September 2017 Reasons to: Design, Code & Create Design, Code, Create & Come Together Reasons to: is the award winning 3 day international conference with a festival vibe, held annually in Brighton UK, every first Mon, Tue, Weds of every September. Each year the very best international creative and developer speakers take to the stage to… Continue reading The best European design events and conferences in 2017
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Taking responsibility for the things you launch
Let’s travel back in time. I’ll promise we’ll get back here in just a moment. A few months ago I launched Mindful, an extension for Google Chrome that aims at making users more mindful about their thoughts, ideas, and ongoing tasks by showing their notes in every new tab. Mindful is powered by a text… Continue reading Taking responsibility for the things you launch
Inspiring quotes in UX to give you the hope you’ve been looking for
On our process “Does it better” will always beat “did it first.” – Aaron Levie “Photoshop is the most effective way to show your clients what their website will never look like.” – Stephen Hay “If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings.” – Tom & David Kelley “If you think good design is… Continue reading Inspiring quotes in UX to give you the hope you’ve been looking for
Walking Through Design in Tokyo
People push past me as I exit the train at Shibuya station, and I start looking for the Hachiko statue. My friends told me to meet there before dinner, but ten minutes later I’m still lost. Thankfully once I slow down and look at my surroundings, I see guides all around me. At its size… Continue reading Walking Through Design in Tokyo
The Evolution of Minimalism [Infographics]
May 1, 2017 by Spyre Studios Are you aware of the role that artists like Lichtenstein and Rothko played in the development of the minimalist movement? The act of cutting back to the core essence of something actually has roots in high art. While the concept definitely draws on tenets Buddhism and has been translated… Continue reading The Evolution of Minimalism [Infographics]
The New Skeuomorphism is in Your Voice Assistant
Google Home and Amazon Echo Yay, we killed Skeuomorphism! Not too long ago humanity left behind its skeuomorphic interfaces. Skeuomorphism meant using references to real world surface textures on visual interfaces to enhance their comprehensibility. We stripped our visual interfaces off their ornamentations to allow a more authentic approach to visual aesthetics. Killing skeuomorphism made us… Continue reading The New Skeuomorphism is in Your Voice Assistant
New Free Fonts – 21 Fonts For Designers
In this font gallery you’ll find some of the best new free fonts (typefaces) for commercial use. This is collection of script fonts, handwritten fonts, sans serif typefaces and they are perfect for web and graphic design. You can easily download and installed. These fonts are perfect to use as a logo, badge, insignia, packaging, headline, poster,… Continue reading New Free Fonts – 21 Fonts For Designers
Wix.com – A Free & Easy Website Builder
Posted · Category: Tools There are so many ways through which a business can start off their campaign in a newly designed competitive environment. As such, there is the need to bring in capable hands that can help facilitate better service delivery. These services could be projected better by organizations that have studied the marketability… Continue reading Wix.com – A Free & Easy Website Builder
Women in Tech, the power of storytelling, anticipatory design and other UX links this week
Nurturing diversity at work and in your work → Homogeneity is not normal. But we’ve been conditioned toward homogeneity and non-diversity over the decades by media, exacerbated in 2016 with Fox News crowned the most watched cable network and their all-white men prime time line-up. By pop culture and its lack of diversity in TV, movies,… Continue reading Women in Tech, the power of storytelling, anticipatory design and other UX links this week
18 New Free Fonts for Graphic Design
New fresh free fonts collection based on script fonts, handwritten fonts, sans serif typefaces for digital art, web and graphic designs. These fonts are available for personal and commercial use. You can use these fonts as a logo, badge, insignia, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel, greeting card, and wedding invitation. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and… Continue reading 18 New Free Fonts for Graphic Design
The Cutting Edge Of Website Design
Ultra-Responsive Mobile Websites Touchscreen technology isn’t historically “new”; it’s been around for decades. But responsive touchscreen technology that can be properly utilized by the public is an innovation that was untenable for a long time. The technology can be traced back to the dawn of computers; the forties, as a matter of fact. When this… Continue reading The Cutting Edge Of Website Design
Combatting unconscious bias in design
bi·as: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair; cause to feel or show inclination or prejudice for or against someone or something. A few years ago, a male-led design team was working on a brief for a major athletic apparel… Continue reading Combatting unconscious bias in design
Design is Diversity, UX Job Boards, Terrible Designs, and other UX links this week
What’s hot in UX this week: Design is Diversity: it’s Time to Talk about our Role as Designers → As designers, we spend most of our day imagining and building experiences that, when added up, take a big portion of people’s days and affect a lot the relationships they have with other people and with… Continue reading Design is Diversity, UX Job Boards, Terrible Designs, and other UX links this week
7 Great Ways To Learn Swift Online
As web developers, it’s our responsibility to make sure our clients have beautiful, functional and maintainable websites. But in today’s development environment, more and more clients need a mobile app solution of some kind, and they’re looking to web developers to help them create it. And in a world where some 91% of Americans have… Continue reading 7 Great Ways To Learn Swift Online
Amazing Drawing Portraits by Russian Artist Viktor Miller-Gausa
Today we are featuring drawing illustrator, graphic designer and art director Viktor Miller-Gausa, with his amazing drawing portraits collection. He is from Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. In this posts, we will showcase his best portraits illustration artwork for your inspiration. You can catch him behance.net/viktormillergausa. Viktor words: This project. images that have inspired me. It seemed interesting and memorable. individual words, I would… Continue reading Amazing Drawing Portraits by Russian Artist Viktor Miller-Gausa
Connections and creativity.
In 1978, scientist and historian James Burke produced a ten part documentary called ‘Connections’. In this documentary series he traced back a (then) modern invention through the history of connected ideas that led to it. Across the ten episodes the viewer goes on many weird and wonderful journeys learning such things as: how the concept… Continue reading Connections and creativity.
3 Ways to Help your Website Drive Sales
We all know the importance of a good website, one that reflects our brand identity and can help to boost traffic and drive sales. However, working out the best ways to go about this isn’t always as easy as it might seem. Web design can get incredibly complicated incredibly fast, but having a great website… Continue reading 3 Ways to Help your Website Drive Sales
42 Funny Advertising Print Ads That Make You Look Twice
Print ads for advertising are just awesome. Funny and hilarious ads make your brand or product more attractive and eye-catching. The print advertisements is the fastest way to communicate the message to world. Print advertising continues to be a strong market, companies spending dollars to make there ads really creative and inspiring. Today we’re rounded up 42 fuuny… Continue reading 42 Funny Advertising Print Ads That Make You Look Twice
8 Best Job Board Plugins For WordPress
March 10, 2017 by Veronika In the past, employers often strayed away from hiring remote workers due to low network connectivity speed and risks of security breaches that open internet networks pose. Today, the numerous online tools for secured connection have rapidly raised people’s interest in remote working which allowed IT professionals to easily telecommute… Continue reading 8 Best Job Board Plugins For WordPress
How fast is your site and is there a way to control the response time for the clients?
It is known that response time of a web server has a great role in indexing of the hosted sites in search engines. The slower is a web site, the lower is its rate among the competitors. Nobody is going to like such consequences: site is displayed on the bottom of the search, less clients… Continue reading How fast is your site and is there a way to control the response time for the clients?
5 Key Areas to Help Manage Your Design and Content Creation Team
Even more radical than funny cat videos and memes in GIF form, the rise of the Internet has really empowered companies of all sizes to work with remote teams all around the world. This has dramatically impacted how modern business is being conducted because you could have team members everywhere from Sacramento to Sri Lanka. In addition… Continue reading 5 Key Areas to Help Manage Your Design and Content Creation Team
Form is Functional: Why Design is More Than Gold Plating
When budgets are tight in the software world and companies want to save money, form is usually the first to go. In these situations, the design tends to be considered ‘gold plating’ and not a necessity. It’s thought to only make the product ‘look nice’. This assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. Form has… Continue reading Form is Functional: Why Design is More Than Gold Plating
25 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers
Fresh free fonts, script fonts, handwritten fonts and typefaces for graphic designers. These fonts are available for personal and commercial use. You can use these fonts as a logo, badge, insignia, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel, greeting card, and wedding invitation. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and fit for any web or graphic project. Take a… Continue reading 25 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers
A letter from Sol LeWitt about creative block, read by Benedict Cumberbatch
In 1960, pioneering American artists Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse met for the first time and instantly clicked, quickly forming a strong, deep bond that would last for ten years and result in countless inspirational discussions and rich exchanges of ideas. In the video below, Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter sent from Sol to Eva… Continue reading A letter from Sol LeWitt about creative block, read by Benedict Cumberbatch