How our perceptions of the world around us and the groups we work in may be misleading This week builds on our previous post on cognitive illusions and perception errors. optical illusions help illustrate how blind we are to the cognitive heuristics we use to make sense of the world around us. What they show is… Continue reading How ‘collective illusions’ influence decision making
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30 Web Development Best Practices for Beginners
There is a lot to learn as a web developer. For starters, the syntax of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and how these fundamental web languages work together. However, on top of that you need to learn how to code well: how to use the web technologies like a professional, to create efficient, maintainable, and scalable… Continue reading 30 Web Development Best Practices for Beginners
How To Fix Outlook Dark Mode Problems (Email Design)
Unpredictable text color changes in Outlook for Windows is one of the many mind-boggling issues you’ve no doubt encountered if you’ve ever built an HTML email for Dark Mode. Outlook brutally inverts colors in Dark Mode, in some cases even turning dark colors into white. Not only can this result in very unsightly parts of… Continue reading How To Fix Outlook Dark Mode Problems (Email Design)
WordPress Troubleshooting: Error Establishing a Database Connection
In this quick article, we’ll discuss how to troubleshoot and fix the Error establishing a database connection error on a WordPress site. The Error establishing a database connection error is one of the most common errors which WordPress users can encounter while visiting your website. It’s pretty similar to the white screen of death (WSOD) error,… Continue reading WordPress Troubleshooting: Error Establishing a Database Connection
Top Visualization Elements on eCommerce Sites to Skyrocket Sales
Сustomers consume an insane amount of information every single hour, and it’s getting harder to retain their interest long enough to gain profit. Thus, the content of your online store needs to be qualitative, gripping, and, of course, visual. The thing is that it’s much simpler for a human to process visual data than text.… Continue reading Top Visualization Elements on eCommerce Sites to Skyrocket Sales
Pros and Cons of Free Web Hosting: Is it good enough?
0 Shares Congrats on being ready to start your own website! It is such a big, beautiful step that has the potential of completely changing your life for the better! Yes, it requires a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of work and definitely dedication and perseverance, but it is going to be worth it.… Continue reading Pros and Cons of Free Web Hosting: Is it good enough?
Ethics, UX and our role in all this
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Ethics, UX, and our role in all this We live in a world where our behaviours are accurately being predicted every step of the way. It sometimes feels like apps and products know us more than we know ourselves. This is not necessarily bad, or that we should be scared every… Continue reading Ethics, UX and our role in all this
Create a Sticky Note Effect in 5 Easy Steps with CSS3 and HTML5
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to transform an HTML list into a wall of “sticky notes” that look and work like the following: The effect is built up gradually and works on all the up-to-date browsers like Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera. Older browsers simply get some yellow squares. Step 1: The HTML and… Continue reading Create a Sticky Note Effect in 5 Easy Steps with CSS3 and HTML5
How to Choose the Best Font for your Website
5 Shares Designing websites is a very intense process that entails lots of hard works. There are various things that you need to think about, such as the logo, color scheme, layout, text designs, and navigation. But the trickiest of designing a website perhaps lies in getting all the elements together to come up with… Continue reading How to Choose the Best Font for your Website
30 Beautiful Modern Script Fonts (Typefaces for 2020)
Your designs aren’t complete without the perfect font! Find amazing script styles in this collection for 2020. 30 Beautiful Modern Script Fonts There’s nothing more satisfying than pairing the right script font with a design. It’s a simple yet effective trick to take your work to the next level. And script typefaces are a perfect… Continue reading 30 Beautiful Modern Script Fonts (Typefaces for 2020)
Pointless Websites to Waste Time That School You in Design
Pointless websites are made from brilliant development hacks which are all wit and less work. These are websites that do not have any specific niche or content. The useless web is actually not what many people think it is. They may seem pointless but some really cool simplistic pages gain more user engagement than some… Continue reading Pointless Websites to Waste Time That School You in Design
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
5 Tricks To Complete Graphic Design Homework Easily
1 Share It’s incredibly easy to immerse yourself in the bright world of graphic design. Today you can get the demanded profession of a graphic designer by passing a short training program. Online lessons provide a wide range of knowledge, allowing you to enter the job market immediately. The main thing is to find the… Continue reading 5 Tricks To Complete Graphic Design Homework Easily
9 Best Amazon Affiliate & FBA WordPress Themes for 2020
Whether you’re looking to build an online business or generate aside income, creating your own Amazon affiliate website is a great option. Having a high-quality website can make all the difference to the income you’ll generate. From the layout, to the typography and colors, every little detail can make or break your new business. You… Continue reading 9 Best Amazon Affiliate & FBA WordPress Themes for 2020
Boost Your Website Loading Speed with CSS Hacks
The user experience on a website matters the most; the content on it being of parallel value. A website’s user experience is all about making the navigation and the buyer’s journey of a prospective customer/visitor as smooth as possible and providing them with everything that they need to complete an action or a transaction, given… Continue reading Boost Your Website Loading Speed with CSS Hacks
20 Freshest Web Designs, October 2019
You’ll find a few other trends, and sites that ignore trends altogether, in our roundup of the freshest web design this month, but it’s hard to ignore the vibrancy that’s taking over. Enjoy! Chevalvert Chevalvert is a French design agency whose site visually bombards you from the moment it loads. The maximalist approach is visually… Continue reading 20 Freshest Web Designs, October 2019
26 Best InDesign Calendar Templates (New for 2020)
What You’ll Be Creating What do you have in store for 2020? Create a productive year with these InDesign calendar templates. 26 Best InDesign Calendar Templates (New for 2020) Add a little creativity and efficiency to your life with a stunning InDesign calendar template. Not only are they great for decor overall, but they also… Continue reading 26 Best InDesign Calendar Templates (New for 2020)
Building Image-Rich Websites Without the Lag
Optimize Image File Size You might be familiar with this trick from the old days, batch when using progressively-loading JPEGs was the height of image optimization techniques. While these methods can still be of some use today, there are many more ways to shave off some loading time today. Use a program like ImageOptim or… Continue reading Building Image-Rich Websites Without the Lag
How to Create an Isometric Map Mockup Action in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating From this tutorial, you’ll learn some new techniques and tricks. We’ll be using the Isometric Map Mockup product as an example and seeing in detail how it was created. At the end, you’ll have a fully workable action and confidence in building “transformation actions”. Got no time and need this action as soon as possible?… Continue reading How to Create an Isometric Map Mockup Action in Adobe Photoshop
5 Reasons Why Stock Photos Are Essential for Web Design
June 21, 2018 by Spyrestudios Blogger Stock photos might not seem exciting at first glance but they’re actually valuable tools to impress and entertain website visitors. For example, posts with an image are more likely to be shared on Facebook — which can increase the number of people who visit your site. This means that… Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Stock Photos Are Essential for Web Design
New Text Effect Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials (26 Tuts)
New Text effect design and illustration tutorials to learn how to create 2D, 3D, Retro & Vintage typography and 80’s text effects in Photoshop. There are amazing text effect tutorials to create posters, flyers, calendar and giving your typography or lettering a fresh touch with traditional and digital media, mixing patterns and textures to give your work outstanding spark. These… Continue reading New Text Effect Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials (26 Tuts)
What Makes the Best Ecommerce Website?
Ecommerce is so commonplace these days that it actually sounds slightly odd to talk about “ecommerce” as some niche phenomenon set apart from ordinary life. Now it’s just the way we shop, the way we buy, indeed the way we live. Nonetheless, there are still all sorts of mistakes that businesses makes, both large and… Continue reading What Makes the Best Ecommerce Website?
9 ½ Plausible and/or Absurd UX Industry Predictions for 2018
1. Salaries will either increase or decrease, but likely not remain exactly the same With the volatility of our world, who’s to say where salaries will go? 2017 similarly saw salaries go in a direction. 2018 will either see an increase or decrease. This will depend on economies, how many salary negotiation blogs we read, and… Continue reading 9 ½ Plausible and/or Absurd UX Industry Predictions for 2018
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