Top 7 Laws Of UX Design, Explained With Simple Graphics
Dubai-based UI/UX designer Alejandro Ausejo has compiled a useful series of design tips titled "7 laws of UX design" based on several studies on human behavior and psychology by respectful scientists. These include: • Von Restorff Effect - Hedwig von Restorff • Hick’s Law - William Edmund Hick and Ray Hyman • Fitt’s Law - Paul Fitts • Zeigarnik … View Post ▸
37 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project
Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? The Colour Lab is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes and gradients. The colors are derived from beautiful images of nature, architecture, and urban landscapes. If you design something using Colour Lab's palettes, you can get featured on … View Post ▸
Clever Ads By KFC Show How Hot & Spicy Their Chicken Is
Ogilvy Hong Kong won gold at the Cannes Lions and a wood pencil at D&AD for their KFC "Hot & Spicy" print and outdoor ads last year. Now, the agency has followed up their award-winning campaign with a new series of ads that focus on popular TV shows like Game of Thrones. The integrated campaign that includes print, OOH, and social media, features … View Post ▸
Learn In One Minute How To Add Dramatic Colors To Images In Photoshop
Did you know that you can use a solid color with special blend modes to add drama and vibrance to your images in Photoshop? These blend modes include Color Burn, Linear Burn, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge (Add), Vivid Light, Linear Light, Hard Mix, and Difference. In this one-minute tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you how … View Post ▸
37 Beautiful Color Gradients For Your Next Design Project
Vibrant colors and vivid gradients are one of the key trends in UI, web, and graphic design nowadays. Spain-based designer Yaroslav Iakovlev from Zeka Design has come up with a series of gradient color combinations that you can use in your next project. The hex codes of each color are mentioned on the palettes. Check them out below and tell us your … View Post ▸
8 Useful Tips For Better UI Design
The success of an app or website depends significantly upon its UI/UX design. A recent study by Microsoft found that the average human attention span is down to 8 seconds, compared to 12 seconds in the year 2000. Users now have a lower tolerance for bad UI than ever before. If they can't find what they're looking for quickly enough, they will go … View Post ▸
8 Important Rules For Perfect Icon Design
Icons are an essential element of UI design. They act as a visual aid for users to interact with the interface, identify options, and make selections. But as simple as they look, there are certain rules you should follow to ensure a seamless user experience. Albanian UI/UX designer Dorjan Vulaj has come up with a handy list of icon design rules inspired … View Post ▸
24 Beautiful Color Combinations For Your Next Logo Design
Previously, we showed you how to choose the right colors for your brand, and also featured the most popular brand colors in each industry. Now, Lindsay Kramer from 99 designs has come up with a handy list of color combinations you can try for your next logo design, depending upon the client brief and the industry the brand belongs to. We've also … View Post ▸
8 Must-Have Chrome Extensions For Designers
Chrome has a 63.69% market share and most designers prefer the Google-powered browser for its speed, UI, and the ability to add useful extensions. Albanian UI/UX designer Dorjan Vulaj has come up with a handy list of Chrome extensions that can help you find design inspiration, identify fonts and colors from web pages, view CSS, take full page screenshots, … View Post ▸
13 Useful Tips For Better Typography
"Typography is an art. Good typography is art." - Paul Rand. Good typography is what separates the pros from the rookies. It's not just about picking the right font and selecting the right size. It's about attention to details. It's about knowing how much to kern, lead, track, and justify. It's about knowing when to use uppercase and lowercase, and what … View Post ▸
8 Important Rules For Perfect Button Design
Buttons are an omnipresent element of UI design. They allow users to interact with the interface, select options, and make choices. But as simple as they look, there are certain rules you should follow to ensure a seamless user experience. Albanian UI/UX designer Dorjan Vulaj has come up with a handy list of button design rules inspired from the most used … View Post ▸
8 Important Color Rules For UI Design
Color is one of the most important elements of UI design. Most rookie designers find an elegant palette online and incorporate the colors into their design, without considering branding, functionality, and accessibility issues like color blindness. London-based product designer Zander Whitehurst has come up with a handy list of color rules every UI … View Post ▸
How To Create A ‘Secret’ Image In Photoshop That Can Only Be Opened With A Special Code
Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect has come up with an interesting tutorial that shows you how to create and send 'secret' images that can only be viewed by the intended recipient, using Photoshop. The image will be a blank PNG, unless the recipient opens it in Photoshop and follows the necessary steps. If you want a higher level of … View Post ▸
29 Honest Logos Of Famous Companies
Swedish graphic designer and filmmaker Viktor Hertz has come up with a new series of Honest Logos of famous companies that reveal what they're really all about. Viktor started this project in 2011, and we had previously published his initial set of logos here. Check out the new series below and tell us your favourites in the comments. … View Post ▸
MIT Creates AI That Can Cut-Out Any Object In An Image And Replace Backgrounds With Ease
MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has come up with a technology called "Semantic Soft Segmentation" that uses AI to automatically separate objects in an image. It allows for easy image editing such as changing the background or compositing the figure into an entirely new scene. The process starts with a neural network … View Post ▸
These Are The Overhead Views Of Famous Logos, How Many Can You Guess?
Audio branding and motion design agency Why Do Birds has come up with an interesting quiz that features bird’s-eye-view images of famous logos, rendered in 3D. You have to guess which brands they belong to. You see these logos everyday, but it's tricky to recognize them from this unusual overhead perspective. As designers, we thought it'll be a cakewalk … View Post ▸
Agency Creates Avengers-Inspired Superhero Logos For Agency Job Titles
Paris-based creative agency We Are Social has come up with a cool Instagram campaign that celebrates the talent, passion, and superpowers that go into some of advertising's most important jobs. The campaign features Avengers-inspired superhero logos for several agency job titles such as art director, copywriter, designer, producer, account manager, … View Post ▸
21 Beautiful Negative Space Logos
In art, negative space is the background space (or white space) around and between the subject of an image. For example, in a picture of a black vase against a white wall, the vase is the positive space, and the white wall is the negative space. In design, negative space can be used to create hidden meaning logos and illustrations. In today's post, we … View Post ▸
Adobe Develops AI That Can Detect If Faces Were Manipulated In Photoshop
Researchers at Adobe and UC Berkeley have developed an AI method that can detect whether faces in photos were manipulated using Adobe Photoshop's Liquify Tool. The research team trained a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on thousands of portrait images on which Face Aware Liquify was applied using a Photoshop script. In a series of subsequent … View Post ▸
This Guy Did A Horrible Photoshop Of A Flat Tyre To Skip Work, People Say He Should Be Promoted To CEO
We've all thought of creative ways to take a day off, but this guy takes the cake. In a tweet that went viral with over 150,000 likes and 28,000 retweets, Twitter user @PapaBoardslide revealed that he once Photoshopped a flat tyre on to his car just to get out of work. He also described it as the "proudest moment" of his life. What makes it funnier is … View Post ▸
Less Than 1% Of People Got A Perfect Score On This Color Test, What About You?
UK-based vision care company Lenstore has come up with a tricky little quiz that tests your ability to perceive color and distinguish shades. The test comprises of 10 multiple-choice questions that ask you to pick the lightest, darkest, or identical colors, and complete hue orders. Out of several thousand participants, only 1% were able to answer all … View Post ▸
32 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers
Stuck in the middle of tough project with a stiff deadline? Is your client being an unreasonable prick? Has your boss put the entire workload on you? If yes, then now is the time to indulge in some meme-therapy and brighten up your day. Memes have been scientifically proven to reduce work-related burnout by upto 57%. In a study of 480 designers and … View Post ▸
11 Great Font Combinations For Your Next Design Project
One of the best ways to tell an amateur designer from a seasoned professional is by their font pairings. A good designer knows which fonts complement each other, and how to strike typographical balance by using contrast and hierarchy. Here's a list of 10 golden rules of typography that'll help you get it right. If you're looking for examples of good font … View Post ▸
Samsung’s Incredible New AI Technology Can Create A Video Of You From A Single Photo
Researchers at the Samsung Artificial Intelligence Center (SAIC) in Moscow have developed an AI system that can turn a single photograph or portrait into a talking head model. The neural network first undergoes meta learning on a huge data set of videos. Once the system is able to detect various landmarks on the face (like eyes, nose, mouth, etc.), it is … View Post ▸
Beautiful Typographic Alphabet Series Of Countries And Their Iconic Landmarks
Dubai-based graphic designer Yuhab Ismail has come up with an interesting project titled “LETTRAVEL” that mixes typography and photography to showcase some of the world’s most beautiful countries and their iconic landmarks. Each letter represents the initial of a country and includes images of its famous monument or landscape clip-masked within the … View Post ▸
How To Overcome Common Challenges Of Designers
To help minimize the stress and maximize the fun! Although design can be a fun job with plenty of artistic freedom and rewarding interactions with clients, like all jobs, it comes with its headaches. In the digital age, almost all designing is done with computers — which makes the job easier, faster, and more efficient most of the time — but if you’re … View Post ▸
Free And Cheaper Options To Photoshop, Illustrator, And Other Adobe Creative Software
Freelance illustrator, artist, and author Michael Sexton has compiled a list of free and cheaper (single purchase) alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate, Lightroom, Dreamweaver, After Effects, and Audition. Michael created the list after Adobe's recent price hike of its photography plan from $9.99 to $19.99. After an outcry from … View Post ▸
How To Create Facebook 3D Photos In Photoshop
If you have an iPhone, you can upload an image taken with Portrait mode and Facebook will convert it to a 3D photo. But what if you don't have an iPhone or Portrait mode? What if you want to create a 3D photo out of an old photo or a composite image? In that case, you can turn any image into a Facebook 3D photo by creating depth maps in … View Post ▸
32 Beautiful Color Palettes With Their Corresponding Gradient Palettes
Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Mr.Pugo is a handy Instagram account that shares beautiful color palettes (with hex codes) and also their corresponding gradient palettes. We’ve shortlisted some of the best ones in terms of aesthetic appeal, usability, and current design trends. Check them out below and tell us your favourites … View Post ▸
21 Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Next Design Project
As a designer, no matter how many fonts you have on your system, you always want more. You might use just a fraction of those fonts on a regular basis, but you need to have a gorgeous collection in your repository at all times. And what's the one thing designers love more than a beautiful font? A beautiful font that's available for FREE! Today's post is a … View Post ▸
Jennifer Lopez’s Iconic Green Dress Inspired Google To Come Up With Image Search
Jennifer Lopez's green Versace dress at the 2000 Grammy Awards was one of the most iconic dresses in fashion history. It made Versace a household name, and led to Lopez becoming one of the most glamorous icons of the red carpet. After the event, images of Lopez in the green dress were downloaded 642,917 times in just 24 hours from the Grammy website. The … View Post ▸
What Type Of Creative Personality Do You Have? Take This Quiz By Adobe And Find Out
Adobe Create Magazine has come up with an interesting new quiz titled Creative Types that tells you what kind of a creative personality you have. The test uses psychological research to asses your basic habits, and helps you better understand who you are as a creative. The results will also tell you how to maximize your natural gifts, and what kind of … View Post ▸
What Is The Golden Ratio, And How To Use It In Graphic Design
The Golden Ratio, also known as the Golden Section or Divine Proportion, is a mathematical ratio of 1:1.618 based on the Fibonacci sequence. It can be found in nature (flower petals, seeds, shells), in food (artichokes, broccoli, pineapple), and in the human anatomy. The Golden Ratio can also be found in art (Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man) and … View Post ▸
3 Designer Friends Created An Alphabet Series Using Logos They’ve Designed Over The Years
Three graphic designers, colleagues, and friends, Alex Tass, Dalius Stuoka, and Deividas Bielskis decided to put together an A-Z alphabet series made from logo symbols, lettermarks, and monograms they've created over the years. All three designers have been in the industry for over 10 years, and have worked with a variety of clients, brands, and … View Post ▸
31 Beautiful Gradient Logos For Design Inspiration
When Apple launched iOS 7 in 2014, it not only changed the face of UI design, but also branding, graphic and logo design. Skeuomorphic interfaces and glossy app icons were out. Flat design, vibrant colors and gradients were in. In 2016, when Instagram came up with a bright new look and multicolored logo, a vast majority of its users hated the vivid gradients … View Post ▸
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