Impact of AI in design When it comes to design, AI has great creative capacity, given its text generation and text-to-image capabilities. Seeing some photorealistic images generated by AI, we cannot help but wonder what this means for us as designers. Some of the questions that were on our minds: How can we use this… Continue reading Best AI Design Tools: Insights & Tips From 50+ Tools
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15+ Best Figma Templates for UI and Web Designers
When creating a website or app, it’s essential to have a bunch of resources on hand to play with. That is, you don’t want to recycle the same old designs over and over again. Nor do you want to create the same designs everyone else is making – because they’re all working with the same… Continue reading 15+ Best Figma Templates for UI and Web Designers
7 Basic Rules for Using Icons in UI Design
Icons are tiny pictograms that you’ll find in almost any app. They help us save screen space, communicate efficiently, and make interaction with a product more fun. But despite their size, creating and using icons in UI design isn’t easy. Since icons directly impact feature discoverability and the number of errors users make when they… Continue reading 7 Basic Rules for Using Icons in UI Design
Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2021
Since school is back in session, this month’s roundup has a learning focus. In addition to tools, many of the resources include guides, tutorials, and cheat sheets to help make design work easier. Here’s what’s new for designers this month. ScrollingMockup.io ScrollingMockup.io generates high-definition, animated scrolling mockups in minutes. All you have to do is… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2021
9 Amazing Design-Resource Package Sites
Every designer has their own preferred strategy for collecting resources. Some pluck brushes, fonts, and templates from different “stock photo sites” and public marketplaces. Others collect graphics from swipe files and forums around the web. The never-ending desire for themes, visual content, and graphical components has prompted an influx of “design packages” to appear around the… Continue reading 9 Amazing Design-Resource Package Sites
15 Top Soft UI and Neumorphic UI Kits
Designers are always in search of unique ways to display content. Yet there is a delicate balance between something that looks good and is both accessible and intuitive. Everything needs to be in harmony, otherwise the end result suffers. Neumorphic UIs can serve as an effective solution. Neumorphism is a design technique that is based… Continue reading 15 Top Soft UI and Neumorphic UI Kits
Branding 101: Choosing the Right Business Name
When starting a new business (or even venturing into the world of freelancing for the first time), there are some really big, important steps you have to take. Step #1 is choosing the right business name for your brand identity. Your business name isn’t something you can casually choose either — especially if you have… Continue reading Branding 101: Choosing the Right Business Name
A Beginner’s Guide to Wireframing
Wireframing is an important step in any screen design process. It primarily allows you to define the information hierarchy of your design, making it easier for you to plan the layout according to how you want your user to process the information. If you’ve yet to use wireframing, it’s time to get your feet wet. Wireframing… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to Wireframing
Why Do Websites Look the Same (And Should We Care)?
If we don’t question this kind of design homogenization, do we put ourselves at risk of perpetuating the same mistakes in the years to come? Or is it even a mistake to begin with? Today, I’m going to look at four things that are likely causing this, and what you can do to break the… Continue reading Why Do Websites Look the Same (And Should We Care)?
How to Design a Money Management App UI in Sketch
What You’ll Be Creating In this Sketch app tutorial you will learn how to create a money management mobile UI design. Take a look at the final design to see what we’ll be working towards. Feel free to download the source files too. What We’ll Learn For starters, you will learn how to set up… Continue reading How to Design a Money Management App UI in Sketch
Exciting New Tools for Designers, November 2019
You’re sure to find some tools and resources that will help you save time as we enter what is often one of the most hectic seasons of the year. Here’s what’s new for designers this month. Screen Size Map Screen Size Map is a tool to showcase popular screen sizes and will even auto-detect yours.… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, November 2019
Create Amazing Prototypes in No Time with the Envato Elements Sketch Plugin
The rise of prototyping tools in recent years is undeniable. Designers are harnessing these powerful, yet easy-to-use programs to build functional models of both websites and mobile apps. As such, they have become a vital part of the design process. Among the most widely-used and well-known prototyping apps is Sketch. This Mac-based program… Continue reading Create Amazing Prototypes in No Time with the Envato Elements Sketch Plugin
How to Make a Beating Heart Animation for St. Valentine’s Day With SVG
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Let’s get into the spirit of St. Valentine’s day, getting all pink and smooshy in the process, and code ourselves a simple beating heart animation with SVG. Here’s what we’re going to create: This is a great exercise for familiarizing yourself with SVG syntax and authentic animation.… Continue reading How to Make a Beating Heart Animation for St. Valentine’s Day With SVG
Templates, Icons, UI Kits, and More
Figma came out as a strong new player in 2016 allowing design and software development teams to collaborate on any platform. This browser-based application eliminated problems such as updating software, syncing screens, and waiting for a team member to upload the latest design. Real-time collaboration is where Figma shines most. It launched with features like… Continue reading Templates, Icons, UI Kits, and More
Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma
UX and UI Kits help designers in all kinds of ways, and at different stages in the design process. In this roundup I’ll show you some of the best-selling UX and UI kits available from Envato, to get you started wireframing, prototyping, and designing your next website or app. What Are UX and UI Kits?… Continue reading Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma
Free Ecommerce UI Kit (PSD)
UI kits are great time-savers. They reduce the workload of designers and help them to increase their productivity – it is the very reason why designers love them and when UI kits are offered for free, they become even more beneficial and desirable. We know that ecommerce web design projects are time-consuming so we regularly… Continue reading Free Ecommerce UI Kit (PSD)
20 Free Modern UI Design Elements & PSD UI Kits Download
Free download user interface design web elements and web layout or mockup design UI kits for modern UX design. You can download all free UI kits and web elements in PSD files. These UI elements are perfect for Mobile App UI, Gaming UI, framework, layout template and theme designing. In this article, I just gathered a fresh released… Continue reading 20 Free Modern UI Design Elements & PSD UI Kits Download
12 Freebies & Goodies For Web Designers
ADVERTISEMENT Another amazing and useful collection is waiting for the web designers. In this round-up we are presenting 16 freebies and goodies which release recently. These wonderful freebies are fully packed with mock-ups, retro poster designs, print and web templates for many reasons or ideas, wonderful and amazing icons and fonts, tons of web UI… Continue reading 12 Freebies & Goodies For Web Designers
5 Wireframing Tools for Rapid Prototyping
June 28, 2017 by David Jones Wireframing tools are used to create rudimentary layouts for websites and applications. Developers use them to plan their user interface and test different options. If you’ve ever sketched out a website site design on graph paper or even a napkin, you’ve done some wireframing. If you’ve seen layouts using rectangles… Continue reading 5 Wireframing Tools for Rapid Prototyping
29 Free Ecommerce UI Kits for Web and App Designers
UI kits are great time-savers. They reduce the workload of busy designers and help them to increase their productivity – it is the very reason why designers love them, and when great UI kits are offered for free, they become even more beneficial and desirable. We know that ecommerce web design projects are time-consuming –… Continue reading 29 Free Ecommerce UI Kits for Web and App Designers
10 Places to Find Free Graphic Design Mockups
Looking for free graphic design mockups? This collection of template resource websites has everything you need to create the perfect mockup for your design project. A design file resource website that’s focused entirely on delivering free graphic design mockups. Mockup World has everything you can hope for from a mockup freebies website. The site has various… Continue reading 10 Places to Find Free Graphic Design Mockups
Some of The Best Black Friday Deals Are Already Here
Posted · Category: Best Collections Black Friday is a super time to take advantage of bargains in household items and consumer electronics. But what about bargains for web designers? As it turns out, web designers haven’t been left out of the picture. You can see from this selection of design aids, UI kits, stock photos, and WP… Continue reading Some of The Best Black Friday Deals Are Already Here
Access 5000+ Design Assets for Just $29/Month!
Posted · Category: Best Collections Do you often find yourself struggling to find the right graphic asset to complete your projects? How does access to 5000+ highly curated fonts, graphics templates, icons, UI kits and much more for just one low monthly price sound? Envato Elements promises all this and more. Just launched, it offers… Continue reading Access 5000+ Design Assets for Just $29/Month!
Free UI Kits That A Designer Should Have
Posted · Category: Best Collections UI kits are among designers’ favorite tools to work with, because they enhance their creativity, and clean the palette even for the most difficult projects. What makes UI kits even more loveable is that they help us explore other designers’ ideas, without expecting the client to come up with his,… Continue reading Free UI Kits That A Designer Should Have