Heart-warming or not, co-creation with a client—the utopian ideal of shared vision—has its drawbacks. There are only so many times you can hear the words “brand strategy” before actually chewing your own face off. In the age of WordPress, Drupal and, dare I say it, Wix, it’s never been more tempting to pay lip-service to… Continue reading Can Best Practice Replace Design Research?
Tag: Typography
All About Typography In UI Design – The Complete Guide
In this digital world, we are constantly digesting written words to be it on our phones, books or websites. Often, we are reflecting the power of the written word and so we barely consider the role of the designer for emulating the tone of the word or sentence. We have observed that only a small… Continue reading All About Typography In UI Design – The Complete Guide
Essential Rules To Follow When Designing a Logo
Do you actually think there could be any well-established brand without having a logo? Of course not! This is because there is not any such business. A logo is something that has a significant impact on how your customers perceive your business. Hence, naturally, you would want your brand to be outstanding enough to stand… Continue reading Essential Rules To Follow When Designing a Logo
6 Amazing Typography Video Templates: Easy & Fast
With new video features coming up more often than ever, video marketing has become a key to every business. In today’s business world, video is all about creating winning visual messages and spreading them across the audience to boost engagement. Even the data by Small Business Trends also show that videos generate 12 times more… Continue reading 6 Amazing Typography Video Templates: Easy & Fast
The Importance of Readability on the Web
Readability on the web has to overcome many hurdles. Even if you follow all the right conventions, the presence of digital ads, popups and click bait can all distract from the main content of your site. But how do they impact readability? How can you use design to improve it? Below are some ways of… Continue reading The Importance of Readability on the Web
How to Add a Free WordPress Post Slider to Your Site
In this article, we’re going to explore how to make posts slider in WordPress by using a slider plugin. We’re going to use one of the best WordPress slider plugins—Responsive Posts Carousel. More often than not, when you’re creating your website, you would like to have a carousel on your website which displays posts filtered… Continue reading How to Add a Free WordPress Post Slider to Your Site
Anatomy of Typography
It’s been said that great Typography goes unnoticed but in the latest web designing trends always follow wide range of Typography designs in their templates even its just a web login form template. Great Typography is the point at which is in the pages of an arresting book. Yes, extraordinary arrangement of it needs to… Continue reading Anatomy of Typography
10 Important UX Design Tips for UX Designer
One of the most crucial steps in web and app development is designing the user interface. No matter how rich and awesome your application is, if the interface is not user-friendly, the users won’t take too long to remove the application or stop using it. In general, the UI/UX designing is one of the leading… Continue reading 10 Important UX Design Tips for UX Designer
From Websites to Business Cards: How to Unite Your Brand Identity with a Brand Guide
No matter if you are focusing your branding efforts on your website, marketing, or business cards… it’s all a reflection on the business and brand you create. Did you know that 64% of consumers make a purchase after they view a branded social video? Think about that for a moment. If you create a video… Continue reading From Websites to Business Cards: How to Unite Your Brand Identity with a Brand Guide
New Global Trends in Web Design
Recently, we interviewed leading designers to give you their opinion concerning the future of web and graphic designs and how we can stay up to date. According to the experts, there are 6 state-of-the-art web designs in 2018. Feel free to include them in your graphic design resume. Every year comes with the major development… Continue reading New Global Trends in Web Design
Carta: A free all-in-one WordPress theme
Carta is a free multipurpose WordPress theme – designed by Stefano Giliberti – that makes it extremely easy to create beautiful and unique websites. No matter the size of your business or the domain you want to use it for: Carta is a truly all-in-one solution built to be flexible and customisable to fit any need. It… Continue reading Carta: A free all-in-one WordPress theme
Creating a design system language
It seems like the current buzz word in the design industry and everyone wants one. But how exactly can a product benefit from having a living, breathing design language? I’m going to try break down the very basics so you can understand why it’s needed. Creating an underlying language will unite our design philosophies and… Continue reading Creating a design system language
A Collection Of Beautiful Typography Designs
Since the invention of the printing press, typography has evolved to become a complicated and beautiful element of modern design. Typography is ubiquitous in daily life; every single piece of media you see was meticulously crafted to give you a specific impression of the product and brand. The appropriate use of typography can elevate a… Continue reading A Collection Of Beautiful Typography Designs
Tips about how to Design the Great Logo
The fundamental shapes of universe’s geometry derive from the knowledge of ancient civilizations. These fundamental forms and functions have constantly helped us to divide time and space and have now motivated every known science (technology, languages, math, physics, civil evolvement, etc.). Art and culture have actually mostly benefited from shapes such as for example circles;… Continue reading Tips about how to Design the Great Logo
Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop. This is a fun and simple tutorial, aim to get you familiar with the Shape Tool in Photoshop. Have an attempt! This is an intermediate degree difficulty guide plus some actions can be tricky. Note: The Photoshop guide is… Continue reading Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop
20 Must-Know Typography Tools, Frameworks & Libraries for Web Designers
Typography is indeed very essential aspects of every good web design. As a novice or professional web designer, knowing about the typography tools that are best, frameworks and libraries is certainly a bonus point. All these resources can help you in dealing with website design typography in a much better way, offering you extensive control… Continue reading 20 Must-Know Typography Tools, Frameworks & Libraries for Web Designers
Popular design news of the week: January 4, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular design news of the week: January 4, 2015 – January 10, 2016
This Year’s Most Useful WordPress Themes
The fact that Enfold is ThemeForest’s best rated top seller is reason enough to give it a closer look. Enfold, with its drag and drop layout editor is extremely user friendly. Simply drag and drop your content into place. An especially useful feature is its ability to import demo files with a single click, select… Continue reading This Year’s Most Useful WordPress Themes
30 Brilliant Examples Of UI Cards
Card UI is a very popular layout option for many types of data. Pinterest was the first to create a layout like this, and it is was earlier referred to as “pinterest-style layout”. Usually cards are used to group together information in a very intuitive way and permits for a very fast UX, meaning users… Continue reading 30 Brilliant Examples Of UI Cards
21 Striking Square Brochure Template Designs
Whether you want to call it a brochure, pamphlet or leaflet, we all know them as being boring collateral. One of the best ways to make your company stand out from the rest is through custom features and design elements. This post aims to show that brochure design doesn’t have to be boring. So here… Continue reading 21 Striking Square Brochure Template Designs
2016 Web Design & UX Trends to Boost Conversions
It’s almost 2016, and with the new year comes a new set of web design trends waiting to be discovered. While most trend reports focus on visual styles and technical functionalities, the following infographic adds a new element to the mix; All of the trends presented here have been handpicked for their potential to increase… Continue reading 2016 Web Design & UX Trends to Boost Conversions
A Web Designer’s Typographic Boilerplate
I like to use a typography.css in my projects; a separate file which houses all the basic structural typographic styles I’ll need. A lot of what’s found within it is obvious stuff (heading sizes, for example) but it also contains less obvious things which I don’t want to forget. Let’s work our way through the… Continue reading A Web Designer’s Typographic Boilerplate
How to Establish a Modular Typographic Scale
Possibly the most obvious typographic question in the hands of a designer is “which typefaces should I use?” The second question, one which rarely gets the kind of attention it ought, is “at what sizes should I set my type?” Establishing a modular scale is the best way to determine typographic sizes, in fact, it… Continue reading How to Establish a Modular Typographic Scale
