Or why your cookie-cutter portfolio doesn’t cut it and how to fix it Image by Matej Latin (Author) Here’s the harsh truth: I’ve reviewed more than 1,000 portfolios in my design career so far, and I turned 90% of them down because of one thing — the linear design process. By “linear design process” I mean cookie-cutter case studies that… Continue reading 90% of designers are unhirable?
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How to Build a Responsive Slider With Swiper.js
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Have you ever built an advanced slider for a project? If so, you might have taken advantage of any one of a number of JavaScript carousels. In the past, I’ve covered two of them: slick and Owl. Today, I’ll introduce another well-known one: Swiper. Ready to learn… Continue reading How to Build a Responsive Slider With Swiper.js
27 Professional PowerPoint Presentation Templates
36 Shares An elegant, fashionable & versatile PowerPoint presentation templates. Minimalist presentation templates for eye catching and professional work presentation. PowerPoint templates are multipurpose templates that can be used for any type of business presentation. Modern template design that includes creative photo layouts, infographics, tables, vector icons, maps, diagrams and tons of great features to show… Continue reading 27 Professional PowerPoint Presentation Templates
Figma for education: Design for learning experiences
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Why would a teacher be interested in Figma? Why would a designer be interested in classroom prep? Join our little Figgy educators group. Currently, I work in the EdTech product design industry (K-12) as an experience designer. I am a former 7th-grade science teacher and am planning to return to… Continue reading Figma for education: Design for learning experiences
10 Best Responsive HTML5 Sliders for Images and Text… and 3 Free Options
In this post, I’ll show you some of the best free and paid HTML5 sliders. We’ll see responsive text sliders, responsive image sliders with text, banner sliders and more. All built with HTML5 and CSS. Why Use a Responsive HTML5 Sliders? HTML5 enables users to have a better and more consistent web experience across several… Continue reading 10 Best Responsive HTML5 Sliders for Images and Text… and 3 Free Options
Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020
Are you starting 2020 off on the right foot? How about keeping up with those resolutions to learn or try something new? Either way, you’re in luck. This roundup is packed with new tools to help you through projects or learn new tricks to enhance your skillset. Here’s what’s new for designers this month. Calcolor… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020
10 Best WordPress Plugins for Digital Marketing
Currently somewhere in the region of 34% of websites are built with WordPress, it’s the most utilized CMS (Content Management System) in the world. Part of that popularity stems from its underlying technologies—PHP and MySQL—which allows for dynamic content in posts, but also enables a rich ecosystem of plugins. One of the trickiest aspects of… Continue reading 10 Best WordPress Plugins for Digital Marketing
17 Best WordPress Slider & Carousel Plugins of 2020
Whether you want to show off customer testimonials, your latest blog posts, your best images, or other media on your website, there is a WordPress slider plugin or WordPress carousel slider plugin out there that’s right for you. Add interactive and stylish looking sliders and carousels to your WordPress website to show off your website’s content in an… Continue reading 17 Best WordPress Slider & Carousel Plugins of 2020
10 ways to help Accessibility at Conferences as a speaker
November 26, 2019 Hey friends! Wedding planning is starting to heat up with five months left to go. I was pretty ambitious about my writing schedule when I started my second year of blogging. I figured I had so much more free time on my hands versus what I had six months ago. But I… Continue reading 10 ways to help Accessibility at Conferences as a speaker
How to Choose a WordPress Slider or Carousel Plugin
Sliders are very popular design elements. They are the most dynamic way to display visual media on your website. You can use them in hundreds of ways to engage visitors on your website. There are hundreds of slider plugins available for WordPress to help you build, organize, and manage your sliders. In this article, I… Continue reading How to Choose a WordPress Slider or Carousel Plugin
How to Use the Slider Revolution Plugin for WordPress
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In this post, we’re going to review the Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress plugin, which allows you to create rich and dynamic content on your WordPress websites. And not just sliders: it allows you to build carousels, content modules, and full-fledged websites by using the rich built-in editor! Nowadays, sliders and carousels are important building blocks… Continue reading How to Use the Slider Revolution Plugin for WordPress
How to Make a Newsletter Email Subscription Popup with the ConvertPlus WordPress Plugin
A newsletter is a report sent by an organization or business containing any recent news. In an e=commerce business, it might contain news or sales on products which might interest the subscriber. Newsletters allow you to encourage website visitors to return to your site and can be a powerful tool for boosting sales and viewership.… Continue reading How to Make a Newsletter Email Subscription Popup with the ConvertPlus WordPress Plugin
5 Critical Elements You Need to Know to Build a Genuinely Cool Website
After completing 2 or 3 multi-page websites building a one-pager will take no time at all. Or so you’ve been told. The problem is, whoever told you that never tried putting together a one-pager. Or, at least one that could be bragged about. You’ll discover that cramming all the important information isn’t all that easy… Continue reading 5 Critical Elements You Need to Know to Build a Genuinely Cool Website
MasterStudy – Revolutionary Learning Management System on Vue.js!
MasterStudy Major Update! Introduction to the exclusive development of the LMS for effective organization of online courses. What is MasterStudy? MasterStudy is an elegant WordPress theme for educational needs. It is full of premium plugins that are professionally integrated to save your money and create the best online learning site for both teachers and students.… Continue reading MasterStudy – Revolutionary Learning Management System on Vue.js!
How to Create Presentations that Don’t Suck
The presentation is a convenient way to provide a short yet concise information about any of your projects whether you are a student, office manager, businessman, startupper, or financial advisor. Sad to say but bad presentation happens oftener than the good one. As a result, your audience gets bored and want the presentation to be… Continue reading How to Create Presentations that Don’t Suck
Motors WordPress Theme Review
Are you running a car dealership, or perhaps a car rental facility? As you know, there are plenty of competitors out there online and offline. Having a great brick and mortar facility is only half the battle today; you also need to have a high-quality website that can provide your company with a strong online… Continue reading Motors WordPress Theme Review
The relationship between design deliverables and presentation skills
In 13 years working in UX, I have joined a considerable number of meetings where UX Designers present their work to the rest of the team. More than I can remember, to be brutally honest. Consumer journeys, sitemaps, wireframes, benchmark audits, personas, user research reports — the list of deliverables designers are creating is huge. Presenting work… Continue reading The relationship between design deliverables and presentation skills
Fetch Those Early-Bird Tickets! ???????? ???????? ???????? – Smashing Magazine
Great conferences are all about learning new skills and making new connections. That’s why we’ve set up a couple of new adventures for SmashingConf 2018 — just practical sessions, new formats, new lightning talks, evening sessions and genuine, interesting conversations — with a dash of friendly networking! Taking place in London, San Francisco, Toronto. Tickets? Glad you asked!1… Continue reading Fetch Those Early-Bird Tickets! ???????? ???????? ???????? – Smashing Magazine
Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events
Hello, old friend. We all reach a point in our careers when we start speaking in public. Designers, in particular, are pretty good at organizing conferences, panels, meetups, livestreams and other forms of publicly sharing knowledge with fellow designers. Speaking at design events is not only important for the design community as a whole, but also… Continue reading Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events
Makes HTML Presentations Easy with WebSlides
Posted · Category: Gallery, MIT License WebSlides makes HTML presentations easy. Just the essentials and using lovely CSS. Each parent <section> in the #webslides element is an individual slide. Code is clean and scalable. It uses intuitive markup with popular naming conventions. There’s no need to overuse classes or nesting. Making an HTML presentation has never… Continue reading Makes HTML Presentations Easy with WebSlides
How to get your design concept approved by your client
Advertisement It is said that the main goal of the web design studio is to perceive their client. When you learn all about your client’s personality, values, and most importantly, business goals, you come up with a concept – a visual outline of the future website. Sometimes, however, it turns out that your vision does… Continue reading How to get your design concept approved by your client
Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Character Running
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we will be animating a cycle of a character running. In this case, the character will appear to be running in place. If this run cycle were to be incorporated into a movie, perhaps a background scrolling from right to left would be behind the character. Walks and… Continue reading Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Character Running
36 Excellent Free Image Galleries: JavaScript, React, PHP, or CSS
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Here are some of our favourite free image galleries that you can quickly plug into a design. They’ve been built with everything from JavaScript to PHP to jQuery and more… A shout-out to all the developers involved in sharing their work with the community! JavaScript Galleries jQuery… Continue reading 36 Excellent Free Image Galleries: JavaScript, React, PHP, or CSS