Summary: As a UI design style, neobrutalism focuses on raw, unrefined elements like bold colors, simple shapes, and intentionally “unfinished” aesthetics. Emerging as a reaction against sleek, minimalistic designs, neobrutalism creates a striking (almost rebellious) visual style. But while neobrutalism draws attention, designers must carefully balance its distinctive look with usability to avoid ending up… Continue reading Neobrutalism: Definition and Best Practices
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Magners' Graphic Design: A Core Irish Cider Story
Magners’ ‘Real to our Core’ campaign uses reductive graphic design to highlight its real Irish cider. The illustrations elevate this iconic brand. Since 1935, Magners has been producing authentic Irish cider from genuine Irish apples. This year, the brand launched the “Real To Our Core” campaign in Australia. The campaign uses a series of posters… Continue reading Magners' Graphic Design: A Core Irish Cider Story
AI Adoption in the Workplace Still Low, 2 Years Later
Summary: Designers may think AI features are now familiar to our users, but recent research suggests that adoption is still lower than we might think. Pew Research Center recently published interesting results from a large survey about AI usage in the workplace. In late 2024, they surveyed over 5,000 adults employed in the U.S., with… Continue reading AI Adoption in the Workplace Still Low, 2 Years Later
30 FREE Flag Banner Mockups For Promoting Brands
In today’s fast-moving digital world, grabbing your audience’s attention is tougher than ever. With so many brands competing for visibility, businesses need fresh and visually engaging ways to stand out. One highly effective approach is using flag banner advertisements—a dynamic tool for promoting brands, products, and events. When combined with flag banner mockup PSDs, these… Continue reading 30 FREE Flag Banner Mockups For Promoting Brands
25+ Luxury Serif Fonts for Elegant Branding & Design
Written by Muhammad Faisal• January 30, 2025• 10:07 pm• Fonts • One Comment Luxury serif fonts are the perfect choice for designers seeking sophistication and elegance in branding. These high-end typefaces exude class and professionalism, making them ideal for premium logos, packaging, fashion branding, and upscale publications. With their refined details, sharp serifs, and balanced… Continue reading 25+ Luxury Serif Fonts for Elegant Branding & Design
The Life Before Me: Exploring Legacy Through Editorial Design
Discover Jaqueline Santos’ zine, “The Life Before Me,” a blend of editorial design, graphic design and personal storytelling. Editorial design has the unique power to weave personal stories into visual narratives. This is beautifully demonstrated in The Life Before Me, an experimental zine by Jaqueline Santos. Through this project, Santos delves into her parents’ lives before… Continue reading The Life Before Me: Exploring Legacy Through Editorial Design
35+ Clever Negative Space Logos That Will Inspire You
Negative space logos are a unique and compelling design technique that uses the empty spaces within and around a logo to create a secondary image or visual effect. This approach not only adds depth and complexity to the design but also engages the viewer, encouraging them to look closer and discover hidden meanings. These logos… Continue reading 35+ Clever Negative Space Logos That Will Inspire You
Top 10 UX Design Agencies to Work With – July 2024
While in-house UX consultants, UI/UX designers, and user researchers continue to gain popularity, some businesses continue to opt for the expertise of specialized UX design firms. Here, we listed user experience consultancies and full-service UI UX design agencies from the US to Europe, with a brief description of each to help you decide. If you… Continue reading Top 10 UX Design Agencies to Work With – July 2024
InsFollowPro Review: Boost Your Instagram with Real Followers, Likes, and Views
In the digital age, Instagram has become a vital platform for personal branding and business growth. Yet, building a strong Instagram presence can be a daunting task. Enter InsFollowPro, an Instagram growth service designed to boost your Instagram with real followers, likes, and views. This article provides an in-depth review of InsFollowPro, exploring its features,… Continue reading InsFollowPro Review: Boost Your Instagram with Real Followers, Likes, and Views
5 Website Features to Help Your Business Thrive in the Digital Age
In the age of instant gratification, attention spans are shorter than a tweet on a Tuesday. That’s why your website, the digital doorknob to your business, needs to make a stellar first impression. Studies show that a whopping 95% of a visitor’s initial judgment is based on design alone. Now, that’s a statistic that could… Continue reading 5 Website Features to Help Your Business Thrive in the Digital Age
Visual Design: Glossary
Summary: Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to visual design. Visual design requires knowledge and understanding of many jargon terms. Use this glossary as a reference as you delve into visual and user interface design. Jump to a definition in the table or review the complete glossary. Aesthetic-Usability Effect Users’… Continue reading Visual Design: Glossary
12 Figma tips to work more efficiently
We all know Figma makes regular updates to their features that can be new and awesome, like previewing typography, or it can be a modification that may change an established workflow, like the infamous local variables. So as someone who uses Figma almost every work day, minus some meeting-heavy days, learning to apply new features… Continue reading 12 Figma tips to work more efficiently
Why UI designers should understand Flexbox and CSS Grid
CSS for UI Designer Or bye bye, 12-column grid layout Most designers are familiar with responsive design, a column-based layout approach with fixed breakpoints to cover all screen sizes. However, we can move beyond the rigid structure with modern CSS layouts, crafting flexible and dynamic designs that seamlessly adjust to different screen sizes. Designers and developers having different… Continue reading Why UI designers should understand Flexbox and CSS Grid
How to identify trend-influenced patterns in graphic design
The landscape of graphic design patterns is constantly evolving, with trends that pop up and fade out quite quickly. However, there are a few pattern design trends that have managed to endure the passage of time through their distinctive style. You can learn to recognize these timeless graphic design patterns by grasping symbols and visual… Continue reading How to identify trend-influenced patterns in graphic design
Housing, It’s a Human Right (Part 2)
A 3-Part Series on the digital accessibility of the housing process experienced by people with disabilities. In this 3-part series, we will look at the challenges and rewards of the entire experience surrounding the process of acquiring housing for people who live with a disability. We will look at: Buying an existing home Leasing an… Continue reading Housing, It’s a Human Right (Part 2)
Designing a colour system
Building multi-brand colour systems that support light and dark modes with minimum effort. It is all about organizing, naming and choosing the right colour values for the system to work. I would like to share my view on the issue and tell about the methods I choose to make the system. Made with design tokens Design tokens are… Continue reading Designing a colour system
15 Best New Fonts, September 2023
Fonts By Ben Moss 4 days ago Nothing upgrades your designs like selecting the right font. It’s all too easy to fall into the trap of using the same typeface over and over, so every month, we publish this roundup to freshen up your font menu. In this month’s edition, you’ll find plenty of sans-serifs… Continue reading 15 Best New Fonts, September 2023
3 Essential Design Trends, September 2023
Here’s what’s trending in design this month: 1. Monochrome Color Schemes One-color design patterns can be beautiful and somewhat enchanting. With tints and tones of the same base color, there is a certain elegance that comes with a monochrome color scheme. Designers who have worked with color in this way know that while the end result may look… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, September 2023
3 Essential Design Trends, June 2023
That’s a big part of the reason so many designers are stripping down menus to more minimal styles. (Plus, it can create a cleaner, more sleek overall design.) Here’s what’s trending in design this month – and it is all about navigation. 1. Pop-Out Navigation There’s an obvious connection to mobile-friendliness here – website designs that use… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, June 2023
The Power of Place in Photography
Place in photography is everything to the photographer, as it helps him capture and investigate various concepts such as culture and identity, traditions, and environmental challenges. But also, place plays a more significant role in the photograph’s appearance and can give you a bad day at the office if not controlled. Although place can add… Continue reading The Power of Place in Photography
How high-fidelity prototypes can enhance user testing
During the usability testing phase, gathering as much information as possible about how users understand designs/product is essential. The objectives of usability testing often differ across studies. They typically uncover product or service design issues, discover opportunities for enhancement, and gain insight into the target user’s behaviour and preferences [1]. Tools like Figma and Sketch… Continue reading How high-fidelity prototypes can enhance user testing
How to design generative AI experiences to be truly helpful
From bullsh*t generator to ultimate copilot. Photo by Rolf van Root on Unsplash Suddenly, news about Generative AI is everywhere. People talk about how ChatGPT reached 1 million users in a record of 5 days, how Goldman Sachs predicts that AI will impact 300 million jobs, and how the new Bing goes “unhinged”… All the hypes aside,… Continue reading How to design generative AI experiences to be truly helpful
How playing improvised music can train the ability to synthesize in design
Improv form #1. Drawing by Alexander Pryshyvalka (Instagram) My experience with Minsk Improvisers Orchestra I was always certain that only those who are trained in understanding musical notation and playing music instrument, are allowed to create music — only these special kinds of people are eligible to be called musicians. I’m not one of this special kind… Continue reading How playing improvised music can train the ability to synthesize in design
Trends and Movements (isms) in Web Design You Should Know
In web design nowadays we’re quick to assign an “ism” to any passing trend. But no matter how arbitrary or fleeting they are, these isms can be important to understand. “Isms” in the art and design world come from artistic movements; styles and philosophies practiced by a group of artists and designers, usually with a… Continue reading Trends and Movements (isms) in Web Design You Should Know