Less Is More – Minimalist And Simple Web Design

Image source: Vadim Grin[2] Exposed to lots of senseless content on the internet, we grow more sensitive to mess and distractions. We come across useless texts, we receive a pile of magazine spam, ads or business commercials, and we have serious difficulties in determining what is really worth our attention. Responsiveness Image source: Erikas Mališauskas[3]… Continue reading Less Is More – Minimalist And Simple Web Design

How to Conduct an Interface Inventory With InVision

By definition: an inventory is a gathering of items tracked in a list. This term isn’t anything new, but the idea of using this concept towards interfaces is. Brad Frost, who coined the term “Atomic Design”, states that creating agnostic patterns helps to build far more versatile components that can be used widely across a… Continue reading How to Conduct an Interface Inventory With InVision

How To Choose The Best Font For Mobile User Interfaces

Image source: Gal Shir[2] It is a tricky task-we are not discussing content that will be opened once/twice, but such that will be browsed while users sit in waiting rooms, travel in the subway, rest in their beds, etc. Regular usage opens the door for other challenges too-mobile screens’ responsiveness depends on lighting, and it… Continue reading How To Choose The Best Font For Mobile User Interfaces

7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX

A great user experience starts with the designer. You have to imagine and create something that people will want to touch and engage with, time and time again. Sounds easy, right? The key to delighting users is to think like one. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel with every new design project; use tools and… Continue reading 7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX

The Importance Of Usability When Designing A Site

Web usability is an approach to make web sites easy to use for an end-user, without the requirement that any specialized training be undertaken. The user should be able to intuitively relate the actions she needs to perform on the web page with other interactions she sees similar contexts, e.g., press a button to perform… Continue reading The Importance Of Usability When Designing A Site

How To Design User Interface Animations

Image source: Zach Krasner[2] Motion is not so simple – it might sound easy to add some ‘movement’ to your sketches, but how successfully could you replicate feelings and reactions? The truth is that designing interface animations could take a while before you upgrade from the basic animated patterns to highly technical interactions which could… Continue reading How To Design User Interface Animations

Icons In Web Design

Image source: thestorefront.com[2] Well-executed and beautiful icons look like tiny and cute images, but they are much more than that. They are extremely advantageous to every website because they attach visual cues to the essential elements of a website (headings, sections, buttons, etc) and they make the site/app look professional and sophisticated. Generally speaking, icons… Continue reading Icons In Web Design

How To Design An App Walkthrough

Image source: Dan Machado[2] There are so many walkthroughs-misuse situations, that it is questionable whether designers really understand their purpose. There are many complex apps which don’t have walkthroughs, the same as simple ones which don’t need them, but they still incorporated them in their design. This makes the decision on whether to use walkthroughs… Continue reading How To Design An App Walkthrough

Web Designers: Roll up Your Sleeves and Sketch!

Let’s talk about why you, as a web designer, should be using pens and pencils more often. I’m going to give you some tips, tool suggestions, and plenty of reasons to roll your sleeves up and sketch! Step Away From the Computer The design process tends to isolate designers from the rest of the team, meaning… Continue reading Web Designers: Roll up Your Sleeves and Sketch!

How To Create Impressive Websites

Image source: reuters.tv[2] As we already mentioned, ‘wow’ is the word we want our users to say when they open our website. It shows that they are amazed by what we’ve done and that our work was successful. You could appreciate them liking the site or addressing it as nice, but it is much better… Continue reading How To Create Impressive Websites

9 Free A/B Split Testing WordPress Plugins

Split testing or A/B testing is the method of comparing two versions of a web page or call to action in order to see which version performs better. It is the integral part of any web designing as designer creates more than one version of a same web page and then he checks which one… Continue reading 9 Free A/B Split Testing WordPress Plugins

Strategies For Creating Better User Interfaces

Believe it or otherwise not, perfect interfaces are created on an item of paper. It’s much later on that the exact same is used in Photoshop or Sketch App. The primary advantage of paper sketches may be the possibility to produce errors. Unlike limited design pc software, paper is ready to accept everybody’s imagination and… Continue reading Strategies For Creating Better User Interfaces

Hacking and Securing Web Applications

In this book, you will be learning the basic techniques about how to test and penetrate a Web Application. For the purpose of this book we will be using a vulnerable application called DVWA (Damn Vulnerable Application) on an Ubuntu operating system and try to use different methods of hacking or penetrating the system. [sociallocker]Hacking… Continue reading Hacking and Securing Web Applications

How to Create Diagonal Lines with CSS

A few days ago, I received my invite to Google Music. While browsing the app, I noticed a tiny, but neat trick they use to create tabs and diagonal borders with plain-old CSS. I’ll show you how to do the same in your projects today! Prefer a Video Tutorial? Step 1: The Markup We begin… Continue reading How to Create Diagonal Lines with CSS