The purpose of a system is how we shape it

We are not masters of our information, but we can be if we build information systems shaped like human consciousness. Why are our information systems places where ideas go to die? Why are they clogged with shallow, soulless filler? Why can so few of us, and fewer organizations, gain any level of mastery over our… Continue reading The purpose of a system is how we shape it

21 Men’s Health Websites With Good Design

Men’s health websites are a great way to be inspired by and celebrate Father’s day. These websites could give you an idea of what to give your significant other and your dad for father’s day. The designs of these websites are also something to be inspired by. Even if most designs are simple, the topics… Continue reading 21 Men’s Health Websites With Good Design

Start Using a Smart DAM and Image Optimization Stack

Asset management and website performance optimization are two of those unavoidable headaches faced by every website owner. A digital asset management (DAM) platform can provide centralized asset repositories with intuitive dashboards to help you manage assets. On the other hand, an image CDN can help you get rid of that messy responsive syntax and provide… Continue reading Start Using a Smart DAM and Image Optimization Stack

Create Beautiful WordPress Pages with Optimized Images Using Elementor and ImageEngine

WordPress powers nearly 40% of all websites, thanks to its commitment to making publication possible for everyone, for free. Combined with premium plugins and themes, it’s possibly the ultimate tool for building attractive, unique, and feature-rich websites without any coding or design experience. However, you do pay the price for this experience, with WordPress and… Continue reading Create Beautiful WordPress Pages with Optimized Images Using Elementor and ImageEngine

6 Beautiful In-Game Environments to Inspire You

There’s plenty of reasons why gamers love playing video games. However, the chance to explore beautiful and awe-inspiring places has to be right up there as among one of the biggest reasons why people get into gaming. For anyone looking for a new game to immerse themselves in, here are some of our favourite video… Continue reading 6 Beautiful In-Game Environments to Inspire You

How to Create an Instagram Ad Template

What You’ll Be Creating Learn how to create an eye-catching ad by using an Instagram post template, without Photoshop. If you want to promote your brand or your product at a low cost, and still reach your target audience effectively, you can do it with the help of Instagram. An eye-catching Instagram post will make… Continue reading How to Create an Instagram Ad Template

5 Pitfalls of User-Generated Content (And How to Avoid Them)

It brings with it a host of benefits. UGC can greatly increase engagement with websites, as well as shareability and authenticity. Of course, along with benefits are a host of pitfalls, from having to take the time to moderate content, to establishing an engaged community to submit the content in the first place. It’s important… Continue reading 5 Pitfalls of User-Generated Content (And How to Avoid Them)

12 Best Android Photo App Templates

App templates are the perfect solution for inexperienced coders who want to create apps but don’t yet have the skill. And for the experienced developer pressed for time.  They come with core functions already implemented for you, so you can customise the app easily and add the elements you think are most important to the… Continue reading 12 Best Android Photo App Templates

When to Use Them and Tips for Good UX

Sliders, slideshows, carousels: call them what you will, they’re an incredibly popular way to enhance a WordPress site. When I create a site for a client, they almost always ask me to add one to their home page, if not to every page in the site. But although undeniably attractive, sliders aren’t always needed in… Continue reading When to Use Them and Tips for Good UX

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

50 Top Fonts For Graphic Designers

Huge list of best professional fonts and typefaces for designers. These top fonts was inspired by classic and modern fonts. Typefaces included different styles, icons, vectors and extras.  The fonts included script fonts, handwritten brush fonts, vintage fonts and display fonts that can be perfect for branding, logos, greeting cards, wedding stationery, typographic quotes, book covers, website headers, flyers, clothing, packaging… Continue reading 50 Top Fonts For Graphic Designers

New Fresh HTML5 WordPress Themes

Fresh new WordPress themes, all themes and templates are fully responsive, SEO optimize, retina-ready, cross-browser compatible with powerful easy to use theme features. All themes are professionally designed to be versatile and light-weight, with a modular Bootstrap and HTML5 and CSS3 coding features. Best WordPress themes comes with a well documented help file, which will assist you configure the template… Continue reading New Fresh HTML5 WordPress Themes

9 Email Design Inspiration for a Killer Campaign

Email marketing has been rumored to be dead. Don’t believe that just yet. People still read emails. In fact, 80% of retail businesses say that email marketing is the number one customer retention, according to eMarketer. There are many factors for when an email is considered “good.” But right now, let’s talk about design first.… Continue reading 9 Email Design Inspiration for a Killer Campaign

Essential Ingredients For Every Competitive Analysis

The Whys Why are competitors doing things a certain way? Why do people trust or use a competitor’s product? Why is a particular product among the top 3 or top 5 solutions in the market? One of the most effective practice is to use the 5 Whys technique. You can read more about it here.… Continue reading Essential Ingredients For Every Competitive Analysis

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

The Company Name on a Logo: How to Make It Work

The name of your company incorporated into its logo isn’t always a right solution but sometimes it is really perfect for your company’s introduction. So, in which cases will it be highly beneficial for companies to implement their names into their logos? A logo can be described as your company’s face, while your corporate style… Continue reading The Company Name on a Logo: How to Make It 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

Vancouver Rebels Over Generic Rebrand

Many who don’t live in Vancouver at least know the western Canadian city for a few things: Sky-high housing prices, green sensibilities, and lots of rain. Now, thanks to local design and digital activists, they also know Vancouver for…producing a new city logo that has been blasted for being uninspiring. In an open letter published… Continue reading Vancouver Rebels Over Generic Rebrand

It’s Tough Out There: A Look at Brutalism in Web Design

Brutalist websites were thrust into the spotlight recently when Pascal Deville’s brutalistwebsites.com hit Hacker News and went viral. This collection showcases the less warm and fuzzy side of the web–let’s take a look and see if we can pull some inspiration from brutalism. Brutal Buildings “Brutalism” (or “New Brutalism”) is a term which has been rattling… Continue reading It’s Tough Out There: A Look at Brutalism in Web Design

27 Search Boxes With HTML and CSS – CSS Paradise

CSS experiments with a search form input and button. In this collection are the pens for anything related to search box, search bar, global search area that we can put to a website page. Searching Animation Inspired by Another Set of Eyes by Frank Rodriguez.*needs work in Firefox but looks quite nice in Chrome and… Continue reading 27 Search Boxes With HTML and CSS – CSS Paradise

5 Things to Consider Before Becoming a Freelance Web Professional

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;} If you’re working as a web professional for an employer, chances are you occasionally daydream about going it alone. Maybe you do some freelance work in your spare time and would love to extend that to full time, or maybe you just want the freedom of being… Continue reading 5 Things to Consider Before Becoming a Freelance Web Professional

SVG Loaders – Loading icons and small animations built purely in SVG

SVG Loaders is a set of Loading icons and small animations built purely in SVG, no CSS or JS. Usage Download or bower install svg-loaders <img src=”svg-loaders/puff.svg” /> An icon’s color can be manipulated by changing the fill attribute in the SVG file. <svg fill=”#fff” width=”140″ height=”64″ viewBox=”0 0 140 64″ xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”> All SVG files… Continue reading SVG Loaders – Loading icons and small animations built purely in SVG