Tag: Users

Add Spark to Your Emails with Interactive Design Elements

Email design has come a long way from plain text messages to the world of interactive elements in a time span of 4 decades. Interactivity is no longer limited to GIFs in emails. It is about creating a flawless user experience by emulating “mailable microsites”. Interactive design elements amp up your email marketing campaign and… Continue reading Add Spark to Your Emails with Interactive Design Elements

15 Best Sliders and Galleries For Your Next Project

If you want to grab a visitor’s attention by displaying a set of images, sliders are a great way to get that done. The best sliders are attention-getting, with attractive animations that match the tone and purpose of your site. We’ve collected a list of some of our favorite sliders and galleries below. Fair warning:… Continue reading 15 Best Sliders and Galleries For Your Next Project

The Dos and Dont’s of Newsletter Design

The important role newsletters play in attracting attention has really come to light in recent years. Not only is email supposed to have a larger reach than most social media channels, it also encourages a loyal following and is very action oriented. Although social media is of course king for engaging with potential customers and… Continue reading The Dos and Dont’s of Newsletter Design

4 compelling reasons you should embrace VR

While none of us can predict the future, every designer should be thinking about it. All indications point to the next wave of devices that aren’t sitting on the tops of desks. They are wearable, and have canvas sizes that are vastly different than what you’ve been designing for. But should you really care if… Continue reading 4 compelling reasons you should embrace VR

Kick-Start WordPress Development With Twig: Timber Image, Menu, and User

By now you have read about the basic concepts of using Twig through Timber, while building a modular WordPress theme. We’ve also studied block nesting and multiple inheritance with Twig, based on the DRY principle. Today, we are going to explore how to display attachment images, WordPress menus, and users in a theme with Twig… Continue reading Kick-Start WordPress Development With Twig: Timber Image, Menu, and User

How to Enable Deep Links On Android

What Are Deep Links? Android deep links open a specific page within an app and optionally pass data to it. Developers may find deep links particularly useful for actions, such as clicking a notification or sending an app link via email. Let’s take an email client as an example. When the user clicks the notification of an email… Continue reading How to Enable Deep Links On Android

Less Is More – Minimalist And Simple Web Design

Image source: Vadim Grin[2] Exposed to lots of senseless content on the internet, we grow more sensitive to mess and distractions. We come across useless texts, we receive a pile of magazine spam, ads or business commercials, and we have serious difficulties in determining what is really worth our attention. Responsiveness Image source: Erikas Mališauskas[3]… Continue reading Less Is More – Minimalist And Simple Web Design

10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame

The design field is pretty crowded. If this is your “calling,” then you have to accept that you are in competition with a lot of creatives that may know more than you. You have to accept that you will have to take all of that creativity you have and translate it into products that others… Continue reading 10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame

How To Choose The Best Font For Mobile User Interfaces

Image source: Gal Shir[2] It is a tricky task-we are not discussing content that will be opened once/twice, but such that will be browsed while users sit in waiting rooms, travel in the subway, rest in their beds, etc. Regular usage opens the door for other challenges too-mobile screens’ responsiveness depends on lighting, and it… Continue reading How To Choose The Best Font For Mobile User Interfaces

7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX

A great user experience starts with the designer. You have to imagine and create something that people will want to touch and engage with, time and time again. Sounds easy, right? The key to delighting users is to think like one. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel with every new design project; use tools and… Continue reading 7 Tips for Delighting Users With Great UX

How To Design An App Walkthrough

Image source: Dan Machado[2] There are so many walkthroughs-misuse situations, that it is questionable whether designers really understand their purpose. There are many complex apps which don’t have walkthroughs, the same as simple ones which don’t need them, but they still incorporated them in their design. This makes the decision on whether to use walkthroughs… Continue reading How To Design An App Walkthrough

Quick Tip: Don’t Forget the “noscript” Element

JavaScript is a powerful language which brings websites to life with interactivity, until that dreaded moment when JavaScript is disabled in the browser, out of the blue. In this quick tip we’ll look at providing fallbacks with the <noscript> element. No JavaScript Users might disable JavaScript for a number of reasons. They might be doing so to… Continue reading Quick Tip: Don’t Forget the “noscript” Element

Fresh and Useful Resources for Sass Users

With such a promising title as syntactically awesome style sheet, this powerful and quite stable version of CSS extension language guarantees that your next project will definitely stay ahead and stand out from others; it won’t suffer from inconveniences caused by old browsers or small screen devices, neither would it come into conflict with other… Continue reading Fresh and Useful Resources for Sass Users

Designing a Responsive Navigation Your Users Will Love

The process of creating a website should always start with general ideas. These turn into wireframes or low-fidelity mockups to give the designer a sense of direction. It’s fairly straightforward, but the creative process requires a large visual library of existing layouts to understand which interfaces are usable and well-designed. Navigation is a huge part… Continue reading Designing a Responsive Navigation Your Users Will Love

Why Mouse Users Should Ditch Photoshop and Draw in Illustrator

Creating digitally gives amazing possibilities. You get so many colors, so many materials, every mistake can be fixed easily and it’s all in a friendly, clean environment – you just need to turn off your computer afterwards. All these advantages are the reason why so many artists try their hands at Adobe Photoshop. This software,… Continue reading Why Mouse Users Should Ditch Photoshop and Draw in Illustrator

How to Design a Website for Worldwide Users

Want to take full advantage of the worldwide aspect of the web? It all begins with web design. The choices you make here can make or break your efforts to reach global markets. Aim to build in internationalization right from the get-go. It will save many a battle with multilingual content further down the line. Keep the… Continue reading How to Design a Website for Worldwide Users

The Future of User Interfaces

We are web designers and developers. As obvious as our work is (we build interactive media applications) there’s a deeper meaning to what we do. We analyze design problems and explore different concepts to solve them. This also means that we think of the communication between a device and the user. We develop that communication.… Continue reading The Future of User Interfaces

40 Best Twitter Plugins For WordPress Users

Twitter is one of the most powerful social media platforms that millions of users are using on a daily basis. With an extensive growth of social media networks, it has become one of the crucial steps in the marketing strategy of any business whether it is online or offline. By integrating Twitter into other marketing… Continue reading 40 Best Twitter Plugins For WordPress Users

Capture Your User’s Attention With These 15 Absolutely Gorgeous Retro Icon Sets

Every project’s success depends on how great it runs and how gorgeous it looks. It doesn’t matter if you have an application which is working flawlessly and covers all the user’s needs; if it doesn’t have a great interface then there is a high probability that it will fail. Nowadays, user’s demands are getting increasingly more  sophisticated… Continue reading Capture Your User’s Attention With These 15 Absolutely Gorgeous Retro Icon Sets