Tag: short

There’s no such thing as “minor design changes”

Sharing a quick story I found on Intercom’s blog about how there’s no such thing as a small change in a product. At some point Intercom’s team decided to limit the number of characters of their reviews to 140. “We want to limit the length of a review in the product to 140 characters, because… Continue reading There’s no such thing as “minor design changes”

WordPress CV Templates for Recent Graduates

When you are a former student, finding the profession of your dream seems to be only a matter of time. If you wait for a little, you will easily find what you need. But the reality is a bit crueler than you may think. You have to be aware of how to sell your knowledge… Continue reading WordPress CV Templates for Recent Graduates

Design Blocks: 170+ HTML components

Design Blocks is a free set of more than 170 responsive components in HTML for assembling a website or an hybrid app in minutes. Design blocks is basically an UI kit providing a wide range of components and layouts such as headers, footers, sections, forms, CTAs, pricing tables, testimonials, etc. Modules are based on Bootstrap… Continue reading Design Blocks: 170+ HTML components

Sticky Sidebar – A Pure JavaScript Plugin For Smart Sticky Sidebars

Sticky Sidebar is a pure JavaScript plugin for making smart and high performance sticky sidebar, works with sidebar if it’s taller or shorter than the viewport, integrated with resize sensor to re-calculate the dimensions automatically when the size of sidebar or its container is changed, supports jQuery/Zepto and compatible with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE9+.… Continue reading Sticky Sidebar – A Pure JavaScript Plugin For Smart Sticky Sidebars

Website Design Ideas for Gaming Enthusiasts

Video gaming is one of the hottest and fastest growing industries right now. If you are into gaming, there is no reason why you should not have a website or at least a YouTube channel to show off your gaming skills. Many people take to the internet to show how they are playing a certain… Continue reading Website Design Ideas for Gaming Enthusiasts

9 Design and Formatting Tricks to Make Your Content Easier to Read

In a perfect world, content would be judged solely on the information it provides. The strength of a piece would depend exclusively on its subject matter, and how that subject is articulated through words and images. But in the online world, great information isn’t enough—you also need to present that information efficiently, and in an… Continue reading 9 Design and Formatting Tricks to Make Your Content Easier to Read

A Worth Checking Out Collection Of Free Graphics Files for Designers

  ADVERTISEMENT It is a big task to find out high quality PSD files that you can use in your work, but when you succeeded in finding out your desired PSD files, it is nothing short of a blessing. Keeping this in mind, we thought to compile a useful collection of high quality PSD files, and… Continue reading A Worth Checking Out Collection Of Free Graphics Files for Designers

6 Pillars of Excellent Web Design

With the periodic changes to Google’s search algorithm, the methods of ranking that might have worked in the past are often abrogated – but that just means you have to find the ones that still provide returns and build on them. Additionally, in the ever-changing expanse of cyberspace, you must take the time to familiarize… Continue reading 6 Pillars of Excellent Web Design

Hey Designer, why so fragile?

The Why Praise overdose If you visit the comment section of behance.com and you manage to see through all the self-promotion, you’ll find that the comments are unusually polite and positive. Every project seems to have really positive feedback, the only thing that really distinguishes projects is the amount of praise they get. The reason… Continue reading Hey Designer, why so fragile?

Diversity is Punk Rock

I used to think “diversity” meant the need for the representation of a particular set of perspectives or cultures, i.e., “there are lot of men in this room, therefore we need women.” This idea prevented me from participating in the discourse in the past because I’ve never felt like I identify with any single community.… Continue reading Diversity is Punk Rock

Make Sure You Avoid These Security Mistakes in Your Next Project

Whether you’re building a website, application or server, make sure you don’t make these security mistakes on your next project. 1. Insufficient Backups Backups are a crucial part of running a anything online. They preserve your data in the event of a system crash or user error, and they can also save you from security… Continue reading Make Sure You Avoid These Security Mistakes in Your Next Project

Vertex Free Responsive WordPress Theme

Vertex is a high quality, minimalist and responsive WordPress Theme with an emphasis on content (photos, blogs posts, etc). This free WordPress theme will be a great solution for your photography blog. Or you can turn it into a stunning portfolio website, travel blog, or any other website you have in mind, it’s up to… Continue reading Vertex Free Responsive WordPress Theme

Split A/B Testing Graphical Elements of Your Landing Pages: Best Practices to Test and Quantify Conversion Value of Landing Page Elements

It is a known fact that one of the best ways of generating high conversion rates is by having high-converting landing pages. Landing pages are standalone web pages with a single purpose – to act as a point of entry for a particular website. Study has shown that designers have just 50 milliseconds to make… Continue reading Split A/B Testing Graphical Elements of Your Landing Pages: Best Practices to Test and Quantify Conversion Value of Landing Page Elements

They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”

We’re living in the era of the “UX enthusiastics”: some people just feel they have a natural talent about anything related to “user” AND “experience” and this enables them to randomly act and feel as UX designer. Someone should tell them that this is one of those cases when a natural talent in not enough… Continue reading They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”

Free Text Effect Tutorials (26 Tuts)

Free tutorials of amazing Text Effects ideal to create vintage, retro, neon and glitch effects on your text and lettering with few Photoshop and Illustrator steps. These tutorials are perfect for beginners and advance graphic designers. There are 2D and 3D text effect tutorials to create posters, flyers, calendar and giving your typography or lettering a fresh touch… Continue reading Free Text Effect Tutorials (26 Tuts)

15 Brand Building Tips for Designers

Project such as designs for the designer are an extremely appreciated services or deals to have for businesses. Your very designer brand and on Demonstration of it, to the very clients you anticipate respect for the same as well. What you do really is something that worth a lot. Worth yourself in the sense that,… Continue reading 15 Brand Building Tips for Designers

Aol – One Of The Boldest Logo Rebranding Cases Ever

The history of Aol branding is a story of bold decisions and risky moves. It shows how much can be achieved when you have the audacity to push the boundaries of design. It also shows that extraordinary problems require extraordinary solutions. How loss of clients creates necessity for bold actions The online environment has changed… Continue reading Aol – One Of The Boldest Logo Rebranding Cases Ever

The Ultimate Guide to User on-Boarding – Tips and Best Practices

In the mobile era, where mobile internet usage has already surpassed desktop usage and with drastic change in user behavior and habits happening in the recent times, delivering a great user experience to your website or app visitors is highly important than ever before. Mobile users are impatient and quick – bad UX increases bounce… Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to User on-Boarding – Tips and Best Practices

Total – Responsive MultiPurpose WordPress Theme

To be very precise WordPress themes makes web development very flexible along with its easy to use features; for both: the developers and the clients. WordPress themes comes along with entire web development solution. It consists of thousands of features, which are very much useful and handy as well. In this very article we will… Continue reading Total – Responsive MultiPurpose WordPress Theme

As a Designer I want better Release Notes

The perfect release note ???????? Finally what you’ve being waiting for. How you piece all this together, and it’s broken down for you in nothing more than plain text: The introduction. A short paragraph. Make this personal if appropriate. Eg. “Season greetings, everyone! You asked, Santa listened – this update is exactly what you ask for… Continue reading As a Designer I want better Release Notes

Why human-centered design is an expectation.

Human-Centered Design, in short, is the practice of a management and problem solving process that places people (your customer) at the center of every decision. It requires curiosity and contextual observation, empathy, ideation, iteration, and implementation. “Human-centered” is the core of user, customer, and service experience design (UX, CX, SX). Almost every company has a… Continue reading Why human-centered design is an expectation.

27 Web and Interactive Websites for Inspiration

Beautiful and creative web-interactive websites roundup for inspiration. In this website showcase we are gathered Business & Corporate, Promotional, Web & Interactive websites, created with modern technologies HTML5 and CSS3, jQuery and fully Responsive Design websites. Web/Interactive web design engage students and professionals by providing information and resources along with practice, simulations, and other learning activities. We saw some… Continue reading 27 Web and Interactive Websites for Inspiration

Httpster – A Curated Showcase of Really Hot Web Designs

Posted · Category: Inspiration Httpster is a showcase of damn fine website design, lovingly curated and categorised so we can perv on it at our whim. They love good typography, and effective, unpretentious design; in short, simple ideas executed perfectly. While they aim to showcase excellent development as well, they apologise in advance for including… Continue reading Httpster – A Curated Showcase of Really Hot Web Designs