Getting started as a creative professional is never easy. Although the market for freelance and independent digital designers is booming at the moment, most newbies still find it hard to get their foot in the door. Here are some of the ways you can get started and find work in the industry: 1. Join an… Continue reading How to get work as a freelance digital designer
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The Ignored Obvious of UX Design Interviews (and interviews in general)
#1 Do Your Research Being a UX Designer, I use research to understand the problem at hand, know my audience, and gather enough context information to make an informed decision for further steps. Research is an integral part of my design process and I apply the same to interviews. In most cases, especially UX Interviews, the… Continue reading The Ignored Obvious of UX Design Interviews (and interviews in general)
A Beginner’s Course on Blogging for Lawyers
There are few things about the legal field that are easy or simple. Potential lawyers need almost a decade’s worth of education just to become qualified, but then they still need to pass one of the more grueling, challenging exams in the professional world to begin practicing. Then there will be more years of learning… Continue reading A Beginner’s Course on Blogging for Lawyers
How to Systematically Design a Landing Page for your Online Store?
The great challenge of every owner of an online store is how to transform a visitor of our website into a new client. It’s something that may sound simple, but that it really isn’t. This essential aspect of the business must be reduced and solved in a systematic way through a process. We developed this… Continue reading How to Systematically Design a Landing Page for your Online Store?
Smashing Freebies: Website & Development Icon Set
In the crowd of hundreds and thousands of freely available resources for designers, it is not very easy and quick to find the best one as per your specific requirements. Today, in the love of our beloved community, we are confidently releasing one of the unique yet potential style of icon set to download and… Continue reading Smashing Freebies: Website & Development Icon Set
Are You Underestimating The Power Of Color In Design?
The colors you use in your website’s design have the potential to captivate and influence a sale. They also have the potential to distract and disrupt your visitors’ attention and make them bounce. Don’t underestimate the power of color when it comes to influencing your visitors. A beautiful color scheme isn’t necessarily an effective one.… Continue reading Are You Underestimating The Power Of Color In Design?
Monitoring the user's brain for usability testing
I have a habit of connecting the dots between design and various other fields of studies which I start learning about. Lately, I have been learning neurosciences and thinking about how we could harness findings from it to designing better products. It gave me chills. For instance, introduction of brain activity monitoring device such as… Continue reading Monitoring the user's brain for usability testing
How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design
The better designed the website and the better the usability, the more likely people will come back to use it – and the more views, the more conversions and the better the website performs. Gaming websites need to be at the very height of attractive web design, especially in such a saturated sector. The look… Continue reading How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design
Psychology Hacks to Improve Your Website’s Effectiveness
August 23, 2017 by Alex Fox Psychological research has yielded a ton of fascinating precepts that can help us create better websites. By utilizing these psychology hacks, we can improve our websites’ effectiveness, increasing revenue and driving more traffic. Beneficial Defaults In the United States, we have a problem with organ donations: very few people… Continue reading Psychology Hacks to Improve Your Website’s Effectiveness
How to Improve Your Video Content Strategy
Video converts better than any other forms of media, that’s according to 70% of digital marketers. When it comes to driving awareness, customer engagement and lead conversions, more businesses are opting for video marketing. While many business owners are opting for video marketing, creating compelling content for their audience and ensuring that it helps achieve… Continue reading How to Improve Your Video Content Strategy
Diversity is Punk Rock
I used to think “diversity” meant the need for the representation of a particular set of perspectives or cultures, i.e., “there are lot of men in this room, therefore we need women.” This idea prevented me from participating in the discourse in the past because I’ve never felt like I identify with any single community.… Continue reading Diversity is Punk Rock
Tips for Training Your Clients to Use WordPress
As WordPress continues to power more and more websites, it stands to reason that many site owners will want to learn how to use it. One of the strengths of any CMS is the ability to login remotely and add/edit content or perform other maintenance tasks. WordPress especially excels in this area and includes some… Continue reading Tips for Training Your Clients to Use WordPress
12 Helpful jQuery JSON Plugins
For this round up, we have collected 12 best jQuery JSON plugins for you. JSON or JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight data-interchange format. JSON plugins are designed to help developers to use JSON data mapping and convert to JSON from jQuery and back to jQuery again with ease. There are many plugins available on… Continue reading 12 Helpful jQuery JSON Plugins
Make War, Not Interfaces
A Product Designer riding into battle — Andrew Yardley Product Design is a lot like warfare. Think about it. Users are the enemy. Like Clone Troopers straight out of Episode II, they are legion. Their numbers are seemingly without end. Without fail and without relent they will come at you, poking holes in your design, finding its fatal… Continue reading Make War, Not Interfaces
9 Free PHP Scripts For Creating Polls
Today we sort the wheat from the chaff and present you 9 best PHP scripts that have the potential to unleash your creativity to whole new levels and let you create polls with ease and without any trouble. The list contain both free and premium PHP scripts for creating polls for your websites. See for… Continue reading 9 Free PHP Scripts For Creating Polls
Solving the right problem, VR needs UX, github for designers, and more UX this week
A year ago… A psychological approach to designing interfaces → Do you ever get that feeling when you’re in a supermarket, looking at a sea of different types of toothpaste and you have no idea what to get? The reason why you get overwhelmed by these excessive options has to do with, you guessed it, psychology.… Continue reading Solving the right problem, VR needs UX, github for designers, and more UX this week
Enterprise UX Industry Report 2017-2018
By Speckyboy Editors on Jun 29 2017UX Driven by the consumerization of the enterprise, well-crafted UX is now a major competitive advantage for B2B products notorious for poor design. While many have reported on the overall role of design, few have investigated the new status quo for the multi-trillion dollar B2B space. Diving deep into… Continue reading Enterprise UX Industry Report 2017-2018
The Importance Of Outcome-Focused Web Design And How A Strong Host Can Help
June 20, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger For an up-and-coming business, developing a strategically designed website that puts your goals at the forefront is key. Apart from boosting your online presence, a well-designed website can increase sales and revenue, engage and maintain connections with current clients, even foster relationships with potential customers. When designing your website,… Continue reading The Importance Of Outcome-Focused Web Design And How A Strong Host Can Help
10 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Mobile App Developer
Two years ago, Arthur Aron and others published the results of a study about intimacy. They developed a list of 36 questions that could eventually bring two people closer. The point was not to give or get the right answers. Rather, asking the 36 questions, the two have to disclose some uncomfortable truth about themselves.… Continue reading 10 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Mobile App Developer
How I apply the Value Proposition Canvas to convince my clients to invest more time in customer…
A few years ago, I used to struggle to convince my clients to give me more — or just some — time to do a good customer research, and I must confess I lost a few battles. But eventually, I learnt how to manage it. I stopped fighting this. At first, I would listen to them carefully — after all, they… Continue reading How I apply the Value Proposition Canvas to convince my clients to invest more time in customer…
50 Creative Rooster Logo Designs for Inspiration
As we know 2017 is the Chinese New Year of the Rooster. So we are gathered vector illustrated 50 beautiful rooster (chicken) logo designs. Logos are important to all businesses. They give potential clients a snapshot of the company: what it does, its values and its sensibilities are all reflected in a good logo. It is one of… Continue reading 50 Creative Rooster Logo Designs for Inspiration
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
Top 20 Multiple Services WordPress Themes with a Simple Clean Design
Oftentimes, it is quite a tricky task to find a beautiful template to fit your corporate branding. Whether you need a website for a small-sized business, a corporate or company homepage, a car wash or cleaning service project, our collection of Top 20 Multiple Services WordPress Themes will come in handy. All of these special… Continue reading Top 20 Multiple Services WordPress Themes with a Simple Clean Design
The Dos and Dont’s of Newsletter Design
The important role newsletters play in attracting attention has really come to light in recent years. Not only is email supposed to have a larger reach than most social media channels, it also encourages a loyal following and is very action oriented. Although social media is of course king for engaging with potential customers and… Continue reading The Dos and Dont’s of Newsletter Design