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50 Best Book Cover Mockups

For any author, the book cover is the first impression your story makes. It’s the billboard on a crowded shelf, the digital thumbnail that catches a reader’s eye. A well-designed cover can entice readers to delve into your world, sparking their imagination and promising a captivating journey. But crafting the perfect cover can feel daunting,… Continue reading 50 Best Book Cover Mockups

Best AI Design Tools: Insights & Tips From 50+ Tools

Impact of AI in design When it comes to design, AI has great creative capacity, given its text generation and text-to-image capabilities. Seeing some photorealistic images generated by AI, we cannot help but wonder what this means for us as designers.  Some of the questions that were on our minds: How can we use this… Continue reading Best AI Design Tools: Insights & Tips From 50+ Tools

Tips on How to Design Fiction Book Covers (Ideas & Examples)

Looking for book cover design ideas? You’ve come to the right place. Today, we’ll share some terrific book cover examples and tips on how to make your cover stand out from the pack. How to Design a Book Cover 1. Convey the mood of your book with your cover design. Your reader should know whether your… Continue reading Tips on How to Design Fiction Book Covers (Ideas & Examples)

The Power of Place in Photography

Place in photography is everything to the photographer, as it helps him capture and investigate various concepts such as culture and identity, traditions, and environmental challenges. But also, place plays a more significant role in the photograph’s appearance and can give you a bad day at the office if not controlled. Although place can add… Continue reading The Power of Place in Photography

14 Valentine’s Day Web Templates You Should Use

Valentine’s Day is a special occasion that celebrates love and affection between couples. It’s a day to express your feelings to your loved ones and make them feel special. For businesses, it’s an opportunity to connect with customers and show that you care about their relationship goals. The right templates can set your site apart… Continue reading 14 Valentine’s Day Web Templates You Should Use

10 Great Places to Find Music for Videos

Creating videos for social media or to embed on your site can be a fun and creative way to promote your brand or business. More importantly, time spent on a page is a significant SEO ranking factor, so providing a video to watch is of enormous benefit. However, coming up with the music for your… Continue reading 10 Great Places to Find Music for Videos

How Illustration Adds Emotion To UX

From 45,000-year-old cave paintings to 21st-century space rocket diagrams, illustrations have long played a significant role in human communication. Pictures cross-language and literacy barriers, allowing people to understand and communicate complex moods and feelings that they cannot in words. When we were little, we could understand and appreciate E.H. Shepard’s illustrations of Winnie the Pooh… Continue reading How Illustration Adds Emotion To UX

40 Most Popular Fonts of 2021

As a designer, it can be hard to find just the right font for your project. But there’s one surefire way to cut through all the noise to find the best fonts out there.  One of the popular fonts for 2021 you can find at Envato Elements Using the power of consumer choices, we’ve identified the… Continue reading 40 Most Popular Fonts of 2021

35+ Best Photoshop Actions for Designers & Photographers

64 Shares The best professional Photoshop actions can make your photographs unique and attention-grabbing. The hand-picked high quality Photoshop actions that will transform your Photographs into Oily effect, newspaper print, abstract, watercolor effect, comic and dots effects within a seconds. Mostly Photoshop actions available with video tutorials that shows how to setup action files and… Continue reading 35+ Best Photoshop Actions for Designers & Photographers

UX Design Doesn’t End With Your Website

User experience design is something that most of us associate with websites. But why isn’t it something we extend beyond the website? Here’s why I ask this: As a consumer, it’s so rare that your only interaction with a brand is through its website. Take an ecommerce site, for example. You buy a product from… Continue reading UX Design Doesn’t End With Your Website

Microcopy: an essential guide to becoming a more literate designer

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Illustration by David Hall Designers should not be mere decorators, but have an understanding of language and microcopy, a crucial design skill, now more than ever. Look at these two images: Onboarding screen A and B The obvious difference between these two onboarding visuals is that option A is devoid of words and is… Continue reading Microcopy: an essential guide to becoming a more literate designer

27 Exciting New Tools For Designers, March 2021

Looking for something new to get you excited about design work? This list is packed with all kinds of goodies to help you feel inspired and ready to work. Here’s what new for designers this month. Top Picks for March Same Energy Same Energy, in beta, is a visual search engine. You can search with… Continue reading 27 Exciting New Tools For Designers, March 2021

What’s New in Ecommerce, February 2021

There are some interesting shake-ups on the horizon for ecommerce: Experiential shopping, Virt-ical worlds, Au naturale models. We’re starting to see signs of them already — many of them spurred on thanks to the events of 2020. Below, we’re going to explore what’s going on with these new ecommerce trends and technologies and take a… Continue reading What’s New in Ecommerce, February 2021

3 Essential Design Trends, January 2021

Don’t drop the ball on these website design trends for the new year. All of the trends featured here this month are visual in nature – not as many user interface elements as previous months, but all just as stunning and usable. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. 3D Scenes on White (Light)… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, January 2021

27 Best Lightroom Presets for Creative Photographers

26 Shares Best high quality Lightroom presets, great for photography, portraits, indoor, outdoor, travelers, engagements and wedding photos. An amazing Lightroom presets are developed to enhance the beauty of your photos & speed up your photo editing workflow. Easy to use, One click Lightroom Presets that gives your collection of work a more cohesive and… Continue reading 27 Best Lightroom Presets for Creative Photographers

Why Cute Graphic Designs Always Trend on the Internet (With Examples)

December 16, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine Cute graphic designs have been popular in Asia for the past few decades. Incredibly, the influence and style of this Asian cuteness are already reaching the West much faster than we all think. Why do cute graphic designs always trend on the internet anyway? We all need some ‘awwww’… Continue reading Why Cute Graphic Designs Always Trend on the Internet (With Examples)

3 Essential Design Trends, December 2020

The end of the year tends to be busy for a variety of reasons and it can limit some of the freshness we see in designs during much of the year. Regardless, there are a few trending design elements. What we are seeing right now is rooted in deep simplicity with a focus on the… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, December 2020

What Fonts Are Trending Now and Font Trends for 2021

With the end of the year fast approaching, it’s time for some fresh font trends. Next year looks set to be an eclectic and eccentric melting pot of type trends, with kinetic typography, distorted fonts, and Alpine display styles being just a few of the diverse and exciting font categories set to make their mark… Continue reading What Fonts Are Trending Now and Font Trends for 2021

A Brief History of Display Fonts

What is a display font? And what is the best place to use a display typeface? Discover the answers to those questions and more in this article. As a budding designer, it’s important to get familiar with the term and when it’s used. In this article, I’ll go through a display font definition, the typeface… Continue reading A Brief History of Display Fonts

Animal Illustration Inspiration: Character, Wild and Cute!

If you are an animal lover and are looking for cute animal illustrations to include in your designs, then you’ll love this article. Today we’re featuring a number of cute animal illustrations to encourage you to create beautiful animal-inspired projects. Animal Illustrations From Envato Elements Envato Elements hosts thousands of animal illustrations and other great resources for artists… Continue reading Animal Illustration Inspiration: Character, Wild and Cute!

How to really understand humans

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Need-to-know theories, frameworks and tools for designers and researchers. Unsplash by Nijwam Swargiary Why it matters The proper study of mankind is the science of design. -Herbert A. Simon As a UX professional, looking deeply into how our minds, emotions, needs and behaviors co-exist can help us translate human insights into designs… Continue reading How to really understand humans

How to Choose the Best Font for your Website

5 Shares Designing websites is a very intense process that entails lots of hard works. There are various things that you need to think about, such as the logo, color scheme, layout, text designs, and navigation. But the trickiest of designing a website perhaps lies in getting all the elements together to come up with… Continue reading How to Choose the Best Font for your Website

Comic Sans: The Font We Love to Hate? Plus Fonts Similar to Comic Sans

Derided by design fans but loved by millions of Microsoft users, Comic Sans is one of the most popular—and divisive—fonts ever created. Since its release in 1994, Comic Sans has been a consistent feature of everyday life, with the typeface being used on signage, menus, logos… and even tombstones.  Given the widespread popularity of the… Continue reading Comic Sans: The Font We Love to Hate? Plus Fonts Similar to Comic Sans