Tag: Tips

How To Create A Budget-Friendly Sensory Room For Kids

Creating a sensory room for children, especially those who are neurodivergent, can greatly enhance their learning, relaxation, and overall sensory experience. A sensory room is a space carefully designed to stimulate the senses and support sensory processing. Whether your child experiences sensory seeking or avoiding tendencies, a sensory room can help them regulate their environment… Continue reading How To Create A Budget-Friendly Sensory Room For Kids

Research Plans: Organize, Document, Inform

Summary:  Start every UX-research study with a plan. Research plans document goals, methods, and logistics. Why Plans Matter As the popular saying goes, failing to plan is planning to fail. All UX-research studies should start with a plan. Without a plan, key considerations can get missed and stakeholders may misunderstand what the research is about… Continue reading Research Plans: Organize, Document, Inform

Tips to Master Advanced Compositing Techniques

Advanced Photoshop compositing techniques Now that you’ve learn a number of photo manipulation and composition skills in the previous tutorials of this course, let’s use these four main components to practice some advanced Photoshop compositing techniques: a landscape a panda a group of fog layers a color grade This isn’t… Continue reading Tips to Master Advanced Compositing Techniques

Tips on How to Design Fiction Book Covers (Ideas & Examples)

Looking for book cover design ideas? You’ve come to the right place. Today, we’ll share some terrific book cover examples and tips on how to make your cover stand out from the pack. How to Design a Book Cover 1. Convey the mood of your book with your cover design. Your reader should know whether your… Continue reading Tips on How to Design Fiction Book Covers (Ideas & Examples)

90% of designers are unhirable?

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?

Audacity: How to Smooth Out & Clean Up Audio Quality

Audacity stands as a titan in the world of audio editing, offering a vast array of tools for those eager to enhance their audio recordings. This guide, tailored for intermediate users, focuses on how to smooth out and clean up audio in Audacity. It’s an essential read for podcasters, musicians, or any audio enthusiast aiming… Continue reading Audacity: How to Smooth Out & Clean Up Audio Quality

How to Record Audio on Desktop & With Microphone in Audacity

In the world of digital audio, Audacity stands out as a beacon for both beginners and seasoned users. This free, open-source software offers a comprehensive suite of tools for recording and editing audio, making it a popular choice for podcasters, musicians, and content creators. In this guide, we will walk you through the basics of… Continue reading How to Record Audio on Desktop & With Microphone in Audacity

Design for meaningful outcomes

Aim for quality outcomes, not just outputs — that’s how we can drive customer and business value! Designing for outcomes enables us to focus on customer needs and meaningful business results. “Start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology,” Steve Jobs once said. To write a compelling story, start with the ending as a meaningful destination.… Continue reading Design for meaningful outcomes

Designing for AI: beyond the chatbot

Guidelines and strategies for meaningfully leveraging AI in your applications With the recent advancements in AI, we as designers, builders, and creators, face big questions about the future of applications and how people will interact with digital experiences. Generative AI has unleashed huge possibilities with what we can do with AI. People are now using… Continue reading Designing for AI: beyond the chatbot

Top 10 Tips to Optimize Your WordPress Website

Almost all businesses today usually have their own website to mark their online presence. While different businesses will have different types of websites and strategies in place to increase their sales, all of them would like a faster loading website. An optimized website is beneficial for a lot of reasons. The website owners save on… Continue reading Top 10 Tips to Optimize Your WordPress Website

Tips for design influencers, unethical bridges, right-to-left UI

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. Moses, the so-called “master builder” of mid-20th century New York, was very concerned that white-only spaces in America (like beaches) might eventually be opened to all people. When designing the Grand Central Parkway in the late 1920s — a road intended, in part, to give New Yorkers “an easy way to… Continue reading Tips for design influencers, unethical bridges, right-to-left UI

Incredible Indigenous Web Design From Around The World

To mark the day, we’re celebrating some incredible Indigenous designers from around the world, as well as sharing some interesting research carried out by the University of Newcastle which focuses on things to remember for Indigenous web design. But first… Did You Know? Globally, 47% of all employed Indigenous peoples have no education, compared to… Continue reading Incredible Indigenous Web Design From Around The World

How to kick off strategic research if you are NOT Spotify?

First steps of strategic product research at Glovo by UXR & Data ✏️ Illustrations credits to Ivan Mesaroš / Available on Blush From Spotify, all the way to Microsoft, Booking.com and many more, the leveraging of multidisciplinary teams to conduct product research seems THE WAY to achieve more actionable, comprehensive insights providing a higher likelihood of making… Continue reading How to kick off strategic research if you are NOT Spotify?

How to Customize the WooCommerce Checkout Page

The checkout page is one of the most important pages on any eCommerce website. All the effort that you put into your website content, design and marketing will amount to nothing if your customers keep abandoning their carts and never complete the checkout process. Some statistics show that cart abandonment rate can vary in range… Continue reading How to Customize the WooCommerce Checkout Page

20 Best eCommerce Plugins for WordPress

WordPress does not come with built-in eCommerce capabilities. But it allows you to add eCommerce functionality so you can sell tangible products, digital products, or any kind of services and receive money for them on your website. To make this possible, there are a huge number of eCommerce plugins, both free and premium, that you… Continue reading 20 Best eCommerce Plugins for WordPress

How to Fix SD Card Not Showing Up Mac

Mishaps occur at any moment, and we don’t have any idea about them. For instance: When you insert an SD card, nothing happens on Mac. If your SD card is not showing up, you cannot open or view files saved on your SD card. As you can see that your Mac SD card is not accessible,… Continue reading How to Fix SD Card Not Showing Up Mac

Best Practices, Tips, and Help for WordPress Developers

Are you new to the world of WordPress? Are you trying to create a website for your business or learn the ropes to work as a WordPress developer? Whatever your goals are, you may find it quite helpful to use the services of a white label WordPress development agency, at least in the beginning. Along… Continue reading Best Practices, Tips, and Help for WordPress Developers

15 Top Soft UI and Neumorphic UI Kits

Designers are always in search of unique ways to display content. Yet there is a delicate balance between something that looks good and is both accessible and intuitive. Everything needs to be in harmony, otherwise the end result suffers. Neumorphic UIs can serve as an effective solution. Neumorphism is a design technique that is based… Continue reading 15 Top Soft UI and Neumorphic UI Kits

Tips on Making Your Design Breathe: Using Space Effectively

September 24, 2020 by Clarence Design is about putting elements together to make a whole new object. This can be about product design where you design an object to be functional and better. It can also be about art or digital design where you combine images, color, and texts together to create a whole new… Continue reading Tips on Making Your Design Breathe: Using Space Effectively

Tips on How to Become a Recognizable Graphic Designer

Have you thought about changing careers, and graphic design sounds like a very attractive proposal? Or maybe you have always had a knack for drawing, and would like to become someone who makes a living off of it? Whatever the case may be, there is a high demand for good graphic designers. Both freelancers and… Continue reading Tips on How to Become a Recognizable Graphic Designer

Popular Design News of the Week: July 20, 2020 – July 26, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: July 20, 2020 – July 26, 2020

How to Use Elementor Templates: A 101 Intro

There’s a reason why so many people have turned to WordPress page builder plugins: they can make building even the most complex page layouts and features a relative breeze. It’s no wonder then, that Elementor has become the go-to page builder on the market. It not only simplifies content creation; the plugin also boasts some… Continue reading How to Use Elementor Templates: A 101 Intro

Top 10 Tips for a Better WooCommerce Store

Do you want your WooCommerce store to stand out from the competition and attract traffic?  The right WooCommerce plugins can make your online store better and more successful. In this post, I’ll share ten ways you can improve your store and show you the best WooCommerce plugins on CodeCanyon. With the right tactics, you can… Continue reading Top 10 Tips for a Better WooCommerce Store