframes
Working with Data, Assets, and Templates in Middleman
This second tutorial about building static websites with Middleman dives a little deeper into the framework. By the end, you should know enough to build your own project from scratch. We’ll cover topics such as Data Files, Pretty URLs, Project Templates and the Asset Pipeline, so let’s get stuck in! Data Files So, having already… Continue reading Working with Data, Assets, and Templates in Middleman
Methodologies For Effective Mobile App Usability
The volatile growth in the sales of mobile devices and their usage signifies that only a desktop-optimized website is not enough to stay ahead of the curve. Today, almost everyone owns an Internet-enabled mobile device, and thus, they expect to have apps and websites specifically designed for their devices. Certainly, to ensure a successful product… Continue reading Methodologies For Effective Mobile App Usability
Free UI Elements For Web and Mobile Design
Mobile applications date back to the beginning of the 21st century. They comprised a handful of simplistically-built software oriented towards fancy calculators, catchy ring tone generators, theme customization tools and other entertainment programs, the majority of which explored the world of gaming. What Pushes App UI Templates On Top Of The Design Wave? The… Continue reading Free UI Elements For Web and Mobile Design
Beyond Responsive for a True Mobile Friendly Website
Responsive web design has earned itself a spot in the collection of most widely used web related buzz-words joining the ranks of Web 2.0, animated GIF, flat design and skeuomorphism. Its prevalence in the world of web design is due to its popularity as the top choice for creating mobile ready websites as shown by… Continue reading Beyond Responsive for a True Mobile Friendly Website
10 Great Tools For Mobile & Web UX Design
The amazing and intimidating thing is challenges in UX Design, and exponentially more potential solutions. The best kinds of solutions are ones that can be seamlessly integrated into the current tools of choice, and those that can be accessed at any point from the process. So without further ado, I present to you 10 great… Continue reading 10 Great Tools For Mobile & Web UX Design
The Inception of Mobile Application Designs
Mobile being the talk of the town, being the architect of your town (mobile app) it is incumbent on you improves the aesthetics and facilities of your town, so that it can attract maximum number of visitors. It is also you duty to stay abreast with the latest advancement in order to deliver the best… Continue reading The Inception of Mobile Application Designs
Infragistics Indigo Studio: Real Rapid Prototyping for Web, Mobile, and Desktop
Rapid prototyping is an essential way of saving time in our modern age where billions of apps compete for the customer’s attention. Is the great idea you had for just another app actually that great or is it just another failure among the millions of failures in app stores and the web worldwide? Apart from… Continue reading Infragistics Indigo Studio: Real Rapid Prototyping for Web, Mobile, and Desktop
12 Things You Must Know Before Developing Mobile Apps
The mobile industry has taken the web by storm, and it’s a fact proven beyond any shred of doubt. The rising popularity of smartphones and tablet devices have given businesses new ways to connect and engage with their audience on the go. Mobile phones are becoming a significant part of our life and they show… Continue reading 12 Things You Must Know Before Developing Mobile Apps
6 Key Tips for Building a Successful Mobile App
Mobile applications have become a vital component in our lives. You can find an app serving varied purposes, from letting you play games to track healthy eating habits, organize to-do lists and much more. With mobile devices outselling traditional computer systems, creating a mobile app can help expand your reach to the target audience located… Continue reading 6 Key Tips for Building a Successful Mobile App
29 Free Photoshop Designs for Mobile App User Interface
Mobile Apps are all the rage these days. Now a days when almost everyone owns smart phones there are myriad apps that cater to different purposes. For each purpose there are infinite apps, all by different designers. Now that there are so many apps already available online it becomes a little difficult for the designers… Continue reading 29 Free Photoshop Designs for Mobile App User Interface
Solutions To Fix Navigation Issues For Mobile Devices
When it comes to creating a responsive design for mobile the most challenging aspect we face is creating a navigation menu that works well on any mobile device screen. Especially, when your website navigation menu has several items, squeezing all those items into a mobile device with small screen resolution, is a tricky problem to… Continue reading Solutions To Fix Navigation Issues For Mobile Devices
Why Flat Design Is The Way To Go For Your Mobile App
Flat design is increasingly being used in mobile apps replacing the commonly known intricate designs that are dominated by drop shadows, brushes and gradients. This design style incorporates flat shapes and icons. Flat design basically revolves around the use of rectangles, triangles, circles and other shapes without the need to use other design elements such… Continue reading Why Flat Design Is The Way To Go For Your Mobile App
Top 40+ Web & Mobile GUI Templates from 2014
Today, just as we did last year, we have compiled a comprehensive collection of the best free web and mobile GUI templates from this year (2014). As you would expect, the vast majority of the templates have been designed in a flat-style, but after this years release of iOS8with it’s elegant ‘line-style’ UI, and the… Continue reading Top 40+ Web & Mobile GUI Templates from 2014
20 Free Web & Mobile PSD UI Kits 2014
User Interface is th most important part of any design as it is responsible for making the first impression of any software. Here the amazing UI kits enter the picture and make the lives of all the designers much easier. There are infinite numbers of PSD UI kits available for mobile softwares and website designs.… Continue reading 20 Free Web & Mobile PSD UI Kits 2014
25 Free Gesture Icons Packs for Your Mobile App
Finally, you are ready to put a new mobile app on the market. Surely you expect it to take the audience by storm. As we all know, people buy not only the product but also its packaging. So without a well-thought-out presentation, chances are, it simply won’t do. Presentations of old won’t do either, neither… Continue reading 25 Free Gesture Icons Packs for Your Mobile App