Tag: Projects

The age of Agile must end

30 years ago the technology industry attempted to import Lean practices — it failed. Instead of “continuous improvement,” progress halted. Agile is incompatible with UX research, design, and scalable development. It always will be. It’s time to create a new operational standard. Changing of the guards. Photo by Micah Kunkle on Unsplash As startups refocus on “operational efficiency,”… Continue reading The age of Agile must end

Co-creating has drastically improved my designs

How co-design has drastically improved my work Users, engineers, product managers… I’m not the only one designing things around here I find defining a problem challenging. Ideally, at the start of a project all the metrics and objectives form a crystal clear statement. But working with high ambiguity in the platform space, I often start with a… Continue reading Co-creating has drastically improved my designs

Popular Design News of the Week: November 16, 2020 – November 22, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: November 16, 2020 – November 22, 2020

Popular Design News of the Week: July6, 2020 – July 12, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: July6, 2020 – July 12, 2020

21 Creative Brochure and Catalog Design Templates

55 Shares Creative clean business Brochure Templates and Catalog Templates for corporate annual report design, fashion lookbook, project proposal, medical report or photography portfolio. Simple, clean InDesign brochure templates has all the features you’d expect in a modern brochures, from placeholders, to text styles, customizable infographics, and easy to edit master pages. Brochure templates are… Continue reading 21 Creative Brochure and Catalog Design Templates

How to Make a Photoshop Vignette Effect Action

What You’ll Be Creating In this beginner’s tutorial, we’ll take a look at some Photoshop action basics and create a customizable vignette action—ready to use and adapt in any way you like! So grab your favorite photograph, and let’s get creating! What You’ll Need You’ll need the following assets in order to complete this project:… Continue reading How to Make a Photoshop Vignette Effect Action

Is Dribbble Worth Your Time?

The online community has been around since 2010 and is one of the top platforms where designers can share work, or shots, and get feedback. The invite-only community is a showcase of portfolio projects and personal artwork for digital graphics and user interface design, illustrations, animations, and pretty much any other design work you can… Continue reading Is Dribbble Worth Your Time?

Which of Figma’s Pricing Tiers is Right for You?

Figma is a free-to-use design application, but it also offers added features for paying subscribers. Let’s take a look at the differences between Figma’s three pricing tiers. Note: this is part of our regularly updated learning guide The Designer’s Guide to Figma. Figma’s Three Pricing Tiers These are the tiers on offer: Free Professional ($12… Continue reading Which of Figma’s Pricing Tiers is Right for You?

Treat Yourself to the Best Tools and Platforms for Your 2017 Projects

Posted · Category: Best Collections There are so many website builders on the market, that separating the good ones from the not quite so good ones can be a challenge. Finding the best of the bunch is an even bigger challenge. Affordability and ease of use are important. Even more important is finding a tool… Continue reading Treat Yourself to the Best Tools and Platforms for Your 2017 Projects

11 of The Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps

A wireframe is essentially a web designer’s plan for a web page. This frame can be hand-drawn with simple pen and paper, but wireframing tools are much more effective as they enable you to use drag-and-drop tools, collaborate with other designers and show clients your ideas before you even build them. The designer uses plain… Continue reading 11 of The Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps

Weekly News for Designers Week 8

New Resources & Tools Bricks.js – A blazing fast masonry layout generator for fixed width elements. Imperfect Buttons – “Hand-Drawn” border effect on buttons with CSS border-radius. 30 Projects in 30 Days to Learn Swift – A self taught project to learn Swift from Allen Wang. Editor Color Schemes – A collection of color schemes… Continue reading Weekly News for Designers Week 8

Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools

There are more ways than ever to get yourself (and your work) seen online. Whether yours is a design, illustration, photography, code, or product portfolio, take a look at some of these tools for getting it out there. Dunked Brainchild of Orman Clark and chums, dunked is a platform offering an account where you can upload… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools

Boost Your Projects with Premium Hand-Picked Resources

Every month there are plenty of new tools and services introduced but also new WordPress themes, that promise lots of things. Why is that? Because the Web is growing and is getting more and more complex, but also because our time is very limited and we need solutions. So, we need to choose the perfect… Continue reading Boost Your Projects with Premium Hand-Picked Resources

25 Inspirational Branding Design Projects

Branding is very important and should go hand in hand with your marketing and PR strategies. A strong brand always has a beautiful logo design, it’s easy to remember and keeps a close relationship with its clients. Whether you’re a brand owner or a designer, these 25 inspirational branding design projects will surely help you… Continue reading 25 Inspirational Branding Design Projects

10 Tools for Collaborating on Design Projects Remotely

Remote collaboration with clients or with remote team members can be a pain. There are two main options, email or Skype. But we all know that it takes time and choosing between Reply and Reply All is sometimes complicated and some won’t be able to keep up with all the discussion. Sure, you can email files around,… Continue reading 10 Tools for Collaborating on Design Projects Remotely

15 Top Notch Collaboration Tools for Your Creative Projects

Are you daunted or put off by the prospect of project management? You shouldn’t be. Think of it rather as an opportunity. Start-ups have more to prove than large companies. They have to build a reputation and not lose credibility, which is why your web design or development practice needs teamwork to deliver great products.… Continue reading 15 Top Notch Collaboration Tools for Your Creative Projects

Free Badges PSDs & Vector Sets For Your Future Projects

Badges can be quite handy for a designer as it can be incorporated into various items such as banners, landing pages and other things. It can even be used as your watermark. Instead of spending a lot of time creating your own badges, there are actually plenty of badges already available for your use. In… Continue reading Free Badges PSDs & Vector Sets For Your Future Projects

5 useful methods on how to organize SASS files for large projects

Organising SASS files in a large project can be a real pain. If not properly organized, you will experience a lot of pain later in the project when you need to change or redo stuff. So, how do we organize SASS files? There is no only method but I have seem some examples that serve… Continue reading 5 useful methods on how to organize SASS files for large projects

How to Price Your Freelance Projects

There’s no standard rate for Graphic Design, and understandably – this makes pricing a bit of a thorny subject in the industry.  With each project being unique it’s quite difficult to publish rates at all. I’ve never billed the same amount for two different projects. Your experiences and your clients will be different from mine… Continue reading How to Price Your Freelance Projects

How to Use Cool Color in Design Projects

Cool and warm colors. These descriptions are commonly used to describe hue choices in a variety of conversations – fashion, beauty, decorating and design. But while we commonly talk about warm and cool, do you really know what these terms mean and how to use the colors? Today, we will look at using cool color… Continue reading How to Use Cool Color in Design Projects

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

How to use the Gestalt principle in your web design projects

Web designers are constantly looking for new ways of improving their projects and therefore they are introducing in their works elements from mathematics, marketing, photography, psychology, and the list may continue. As far as psychology is concerned, the Gestalt principle is widely known among web designers since it relates so good to the field of… Continue reading How to use the Gestalt principle in your web design projects