25 Best Vintage Fonts

Vintage fonts are useful to create retro / vintage logotypes, badges, labels, apparel design and quotes. Stylish Vintage Fonts comes with upper and lowercase characters, large set of punctuation glyphs, numerals, and supports international languages. In this collection mostly fonts are handcrafted, bold, elegant style with vintage textures and effects. You may be interested in… Continue reading 25 Best Vintage Fonts

From Human-centered design to design for enhancing human ability

The role of design is consequently evolving. From initially being a domain of communication with a predominant aesthetic focus design has taken a key role in the creation of products and has become a human advocacy. Design has moved into the C-Suite with the appointment of Chief Design Officers (CDO) while Design Thinking shifted the… Continue reading From Human-centered design to design for enhancing human ability

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”

15 Best Bootstrap Themes for 2017

Part of Bootstrap’s magic is the robust and varied market for pre-built themes. These themes can be as simple as a collection of UI elements or as complete as fully-built websites with WYSIWYG page builders built it. Take a look at some of your options below and find the best Bootstrap themes for 2017. CoPro… Continue reading 15 Best Bootstrap Themes for 2017

The New Skeuomorphism is in Your Voice Assistant

Google Home and Amazon Echo Yay, we killed Skeuomorphism! Not too long ago humanity left behind its skeuomorphic interfaces. Skeuomorphism meant using references to real world surface textures on visual interfaces to enhance their comprehensibility. We stripped our visual interfaces off their ornamentations to allow a more authentic approach to visual aesthetics. Killing skeuomorphism made us… Continue reading The New Skeuomorphism is in Your Voice Assistant

Stylish and Clean WordPress Blog Theme

This is a fully-responsive, light and crisp WordPress blog theme that comes with tons of original functionalities, designed in a golden era of postcard-style look that presents your content and ads in an eye-catching fashion. Features: – Mix of modern CSS effects and retro design – Pop-up pages and pop-up advertising – Pre-defined ad placement… Continue reading Stylish and Clean WordPress Blog Theme

Combatting unconscious bias in design

bi·as: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair; cause to feel or show inclination or prejudice for or against someone or something. A few years ago, a male-led design team was working on a brief for a major athletic apparel… Continue reading Combatting unconscious bias in design

Best Photoshop Plugins

April 6, 2017 by Veronika Photoshop is a powerful graphic design software that enables designers to work with both raster and vector images. The incredible algorithms and unmatchable user-friendly interface have helped this design software become a top choice on the market. Yet, what makes Photoshop truly unique is the impressive collection of free and… Continue reading Best Photoshop Plugins

8 Best Tools For Making Animated Videos

March 2, 2017 by Veronika This collection of free and premium video creation tools can help you create your very own 2D and 3D character animations and bring your ideas to life. Targeted at both professional animators and amateurs in the marketing and freelance industry, this list of tools is suitable for anyone who’s interested in… Continue reading 8 Best Tools For Making Animated Videos

Free Responsive and Clean WordPress Theme

This theme is March’s Free File of the Month from Themeforest. Ecobox is a unique, clean and responsive template. It is designed with fresh and natural color scheme to represent ecofriendly feel of your business. Ecobox comes with Revolution slider, 6 homepage layouts, 2,3,4 columns portfolio layouts, 5 blog pages, contacts pages and more. The… Continue reading Free Responsive and Clean WordPress Theme

Introducing InVision for iOS 2.0, the all-new InVision mobile app 

Doing work on the go is a natural part of the modern workday. Feedback sessions can’t always wait, and with more teams working in distributed settings, it’s increasingly important to reliably access your projects, no matter where you are. That’s why we’ve been working on a fresh mobile experience to support your workflow. We’re excited… Continue reading Introducing InVision for iOS 2.0, the all-new InVision mobile app 

Google Home: first impressions

This is my Google Home making friends at my place Last Black Friday I couldn’t resist the temptation to buy a Google Home, and I’m in love with it. I can justify my shopping spree by saying I am a designer and really needed to feel how it is to interact with a device only by… Continue reading Google Home: first impressions

Web Design Inspired by The Pantone 2017 Color of The Year

Pantone’s color of the year choice is a symbolic color pick by the famous American color corporation. It is a representation of the current global state of mind. Since the beginning of the 21st Century, Pantone has picked 17 unique colors which have served as trend guides for industry professionals. The company’s yearly color views… Continue reading Web Design Inspired by The Pantone 2017 Color of The Year

Opera Neon Concept Browser for Windows

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Opera Neon Concept Browser for Windows. What if this were the future of web browsing? Get a glimpse into what Opera for computers could become. Each Opera Neon feature is an alternate reality for the Opera browser. The Opera browser features you love have been rebooted, with a fun,… Continue reading Opera Neon Concept Browser for Windows

10 Yearly Planner Design Ideas for 2017

Setting a list of goals and tasks for the year to come is a common activity that boosts motivation and gets us through the first tedious months after the holidays. Yearly planners are not only a great way to set your goals straight but it’s also an interesting design concept that can help you develop… Continue reading 10 Yearly Planner Design Ideas for 2017

Introducing Divi 3.0

Posted · Category: Information Divi 3.0 introduces a complete new front-end editor that has been re-built from the ground up using React, a modern JavaScript library for user interfaces. This new builder allows users to edit their WordPress pages on the front-end of their website using simple and beautiful visual controls. When you activate the… Continue reading Introducing Divi 3.0

Learn Xcode And Swift To Develop iOS Apps

Advertisement I know you want to learn Xcode and you are not the only one. Yet, you might think that creating an app for use on an iPhone or iPad is too complicated and simply out of your reach. However, app design and creation has never been simpler than it is today. Using tools such… Continue reading Learn Xcode And Swift To Develop iOS Apps

Every Designer Should Know Dieter Rams’ Design Principles

Dieter Rams’ design motto, “Weniger, aber besser” (“Less, but better”), has inspired many industrial designers in the past 50 years. Among them is Jonathan “Jony” Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design, who gave the world the simplistic yet refined designs of Macs, iPods, iPads, and iPhones. Rams believed that understanding people is the key… Continue reading Every Designer Should Know Dieter Rams’ Design Principles

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

Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles

Cocycles is a new code search service that enables code to be found by functionality. In this article, Cocycles team member Jonathan explains the idea behind this approach to code searching. We’re all familiar with it: that moment when you’re forced to abandon your code editor, interrupt your workflow and open your browser to search… Continue reading Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles

International Artist Feature: Mexico

For this article in the international artist series we turn to Mexico, featuring six illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from illustration to lettering to graphic design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Gaby Zermeño Gaby is an illustrator and… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Mexico

12 Beautiful Cursive & Handwritten Fonts To Download

Designers’ love for font is not going to end because it is font that gives a design a special feel that designer wants to communicate. There are bundle of free fonts available on the internet and it is quite tough to find out a suitable one for your project. Therefore, it is important to organize… Continue reading 12 Beautiful Cursive & Handwritten Fonts To Download

The Best New Portfolio Sites, February 2016

Welcome everyone to February’s portfolio roundup. It’s time to fall in love with all-new work, by all-new designers. Yes, I went there. So, when looking at this list, I recommend that you take inspiration from the good ideas, and simply ignore the bad. All right, let’s do this… Taiki Kato Taiki Kato’s portfolio proclaims him… Continue reading The Best New Portfolio Sites, February 2016