Creative Essentials: Professional Tools That Make My Work Better

My name is Suzanne Scacca and I am a tool snob.  Before I became a writer, and before I entered the world of marketing and web design, I was a long-time project manager. And although I could’ve stepped into any of my project management jobs and simply executed the tasks employers asked of me, I… Continue reading Creative Essentials: Professional Tools That Make My Work Better

Answers From a Panel Discussion

A few months ago I ran a panel discussion for the Swedish organisation DataTjej that included four panelists, plus an audience of forty women and non-binary people to dig deeper into the potential of role models. The discussion gave us a huge amount of insights and showed that everyone can work together to overcome the… Continue reading Answers From a Panel Discussion

50 Awesome Icon Tutorials

Icons are fantastic additions to websites, mobile apps, and so much more! So if you’ve ever wondered how to make icons, now you can explore dozens of amazing tutorials from this list. Check out this huge selection of 50 icon tutorials from us and around the web. Icon Tutorials From Envato Tuts+ Ready to kick-start… Continue reading 50 Awesome Icon Tutorials

Getting Started With CSS Multi-Column Layout

How do you create layouts in CSS? Maybe you use floats, Flexbox, or CSS Grid Layout. But there’s another layout method that’s not used much yet, and that is “multi-column”. Learn about it in our new course, Getting Started With CSS Multi-Column Layout. What You’ll Learn In this short course, Adi Purdila will teach you… Continue reading Getting Started With CSS Multi-Column Layout

How to Use Animation in Angular 6

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the importance of animations in improving the user experience. I’ll show you how to incorporate animations in Angular 6 applications with the help of animation components and Bootstrap. The Role of Animations in User Design Most web users are visual creatures and therefore respond to visual objects. This means… Continue reading How to Use Animation in Angular 6

45 Fresh New Photoshop Tutorials – Learn Exciting Photo Manipulation Tricks

Free Adobe Photoshop tutorials, learn Photo Manipulation tricks and effects that can turn your photo or artwork into a masterpiece of art. These new Photoshop video tutorials teach you how to use photo editing tools, brushes and create amazing photo manipulation, photo effects, text effects and make a things to design easier and better. Photoshop is a very versatile software tool, watch… Continue reading 45 Fresh New Photoshop Tutorials – Learn Exciting Photo Manipulation Tricks

WordPress as the First Step to Learning HTML

Not everyone has an idea about HTML. Most people will turn to WordPress when creating their first website. It’s easy to use, and you’ll have all the tools which you need for your website. Nonetheless, you’ll have an easier time getting to add content within the website and also ensure that there’s growth. Using WordPress… Continue reading WordPress as the First Step to Learning HTML

College majors for UX design

I see this question a lot around the internet: “What should I major in if I want to pursue a career in UX design?” As a college student and incoming product design intern at Facebook, I’ve done a lot of research on this question. It’s important to recruit new people to the field of user experience,… Continue reading College majors for UX design

Inclusive Design Mindset

At the end of a 72-hour race to complete the Student Design Challenge (SDC) hosted by Microsoft at IxDA this year, I was prompted to think about how my experience could not only benefit future designers, but also public school teachers. The challenge was to design an interactive way to teach rhythm to a student… Continue reading Inclusive Design Mindset

32 New Photoshop Tutorials – Learn Essential Techniques

New free Photoshop tutorials for photographer, graphic designer, or illustrator for learning basic, advance and essential techniques of Photoshop, tips and lighting effects. All tutorials are very easy to understand and make amazing photo manipulation, retouching and lighting effects and PS actions in Adobe Photoshop. These latest tutorials are helpful to enhance and improve your photo editing skills. You may be interested… Continue reading 32 New Photoshop Tutorials – Learn Essential Techniques

How to get work as a freelance digital designer

Getting started as a creative professional is never easy. Although the market for freelance and independent digital designers is booming at the moment, most newbies still find it hard to get their foot in the door. Here are some of the ways you can get started and find work in the industry: 1. Join an… Continue reading How to get work as a freelance digital designer

Best PHP Books, Courses and Tutorials in 2017

November 8, 2017 by Alex Fox While JavaScript has gained popularity for animation and interaction, PHP still rules the server-side scripting world. Developers with strong PHP skills are more competitive in the job market, and can build better sites with improved user experiences. If you want to freshen up your PHP skills or get started… Continue reading Best PHP Books, Courses and Tutorials in 2017

Embedded VS. Non-Embedded Signing with HelloSign — SitePoint

To embed or non-embed? Understand the difference when using HelloSign’s e-sign API We’ve teamed up with HelloSign to help you understand the difference between embedded and non-embedded signing options with the fastest eSign integration API. In less than 3 minutes, we teach you about the difference between embedded signing and non-embedded signing for legally binding… Continue reading Embedded VS. Non-Embedded Signing with HelloSign — SitePoint

Design makes AI smarter

Designers today most likely have been designing for products that use some level of AI for automation. We have been designing in the first stage of AI, artificial narrow intelligence. To get to the second stage of AI, artificial general intelligence, we need user data. Lots of it. How do we get this information? To… Continue reading Design makes AI smarter

How to Improve Your Video Content Strategy

Video converts better than any other forms of media, that’s according to 70% of digital marketers. When it comes to driving awareness, customer engagement and lead conversions, more businesses are opting for video marketing. While many business owners are opting for video marketing, creating compelling content for their audience and ensuring that it helps achieve… Continue reading How to Improve Your Video Content Strategy

5 Mobile App Genres Budding Entrepreneurs Should Look At

The diversity of mobile apps on App Store and Play Store opens up the new door for hundreds of thousands of indie developers and app development companies — but probably the shortcoming is the limited categories. It’s understandable that the way mobile apps and startups cultures are evolving, we’re likely to see a lot more… Continue reading 5 Mobile App Genres Budding Entrepreneurs Should Look At

Color Schemes in 2017 Web Design: Basics and Modern Trends

Choosing a color scheme for your website may not seem a time-consuming enterprise. However, if you truly understand the importance of making this choice, you may be rather puzzled and lurk in hesitation for a pretty long time. To go for the color scheme that would be the best match for your website, you should… Continue reading Color Schemes in 2017 Web Design: Basics and Modern Trends

10 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Mobile App Developer

Two years ago, Arthur Aron and others published the results of a study about intimacy. They developed a list of 36 questions that could eventually bring two people closer. The point was not to give or get the right answers. Rather, asking the 36 questions, the two have to disclose some uncomfortable truth about themselves.… Continue reading 10 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Mobile App Developer

Build a successful creative portfolio with Allyou

Every creative needs a good portfolio. Whether you’re focussed on typography or photography, layout or user experience, your portfolio is what defines you professionally. As with most things, the quality of your portfolio is determined by the appropriateness of the tools you use. All too often we see great work, presented poorly, because the designer… Continue reading Build a successful creative portfolio with Allyou

The Three Photo Effects in Luminar You’ll Fall in Love With

Posted · Category: Stock Photos Every image, in every webpage you work on, should be flawless in terms of its quality, and its ability to fit with the concept or idea behind the page. An image should also fit in contextually with the accompanying text. These considerations, and how cleverly you apply them, can make… Continue reading The Three Photo Effects in Luminar You’ll Fall in Love With

Designing Anticipated User Experiences

Anticipatory Design is possibly the next big leap within the field of Experience Design. “Design that is one step ahead” as Shapiro refers to it. This sounds amazing, but where does it lead us? And how will it affect our relationship with technology? I’ve dedicated my Master thesis to this topic to identify both ethical… Continue reading Designing Anticipated User Experiences

UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career

Advancing technology and the digital revolution are rapidly changing the career landscape for designers. Where web design once reigned as the career of choice for digitally-minded visual designers, that job has recently been dethroned by a new supreme leader of the design realm: UX designer. As more people do business digitally – not just on computers,… Continue reading UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career

15 New Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

In this article we are showcasing 15 new, best and outstanding adobe illustrator tutorials. There is no doubt that Adobe illustrator tutorials make web designers work flow easy for them and with the help of Adobe illustrator tutorials, web designers learn so much that’s why web designers always searching for the latest Adobe illustrator tutorials.… Continue reading 15 New Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Free Course: Create Content in WordPress With Posts and Pages

What You’ll Be Creating WordPress is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating websites, but for beginners it can still be a little hard to know where to get started. What’s the best way to fit your content into the WordPress content management system? In our new course, Create Content in WordPress With Posts and… Continue reading Free Course: Create Content in WordPress With Posts and Pages