39 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project

Looking for color schemes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Ocean.ui is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes of each color. They also share font combinations, patterns, and UI elements made using their color palettes. We’ve shortlisted some of the best palettes on the Ocean.ui page in terms of aesthetic appeal, usability, … [Read more...]

5 Tips To Design Call-To-Action Buttons That Get Clicks

A call-to-action or CTA button is an interactive UI element that guides users to take certain actions on a website or application. For example: Sign Up, Book Now, Buy Now, Subscribe, etc. The objective of a CTA button is goal conversation for your website or application. It is the intended action you want the user to take, like buying your product, making a booking, signing … [Read more...]

Colors Used By Famous Brands (With Their Codes)

BrandColors.net is the largest collection of official colors of popular brands. It was created by Design Bombs to serve as a useful reference for brand color codes that are needed most often. The site features over 600 brands with 1600 colors, and the collection is ever-growing. You can search by brand name or color code. We've shortlisted some of the most well-known … [Read more...]

8 Beautiful Illustration Projects For Design Inspiration

Custom illustrations are one of the key design trends in graphic, print, and packaging design nowadays. We've shortlisted some of the most gorgeous illustration projects of the year across different art styles. Check them out below and tell us your favourites in the comments. … [Read more...]

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 Effect - Bluma Wulfovna … [Read more...]

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 their page as well. … [Read more...]

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 to use a solid color … [Read more...]

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 favourites in the … [Read more...]

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 elsewhere. Albanian UI/UX … [Read more...]

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 generated palettes from … [Read more...]

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, generate palettes, … [Read more...]

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 design systems at … [Read more...]

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 designer should know. He … [Read more...]

Top 11 Graphic Design Trends For 2019

Previously, we featured the top trends in logo design, web design, colors, and images for 2019. Today, we focus on the emerging trends in graphic design with the help of this handy infographic by Deposit Photos. The infographic features the top 11 graphic design trends to look out for in 2019, with examples. These include 3D design, fluid shapes, retro visuals, neon colors, … [Read more...]

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 10 questions … [Read more...]

Top 15 Logo Design Trends For 2019

Previously, we featured the top trends in graphic design, web design, colors, and images for 2019. Today, we focus on the top logo design trends with the help of this excellent report compiled by Logo Lounge. Gradient breaks, contour stripes, spot drag, quarters, and highlights, are some of the key trends this year. Logo Lounge has referenced actual brand marks and included … [Read more...]

Top Design Trends For 2019

Graphic designers Loredana Papp-Dinea and Mihai Baldean from Milo Themes have compiled a comprehensive and extensive list of 2019 trends in graphic design, UI/UX design, typography, branding/logo design, motion graphics, and packaging design. They've listed visual examples of each trend and its subcategories, using contemporary work created by leading designers and … [Read more...]

Top 8 Logo Design Trends For 2019, Explained With Simple Graphics

Previously we featured the top 2019 trends in graphic design, web design, colors, and images. In today's post, we focus on the top trends in logo design. One of the most interesting trends we've seen recently is responsive logos - logos that adapt to the device they're being viewed on. For example, imagine a responsive Nike logo. On a desktop website, the complete logo is … [Read more...]

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 in the … [Read more...]

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 agencies. For this project, … [Read more...]

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 and demanded the … [Read more...]

43 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project

Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Awsmcolor is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes of each color. At the end of every month, they feature the top nine palettes for that month. If you create something exceptional using their palettes, you can get featured on their page as well. We've shortlisted … [Read more...]

Top 12 Graphic Design Trends For 2019

Previously, we featured the top trends in logo design, web design, colors, and images for 2019. In today’s post, we focus on the biggest graphic design trends with the help of this handy video by GraphicMama. 2019 is all about vivid colors, bold typography, open compositions, and alternative art. Expect to see more use of three-dimensional geometric shapes, dreamy color … [Read more...]

41 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project

Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Colours.cafe is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes of each color. They also hold design challenges in which users have to use a specific palette to create illustrations and calligraphy. The best works are then featured on their page. We've shortlisted some of … [Read more...]

Veteran Artist Brilliantly Explains The Use Of Color In Movie Poster Designs

James Verdesoto is an artist and creative director who has designed iconic posters for movies such as Pulp Fiction, Ocean's Eleven, Training Day, Girl, Interrupted, and more. In this video for Vanity Fair, Verdesoto explains the role of color psychology and trends in movie poster design. He discusses the use of certain colors and palettes in specific genres, with relevant … [Read more...]

Shutterstock’s Top Creative Trends For 2019

Shutterstock has released their 2019 Creative Trends Report, based on billions of image, video, and music searches and downloads from more than 1.9 million creatives. The report comprises of three sections - major trends, rising trends, and global trends in 20 countries around the world. The major trends include Zine Culture, 80s Opulence, and Yesterday's Tomorrow. The … [Read more...]

How To Copy Colors From An Image And Apply Them On Another Image In Photoshop

Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect has come up with a brilliant tutorial that shows you how to extract colors from an image, and replicate them on any other image. Learn how to generate a color palette from an image, and apply that palette to another image using curves and gradient maps. Unmesh shares some useful tips and techniques to effectively match the … [Read more...]

Beautiful Color Palettes Of Countries From Around The World

Luxury travel specialists Sovereign have come up with a series of color palettes of 18 popular destinations from across the globe. The objective was to highlight the range of unique colorscapes that can be seen around the world. Each palette consists of 20 colors that were derived from iconic locations in that country. The palettes are a reflection of their culture, … [Read more...]

How Good Is Your Eye For UI Design Details? Take This Quiz And Find Out

Seattle-based UX designer Alex Kotliarskyi has come up with an interesting visual quiz that tests your UI knowledge and attention to details. Titled Can't Unsee, the web-based game presents two choices of iOS interface designs, and asks you to pick which one is correct. You earn coins for every correct answer. The game is divided into three rounds (easy, medium, hard) of … [Read more...]

Top 13 Logo Design Trends For 2019

Previously, we featured the top trends in graphic design, color, and web design for 2019. In today’s post, we focus on the latest logo design trends with the help of this handy infographic by online logo maker Logaster. A major trend we’ve seen over the past few years is logo simplification - the removal of excessive details from the composition. Logo design seems to be … [Read more...]

300 Beautiful Color Gradients For All Your Design Needs

Vibrant colors and gradients are one of the major trends in graphic, web, and UI design nowadays. To make life easier for designers everywhere, Paris-based graphic designer Leo Simon has compiled a set of 300 beautiful gradients into a Photoshop gradient file (GRD), available for free. We've shortlisted some of our favourites from Leo's collection and shared them below with … [Read more...]

How To Turn White Into Any Color In Photoshop

You can change the color of any object in Photoshop by creating a hue/saturation adjustment layer, and using the sliders and the eyedropper tool (here's a one-minute tutorial on the same). However, when the object is white, a hue/saturation adjustment layer doesn't convert it realistically no matter how high you turn up the saturation. In this handy tutorial, Photoshop … [Read more...]

Top 15 Graphic Design Trends Of 2019

Trends are movements in design that have gained mass enough usage that they become recognizable as a trend. They might have started off slow and been coming on for a number of years before they gained enough momentum to be considered a trend. Very few things in design have never been done before so some of these trends feel like they're referential of earlier movements of … [Read more...]

What Logo Styles Do Consumers Trust Most?

SurveyMonkey and infographic maker Venngage surveyed over 1000 adults living in the U.S. on what logo styles they trusted the most. The respondents were shown a series of logos for imaginary companies in six different industries: Jewellery retail, education, financial services, law firm, news/media, and technology. Six variations of each logo were presented: Icon dominant, … [Read more...]

Top 10 Graphic Design Trends Of 2019

Previously, we featured the top web design and logo design trends for 2019. Today, we focus on emerging trends in graphic design with the help of this handy infographic by 99designs. The infographic features the top 10 graphic design trends to look out for in 2019, with relevant examples of each trend. These include 3D typography, asymmetrical layouts, evolved gradients and … [Read more...]