Friends, Windows enthusiasts, and people generally just stuck with Windows… rejoice! Rejoice, for some real competition to Adobe has finally hit our platform. Affinity Photo is here in Beta form, and it is looking mighty fine. I’ve had a chance to play around with it, and I have to say that I am duly impressed.… Continue reading Affinity Photo comes to Windows
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What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do
The term ‘design’ can be a deceptively simple one. It sounds curiously vague, and when offered in response to most people, it elicits a degree of confusion. For example, when somebody says ‘Oh, I work as a designer,’ a lot of people do not entirely understand what this means. This is because, for such a… Continue reading What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do
Get Started With Firebase for Android
Mobile applications need a back-end server in order to perform tasks such as authenticating users and synchronizing user data across multiple devices. Creating such a server, however, requires a skill set that most independent app developers lack. Fortunately, there are several back-end as a service platforms, often called BaaS, you can use today. Google’s Firebase… Continue reading Get Started With Firebase for Android
Cloudinary Adds HTTP/2 Support
Posted · Category: Information Cloudinary, a provider of solutions for managing images and video in the cloud, is offering HTTP/2 support, enabling developers to further optimize the user experience. To take advantage of HTTP/2, Cloudinary users don’t have to do a thing – it’s been automatically integrated into the online tools. Websites have changed dramatically… Continue reading Cloudinary Adds HTTP/2 Support
Apply to 4,000+ Companies with One Application
Posted · Category: Information On Hired the traditional process of finding a job is completely reversed; instead of applying to companies (which often feels like throwing your resume into a black hole), companies pro-actively apply to you with interview requests. From there, the power is 100% in your hands to decide if you’re interested in… Continue reading Apply to 4,000+ Companies with One Application
How To Design A Great Portfolio Website
Advertisement Designing a great portfolio, whether it is a web design portfolio or a graphic design portfolio, is a challenging task for every designer. Designing a project for ourselves, such that could meet our highest requirements, can be tough. Still, it doesn’t mean that we cannot create an online portfolio which is entertaining, accurate, and… Continue reading How To Design A Great Portfolio Website
Lame vs. Kickass WordPress Themes: Take your Pick
Posted · Category: Best Collections Here at Artbees Themes, we’re not big into sugar-coating things. With ourselves or others. So we’ll be blunt–in the world of WordPress Themes there are the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’, but it’s not always easily apparent. If you’re not quite sure what to prioritize when shopping for a new… Continue reading Lame vs. Kickass WordPress Themes: Take your Pick
New Coffee Break Course on CSS Keyframe Animations
CSS keyframe animations offer designers a powerful way to create animations in the browser without having to rely on external plugins or extensive programming. If you’re not sure how to use them, our new Coffee Break Course, Up and Running With CSS Keyframe Animations, is the place to start. In just ten minutes, Envato Tuts+ instructor… Continue reading New Coffee Break Course on CSS Keyframe Animations
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
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?
20 Fascinating Examples of Bold Design
If you’re subscribed to my list, you know that in the first email, I ask you what is your biggest struggle with design in business. A huge number of people reply to this email (and I respond to almost all of them). And it turns out that many readers seem to be struggling with finding… Continue reading 20 Fascinating Examples of Bold Design
Tips for Designers Who Don’t Code
I hail from a design background and moved into front-end development some years ago. With responsive web design, the requirement of the designer is shifting. Here are a few tips collated to help designers who don’t code. In an ideal world, everybody designing for the web medium would also be a front-end developer. The reasons… Continue reading Tips for Designers Who Don’t Code
Small Guide For Designing A Website That Sells
Image source: industrywest.com[2] The development of sales makes one thing obvious – consumers are becoming picky and negative towards uncreative companies. The ones to make the best deals are the always evolving ones, which seem to really understand what their customers want. First of all, a company needs to develop an excellent product which can… Continue reading Small Guide For Designing A Website That Sells
How to Install a WordPress Plugin
One of the challenges of writing articles focused on web development and software development is making sure anyone and everyone who wants to learn a skill is able to do so. When you provide as much content as Envato, it can often be a challenge to make sure you’re educating everyone. This includes people who are… Continue reading How to Install a WordPress Plugin
22 Must Reads For Web and Graphic Designers
Stay updated with the latest design news, read some personal development books, learn how to grow your business and how to design better! This is what this roundup will offer you! We selected 22 must reads for web and graphic designers. These are some really useful articles we found on the web. These are both… Continue reading 22 Must Reads For Web and Graphic Designers
WordPress Admin Themes: Rebrand and Customize the WordPress Admin
How do you like the default WordPress admin ? Some people express distaste for it saying it’s stuck in the past design-wise and can be hard to learn for beginners. Personally I have never had a problem with it – that may be because I have used most versions and spend so much time in… Continue reading WordPress Admin Themes: Rebrand and Customize the WordPress Admin
10 Terrific Time-Saving CSS Cleanup Tools
The benefits of having clean, organized CSS are numerous. A site with immaculate CSS will load more quickly, appear more prominently in search results, and serve as a stellar testament of your professionalism for future clients. Everyone from the everyday visitor to the most scrutinous fellow designer will benefit from your diligent, clean CSS markup. … Continue reading 10 Terrific Time-Saving CSS Cleanup Tools
How Human Centric Web Design Improves Your Workflow
Human-centric and user-centric design are two terms we often hear in the industry, though sometimes both designers and developers consider them to mean the same. User-centered design is something most of us aim to put high on our list of priorities; having the end-user in mind and reflecting this philosophy in our products. Human-centered design… Continue reading How Human Centric Web Design Improves Your Workflow
45+ Free GUI Sets For Your Web and App Projects
Free GUI set are in high demand there days. A lot of web designers experience an increasing competition and everyone work hard to become the best of the best. With thousands of skilled designers online it is essential to stand out from the crowd and know how to work smarter than your competitors. Having the… Continue reading 45+ Free GUI Sets For Your Web and App Projects
30+ Websites Offering Free Icon Sets For Download
Free icon sets of high quality can be really useful for busy web designers to speed up the creative process. Icons play an important role in blog- and website design for attracting the attention of visitors to specific content, menu items and so forth. While there are tons of premium icons available for anyone willing… Continue reading 30+ Websites Offering Free Icon Sets For Download
Useful Hacks to Make WordPress Work Better
If you came here looking for ways to break into someone’s WordPress site, you choose the wrong definition of the word hack. No, this article is all about ways to make WordPress work better for you and your visitors by getting your hands dirty with WordPress’ actual code, you know the functions.php files, .htaccess and… Continue reading Useful Hacks to Make WordPress Work Better
14 print inspired websites
For years, I’ve continuously read how print is a dying industry and how print designers are in danger. It’s hard to argue, when many big name newspapers and magazines of the past see more readership online than in print. It’s even harder when many of these magazines and newspapers cease printing altogether to go full-blown… Continue reading 14 print inspired websites
Why Media Temple’s Grid Package Is Such A Likeable Hosting Option
The Media Temple Grid type hosting plan is the best value for blog, business or personal web hosting, for a number of reasons. First among these is the scalability it comes with: there is no fixed capacity, so you’re always online. The number of computers comprising the grid can be augmented with just a flip of… Continue reading Why Media Temple’s Grid Package Is Such A Likeable Hosting Option
The Pros and Cons of Parallax Website Design
Parallax websites are quickly growing in popularity as web designers continue push the envelope and the capabilities of web browsers in order to wow visitors. You have to admit, a smooth scrolling parallax website captivates users and provokes intense curiosity. Visitors tend to stay on your website longer, if only to play with the slick… Continue reading The Pros and Cons of Parallax Website Design