Collaboration, organization, and communication are important to making a design process flow smoothly–especially when you’re dealing with multiple stakeholders or cross-functional teams. After all, nothing is worse than having to waste time digging around Google Docs for a product roadmap from last month or not getting enough context for a mockup you’re about to work… Continue reading 4 Ways Designers Can Use Asana to Organize Their Work
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9 Best WordPress Plugins for Use in 2017
Posted · Category: Best Collections WordPress has many pluses, but it’s not necessarily the most glamorous platform to work with. Still customize it with themes and plugins to fit a designer’s needs has made it the most popular CMS. Plugins are great to have access to when you need to embed certain functions into your… Continue reading 9 Best WordPress Plugins for Use in 2017
Learnings from my 6-month design internship at a startup
Your job title is just the first part of the story ???? At tado° nobody cared that I was just an intern. There was so much going on, that it wasn’t important what I was really appointed to do. We just tried to “get shit done”. I was given a lot of responsibility and wore hats… Continue reading Learnings from my 6-month design internship at a startup
Illustrator Tutorials: 20 New Tutorials to Learn How to Design & Illustration
Learn how to use illustrator from top professionals and tutorial writers for creating amazing vector graphics and illustrations. These new 2017 tutorials will teach you latest tips and techniques and shows to draw and digital portraits from scratch, vector logos, and create cartoon characters and more vector graphics. You’ll be able to use these illustration and drawing techniques for your future… Continue reading Illustrator Tutorials: 20 New Tutorials to Learn How to Design & Illustration
Google Home: first impressions
This is my Google Home making friends at my place Last Black Friday I couldn’t resist the temptation to buy a Google Home, and I’m in love with it. I can justify my shopping spree by saying I am a designer and really needed to feel how it is to interact with a device only by… Continue reading Google Home: first impressions
15 Best WooCommerce WordPress Themes for 2017
Enjoy a collection of some of the best WooCommerce themes for 2017 and get inspired to build a UX-friendly website with a beautiful layout that truly engages your customers. Allow me to present you the 2017 collection of the best WooCommerce themes. Porto Created by: SW-THEMES Price: $60 Download link: here Live preview: here Porto is… Continue reading 15 Best WooCommerce WordPress Themes for 2017
Remarkable Digital Graphic Arts and Drawing by Gabz
Today we are featuring digital illustrator artist Grzegorz Domaradzki (Gabz), with his finest drawing and graphic artwork. He was from Poznan, Poland. He was graduated from the academy of Fine Arts with a Master’s degree. After the graduation, he first worked as an illustrator and later as a graphic designer for various advertising agencies. In 2005, he went freelance and hasn’t… Continue reading Remarkable Digital Graphic Arts and Drawing by Gabz
21 Places to Sell Your Digital Desigs Online
Looking for a place to sell your graphic design goods? This collection of digital marketplaces features some of the best places to sell graphics designs online, including web elements, themes, vectors, clipart, hand illustrations, fonts, and more. Digital Marketplaces: Creative Market The Envato alternative for a top-notch digital marketplace will surprise you with a gorgeous… Continue reading 21 Places to Sell Your Digital Desigs Online
10 Totally Free WordPress Backup Solutions
Backing up your precious data is a common best practice these days. But, what about your WordPress powered website? Yes, most web hosting companies do perform regular system backups. But beware – not every host is reliable when it comes to backups. And you certainly don’t want to wait until disaster strikes to find out… Continue reading 10 Totally Free WordPress Backup Solutions
How to use breadcrumbs (the right way)
Bread crumbs…they bring up associations with the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves bread crumbs to help him find his way home again. Although the association with bread crumbs is perhaps still stronger in the realm of Grimm stories, that’s gradually changing as breadcrumbs in navigation help web designers create a better… Continue reading How to use breadcrumbs (the right way)
Cloudinary Enhances Media Delivery with Multi-CDN Offering
Posted · Category: Information Cloudinary is well known for solving the challenges you face when managing images and videos. With its newest enhancement, the company is also eliminating the complexities of media delivery by enabling the use of multiple content delivery networks (CDNs) to ensure end users quickly and reliably receive content. Today, images account… Continue reading Cloudinary Enhances Media Delivery with Multi-CDN Offering
Zendesk releases a new logo
We’re all familiar with the old Zendesk logo, right? The memorable image of the Buddha who’s wearing a headset (melding old-fashioned mindfulness with modern-day tech) was an instantly recognizable logo of a big brand in today’s tech industry. Now, the new Zendesk logo is a combination mark of a logotype or wordmark design together with… Continue reading Zendesk releases a new logo
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
What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do
The term ‘design’ can be a deceptively simple one. It sounds curiously vague, and when offered in response to most people, it elicits a degree of confusion. For example, when somebody says ‘Oh, I work as a designer,’ a lot of people do not entirely understand what this means. This is because, for such a… Continue reading What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do
Designing for Tech Clients – How Pre-built Websites Will Help
Posted · Category: Best Collections If you are reading this article, you most likely have worked with a tech company or startup. You’ve noticed that this niche has its own rules. And you probably had to answer some hard questions. What’s the audience’s main treat? What’s the suited design style for tech clients? Do web… Continue reading Designing for Tech Clients – How Pre-built Websites Will Help
Web Design In Action: A Sample Design Workflow
Advertisement Designing and building an entire website from scratch involves many different pieces. It can get easier with time and practice, but you’re always starting from a blank slate for every new project which can be tough. The best thing to do is fall into a creative routine that you can follow every time. This… Continue reading Web Design In Action: A Sample Design Workflow
Portfolio Sites That You Should Take As Example
Advertisement Every designer or artist wants to have the best possible online portfolio to showcase his or hers work in a manner that will make the visitors become clients. That’s the desired result, but how does a portfolio have to be to deliver those results? The answer is that it’s all relative. Even if we… Continue reading Portfolio Sites That You Should Take As Example
Create a Dark and Mysterious Landscape Matte Painting with Photoshop
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a dark and mysterious landscape using a range of photo manipulation techniques. You’ll learn how to combine different stock photos into a cohesive scene, create a misty atmosphere, adjust color, work with lighting and more. What you’ll be creating We’ll start this tutorial by creating a… Continue reading Create a Dark and Mysterious Landscape Matte Painting with Photoshop
Free Metal Textures You Would Download
Metal textures should be a part of any designer’s toolbox. There are various metallic textures thanks to the way metal can be manipulated in many shapes and sizes. You can get a grunge texture from a rusted metal or a sleek texture from a brushed metal stock photo. What I like about these metal textures… Continue reading Free Metal Textures You Would Download
Deliver the Perfect Image to Each Web User
Posted · Category: Information Cloudinary Introduces Fully Automated Content- and Context-Aware Image Adaptation Solution Adapting an image to fit the graphic design on various devices and browsers, while optimizing performance, is both an art and science. But for most web designers, it’s a laborious process and almost impossible to accomplish when you’re dealing with thousands… Continue reading Deliver the Perfect Image to Each Web User
Diverse Device Hands by Facebook
The design team at Facebook has just released another great free resource called Diverse Device Hands: it is basically a set of phone mockups held by hands that you can use in any presentation of your designs. The package includes PNGs of the hands holding various devices as well as a Sketch file of the hands with vector… Continue reading Diverse Device Hands by Facebook
Using Laravel Valet for WordPress Development
If you’re familiar with the PHP community, then you’re likely familiar with a number of the different applications and frameworks that are currently popular in the development space today. One of the more common frameworks that we’re seeing used to build web applications is Laravel. Though this tutorial is not specifically about Laravel, I recommend checking… Continue reading Using Laravel Valet for WordPress Development
Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles
Cocycles is a new code search service that enables code to be found by functionality. In this article, Cocycles team member Jonathan explains the idea behind this approach to code searching. We’re all familiar with it: that moment when you’re forced to abandon your code editor, interrupt your workflow and open your browser to search… Continue reading Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles
Creating Multiple Banner Ads Layout Using Artboard in Photoshop CC 2015
One of Photoshop CC 2015 new feature is more or less the same with Illustrator artboard, allowing us to create multiple pages within one document. But Photoshop’s artboard is more flexible because we can freely change the arboard size and position. Now we can be more productive, because we are able to create multiple design… Continue reading Creating Multiple Banner Ads Layout Using Artboard in Photoshop CC 2015