The 30 CSS Selectors You Must Memorize

Learn CSS: The Complete Guide We’ve built a complete guide to help you learn CSS, whether you’re just getting started with the basics or you want to explore more advanced CSS. CSS Selectors So you learned the base id, class, and descendant selectors—and then called it a day? If so, you’re missing out on an enormous level of flexibility. You… Continue reading The 30 CSS Selectors You Must Memorize

7 Reasons Why Explainer Videos Should Be In Your Digital Marketing Plan

Nowadays, every page on the internet is flooded with videos, specifically animated videos. Believe it not; almost every business is harnessing the power of videos. They believe that conveying the information in an innovative way will inspire the target audience to make an informed decision. According to the statistics, 63% of the businesses are using… Continue reading 7 Reasons Why Explainer Videos Should Be In Your Digital Marketing Plan

When Does Emotional Design Cross a Line?

Designing for emotion in and of itself is not a problem. Websites are bound to elicit an emotional reaction from visitors, even if it’s as simple as them feeling at ease because of the soft, pastel color palette you’ve designed the site with. I don’t want to outright villainize emotional design. Unless there is some… Continue reading When Does Emotional Design Cross a Line?

Lessons from setting up an internal research participant panel at Atlassian

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Sign up page for the Atlassian Research Group My first UX Research role was at a small digital agency, where the discipline was still new. Sales teams would frequently sell clients research, without fully budgeting in participant recruitment. Shoestring budgets meant I often had to find my participants using creative, scrappy… Continue reading Lessons from setting up an internal research participant panel at Atlassian

Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2020

It’s fun to see new website design tools that reflect current times and the state of the world. That’s very true this month with new databases devoted to diversity and women in technology, as well and resources to make your design life easier. Here’s what’s new for designers and developers this month: Ztext.js Ztext.js is… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2020

How do the new iOS 14 accessibility features stack up?

This past week, Apple released iOS 14 which includes new features such as Widgets, Back Tap and the ability for VoiceControl and VoiceOver to be used at the same time. I thought this would be the perfect time to bring our mobile team together to explore these new features of iOS 14 as they relate… Continue reading How do the new iOS 14 accessibility features stack up?

10 Best eCommerce Blogs for Successfully Starting an Online Store

One of the industries that is going to grow to trillions in upcoming years is – e-commerce. This means it is the best time to start an online store. With Corona pandemic, there are more and more businesses moving from a brick and mortar, to an online solution like Shopify. However, for having an eCommerce… Continue reading 10 Best eCommerce Blogs for Successfully Starting an Online Store

PHP Namespace Tutorial: The Basics

In this tutorial, I’ll go through the basics of namespaces in PHP. I’ll explain why you might need namespaces, and I’ll show you how to use PHP namespaces in your day-to-day development. More often than not, you will end up using third-party libraries from different vendors in your PHP applications. Now, there could be collisions… Continue reading PHP Namespace Tutorial: The Basics

A Beginner’s Guide to Wireframing

Wireframing is an important step in any screen design process. It primarily allows you to define the information hierarchy of your design, making it easier for you to plan the layout according to how you want your user to process the information. If you’ve yet to use wireframing, it’s time to get your feet wet. Wireframing… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to Wireframing

How To Manage Stand Alone Validators With The Right Software

Validators are used in any digital process that requires some degree of inspection to validate the transaction being made. They could either make use of a stand-alone (contactless) or contact technology process. They can make use of independent, discrete, and integrated device options. These devices are used in valet parking and payment systems. They need to be… Continue reading How To Manage Stand Alone Validators With The Right Software

How to Make Effective Video Landing Pages

As a web developer, if you chance upon a comparison of the landing page and video landing page, what would be your first reaction? Both have all the characteristics of an excellent landing page. So, what sets them apart? Why does the subconscious choose the video landing page? It’s simple. It’s the video on the… Continue reading How to Make Effective Video Landing Pages

3 Essential Design Trends, September 2020

A seasonal change is on the horizon and that always has me looking to refresh projects. This month’s design trends provide a few different ways to do that without ripping up your entire website. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. Animated Heroes (That Aren’t Video) Hero headers and screens that feature video animation have… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, September 2020

Create a Burning Vector Match Using Gradient Meshes

What You’ll Be Creating If you want to create vector flames in Illustrator, in this tutorial I will show you how to create an illustration of a burning match using a fire gradient. You’ll learn how to make a realistic match flame that is also fully scalable. And if you need some vector flames, but… Continue reading Create a Burning Vector Match Using Gradient Meshes

8 Easy Ways To Ruin Your User Onboarding

To understand why user onboarding is such an indispensable tool, we need to empathize with the people using our products; we all come from different backgrounds and cultures, we make different assumptions, and we see the world differently. User onboarding helps mitigate these differences by making your product’s learning curve less steep. However, companies often… Continue reading 8 Easy Ways To Ruin Your User Onboarding

How to Autoload Classes With Composer in PHP

In this article, we’ll discuss the basics of autoloading in PHP and how to autoload PHP classes with Composer. I’ll explain why autoloading is so important and show you how to use Composer for autoloading step by step. I’ll also explain the difference between the different kinds of autoloading in Composer. Why Do We Need… Continue reading How to Autoload Classes With Composer in PHP

2020 Best Resume Templates with Cover Letter

40 Shares Best Resume Templates of 2020 are here, professionally designed simple and clean Resume templates that help you make a lasting impression. We are a team of experienced designers with extensive exposure to the design resume templates. In this collection we are gathered 2020’s Best Resume Templates with cover letter and portfolio pages. These resume… Continue reading 2020 Best Resume Templates with Cover Letter

Art Deco Graphic Design: Let’s Talk About This Trend

Are you a fan of The Great Gatsby? Do you just adore the Roaring Twenties, with its flapper dresses, extra-long cigarette holders, and swing dancing? Are you attracted to clean lines and bold design? Chances are you’re responding to the ethos of Art Deco design. Russell Patterson / Public domain Art Deco, a specific style… Continue reading Art Deco Graphic Design: Let’s Talk About This Trend

How to Make PNG Images Transparent for Free

August 3, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine Different image formats could be used, downloaded, and uploaded on the internet. There are three commonly used kinds of images on the internet – the PNG, the JPEG, and the GIF. The JPEG format for images is commonly used for articles, photography, and general kinds of presentations. These images… Continue reading How to Make PNG Images Transparent for Free

3 Essential Design Trends, August 2020

Do the lazy days have you longing for a new design technique to try? You are in luck. This month’s collection of essential design trends is packed with functional ideas to spruce up design projects. And all of them are fairly easy to accomplish and will give your project a modern – or intentionally old-school… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, August 2020

VideoProc Review 2020: Easy Video Editing Software

Videos have become a primary tool of communication in the modern world. Before, the only videos we would see were films, TV shows, and home videos. However today, videos come in all kinds from professionally-shot videos to six-second ones taken on our phones. We have YouTube videos, Facebook videos, TikTok videos, Instagram stories, Snapchat, and… Continue reading VideoProc Review 2020: Easy Video Editing Software

Grab Free SSL Certificates From ZeroSSL

Like it or not, we’re slowly edging towards a two-tier web: those sites that are secure, and…everything else. There was a time on the web, when we didn’t have SSL certificates, and lots of people’s data got stolen. To address the problem, and regain users’ trust SSL certificates were introduced to secure sites handling sensitive… Continue reading Grab Free SSL Certificates From ZeroSSL

30+ Free Tattoo Fonts (Download Now to Use)

Looking for just the right font for your next tattoo? Rumble Tattoos is one of the awesome tattoo fonts found at Envato Elements Well, check out this list of over 30 free tattoo fonts as well as a selection of premium tattoo fonts from Envato Elements. Unlimited Tattoo Font Downloads at Envato Elements Cash-strapped designers will appreciate the list of… Continue reading 30+ Free Tattoo Fonts (Download Now to Use)

Photoshop Basics: How to Rotate an Image in Photoshop

July 13, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine Changing the orientation of an image may be necessary when editing in Photoshop. There are different ways on how to rotate an image in Photoshop. There are straightforward ways to rotate an image, while there are other clever tricks to do the same. Here are a few tips and… Continue reading Photoshop Basics: How to Rotate an Image in Photoshop

8 Design Secrets of B2B Vs B2C Websites

Web design clients come from a wide variety of backgrounds. One day, you’ll be designing a portfolio website for a voiceover artist, the next you’ll be creating a comprehensive ecommerce site for a leading retailer. In an ideal world, you’ll get to a point where you eventually specialize in a niche. However, you’ll need to… Continue reading 8 Design Secrets of B2B Vs B2C Websites