How to Create a Gradient Icon Inspired by Instagram in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating Rebrand your logo in style with this quick tutorial on creating a gradient icon in Adobe Illustrator CC. We’ll build our icon design from scratch with quick and simple shapes and pair gradients and effects from the Appearance panel to complete our on-trend design.  Alternatively, you may wish to use a… Continue reading How to Create a Gradient Icon Inspired by Instagram in Adobe Illustrator

Free UI Kits That A Designer Should Have

Posted · Category: Best Collections UI kits are among designers’ favorite tools to work with, because they enhance their creativity, and clean the palette even for the most difficult projects. What makes UI kits even more loveable is that they help us explore other designers’ ideas, without expecting the client to come up with his,… Continue reading Free UI Kits That A Designer Should Have

Using a Drag and Drop Builder? Get Your Free License

Posted · Category: Uncategorized Drag and drop website building tools have their pros and cons, as do most website building tools. If you are using drag and drop to build your websites, we have a little reward for you – a promise of something better. It’s called XPRS, it offers a new and innovative approach… Continue reading Using a Drag and Drop Builder? Get Your Free License

The Next Random: UI kit for Sketch

Today’s exclusive freebie is The Next Random, a free UI kit for Sketch created and designed by Luan Gjokaj. It is a set of minimal components, which includes buttons, switches, forms, modals, etc. You can use this set in your projects or learn with it, by examining each component to see how it is put together. Download freebie

Color Choices You Must Avoid – Quick Guide

Creative Market released an infographic guide to help you make the right choices in selecting the correct color combinations for your next web design project. There’re reasons why certain colors shouldn’t be used altogether, here we have 5 color combinations you should use with extra care. Never use pure black Red and green don’t play… Continue reading Color Choices You Must Avoid – Quick Guide

What Salary Could You Be Earning?

Posted · Category: Information If you want to know what you’re worth, Hired has the answer: with data from thousands of real interview requests and job offers, we’ve put together a salary calculator that can tell you what you could be making in your job based on the skills you have. If you want to… Continue reading What Salary Could You Be Earning?

How exactly to Overcome The Top 4 Freelance issues

“Freelancing is tough. It may be very hard, in reality. It May wear people down, making them lose sight of whatever they utilized to love simply because they need to just do everything else to get by.” – Mason Hipp, The Unlimited Freelancer Recently, a friend of mine switched to become a freelancer that is full-time.… Continue reading How exactly to Overcome The Top 4 Freelance issues

6 Principles for Timeless Web Design

How do you stay relevant when your audience always changes? Just like fashion, film, and food, web design and UI are subject to an ever-changing set of standards and expectations. While you might sometimes want to cater to the crowd, having the know-how to create something that does the job and does it well is always… Continue reading 6 Principles for Timeless Web Design

WP REST API: Internals and Customization

In the previous part of the series, we learned about creating, updating, and deleting content remotely through the WP REST API. It allows us to create platform-independent applications that work seamlessly with a WordPress powered back-end, providing a rich experience to the user. In the current part of the series, we will take a look at… Continue reading WP REST API: Internals and Customization

11 Free Tools To Make Marketing Magic

If you want to create some outstanding and attractive marketing magic then you should try this collection. In this post, we are presenting top 11 free tools which help you to make marketing magic. In this post all these tools are free and very useful. When you use these tools in your projects it makes… Continue reading 11 Free Tools To Make Marketing Magic

Object-Oriented JavaScript

After you learn the basic building blocks of a programming language, there’s still a lot to learn about when to use each one and how to make them all work together. In this workshop, Randy will walk you step-by-step through solving a programming problem. You’ll get to listen in on discussions between Treehouse teachers, gaining… Continue reading Object-Oriented JavaScript

How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies

In a recent series, we talked all about how we could work with metadata for several of the major classes in WordPress.  This included: Throughout the series, we talked a bit about how WordPress 4.4 introduced the idea of term metadata. I didn’t want to present the concept within the context of that series because… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies

Make Vintage Comics with The Retro Comic Book Tool Kit

This incredibly fun set makes it ridiculously easy to put together your own vintage comic projects with just a few clicks of your mouse. Using layer styles, patterns and overlays in Photoshop, you can build out a fantastic look for your artwork. Use these styles to theme a website, create flyers for a fair or… Continue reading Make Vintage Comics with The Retro Comic Book Tool Kit

Fresh Free Font Of The Day : Brice

Here on Designbeep,we also aim to help designers to find free yet high quality resources whether for your web design projects or graphic design projects.Who doesn’t like freebies? Well,although we bring together free font collections time to time we decided to share a free font everyday and today’s free font Brice is designed by Eddy… Continue reading Fresh Free Font Of The Day : Brice

Fresh Free Font Of The Day : Elbing

Here on Designbeep,we also aim to help designers to find free yet high quality resources whether for your web design projects or graphic design projects.Who doesn’t like freebies? Well,although we bring together free font collections time to time we decided to share a free font everyday and today’s free font Elbing is designed by Mateusz… Continue reading Fresh Free Font Of The Day : Elbing

Fresh Free Font Of The Day : Hasta Grotesk

Here on Designbeep,we also aim to help designers to find free yet high quality resources whether for your web design projects or graphic design projects.Who doesn’t like freebies? Well,although we bring together free font collections time to time we decided to share a free font everyday and today’s free font Hasta Grotesk is designed by… Continue reading Fresh Free Font Of The Day : Hasta Grotesk

Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation of a Man Watching a Magical Sky

In this tutorial we’re going to create a surreal photo manipulation of a man watching what looks to be a magical portal to another world. This will take you through all the process with explanation at every step. Now… Shall we begin? What you’ll be creating Although this artwork has been created with Adobe Photoshop… Continue reading Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation of a Man Watching a Magical Sky

10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration

Fashion Patterns From clothes to accessories, fashion illustrations have a long history as a visual reference for a designer’s concepts or current fashion trends.  What makes a good fashion illustration, though? With help from content from Envato Market, let’s count down 10 top tips for creating great fashion illustrations to better your own sense of… Continue reading 10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration

Ready to Prototype from within Sketch? Then Say Hello to Silver!

Aby Nimbalkar and Andrey Shakhmin, the creators of Silver, were kind enough to invite me to a private beta of the application, and it did not disappoint. Oh no. After just a couple of minutes, it put a huge ‘Cheshire Cat’ style grin across my face, and that’s the correct response to the frequently asked… Continue reading Ready to Prototype from within Sketch? Then Say Hello to Silver!

The greatest portfolio that is new, January Edition

  Hello all! And welcome to January’s portfolio roundup. There will be a lot to appreciate about each portfolio listed here, so why not grab a coffee and browse through some of the best sites that are new display design work. You’ll find a few of the most exciting designers working away in studios throughout… Continue reading The greatest portfolio that is new, January Edition

Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python

Ever wondered about a quick way to tell what some document is focusing on? What is its main topic? Let me give you this simple trick. List the unique words mentioned in the document, and then check how many times each word has been mentioned (frequency). This way would give you an indication of what… Continue reading Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python

The Best New Portfolio Sites, February 2016

Welcome everyone to February’s portfolio roundup. It’s time to fall in love with all-new work, by all-new designers. Yes, I went there. So, when looking at this list, I recommend that you take inspiration from the good ideas, and simply ignore the bad. All right, let’s do this… Taiki Kato Taiki Kato’s portfolio proclaims him… Continue reading The Best New Portfolio Sites, February 2016

Building Angular and Node.js Apps with the MEAN Stack

Course info ​ Level Intermediate Duration 4h 2m Released 31 Jan 2014 The MEAN stack is becoming more and more popular. Angular has become the hottest new MVC framework, and using it with Node and Express means a high level of harmony between the client and server. Throw MongoDB on for data storage, and you… Continue reading Building Angular and Node.js Apps with the MEAN Stack

How To Choose Colors For Websites

Color schemes Although I will be criticized for skipping the basics, it is better to skip writing about why RGB is for web and CMYK is for print and other similar notions. Instead, I will jump directly to things that not everyone knows. For example, color schemes. In color theory, a color scheme is the… Continue reading How To Choose Colors For Websites