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

10 Homepage Design Comparisons to Inspire Your Business in 2022

Looking to give your homepage a well-needed design update in late 2021 or 2022? Not a bad idea; first impressions are crucial when it comes to business websites. But, fixing your homepage and website design is no easy feat. Web design trends are evolving faster. Blame the ever-decreasing user’s attention span. The average visitor now… Continue reading 10 Homepage Design Comparisons to Inspire Your Business in 2022

The role of Reflection in the design process

[unable to retrieve full-text content] The often-overlooked last step. In product design, when we release a feature into the wild, we can expect a degree of objectivity in the feedback we get. We can tell if our designs are helping or hurting based on the feedback and metrics after we ship. Getting my hands on these metrics… Continue reading The role of Reflection in the design process

Lessons from Spotify: using multiple touchpoints to build an identity

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Digital-first design is well and truly here and COVID-19 has accelerated the trend. Increasingly, people are aware that a digital brand is a brand built on quality experience and design. Today brands literally live and die in the consumer's hands, and often digital experience is baked into the DNA of… Continue reading Lessons from Spotify: using multiple touchpoints to build an identity

What is Section 508 and why does it matter?

In 1990, the signing into law of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provided a real foundation for accessibility in the U.S. and across the world as a model. Similarly, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and its subsequent refreshes serve as major milestones for accessibility by defining the scope of responsibilities for accessibility in… Continue reading What is Section 508 and why does it matter?

Illustration in Web Design – 31 Fresh Examples

48 Shares Website designing is not just a professional photo, content and grids. In modern web design, Illustration become more powerful and eye-catching way to get customer attention. Illustration in web design are widely used to create Conceptual Portrait, 3D Modeling, Vector Graphics, Clutch Fashion Illustration and many other useful objects and effects which can enhance and improve the quality… Continue reading Illustration in Web Design – 31 Fresh Examples

VideoProc Review 2020: Easy Video Editing Software

Videos have become a primary tool of communication in the modern world. Before, the only videos we would see were films, TV shows, and home videos. However today, videos come in all kinds from professionally-shot videos to six-second ones taken on our phones. We have YouTube videos, Facebook videos, TikTok videos, Instagram stories, Snapchat, and… Continue reading VideoProc Review 2020: Easy Video Editing Software

Best Free Android Apps and How to Create Them Yourself

You don’t need an original app idea to be successful on Google Play. If you spend a few minutes looking at all the app categories there, you’ll notice how similar most of the popular apps in any category are. This is especially true in the case of free apps and games. What I’m trying to… Continue reading Best Free Android Apps and How to Create Them Yourself

3 Lessons UX Designers Can Take From Netflix

If we look at this from a design perspective, there’s definitely something about the way the user experiences are designed that makes them more attractive than other movie or TV viewing options. Especially Netflix. Today, I want to put the spotlight on Netflix and give you 3 lessons you can take away from the platform’s… Continue reading 3 Lessons UX Designers Can Take From Netflix

Most Important People to Consider Hiring For Your Small Business

You’ve heard people say “you can’t do it all” and it proves to be true in a lot of situations. There are of course those who exceed all expectations and “do it all” but burn themselves out in the process but even for those supposedly “doing it all,” you can best believe that they had… Continue reading Most Important People to Consider Hiring For Your Small Business

15 Best CSS Libraries for 2019

Hey kids, you ready for me to tell you all about this newfangled thing called Bootstrap? Well get un-ready, ‘cause I’d never do that to you. It’s not that Bootstrap isn’t great, it’s just that if you work in web design, and you’ve been paying any attention at all, you already know about it. And… Continue reading 15 Best CSS Libraries for 2019

5 Tips for Controlling Focus

You’re going to have build your site in such a way that the eye is naturally drawn from one step to the next. My sister used to accomplish controlling my focus by sternly, but calmly, telling me to “Get back to your schoolwork” anywhere from fifteen to forty times in a single day. But your… Continue reading 5 Tips for Controlling Focus

Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 15

Welcome back to our Diversity in Design series on Envato Tuts+. Discover four talented artists with inspiring styles you’ll love. 4 Artists You Should Know: Diversity in Design Celebrate the work of these extraordinary artists. Each with their own unique background, they draw inspiration from their culture and surroundings to create phenomenal designs. Magtira… Continue reading Celebrate Diversity in Design—Volume 15

New Free Text Effect Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials (20 Tuts)

Free text effect tutorials to create basic and advance typography, lettering styles and fonts. These tutorials help to learn how to create 2D, 3D, Retro & Vintage and 80’s text effects in Photoshop and Illustrator. In this article you will find the new released text effect tutorials. These high quality tutorials help to design amazing wooden, neon and glowing text effects with basic and… Continue reading New Free Text Effect Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials (20 Tuts)

Women in Tech, the power of storytelling, anticipatory design and other UX links this week

Nurturing diversity at work and in your work → Homogeneity is not normal. But we’ve been conditioned toward homogeneity and non-diversity over the decades by media, exacerbated in 2016 with Fox News crowned the most watched cable network and their all-white men prime time line-up. By pop culture and its lack of diversity in TV, movies,… Continue reading Women in Tech, the power of storytelling, anticipatory design and other UX links this week

Google Home: first impressions

This is my Google Home making friends at my place Last Black Friday I couldn’t resist the temptation to buy a Google Home, and I’m in love with it. I can justify my shopping spree by saying I am a designer and really needed to feel how it is to interact with a device only by… Continue reading Google Home: first impressions

The Big Interview: Kevin Ball and Rafi Benkual talk all things ZURB

This month we got the opportunity to interview Kevin Ball and Rafi Benkual from ZURB. We got to talk about the future of the web, the state of web design today, and of course, about Foundation. WebdesignerDepot: Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I am Ezequiel Bruni for Web Designer Depot, and today we are talking to… Continue reading The Big Interview: Kevin Ball and Rafi Benkual talk all things ZURB

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