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Nurturing diversity at work and in your work

in·ten·tion·al·i·ty: the fact of being deliberate or purposive; the quality of mental states (e.g., thoughts, beliefs, desires, hopes) that consists in their being directed toward some object or state of affairs. Please. It’s 2017 and we still have this: (It’s a big ol’ gap between men’s earnings and women’s earnings across all occupations.) And this: (It’s… Continue reading Nurturing diversity at work and in your work

Designing Charts — Principles Every Designer Should Know

Use real data in your chart mock ups Designers have a tendency to create the most beautiful version of a chart possible without any regard to the real data that it needs to handle when it’s actually implemented. This can cause endless headaches for the developers trying to build this thing you designed, and even more… Continue reading Designing Charts — Principles Every Designer Should Know

Women in UX, YouTube channels for designers, Bots from Hell, and more UX this week

What’s hot in UX this week: 30 Women Rocking in UX to Celebrate the International Women’s Day → Last Wednesday was International Women’s Day. According to Wikipedia, in different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women for their economic, political and social achievements. That’s what we’re… Continue reading Women in UX, YouTube channels for designers, Bots from Hell, and more UX this week

Common UX Mistakes and How to Avoid (or Fix) Them

Have you ever fumbled through a complicated contact form on a mobile website or wished for a button or link that wasn’t there? If so, you’ve experienced what a lack of foresight in user experience (UX) design causes. Don’t fall victim to the same common UX mistakes. Make sure potential customers poor UX design doesn’t… Continue reading Common UX Mistakes and How to Avoid (or Fix) Them

Is Email Marketing Important For e-Commerce?

Enhancing revenue off your e-commerce business requires tactful planning and timely execution of ideas and strategies. Combined knowledge of what to do and when to do it is essential if you want to take your business to the “next level”. E-commerce market has grown exponentially over the past few decades with more businesses springing up… Continue reading Is Email Marketing Important For e-Commerce?

4 Ways To Share Free Design Resources With The World

January 20, 2017 by Veronika Last year, we’ve reviewed some of the best places to sell your digital design online, including marketplaces, font shops, stock graphic sites, and shopping card solutions. Yet, if you’re planning to do some charity and wish to give away your designs for free, these websites won’t be of much help.… Continue reading 4 Ways To Share Free Design Resources With The World

Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers

If you’re a long-time freelance web designer, you may be experiencing a rather common problem. As freelance web designers gain experience, they naturally become more proficient. This generally leads to attracting more clients, and results in taking on more work. Freelancers have obvious benefits. Like not having to work to someone else’ schedule, not having a… Continue reading Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers

All the best stuff for web designers announced at Adobe MAX

We’re seeing a lot of interesting competition to Adobe apps these days, but that hasn’t slowed Adobe down at all. (Are you taking notes, Apple?) At this year’s Adobe MAX conference, Adobe has unveiled a slew of awesome updates to all of their CC apps. They’ve done some incredible things all across the board. Since… Continue reading All the best stuff for web designers announced at Adobe MAX

How to Leverage Multiple Job Offers

Posted · Category: Information Finding a new job is like any budding romance, passions might be running high, but it’s usually assumed that both sides are still playing the field. If you happen to be a talented engineer or designer, it’s safe to assume that you’re in high demand and probably getting courted by your… Continue reading How to Leverage Multiple Job Offers

Web 2.0 meets MTV in Pandora’s new branding

For once, I’m not starting off my article with a joke. When I say “Web 2.0”, I genuinely mean that style of design that we all (temporarily) embraced. Many a corner in Pandora’s new logo is curved, and they have brought back the bright and shiny gradient. Okay, so it’s a bit muted compared to… Continue reading Web 2.0 meets MTV in Pandora’s new branding

Vectr – Free Graphic Editor Used to Create Vector Graphics

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Design software shouldn’t bring people a sense of struggle, yet that’s exactly how the troublesome design software we grew up on made us feel. With their incredibly steep learning curve and counter-intuitive tools, they would deter our potential as designers rather than helping us to unleash it. We’ve all… Continue reading Vectr – Free Graphic Editor Used to Create Vector Graphics

Apply to Top Tech Companies with 1 Application

Posted · Category: Information Most everyone working or training in the technology field understands that they will be changing jobs every three years—this is part of being involved in the fastest growing and most lucrative industry in the world. Indeed, the top employment site in the world, has created a special site just for tech:… Continue reading Apply to Top Tech Companies with 1 Application

How to Design a Modern, Creative Agency Website

Posted · Category: Best Collections Your assignment is to create a website for a creative agency, perhaps the one you work for. Hence, your goal is to design a website that will attract and engage potential clients and customers. And have them beating on the door. You need to address what these potential customers expect from a creative agency.… Continue reading How to Design a Modern, Creative Agency Website

Get Your New Job Faster with Hired

Posted · Category: Information Hired is the world’s most intelligent talent matching platform for full-time and contract opportunities in engineering, development, design, product management, data science, sales, and marketing. It makes your job search faster, focused, and stress-free: instead of endlessly applying to companies and hoping for the best, Hired puts you in control of… Continue reading Get Your New Job Faster with Hired

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

4 Point Checklist on Choosing Most Serious Coding Agency

Posted · Category: Best Collections Choosing the right coders for your project can be painfully similar to looking for a needle in the haystack. There are thousands of people out there offering their services, but who are the best ones for you and your business? Who among them understands your vision, aligns with your goals,… Continue reading 4 Point Checklist on Choosing Most Serious Coding Agency

Quick Tip: Using CSS Counters to Style Incremental Elements

In this quick tip, we’ll cover the very basics of CSS counters; a useful, yet not so well-known CSS feature. When we’re done building our demo, we’ll take a look at some real world examples of sites which take advantage of CSS counters. The Goal: Styling an Ordered List As a first step, let’s look at the… Continue reading Quick Tip: Using CSS Counters to Style Incremental Elements

11 Free Tools To Make Marketing Magic

If you want to create some outstanding and attractive marketing magic then you should try this collection. In this post, we are presenting top 11 free tools which help you to make marketing magic. In this post all these tools are free and very useful. When you use these tools in your projects it makes… Continue reading 11 Free Tools To Make Marketing Magic

7 (Must See) Creative & Awesome Animated GIFs

In this compilation, we are presenting a beautiful and useful collection of some awesome animated GIFs. And it is once again our pleasure to share with you what we have gathered from all over the web so to help you with your masterpieces. So, here is the complete list of amazing animated GIFs for your… Continue reading 7 (Must See) Creative & Awesome Animated GIFs

7 (Must See) Creative & Awesome Animated GIFs

In this compilation, we are presenting a beautiful and useful collection of some awesome animated GIFs. And it is once again our pleasure to share with you what we have gathered from all over the web so to help you with your masterpieces. So, here is the complete list of amazing animated GIFs for your… Continue reading 7 (Must See) Creative & Awesome Animated GIFs

Exploring WordPress Managers: ManageWP, CMS Commander & MainWP

In the previous part of this series, we talked about two popular WordPress managers out in the field. In this second part, we’ll be checking out a few more of them. Also, there will be one bonus tip about a core WordPress feature that may help you manage your (or your clients’) websites. So, without… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: ManageWP, CMS Commander & MainWP

Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP

When you have a lot of clients with WordPress-powered websites, or a lot of WordPress projects that you work on, it might get messy to deal with all those updates and maintenance. Logging in to each website with different usernames and passwords, then moderating comments, updating plugins and themes, maybe occasionally (or periodically) making database… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP

New Course: Surreal Digital Painting

What You’ll Be Creating What story would you like to tell the world? Surrealism is a style that allows you to express your feelings and thoughts on the world through your art.  In our new course, Surreal Digital Painting, you’ll learn how to create a symbolic painting inspired by real-life events.  What You’ll Learn First… Continue reading New Course: Surreal Digital Painting