Designing for safe and trustworthy AI Why human oversight to make up for AI errors doesn’t work and what we can do instead Illustration created by Cara Storath in Midjourney As much as AI is powerful, in some cases it can be misleading or wrong. A realization that came too late to a New York lawyer,… Continue reading Designing safe and trustworthy AI systems
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I Took on an Internship When I First Switched Careers into UX – Here’s Why
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Breaking into UX may not be as straightforward as you may think Whenever people talk about career switching, securing full-time jobs usually come To mind. This was exactly what I thought when I signed up for a UX course a year ago. However, is breaking into UX really that easy? I’d… Continue reading I Took on an Internship When I First Switched Careers into UX – Here’s Why
Hand Lettering: How to Vector Your Letterforms
What You’ll Be Creating I remember a year ago I was having so much trouble vectoring my letterforms. I had a decent understanding of the Pen Tool, but had no idea that learning just a few minor techniques would do wonders for my type and help create those smooth curves I was looking for. This… Continue reading Hand Lettering: How to Vector Your Letterforms
Top 5 Online Courses to Learn HTML for Students
Programming and computer science are undoubtedly becoming the top valued careers in the world, so there’s more than one reason to hurry up and master one or both of them while the demand is still high. Still, learning how to speak to a computer and treat it right beyond the basic user’s ability can be… Continue reading Top 5 Online Courses to Learn HTML for Students
“Don’t take anything for granted.
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Lessons from 2020: Jess Eddy “Don’t take anything for granted. This year threw the world and many of us personally into a state of uncertainty. However, I believe this is an opportunity for us to make positive changes in our lives, changes that will help us and those around us.” The biggest… Continue reading “Don’t take anything for granted.
Learn about the Newest Photoshop AI Features
November 4, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine Adobe has just announced its newest Photoshop AI features for version 22.0 and everyone is excited! This is not the first time that artificial intelligence has taken center stage in the world of editing. In fact, Adobe is admittedly not the first to introduce AI features in its software.… Continue reading Learn about the Newest Photoshop AI Features
20 Most Versatile Multipurpose WordPress Themes (Ready-Made for 2020)
With the increasing popularity of WordPress (which now powers over a third of the internet) comes an equally growing market of premium WordPress themes. Considering the vast array of themes available on the market nowadays, it can seem that many themes are very similar in nature and style. This confusion is pushed by themes following… Continue reading 20 Most Versatile Multipurpose WordPress Themes (Ready-Made for 2020)
10 Spooky Designs to Get You Inspired This Halloween
Is the eerie spirit of Halloween haunting your designs? Find spooky inspiration in these ten ghoulish illustrations, videos, and photos. From Polish artist Piotr Jabłoński’s off-kilter and unnerving fantasy paintings to Caley Hicks’ cutesy take on Halloween themes, you’re sure to find something here to get you in the spooky mood. Looking for spine-chilling photos,… Continue reading 10 Spooky Designs to Get You Inspired This Halloween
50 Shades of Urban Decay – Color Inspiration Showcase
As designers, it’s part of our job to find beauty in the most unassuming of places. Our surroundings can always inspire us if we look a little deeper. This is what Climadoor’s latest project looks at. They’ve made a series of striking colour palettes, complete with HEX codes, inspired by scenes of urban decay. Each… Continue reading 50 Shades of Urban Decay – Color Inspiration Showcase
Top WordPress Form Builder Plugins Compared
Without a doubt, Quform and FormCraft are two of the most popular and highly rated WordPress form builders on the market, but which of these two giants is right for you? Today, we take a peek under the hoods to see what makes these form builders so special. We’ll identify the best features of each… Continue reading Top WordPress Form Builder Plugins Compared
How To Create An Amazing and Engaging Blog
Creating a blog is something that you shouldn’t take lightly. Why? Because if you want your blog to be successful you need to put time and energy into it to make it up to the level that you’re looking to get it to. If you’re new to blog platforms and blog creation, then this article… Continue reading How To Create An Amazing and Engaging Blog
Illustrator Tutorials: 31 New Illustration, Drawing Vector Tutorials
Fresh free Adobe Illustrator tutorials to learn drawing, digital vector illustration and character illustrations. Adobe illustrator is widely used to draw illustrated portraits, background illustrations and many more useful illustrations. Illustrator Tutorials are the best way to learn how to create professional vector graphics and illustrations. These tutorials will provide’s a lot of help, step by step presentation of a thing… Continue reading Illustrator Tutorials: 31 New Illustration, Drawing Vector Tutorials
Top 4 Mistakes To Avoid While Developing An App
Mobile app developers always seek for new ways and means to deliver great and unique mobile software. Everyone is eager to learn how to create a top-selling mobile app that will wow the users just off the bat and as a result achieve immediate success in the field of the app development. Of course, there… Continue reading Top 4 Mistakes To Avoid While Developing An App
Typography Tips You Should Know When Designing a Website
Graphic designers use typography as a form of communication. Both the appearance of text and the readability of this text in a visual product have an impact on user experience. Typography speaks to users, and may, therefore, be considered the voice of design. This is because typography sets a mood for a website and shares… Continue reading Typography Tips You Should Know When Designing a Website
Tricks to Overcome Common Development Problems
Everyone runs into a web development crisis at some point while working on a project. Either it goes over budget, you find unexpected security flaws, or you just run into a roadblock that keeps you from creating the kind of site you want your clients and users to appreciate. Knowing some tricks to overcome common… Continue reading Tricks to Overcome Common Development Problems
Tips On Educating Your Web Design Clients
You’ll often find that your web design clients simply do not know web design the way you do. They don’t follow the trends, they don’t really understand the terminology, and they don’t understand the reasoning behind certain web design decisions. You certainly know all those things. After all, it’s your job. You’re a web designer.… Continue reading Tips On Educating Your Web Design Clients
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)
50 Best Photography WordPress Themes
Top and best professionally designed Photography WordPress Themes for photographers, artists and personal photo portfolio studio. All themes have amazing photo gallery options for showcasing your photos professionally. All themes are fully responsive. perfectly scalable, performance and SEO optimized, retina-ready, multi-functional photography WordPress themes. You may be interested in the following modern related articles as well.… Continue reading 50 Best Photography WordPress Themes
Taking responsibility for the things you launch
Let’s travel back in time. I’ll promise we’ll get back here in just a moment. A few months ago I launched Mindful, an extension for Google Chrome that aims at making users more mindful about their thoughts, ideas, and ongoing tasks by showing their notes in every new tab. Mindful is powered by a text… Continue reading Taking responsibility for the things you launch
Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”
Drop caps are a form of decoration sometimes used at the beginning of a block of text; the initial letter running several lines deep and indenting the body text within these lines. Drop cap example, as found on The Walrus Drop cap example, as found on Nautilus It’s a typographic tradition as old as the… Continue reading Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”
10 Key Things Web Design Clients Should Know & Understand
Web design is always changing, and the future is about as clear as an oil slick. New trends emerge every day, it seems, and Google algorithms are always forcing everyone to adapt. SEO, web design, and the number of devices people use seems to expand web design horizons every day. All of this can be… Continue reading 10 Key Things Web Design Clients Should Know & Understand
Marketing Approach to UX
The key to successful marketing is advertising a solution, and selling the tool that provides it. Put another way, by looking at the jobs people are trying to accomplish, marketers can better interact with their prospects. Now imagine we think about UX in the same way: the key to a successful product is creating a… Continue reading Marketing Approach to UX
WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination
In this part of the series on Mastering WP_Query, you’ll learn about some of the arguments you can use with the WP_Query class, namely those for status, order, and pagination. You can use these arguments to fetch scheduled posts from the database, to query attachments, to amend the way posts are ordered and what they’re… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination
Posts, Pages and Post Types
In this part of this series on WP_Query, you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to query for posts, pages and custom post types. You can query for specific posts and pages or you can run a query to return posts of one or more post types. A Recap on How Arguments Work in WP_Query Before… Continue reading Posts, Pages and Post Types