What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll look at drawing multiple hairstyles that tend to be popular choices for natural, afro textured hair: afros, locs, braids, and twists. While these styles could potentially be worn by people with other hair types, we will primarily focus on Type 4 hair. We’ll take a stylistic approach… Continue reading How to Draw Natural, Textured, Afro Hairstyles (Afros, Locs, Braids, Twists)
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So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos
When you’re selling a theme, its demo is your sales pitch. If the demo falls short in some way, it’s doing a disservice to the theme and will lead to a loss of sales. If your theme includes hundreds of features, but buyers can’t see them in action, you may as well have no features… Continue reading So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos
Examining the Importance of Logo Design
No matter how organised a business may be behind the scenes, it must present the right image to its clients. This means having the right logo. Many customers first become aware of a business through its logo. Or it might be the first thing they see when searching for a product or service. If the… Continue reading Examining the Importance of Logo Design
5 Reasons Why Stock Photos Are Essential for Web Design
June 21, 2018 by Spyrestudios Blogger Stock photos might not seem exciting at first glance but they’re actually valuable tools to impress and entertain website visitors. For example, posts with an image are more likely to be shared on Facebook — which can increase the number of people who visit your site. This means that… Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Stock Photos Are Essential for Web Design
4 Under Construction Premium & Free WordPress Themes 2018
In the modern era, WordPress has proved to be the most powerful platform to develop a website. There are always new updates coming in the procedure, themes and what not. Here we are going to talk about some of the best WordPress themes coming soon. Themes that you can use as ‘coming soon pages’ or… Continue reading 4 Under Construction Premium & Free WordPress Themes 2018
Entrepreneurs: Tips to Maximize your Online Presence and Fire up Your Business
Entrepreneurship in the 21st century For the past several centuries and for years after the turn of the millennium, the definition of business could be summed up as providing goods and services to satisfy human needs and desires. However, the internet has changed all this and even before we knew, the virtual world has taken over… Continue reading Entrepreneurs: Tips to Maximize your Online Presence and Fire up Your Business
What I wish I’d known before designing digital products and user interfaces
2. Hick’s Law Delivering a good user experience requires that first you find out the functionalities that will answer their needs; second, you need to guide them to the specific functions they need most. If users end up stuck in the decision-making process of “what next?”, they may become confused, frustrated, or leave your website. Hick’s… Continue reading What I wish I’d known before designing digital products and user interfaces
30 Top-Notch Free WordPress Themes You Should Check Out In 2018
Becoming successful as a blogger might take some time, especially if you’ve never tried anything like that in the past. To make sure that you get through this period in a hassle-free manner, start working smartly. The first smart move is to keep your financial investments as minimum as possible. As you may know, two… Continue reading 30 Top-Notch Free WordPress Themes You Should Check Out In 2018
Designing Happy
Health problems stemming from stress and loneliness include: obesity, high blood pressure, alcoholism, depression, heart disease, insomnia, and stroke. The solution In surveying the landscape, one might think there are already solutions for this problem including traditional mental health solutions as well as new up-and-coming behavioral health startups. Newer solutions often require high levels of customer… Continue reading Designing Happy
Why You Need to Include Quality Images And Video in Your Online Content
March 23, 2018 by Spyrestudios Blogger Conventional online content isn’t enough to stand out any more. If you’ve been producing brilliant blog posts for the last few years, the chances are you’ve enjoyed the success of being one of the first to the content marketing party. Content marketing has been an essential ingredient for online… Continue reading Why You Need to Include Quality Images And Video in Your Online Content
Coding Buttons in CSS
March 2, 2018 by Spyrestudios Blogger CSS is the gold standard in web design, providing an organized framework for your website. It takes added skill, though, to turn a basic CSS grid into an interactive site. One of those necessary skills is adding clickable buttons within the CSS grid to enhance and simplify navigation. Once… Continue reading Coding Buttons in CSS
How to Bake Engagement Into Video Content
Would you like to create video content that is more engaging and draws in and retains more viewers while also attracting more shares, likes, comments, and other reactions? If you do then you should know that engagement needs to be ‘baked into’ video content, and that starts from the time you sit down and begin… Continue reading How to Bake Engagement Into Video Content
Create Great Websites in 2018 with These WordPress Themes
Posted · Category: Best Collections If you aren’t already a WordPress user, there’s no better time to start than the present. Also, there’s no better way to get started than with one or more of the WordPress themes described here. WordPress is the most popular CMS and website-building platform in the business. The types of… Continue reading Create Great Websites in 2018 with These WordPress Themes
Building a Website with Wix
The competition is tough when it comes to building websites. Your website needs to be catchy, fully-functional, user-friendly, and creative, in order to keep people visiting your website. If you are not tech savvy, this is quite a challenge as building a website from scratch is quite complicated. You need to know the codes in… Continue reading Building a Website with Wix
How to Optimize the Design and Location of the Search Bar
The search bar is one of the most useful features on your website. It can help visitors find exactly what they’re looking for with just a few key presses. On a typical ecommerce website, search users convert at a rate 3.5x higher than those that don’t interact with search, so it makes sense to use… Continue reading How to Optimize the Design and Location of the Search Bar
Creating a first Product Design System in Sketch
The first days I remember the first day I joined Agorize, I asked the PM if there is a styleguide I can use in Sketch. He told me we didn’t have any styleguide and only had some screens designed in Photoshop. The problem is that we have a product with a consumer-facing side and a client-facing… Continue reading Creating a first Product Design System in Sketch
Essential Ingredients For Every Competitive Analysis
The Whys Why are competitors doing things a certain way? Why do people trust or use a competitor’s product? Why is a particular product among the top 3 or top 5 solutions in the market? One of the most effective practice is to use the 5 Whys technique. You can read more about it here.… Continue reading Essential Ingredients For Every Competitive Analysis
No Digital Tools needed: Creating Digital Products
Photo by Climate KIC on Unsplash I am sure, every UI and UX Designer knows that kind of problem: You have received a briefing for a new project. Everybody is on fire and is going to do some fancy stuff for it. But how to start? How to create innovative ideas? How to set your mind… Continue reading No Digital Tools needed: Creating Digital Products
Tips for Using Gradients In Web Design
Gradients are on-trend for 2017, and they’are a good way to make your design look a little more up to date. They also provide a pleasing illusion of depth and distance, which can add some volume to one-dimensional layouts. Check out these tips for using gradients in web design to get acquainted. Put Gradients in… Continue reading Tips for Using Gradients In Web Design
10 Best Corporate Website Design Examples
A corporate website is a virtual entrance to your business. Through it, your potential clients get to know your company. Thus, it should be appropriately developed to create the desired attitude and engage your customers to action. In this article, we will suggest a checklist for a good site and see some stunning corporate website… Continue reading 10 Best Corporate Website Design Examples
UX & Psychology go hand in hand— How Gestalt theory appears in UX design?
Source: iStock In the age of AI and “Human Centered Machine Learning”, it’s essential that we understand the needs and behaviour of our users. This is doubly true as a UX designer. In order to create work that better serves the needs of our users, it’s important to understand some basic psychological principles. Which is… Continue reading UX & Psychology go hand in hand— How Gestalt theory appears in UX design?
From Human-centered design to design for enhancing human ability
The role of design is consequently evolving. From initially being a domain of communication with a predominant aesthetic focus design has taken a key role in the creation of products and has become a human advocacy. Design has moved into the C-Suite with the appointment of Chief Design Officers (CDO) while Design Thinking shifted the… Continue reading From Human-centered design to design for enhancing human ability
Get Inspired by 31 Beautiful Web Developer Portfolios
June 21, 2017 by Alex Fox If you’re a freelance web developer, a lot of your marketing pitch comes down to your website. Clients want to see websites that are visually appealing, true, but also effective at conveying your work. Your portfolio site should showcase your skill as a developer, both in its own design… Continue reading Get Inspired by 31 Beautiful Web Developer Portfolios
3 Reasons A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words In Design
Whoever said, “a picture is worth a thousand words” was right. It’s especially true on the internet. The images displayed on your website determine how your visitors perceive your business and brand. If you’ve got a website and want your visitors to consume your content or take a specific action, it’s imperative to project the… Continue reading 3 Reasons A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words In Design