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How to Make an InDesign Catalog Template

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an InDesign catalog template for showcasing products. This simple and stylish design could also be adapted as a lookbook for fashion retailers or a brochure template.  Consisting of a front cover and three inside spreads, this versatile catalog template can be easily extended… Continue reading How to Make an InDesign Catalog Template

How to Pick a WordPress Form Builder Plugin

If you own a WordPress site, you probably find forms to be indispensable for creating a satisfying user experience and increasing your conversion rates.  You need forms for clients to get in touch with you easily, answer simple survey questions, leave feedback, write testimonials, and so on. But you don’t need to have coding experience to… Continue reading How to Pick a WordPress Form Builder Plugin

What’s the Best Way to Share Your Work Online?

Thankfully, you no longer have to rely on a resume to try to communicate how talented you are to others. Your skills as a freelancer should be shared with others through visual media. It makes a lot more sense than writing up a one page summary that says, “I graduated from so-and-so university in 2010… Continue reading What’s the Best Way to Share Your Work Online?

How to Make a Galaxy YouTube Banner (With a YouTube Banner Creator)

What You’ll Be Creating So you’ve decided to start your own YouTube channel, but don’t actually have the required tools or skills to design the actual banner? Well, if that’s the case, don’t worry since I’m going to show you how you can easily make a galaxy YouTube banner using Placeit’s YouTube Banner Maker. From… Continue reading How to Make a Galaxy YouTube Banner (With a YouTube Banner Creator)

Six Ways A Laminating Machine Can Benefit Your Business

While most people think laminating machines come in one standard model, you’d be surprised at the wide variety available in the market. While all laminating machines produce the same result, they are available in different sizes, formats, and shapes, and the one you choose depends on your requirements and needs. Laminating machines provide a lot… Continue reading Six Ways A Laminating Machine Can Benefit Your Business

How to Create a ‘Stranger Things’ Inspired Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating This very quick tutorial will show you an easy way to create a text effect inspired by the ‘Stranger Things’ series, using only layer styles and some simple adjustments. Let’s get started! This text effect was inspired by the many Layer Styles available on Envato Market. You can get a very similar… Continue reading How to Create a ‘Stranger Things’ Inspired Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

What’s the Minimum Amount of Security Your Website Needs?

Unfortunately, over half (54%) of the businesses surveyed for the 2018 State of SMB Cybersecurity report believe they’re too small to be a target for hackers. But the data paints a different picture:  67% of small- and medium-sized businesses were attacked in 2018; 82% of those attacked had antivirus software installed on their systems; 72%… Continue reading What’s the Minimum Amount of Security Your Website Needs?

10 Web Design Principles Every Designer Should Know

There are several things that determine how the web design will be seen on a website. These things include the form and appearance, function of the website, as well as the information presented in it. Every designer has to know how to combine these things to create a quality website. By failing any of them,… Continue reading 10 Web Design Principles Every Designer Should Know

Brand Science 101

Every day in my work helping grow digital agencies and Fortune 500 brands, I hear countless companies struggle with how to discuss, interact with, and grow their client’s brand, leaving dollars on the table and creating problems along the way. The agency owner offers their perspective, shares why branding is important, but usually lacks the… Continue reading Brand Science 101

How to Create an Animated Polaroid Effect Photoshop Template

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll not only create a polaroid effect Photoshop template using photo filters and shapes, but we’ll also create animated photo effects with standard Photoshop tools. I created Animated Polaroid Slideshow Instagram Stories Template using the same methods for my GraphicRiver portfolio. Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the… Continue reading How to Create an Animated Polaroid Effect Photoshop Template

20 Best New Portfolios, August 2019

It’s August, which means the rain is finally slowing down, and I have a chance to get my roof fixed. While I wait here under a literal tarp-fort that I hung up in my office, I thought I might as well compile some of the best recent portfolios for you all to look at. We… Continue reading 20 Best New Portfolios, August 2019

10 Best Design Systems for 2019

A design system helps everyone in your business to maintain brand consistency. It’s a collection of guidelines that explains how your branding assets should be used in everyday communication and marketing efforts. A design system usually consists of general brand guidelines, color usage, brand tone and voice, typography, patterns, and any other visual element that… Continue reading 10 Best Design Systems for 2019

Exploring Photo Manipulation: Analysis and Interviews

What You’ll Be Creating Photo manipulation and photo effects—they could cover anything from touching up a face to adding an entire universe right into your favorite photo. The manipulation of imagery is often associated with Adobe Photoshop, but photo manipulation itself predates Photoshop by many, many years. Perhaps we, as artists, designers, and people, have… Continue reading Exploring Photo Manipulation: Analysis and Interviews

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

8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System

Recently, I was part of a 3-person team of consultants who in 12 weeks built the foundations of a new design system. That design system is now used in multiple products and is contributed to by other developers and designers. In this post you’ll find some of the techniques we used to make the project… Continue reading 8 Ways to Kickstart a Design System

How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop

The act of card sorting is a hands-on and quick way of creating a category tree (information architecture) based on users’ understanding of the topics of a product. The simple idea of the workshop is to ask users to organise cards that already contain written content into groups. In this tutorial you will learn how… Continue reading How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop

Is Google Toast?

For those too young to remember, the Browser Wars entailed a tech rush by, among others, Netscape and Microsoft, resulting in useless features being implemented because they were fast to bolt-on, and useful features being rushed because they were hard. After the Browser Wars, the internet entered an era of stability as the last vestiges… Continue reading Is Google Toast?

Create an Online Community for Your WordPress Site With UserPro

When you think of social websites, chances are that social networks such as Facebook immediately spring to mind, but the ability to create a profile and connect with other users can be a valuable addition to many different websites. Imagine you’ve created a website for your business; you could use social features to build an… Continue reading Create an Online Community for Your WordPress Site With UserPro

How to Build an SEO Tool from Scratch

A quick Google search of the term “SEO tools” will give you a list of countless apps and software all claiming to help you get higher rankings. For SEO specialists and digital marketers, this can be both good and bad news. Good, because it’s a sign that the industry is constantly evolving. Bad, because finding… Continue reading How to Build an SEO Tool from Scratch

The Evolution And History of the Instagram Logo

In the history of Instagram, there have been three logos. Yes, three. Not two like most of us may believe. Majority of people don’t remember the very first Instagram logo, the original icon of the app: a detailed polaroid camera fluctuating on a white background. The elements included in the design were so detailed that… Continue reading The Evolution And History of the Instagram Logo

ECommerce Metrics That Matter

It’s nearly 2020, and every eCommerce brand should be using key metrics to pinpoint advertising, boost sales and improve fulfillment.  Emma Miller, Senior Editor at Bizzmark, calls metrics the “one thing that can make or break your online presence.” She goes on: “To succeed in the competitive online market, you need to set measurable goals,… Continue reading ECommerce Metrics That Matter

Using Gotham Font for Graphic Design Projects

Graphic designing projects always need your attentions and you have to be very careful while going to design your next project. As by taking care of different elements, you also need to take care of fonts on your design. Because if you don’t take care of fonts then your design will not look that professional… Continue reading Using Gotham Font for Graphic Design Projects

Use the WooCommerce API to Customize Your Online Store

WooCommerce is the world’s most popular eCommerce platform. That’s partly because it’s built on the world’s most popular content management system (WordPress), and also partly because it’s free. But it’s also because WooCommerce, like WordPress itself, is incredibly flexible. If you install WooCommerce on your site, not only can you use it to quickly set… Continue reading Use the WooCommerce API to Customize Your Online Store