Just enough research This is a story about developing the sense of knowing when it is enough to research and your gut feeling, as no data will tell you when to stop. Earlier in September, I had the pleasure to be a guest lecturer at Infinum’s first Design Talks event in Skopje. We talked about processes and… Continue reading Just Enough Research
Tag: Patterns
How to Make a Block Pattern for Easy Layouts in WordPress
When working in WordPress, it’s important to remember that there are nearly infinite possibilities when it comes to design and development. Whether you’re looking for something simple or complex, the platform can more than likely deliver. But WordPress gains new features all the time and it’s often the case that users aren’t using everything available… Continue reading How to Make a Block Pattern for Easy Layouts in WordPress
How to Make a Funeral Program
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I will teach you how to make a funeral program in Adobe InDesign. You will learn how to apply background images to shapes, format text for an organized layout, and place swirl vectors in your funeral pamphlet template. If time is an issue for you, don’t hesitate to… Continue reading How to Make a Funeral Program
Search and Replace Strings With Regular Expressions in PHP
PHP comes with a huge variety of functions to work with strings. You can use these built-in PHP functions to trim strings, join them, or replace them. String functions in PHP are pretty powerful by themselves. You can use them to make case-insensitive changes or do multiple replacements at once. However, they still require you… Continue reading Search and Replace Strings With Regular Expressions in PHP
20 Amazing Brush Fonts and Script Fonts for Headlines
26 Shares Amazing hand-picked brush fonts and script fonts collection. Fonts are bold, condensed font, with brushy imperfections and an earthy realism. There are big bold, vintage and brush script font, with a slight punk attitude. Would be perfect for posters, packaging, advertising, headlines, branding, signage and anything where you want that urban look and… Continue reading 20 Amazing Brush Fonts and Script Fonts for Headlines
How to Make a Face Mask Mockup (Using a Face Mask Generator)
What You’ll Be Creating Face masks have become an essential item for many of us in the world, and creating a face mask mockup design can be a great way to experiment with reusable options. Have you considered designing or creating your own face mask, rather than relying on disposable ones? You can do so right… Continue reading How to Make a Face Mask Mockup (Using a Face Mask Generator)
Created by You, November 2019 Edition
What You’ll Be Creating Hello, and welcome back to our monthly community feature! Each month, we’ll take a look at a selection of content created and submitted by you—the Envato Tuts+ community! We love seeing the things you’ve created. These creations are from the Design & Illustration section of Envato Tuts+, and you can join… Continue reading Created by You, November 2019 Edition
25 Best High Quality Photoshop Actions for Photographers and Designers
The Best Photoshop actions can instantly transform your photos into HDR photography. The hand-picked twenty five high quality Photoshop actions that will transform your Photography 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 how… Continue reading 25 Best High Quality Photoshop Actions for Photographers and Designers
Build a Static Portfolio With Advanced CSS Bar Chart
In a previous post, I showed you how to build a beautiful fullscreen portfolio page. During that tutorial we also learned how to create a responsive CSS column chart. In this tutorial we’ll build another attractive static portfolio page, this time featuring a pure CSS bar chart without using any external JavaScript library, SVG, or the canvas… Continue reading Build a Static Portfolio With Advanced CSS Bar Chart
Best Tips For Your Photo Design Principles
A sense of composition in the photographer – it’s like a musician’s rumor, you have it, or you need to develop it through tireless everyday work. If you manage you Instagram account and would like to make it looks more professional and impressive you should know some essentials of photo design principles. They will help… Continue reading Best Tips For Your Photo Design Principles
Free Christmas Vector Set (Cards, Backgrounds, Patterns etc.)
Christmas is just around the corner and it one of the most cheerful and brightest time of the year.I’m sure you start to think about gift ideas for your family and friends.There are many things to be planned for this special time of the year. If you are designer and have project for Christmas time… Continue reading Free Christmas Vector Set (Cards, Backgrounds, Patterns etc.)
6 Free Yet Worth Using Online Tools to Design Logos, Vectors, Patterns & Icons
There are many apps out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why we are sharing 6 Free Yet Worth Using Online Tools to Design Logos, Vectors, Patterns and Icons. So, without any further ado let’s take a look at these and feel free to share this post… Continue reading 6 Free Yet Worth Using Online Tools to Design Logos, Vectors, Patterns & Icons
OS.js – Open Source Desktop Implementation for Your Browser
OS.js is an open-source desktop implementation for a fully-fledged window manager to your browser, Application APIs, GUI toolkits and filesystem abstraction. It works in any modern browser and is implemented on any platform using Node or PHP. OS.js is completely free and open-source which means that you are able to contribute to the development or… Continue reading OS.js – Open Source Desktop Implementation for Your Browser
4 Free Seamless Knitted Christmas Jumper Patterns
I’ve been busy with my virtual knitting needles and crafted 4 free Christmas jumper patterns for your designs to wear this season. Each design is based on the popular ‘Fair Isle’ knitting style with lots of tiny red and white stitch-like graphics making up intricate festive patterns. The download contains patterns for both Illustrator &… Continue reading 4 Free Seamless Knitted Christmas Jumper Patterns
Amazing Frontend Design Patterns Using CSS3 and jQuery
Creating unique websites is every designer’s ultimate goal. When a website is uniquely designed it does attract a lot of viewers and the websites urge users to stay on them for as long as possible to keep them entertained. It is tantamount for all websites that they deliver to their users an amazing and lasting… Continue reading Amazing Frontend Design Patterns Using CSS3 and jQuery
How to use UI design patterns
Design patterns are optimal solutions to common design problems. As common problems are tossed around a community and are resolved, common solutions often emerge. Eventually, the best of these rise above the din, self-identify, and become refined until they reach the status of a design pattern. I wouldn’t call a design patern a trend in… Continue reading How to use UI design patterns
3 Old and Outdated UX Patterns (And How to Fix Them)
Photo: R Schofield In one of my recent articles, The Evolution of the Hamburger icon we talked about the history of this commonly-used pattern, and about who’s using it and why. In fact, there have been many recent discussions in UX circles that have raised the unintuitive nature of the hamburger icon and issues in… Continue reading 3 Old and Outdated UX Patterns (And How to Fix Them)
33 Amazing Frontend Design Patterns using CSS3 and jQuery
Website layouts are typically seen as a combination of design and development meshed together. UI design can be performed using graphics software, code, or in most cases both. This subject offers an interesting combination of skills that work hand-in-hand with each other. Frontend inspiration can offer a lot of great ideas for anyone who builds… Continue reading 33 Amazing Frontend Design Patterns using CSS3 and jQuery
20 Pixel-Perfect Patterns and Backgrounds Packs
If you’re looking for cool patterns and backgrounds for your designs, you’ve come to the right place! Have you seen that there’s a new trend when it comes to patterns and backgrounds used in designs? More and more blurred, abstract backgrounds are being used. Also, shapes like triangles are a common element found in these… Continue reading 20 Pixel-Perfect Patterns and Backgrounds Packs
13 Inspiring Examples of Textures and Patterns in Web Design
A lot of trends come and go in web design, but textures and patterns are always around. A good use of textures and patterns can add personality, depth and interest to a website. This is probably the reason why these are still popular among designers. Today, to prove that textures are still around, we’ve got… Continue reading 13 Inspiring Examples of Textures and Patterns in Web Design
Examples of Mobile Design Patterns
Introduction We’re living in an era in which the constant and rapid changes of habits and the increasing presence of technology in our lives is presenting very big challenges to developers and designers. The growing importance given to the design and development of applications that will be used on mobile devices with a range of… Continue reading Examples of Mobile Design Patterns
Incorporating Subtle Patterns and Minimalism into Web Design
Web design used to be about flashy, bright colors, attention-getters and flash animations that were full of movement and activity designed to be extremely noticeable. Front-end design standards have come a long way since those days, with flash quickly becoming a thing of the past and the professional standard for becoming more sophisticated than it… Continue reading Incorporating Subtle Patterns and Minimalism into Web Design
Subtle Dark Patterns Vol1
Subtle Dark Patterns Vol1 Volume 1 of our subtle dark texture patterns background with 4 dark tile patterns ideal to create a subtle and original dark texture for your next project. Details Number of Items in Set: 8 files File Format(s): PNG, PAT File Size: 1.3 MB Free for personal and commercial use.
Design Patterns in WordPress: The Simple Factory Pattern
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Design Patterns in WordPress In this series, we’re taking a look at design patterns and how we can leverage them to our advantage when building products on top of WordPress. The nice thing about design patterns is that they aren’t explicitly limited to themes or… Continue reading Design Patterns in WordPress: The Simple Factory Pattern