How to navigate the insanity of behavioral science

I recently published a scientific paper on the Interactive Behavior Change Model (IBCM). The IBCM is a behavioral science system I developed during my doctorate studies. It is comprehensive, with an intuitive, theory-based structure that is easy to learn and grounded in the science of building digital products. But best of all, it’s an excellent choice… Continue reading How to navigate the insanity of behavioral science

Trick or treat? Unraveling the UX of Samsung’s secret moon zoom AI

This moon was haunted when she trained her phone’s lens on it. For unbeknown to her the camera had been trained on it already, on countless copy-nights before. The latest thing with memories was that they were built into things and no longer had to be your own… Image by the author. Moon-based UX These beginnings of… Continue reading Trick or treat? Unraveling the UX of Samsung’s secret moon zoom AI

The age of Agile must end

30 years ago the technology industry attempted to import Lean practices — it failed. Instead of “continuous improvement,” progress halted. Agile is incompatible with UX research, design, and scalable development. It always will be. It’s time to create a new operational standard. Changing of the guards. Photo by Micah Kunkle on Unsplash As startups refocus on “operational efficiency,”… Continue reading The age of Agile must end

How to Make the Background Transparent in Photoshop

There are several different ways to make a background transparent in Photoshop. And when multiple different tools do the same thing, it can be a pain to figure out which to use and when. Follow along as we go through four of the easiest ways you can quickly remove a background in Photoshop.  In a… Continue reading How to Make the Background Transparent in Photoshop

Best Video Editors for YouTube Beginners

The YouTube creator community has witnessed exceptional growth since the introduction of the video streaming platform. If you are starting your YouTube journey, you need a good companion with a video editor. There are dozens of video editors for the Mac platform. Among them, we have picked up the five best YouTube video editors for… Continue reading Best Video Editors for YouTube Beginners

4 Best Seat Cushions for Office Chairs to Solve Your Long Hours Seating Problems of Pain & Stress

Do you feel restless after a long office day because of your desk job? Here is the answer to all your worries, A Cushion, yes absolutely a seat cushions, that would be with you everywhere and anywhere like a shadow to get that cozy comfort, perfect posture and a reliving relief from the pain. Previously,… Continue reading 4 Best Seat Cushions for Office Chairs to Solve Your Long Hours Seating Problems of Pain & Stress

4 Best Seat Cushions for Office Chairs to Solve Your Long Hours Seating Problems of Pain & Stress

Do you feel restless after a long office day because of your desk job? Here is the answer to all your worries, A Cushion, yes absolutely a seat cushions, that would be with you everywhere and anywhere like a shadow to get that cozy comfort, perfect posture and a reliving relief from the pain. Previously,… Continue reading 4 Best Seat Cushions for Office Chairs to Solve Your Long Hours Seating Problems of Pain & Stress

3 Ways to Design More Inclusively

Inclusive design is often mistaken for accessibility, or even used as an interchangeable term, which is a good indication that most designers don’t know what it means. Accessibility is a process that seeks to mitigate issues in a design that is not sufficiently universal; inclusive design increases the universality of the design. In real-world terms,… Continue reading 3 Ways to Design More Inclusively

5 Tips for Building the Best Web Dev LinkedIn Profile

April 26, 2021 by Sangalang Kristine In the same way that websites need to be marketed, web developers and designers should also advertise themselves and their highly coveted skills. Building the best web dev LinkedIn profile is essential. Being a web developer and designer (and all other careers in between) is paramount in creating the… Continue reading 5 Tips for Building the Best Web Dev LinkedIn Profile

Avoid These When Working on Open Source Projects

November 16, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine Every website developer should work on open source projects once in their career. It is a great way of getting feedback on works. Working on these kinds of projects is also a good way of learning how to create codes that are flexible enough to fit other developers’ works.… Continue reading Avoid These When Working on Open Source Projects

Performance Tip: Use the Media Attribute for Faster Page Load Times

Sometimes web performance optimization takes a lot of work, and sometimes performance can be improved in just a moment. Adding the media attribute to conditional CSS files is an easy and quick way to speed up web page load times. TL;DR In short, if you add the media attribute to the <link> tag that calls… Continue reading Performance Tip: Use the Media Attribute for Faster Page Load Times

6 Things to Consider for Your Shopify Store

As a freelance web designer, Shopify is one of the best platforms to create an online store for your clients. Gone are the days where you must build your websites from the ground up on a basic text editor. Shopify boasts some powerful tools to help you design your site, requiring minimal knowledge of HTML… Continue reading 6 Things to Consider for Your Shopify Store

PHP Magic Methods Cheatsheet

In this post, I’ll give you a cheetsheet quick reference to all the magic methods available in PHP.  Whether you are a seasoned PHP developer or a novice in PHP development, if you’ve worked with OOP in PHP, then you’re using at least a couple of PHP magic methods already. However, if you have not… Continue reading PHP Magic Methods Cheatsheet

Best Fonts for Your Next Logo Design

What makes a great logo? The colors, the novelty or the concept? If you think that all of these play an essential role in creating a solid logo design, then we’d suggest you add one more important factor that is often undermined. That important factor is generally known in the graphic designing realm as ‘font.’… Continue reading Best Fonts for Your Next Logo Design

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Modern Life

In the last few decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved from a science-fiction dream to an important part of our daily lives. There are multiple ways through which AI is changing our daily lives. For instance, we use AI enabled systems to interact with our phones via voice assistants such as Google, Siri and Alexa.… Continue reading How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Modern Life

How to Design a Travel Website that Accepts Booking and Reservation

Lots of people are relying on travel websites for their travel needs. From plane tickets to hotel bookings and everything else in between, travelers now have the option to customize their travel experiences. Any travel booking website can get you from point A to point B, but the best ones will get you to your… Continue reading How to Design a Travel Website that Accepts Booking and Reservation

So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos

When you’re selling a theme, its demo is your sales pitch. If the demo falls short in some way, it’s doing a disservice to the theme and will lead to a loss of sales. If your theme includes hundreds of features, but buyers can’t see them in action, you may as well have no features… Continue reading So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos

Stop blaming your digital tools for your problems

Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Sketch, Invision, Zeplin, Jenkins, Google Analytics — I could go on, but no matter the tool or how good it is there will always be a problem with it. Your tools are not the problem, your reliance and attitude towards them is. I’ve seen so many teams complain that “Jira doesn’t let me do this”… Continue reading Stop blaming your digital tools for your problems

Getting Started With Redux: Why Redux?

When you’re learning React, you will almost always hear people say how great Redux is and that you should give it a try. The React ecosystem is growing at a swift pace, and there are so many libraries that you can hook up with React, such as flow, redux, middlewares, mobx, etc.  Learning React is easy,… Continue reading Getting Started With Redux: Why Redux?

3 Working Methods to Create a Beautiful and Fast Loading Website

Did you know that there are currently over a billion active websites and blogs on the internet today? It’s true! When they say “active”, that means they are actually live and producing content. If you were to take a count of every website, blog, forum and info source online, you would quickly find yourself counting… Continue reading 3 Working Methods to Create a Beautiful and Fast Loading Website

Key Logo Design Elements That Resonate Your Brand

On having a glance at what went before, one will notice that even retrospectively, an artisan who was bothered about his ability and trade would have always left some kind of a mark on its artifact, to distinguish it from others. In order to make people aware that these are the items that has been… Continue reading Key Logo Design Elements That Resonate Your Brand

9 Best Resources For Web Developers & Web Designers

In this assortment, we are presenting 9 best and useful tools and resources for web developers and web designers. When web developers use these tools and resources, I am sure they will like these tools and resources because all these tools and resources are fresh, trendy, up to date, time saving and easy to use.… Continue reading 9 Best Resources For Web Developers & Web Designers

15 Brand Building Tips for Designers

Project such as designs for the designer are an extremely appreciated services or deals to have for businesses. Your very designer brand and on Demonstration of it, to the very clients you anticipate respect for the same as well. What you do really is something that worth a lot. Worth yourself in the sense that,… Continue reading 15 Brand Building Tips for Designers

Creative Examples of Geometric Web Design Styles

Something making its presence known on the web these days is the use of common geometric patterns which we all learned in grade school. Polygons, diamonds, rectangles, triangles, and the occasional rhombus are all an integral part of modern web design. So how does this 10th grade math subject end up affecting the way website… Continue reading Creative Examples of Geometric Web Design Styles