Tag: Tracking

How to design an anti-design poster

The anti-design movement, as the name implies, is a style that ignores all rules proposed by traditional graphic design. Many artistic movements are considered anti-design, like Dada and De Stijl, due to their strong opinions on politics, society, and art. While some of these anti-design styles are rooted almost 100 years ago, this is a… Continue reading How to design an anti-design poster

Key Metrics for Designers to Track in the Checkout

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Measuring checkout efficiency is crucial for every eCommerce website, as it directly impacts business success. In this article, I will share key metrics that help understand checkout performance and provide actionable insights, enabling designers to enhance the checkout process and optimize the user experience. Overall Checkout Completion Rate The overall… Continue reading Key Metrics for Designers to Track in the Checkout

How to Create a Layered Text Effect in Affinity Designer

If you love all sorts of Affinity Designer warp text effects, distorted text effects, or text effects in general, then follow this tutorial and improve your skills while learning to create a retro layered text effect that’s fully editable. Affinity Designer is good at creating an editable text effect, and it might impress you too… Continue reading How to Create a Layered Text Effect in Affinity Designer

How to Draw the Ghostbusters Logo

What You’ll Learn in This Illustrator Tutorial How to draw the Ghostbusters logo using the Pen Tool and Shape Tool What is the Ghostbusters font and how to incorporate it into the logo design How to illuminate the text with a glow just like the original Ghostbusters logo Some trivia about the… Continue reading How to Draw the Ghostbusters Logo

How to Make an Avengers Text Effect in Photoshop

If you’re interested in learning how to make text effects in Photoshop, the Avengers: Endgame logo is a great opportunity to do so. Let’s recreate this cool text effect together! This tutorial will teach you how to distort a font in Photoshop, how to define a pattern, how to use textures, how to create a… Continue reading How to Make an Avengers Text Effect in Photoshop

How to Design a Creative Barcode

Want to learn how to design a barcode label? In this article, we’ll explore how to make a barcode and ways you can explore creative barcode design too. What You’ll Learn What is a barcode and what are barcodes used for? How to make a barcode and what tools you can use How… Continue reading How to Design a Creative Barcode

How to Create an 80s Punk Flyer

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an authentic 80s punk flyer with a ragged, rough, and messy look. If you’ve been wondering how punk influenced graphic design, the answer is that it broke many rules that came from classic and minimalist styles, and punk culture has had a big impact in other areas… Continue reading How to Create an 80s Punk Flyer

Not All Traffic is Created Equally: Measuring The Importance of Traffic Sources & Setting UTMs

There’s no shortage of ways in which you can generate traffic towards a website, and the list seems to be growing on a daily basis. For every new traffic generation method, there are thousands of fresh sources of traffic for businesses to tap into.  Plenty of people find themselves so caught up in focusing on… Continue reading Not All Traffic is Created Equally: Measuring The Importance of Traffic Sources & Setting UTMs

How to Embed and Protect PDF Files With a WordPress Plugin

PDF files are a very popular way of sharing formatted documents due to their flexibility and lightweight nature—they work on most devices and operating systems. In this post, I’ll show you how to use a WordPress PDF plugin to embed and protect PDF files in your WordPress posts and pages. Why Use PDFs? PDFs can… Continue reading How to Embed and Protect PDF Files With a WordPress Plugin

Effective Examples of Useful Slide Out Panels and Sidebars

It should be noted that slide-out panels are indeed less accessible than fixed navigation options. They’re harder to discover and understand. Screen elements appearing and disappearing can confuse users and frustrate visitors. However, they’ve maintained their position as a consistently popular design choice, especially when screen space is limited, like on mobile devices. Their modularity… Continue reading Effective Examples of Useful Slide Out Panels and Sidebars

Kerning, Leading, Tracking, and Everything You Need to Know About Text Spacing

The space between letters is just as important for legibility as the text itself. If your website is hard to read, don’t just consider the typeface: consider the white space as well. With kerning, leading, tracking, and other spacing tools, you can make your text more readable without a major design overhaul using these text… Continue reading Kerning, Leading, Tracking, and Everything You Need to Know About Text Spacing

How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to create a realistic 3D gold text effect using layer styles in Adobe Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial: Download the file Gold_Text_Effect-Assets.zip and extract both files inside. Install the Pattern file “Patterns.pat“. Install the Contour file “CustomContours.shc”.… Continue reading How to Create a 3D Gold Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles

Tracking Users In An Age of Ad Blockers

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, 26 percent of desktop users employ ad blocking extensions while using the Internet. 15 percent of mobile users employ similar content blockers, with the largest segment of both groups being men between the ages of 18 to 24. While this might be higher among your own peer group of… Continue reading Tracking Users In An Age of Ad Blockers

Canny Edge Detector Using Python

Edge detection is an essential image analysis technique when someone is interested in recognizing objects by their outlines, and it’s also considered an essential step in recovering information from images.  For instance, edge detection can extract important features like lines and curves, which are then normally used by higher-level computer vision or image-processing algorithms. A… Continue reading Canny Edge Detector Using Python

UX Vs UI: Discussing The Most Confusing Topic Of The 2015

Being into the development world, I have gone through the discussion over UX and UI a lot…well it is quite irksome at one point of time and quite daunting on the other, as it challenges your credibility. It is quite difficult to explain to people what is the difference between these two different terms that… Continue reading UX Vs UI: Discussing The Most Confusing Topic Of The 2015

The Anatomy of Time Tracking Tools: Breaking Down Its Essentials

As more and more professionals are focusing on getting the most out of their time at work by boosting their productivity, time tracking tools are in vogue right now. By using any of these apps to monitor your time spent on each tasks individuals have for the day or week, they will gain a better understanding on how… Continue reading The Anatomy of Time Tracking Tools: Breaking Down Its Essentials

12 Handy Tools For Invoicing and Time Tracking

Every service-related business – or freelancer – needs an invoicing tool to send invoices to their client. It should be simple to use yet produce professional enough invoices that will give a positive impression to your clients and hopefully make getting paid simpler. If you search the internet, you will come across many invoicing tools… Continue reading 12 Handy Tools For Invoicing and Time Tracking