The online community has been around since 2010 and is one of the top platforms where designers can share work, or shots, and get feedback. The invite-only community is a showcase of portfolio projects and personal artwork for digital graphics and user interface design, illustrations, animations, and pretty much any other design work you can… Continue reading Is Dribbble Worth Your Time?
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3 Essential Design Trends, July 2019
This month we’re taking a close look at above-the-scroll presentation. It’s the first thing you see, and the first impression a user has when they type in your URL. So, it’s a logical place to spot trends in website design. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. Text That’s Almost Hard to Read With… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, July 2019
Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 22
Welcome back to our Diversity in Design series on Envato Tuts+. Discover four talented artists with inspiring styles you’ll love. 4 Artists You Should Know: Diversity in Design Celebrate the work of these extraordinary artists. Each with their own unique background, they draw inspiration from their culture and surroundings to create phenomenal designs. Raúl… Continue reading Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 22
6 Mind-blowing Products that Use Laser Engraving Technology
With the colossal improvements in laser engraving technology over the past decade, more and more designers are pushing the boundaries of what can be created. Laser system manufacturers, such as Needham Laser, are coming out with machines are easier than ever to use and offer a plug-and-play experience. You no longer need to be a… Continue reading 6 Mind-blowing Products that Use Laser Engraving Technology
Tips for Enhancing Website Loading Speed by Proper Optimization
Today era is digitization world, where website accessibility is the most common task. Users use websites for a variety of reasons in their day to day tasks. If a user is searching a query using any digital assistant whether phone or desktop, they expect quick and relevant answers to that. For example, if a user… Continue reading Tips for Enhancing Website Loading Speed by Proper Optimization
Design Web Tables Without Screwing It Up – A 2019 Guide
Web tables are antiquated technology. If you don’t know this, welcome to the club that everyone else joined in 2010. Tables as a layout tool are a hack, a corruption of HTML used to create layouts that the code hadn’t thought of yet. When tables were added in HTML in 1996, this was in the… Continue reading Design Web Tables Without Screwing It Up – A 2019 Guide
Turn Your Static SVG Drawings Into Interactive Widgets and Infographics With Vue.js
What You’ll Be Creating SVG is powerful and flexible graphic format, which fits perfectly into the web medium. Unlike raster image formats, such as JPG, PNG, or GIF, SVG is vector-based and consists of “real” objects, which you can select and manipulate in whatever manner you want. So even with some basic scripting a static… Continue reading Turn Your Static SVG Drawings Into Interactive Widgets and Infographics With Vue.js
Building Image-Rich Websites Without the Lag
Optimize Image File Size You might be familiar with this trick from the old days, batch when using progressively-loading JPEGs was the height of image optimization techniques. While these methods can still be of some use today, there are many more ways to shave off some loading time today. Use a program like ImageOptim or… Continue reading Building Image-Rich Websites Without the Lag
The Benefits of User Experience in Web Design
Every small-scale business or large-scale enterprise requires a website as it helps in achieving business goals, provide essential information to the prospective client and assists in improving the online presence of the company. These websites differ according to the business specification but what’s important is that it should offer an excellent user experience or UX.… Continue reading The Benefits of User Experience in Web Design
The Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript
In this post, I’ll compare linear search and binary search algorithms. You’ll learn pseudocode for linear and binary algorithms, see examples to demonstrate both the methods, learn about time complexity, and get a step-by-step guide on how to implement the algorithms. Introduction As a programmer, you want to find the best solution to a problem… Continue reading The Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript
How to Add Multiple Selection to Android RecyclerView
The RecyclerView widget is an integral part of most Android applications today. Ever since it was added to the Android support library in late 2014, it has eclipsed the ListView widget as the most preferred widget for displaying large, complex lists. However, there’s one important feature missing in it: support for selecting and tracking list items. RecyclerView… Continue reading How to Add Multiple Selection to Android RecyclerView
Benefits of Using Kanban Tools in Project Management
Team members are the people who usually give their insight when there is a discussion about identifying the opportunities to improve the business. But in the majority of the situations they will be busy, and it does not seem right to pull them from their work and get their input. So, if the same team… Continue reading Benefits of Using Kanban Tools in Project Management
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials: 32 New Vector Tutorials to Learn Design & Illustration
Latest free Adobe Illustrator tutorials to design and illustrations. These tutorials are best for beginners and advance graphic designers. As we know Adobe illustrator is widely used to draw illustration, vector graphics and background and many more useful fully scaleable illustrations. Illustrator Tutorials are the best way to learn how to create professional vector graphics and illustrations. These tutorials will provide’s a… Continue reading Adobe Illustrator Tutorials: 32 New Vector Tutorials to Learn Design & Illustration
How to Boost Email Conversions With Personalization and Dynamic Content
Did you know, that instead of sending the same email to everyone on your mailing list, you can improve your results and conversions by sending highly-targeted messages to laser-focused audiences? I’m not just talking about just personalizing the message subject line or the greeting–those things help, but what I’m talking about is using dynamic content… Continue reading How to Boost Email Conversions With Personalization and Dynamic Content
The Hamburger Menu Is Stupid and Worth Killing
If you don’t know what the “hamburger menu” is, it’s a mobile app design icon used to indicate the presence of a hidden menu. The familiar icon includes three horizontal lines of equal length stacked on top of each other, representing an abstracted, flattened hamburger in its most basic elements. Its cutesy name has stuck… Continue reading The Hamburger Menu Is Stupid and Worth Killing
A Short Guide to Mobile-First Web Design
There is no way to go around the fact that modern websites have to provide a quality user experience on a variety of devices. Four out of five people who would visit your website use both mobile and desktop devices. Even though mobile-only is a trend that has been exhibiting growth, it still makes the… Continue reading A Short Guide to Mobile-First Web Design
Why You Need to Tempt Blog Readers to Subscribe to Your Email List
Building a large email list is the smartest thing you can do as an online marketer. If done correctly, it’ll boost engagement, improve your brand’s reputation, and drive sales better than any other online communication platform. Here’s why you should be making efforts to add people to your email list in every piece of content… Continue reading Why You Need to Tempt Blog Readers to Subscribe to Your Email List
Goal-based Sketching for UX design
Sketching and doodling can be fun, relaxing and has the power to expand your thinking. However when trying to solve problems, sketching can also distract your process. As a User Experience designer, I have found setting constraints like a timer or a whiteboard super helpful in putting pressure on the ideas being explored. Sketching up… Continue reading Goal-based Sketching for UX design
No Digital Tools needed: Creating Digital Products
Photo by Climate KIC on Unsplash I am sure, every UI and UX Designer knows that kind of problem: You have received a briefing for a new project. Everybody is on fire and is going to do some fancy stuff for it. But how to start? How to create innovative ideas? How to set your mind… Continue reading No Digital Tools needed: Creating Digital Products
Websites Design with Parallax Effect – 32 Creative Examples
Parallax scrolling is the best choice for those of you who want to wow the audience, making them stay on your web page for longer. Rather than the traditional horizontal page view that was so popular for quite a while, parallax sites embrace a completely different approach – vertical storytelling. This is the technique frequently… Continue reading Websites Design with Parallax Effect – 32 Creative Examples
How to Gain Insights from Emotionally Charged Questions
http://www.gratisography.com In product design, we are taught that we shouldn’t ask leading questions in interviews / testing. Don’t you hate when XXX happens?Isn’t it harder that you don’t have XXX in your life?Wouldn’t your life be simpler if you had XXX product? We avoid asking leading questions like those. But why? Generally it is true… Continue reading How to Gain Insights from Emotionally Charged Questions
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
Storyframes in UX, designing metrics, voice UI and more UX links this week
What’s hot in UX this week: Storyframes before wireframes: starting designs in the text editor → Just the other day I was talking to an experience designer in my team about this simple technique that I have used for years and never really thought about as a proper “technique” — maybe just intuition of someone who has designed… Continue reading Storyframes in UX, designing metrics, voice UI and more UX links this week
Creative Splash Transition with CSS and SVG ― Scotch
SVG path’s are really awesome! And its versatility is what makes them even more impressive and useful for creating engaging animations. In this tutorial we’ll be creating an eye catching animation, just using SVG paths and CSS transitions. To make things easier, we will also be using Pug and Sass, HTML and CSS preprocessors respectively.… Continue reading Creative Splash Transition with CSS and SVG ― Scotch