10 Web Design & UX Trends to Embrace in 2017

January 17, 2017 by Spyre Studios The team at The Deep End Web Consulting has produced an infographic that not only outlines 2017 Web Design and UX Trends to Boost Conversions — it lets you know why they work. Appearance, UX, and tactics all matter. These tips will give you ideas for putting them together… Continue reading 10 Web Design & UX Trends to Embrace in 2017

Web Design Agencies Websites: 26 Creative Web Examples

Fresh, innovative, creative, minimalist award winning web design agencies websites for inspiration. Today we are selected 26 best web design agencies websites. I hope your will enjoy the amazing websites collection and get some great ideas for your next web agency website design projects. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Please join us… Continue reading Web Design Agencies Websites: 26 Creative Web Examples

25 New Adobe Photoshop Tutorials to Learn Editing & Photo Manipulation

The new releases of Photoshop CC 2017, rolling out with exciting new features photo editing and special effects for designers and digital photographers. Today we are gathered fresh new Adobe Photoshop Tutorials to learn how to edit photos, creating photo effects, manipulation, fantasy and retouching. These new 2017 tutorials are helpful to learn beginning and advance techniques to enhancement… Continue reading 25 New Adobe Photoshop Tutorials to Learn Editing & Photo Manipulation

How to Create a Website to Compliment Your Logo

When it comes to creating your website and logo design, nothing but the best will do. You need to consider your branding always when creating any STD or web property. You also should consider your logo design and how your website works with your logo to help your branding. Remember that branding is a concerted… Continue reading How to Create a Website to Compliment Your Logo

Logo Design Trends and Strategy Guide for 2017

Branding strategy plays a fundamental part in an organization’s achievement in today’s focused and competitive markets. Your organization brand is not only a name or image; it speaks to the association with your purchaser. Making solid brand value is critical to position yourself in the business sector and make consumer awareness, whether you are an… Continue reading Logo Design Trends and Strategy Guide for 2017

15 Best WooCommerce WordPress Themes for 2017

Enjoy a collection of some of the best WooCommerce themes for 2017 and get inspired to build a UX-friendly website with a beautiful layout that truly engages your customers. Allow me to present you the 2017 collection of the best WooCommerce themes. Porto Created by: SW-THEMES Price: $60 Download link: here Live preview: here Porto is… Continue reading 15 Best WooCommerce WordPress Themes for 2017

5 Ways Freelancers Can Increase Productivity with Pre-Built Websites

Posted · Category: Best Collections As a freelance web designer, you no doubt enjoy working to your own schedules. And not having to commute to work, or a boss that likes micromanaging are also good perks. You work hard to improve your skills, and to keep up with the latest trends. As a result, you have little difficulty… Continue reading 5 Ways Freelancers Can Increase Productivity with Pre-Built Websites

5 Best Collaboration Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow

Posted · Category: Best Collections A team leader’s role is to take a group of people who have diverse yet complementary skills, and variable degrees of experience, and mold them into a cohesive team.  And make them work together toward a common objective. These same skills that can do so much when given proper direction can just… Continue reading 5 Best Collaboration Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow

Affinity Photo comes to Windows

Friends, Windows enthusiasts, and people generally just stuck with Windows… rejoice! Rejoice, for some real competition to Adobe has finally hit our platform. Affinity Photo is here in Beta form, and it is looking mighty fine. I’ve had a chance to play around with it, and I have to say that I am duly impressed.… Continue reading Affinity Photo comes to Windows

Best of Themes from Top Marketplaces & Authors

Posted · Category: Best Collections, License Free Best of Themes is a showcase website where you can browse thousands of free and paid themes quickly, so you can focus what matters. We had always the problem of finding a matching theme to our product. The current process is amazingly time consuming and consists of going… Continue reading Best of Themes from Top Marketplaces & Authors

Zendesk releases a new logo

We’re all familiar with the old Zendesk logo, right? The memorable image of the Buddha who’s wearing a headset (melding old-fashioned mindfulness with modern-day tech) was an instantly recognizable logo of a big brand in today’s tech industry. Now, the new Zendesk logo is a combination mark of a logotype or wordmark design together with… Continue reading Zendesk releases a new logo

Essential design trends, November 2016

It’s time to break out of your (design) shell and try something bold. Larger-than-life bold techniques are the big theme this month as we look at three trends that incorporate items that make users look at the design. Here’s what’s trending in design this month: 1. The color purple Purple color palettes are traditionally somewhat… Continue reading Essential design trends, November 2016

Build a Bookshop with React & Redux I: React Redux Flow

At some point in your complex React project, you are going to need a state management library. Redux is a good choice because of it’s simplicity and centralized data management. This piece is a practical approach to the fundamentals of Redux in building React application for managing a book store. If you are unfamiliar with… Continue reading Build a Bookshop with React & Redux I: React Redux Flow

What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do

The term ‘design’ can be a deceptively simple one. It sounds curiously vague, and when offered in response to most people, it elicits a degree of confusion. For example, when somebody says ‘Oh, I work as a designer,’ a lot of people do not entirely understand what this means. This is because, for such a… Continue reading What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do

Free Stock Photos – Where To Get Them From

Advertisement One thing that has always been a very integral part of web design is photography. One of the most unfortunate things about this, however, is that we’ve come across nothing but mediocre stock photos of men in suits shaking hands. In addition to not only being extremely tacky, these kinds of photos can also… Continue reading Free Stock Photos – Where To Get Them From

Candy – Bookmarks for the 21st Century

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Most tools focus on delivering information to you today, but do not help in recording, retrieving and making use of it. Candy does. You can drop the meaningless links, lost articles in read later silos, and copy-pasting into docs. Candy helps you capture ideas in an easy and beautiful… Continue reading Candy – Bookmarks for the 21st Century

Web Design In Action: A Sample Design Workflow

Advertisement Designing and building an entire website from scratch involves many different pieces. It can get easier with time and practice, but you’re always starting from a blank slate for every new project which can be tough. The best thing to do is fall into a creative routine that you can follow every time. This… Continue reading Web Design In Action: A Sample Design Workflow

Website navigation and user experience

Advertisement Website navigation usability is the most crucial element in design. It makes the difference between a website where users find what they are looking for and one which causes so much frustration that users want to abandon it. The whole point of designing a website is to allow access the content, so the success… Continue reading Website navigation and user experience

How to Create a Dramatic Fisheye Spartan Scene with Photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to blend and distort different desert landscape stock images to create a dynamic fisheye-like perspective and use different adjustment layers to get different coloring and feel to the manipulation so let’s get started! This tutorial was originally published on Jan 5, 2012. Preview of Final Results… Continue reading How to Create a Dramatic Fisheye Spartan Scene with Photoshop

College Websites That Look Good

Advertisement It’s not just commercial businesses that need effective websites, but also educational institutions such as universities, colleges and schools. When college websites are appealing to users, they can help attract more student applications. A well-designed university website could also facilitate communication to donors, parents and students, bringing important information right to them wherever they… Continue reading College Websites That Look Good

Cloudinary Adds HTTP/2 Support

Posted · Category: Information Cloudinary, a provider of solutions for managing images and video in the cloud, is offering HTTP/2 support, enabling developers to further optimize the user experience. To take advantage of HTTP/2, Cloudinary users don’t have to do a thing – it’s been automatically integrated into the online tools. Websites have changed dramatically… Continue reading Cloudinary Adds HTTP/2 Support

Create a Surreal and Magical Dream Bottle Landscape

In this advanced tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a magical bottle scene set against the backdrop of a surreal landscape by compositing and blending several stock images together using techniques of layer masks, adjustment layers, dodge & burn. I’ll also explain how to work with shadows and lighting as well as with the Camera… Continue reading Create a Surreal and Magical Dream Bottle Landscape

Showcase Of Websites With Creative Background Gradients

Advertisement Gradients play an essential role in web design, especially cool gradient backgrounds. There are many different possibilities of gradients that you can use, such as linear or radial. You can use a wide variety of shades and colors to add interest and depth. Gradients are very important to making your website unique and attractive.… Continue reading Showcase Of Websites With Creative Background Gradients

4 Useful Ways to Use Perspective Warp

The Perspective Warp tool is almost like magic. It lets you change the perspective in your image and can be used to rotate buildings and objects, make telephoto shots look like wide angle shots, and quickly straighten multiple objects in less than a minute. Read this tutorial and find out four useful ways to use… Continue reading 4 Useful Ways to Use Perspective Warp