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The Role of Color in Graphic Design

Color is a powerful thing. It can influence emotions, control moods, and motivate actions in a way that we still don’t entirely understand. It is a factor that has been recognized, if not fully understood, for many generations of businesses, and it remains a powerful factor in graphic design today. You can now assemble your… Continue reading The Role of Color in Graphic Design

How to Optimize the Design and Location of the Search Bar

The search bar is one of the most useful features on your website. It can help visitors find exactly what they’re looking for with just a few key presses. On a typical ecommerce website, search users convert at a rate 3.5x higher than those that don’t interact with search, so it makes sense to use… Continue reading How to Optimize the Design and Location of the Search Bar

How Voice User Interface Design Is Changing the Online Experience

The rapid evolution of smart devices is pushing a new trend in user interface design – voice user interfaces. As people grow more comfortable talking to their phones, tablets, and wearables, brands who want to remain visible must invest in voice-friendly designs. See how voice user interface design has evolved, look at the most popular… Continue reading How Voice User Interface Design Is Changing the Online Experience

Museums, show your collection some love

Part I If you’ve ever visited a museum website, the above navigation structure probably looks familiar to you. Sections for “visit,” “exhibitions,” and “collection” are the core navigational components for the vast majority of museum websites. There’s an essential distinction that museums make between the permanent collection (those objects owned by the institution) and exhibitions… Continue reading Museums, show your collection some love

11 Communication Techniques for Designers

You have spent years getting this far — going to university, taking regular courses and workshops, going to conferences, reading countless books, articles, and listening to weekly podcasts — only for a stakeholder to steamroll your design expertise.Here are 11 techniques for improving your communication skills and getting your designs approved. There comes a point in every designers career… Continue reading 11 Communication Techniques for Designers

t-scroll: A modern reveal-on-scroll JS library

t-scroll is a modern reveal-on-scroll JavaScript library for creating custom element animations when scrolling a web page. The library is built in pure JavaScript (ES6/Babel – no jQuery dependency) and Sass (processed with Gulp). t-scroll is fully customisable: it provides more than 45 CSS effects and many other options to allow a quite high flexibility level.… Continue reading t-scroll: A modern reveal-on-scroll JS library

Creative Photography Business Cards | Design

Creative, modern and clean photography business card templates for professional photographers and designers. You can easily customize and use these cards for photo studio, personal identity, name cards, calling cards, launches, events, invites, promotion and more. All business cards are fully customizable and well organized in Photoshop .PSD files. All texts are editable and colors can be easily change… Continue reading Creative Photography Business Cards | Design

Dairy: A free Sketch UI kit for minimal apps

Dairy is a new Sketch UI kit designed by wenjun that you can use for inspiration when you need to get started with a minimal and clean photography app concept. The kit is made of 12 sample screens including many useful components such as sign up forms, chat messages, photo galleries, etc. Download freebie

Chatbots round-up #6: the best bots of the month

The idea of automating and scaling one-to-one conversations using technology appeals to lots of brands and services out there, and designers play an important role at defining how each conversation is scripted and the behaviors users can expect when interacting with bots. Here at uxdesign.cc, we have written several articles on chatbots and conversational interfaces,… Continue reading Chatbots round-up #6: the best bots of the month

Dynamic Icons in Sketch

Two years ago, I had a grand total of zero minutes played in Sketch. Today — let’s do the math — I have approximately 18 months in Sketch x 172 working hours per month, equalling 3,132 hours. In that time I’ve discovered the best solution for tedious icon creation problems that zap your time. In the past, designers spent… Continue reading Dynamic Icons in Sketch

Web Design In Action: A Sample Design Workflow

Advertisement Designing and building an entire website from scratch involves many different pieces. It can get easier with time and practice, but you’re always starting from a blank slate for every new project which can be tough. The best thing to do is fall into a creative routine that you can follow every time. This… Continue reading Web Design In Action: A Sample Design Workflow

How to Create a Dramatic Fisheye Spartan Scene with Photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to blend and distort different desert landscape stock images to create a dynamic fisheye-like perspective and use different adjustment layers to get different coloring and feel to the manipulation so let’s get started! This tutorial was originally published on Jan 5, 2012. Preview of Final Results… Continue reading How to Create a Dramatic Fisheye Spartan Scene with Photoshop

How to Retouch and Airbrush Skin in Photoshop

Learn how to retouch skin professionally in Photoshop without making it look fake or blurry. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to reduce wrinkles and blemishes, airbrush skin naturally, dodge and burn, and more using all non-destructive editing techniques. Once you learn this, you can make everything from natural skin improvements to glamorous… Continue reading How to Retouch and Airbrush Skin in Photoshop

Epic UI: free exclusive sample pack

Today we want to share with our readers this free exclusive pack from Epic UI, a kit containing over 100 elements divided into 9 categories. Fresh, vibrant, slick, it’s perfect to help you create beautiful apps and websites. Designed by the guys at EpicPxls. Here is a preview of what you will find in the free package:… Continue reading Epic UI: free exclusive sample pack

How to Use Swift on Linux

1. State of the Union As with any new and emerging technology or language, it is always important to stay on top of the latest news and updates. Swift as a language is no different. Apple has released many new updates and enhancements in the short time that Swift has been in existence. So you first… Continue reading How to Use Swift on Linux

Deploying from GitHub to a Server

GitHub, and the Git version control system it’s based on, are fantastic tools for managing and collaborating on projects – code-based or otherwise. In this article, we’ll look at options for making Git and GitHub projects fit better into developer workflows, allowing for a smooth and hands-off deployment process. I’ll break these options into the… Continue reading Deploying from GitHub to a Server