Blogger Helga Moreno has come up with a handy infographic that compares the time-tested Adobe Photoshop with the relatively new Sketch app, on the basis of their usability for web design and development. The infographic lists the key features of both apps and compares them on relevant parameters. … [Read more...]
Legendary Designer Brilliantly Explains How To Charge Clients For Logos And Other Design Services
Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer and the visionary founder of Blind—a respected brand strategy and design consultancy based in Santa Monica. With a wealth of experience in the design industry, Chris also leads The Futur, an online platform dedicated to empowering creative professionals with the business skills they need to succeed. In this engaging video, Chris … [Read more...]
30 Beautiful Color Gradients For Your Next Design Project
Looking for cool background gradients for your UI? Software and design company Itmeo has created a useful online tool called WebGradients – a free collection of 180 linear gradients that you can use as content backdrops in any part of your website. You can download a .PNG version of each gradient and copy their CSS3 cross-browser codes. Sketch and Photoshop packs are … [Read more...]
Who Legally Owns A Website Once It’s Designed?
"I paid a professional web designer to create my site, of course I own it!" - this is probably the belief that almost every website client holds. It makes perfect sense - you paid someone to develop a website for you. Why then would you not own what you paid for? … [Read more...]
Dogs Explain What Different HTTP Status Codes Mean
Every time you visit a website, your browser asks for a page and the server answers with a quick code — like 200 OK when all’s well, or 404 Not Found when the page isn’t there. These are called HTTP status codes: short, three‑digit messages that say what happened. To make this easier to understand, San Francisco‑based software programmer Mike Lee created HTTP Status Dogs, a … [Read more...]
What Is SSL? Why Every Website Needs SSL Encryption for Security, Trust, and SEO
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a core web security technology that encrypts the connection between a website and its visitors. This encryption ensures that sensitive data — such as login credentials, payment details, and personal information — cannot be intercepted, altered, or misused by hackers. … [Read more...]
IKEA Renamed Its Products After Common Google Searches About Relationship Problems
IKEA's products have always been inspired by how people live in the real world. They wanted to remind people that their products can solve or improve a variety of everyday problems. These days, most of us turn to the internet for answers when problems arise. To prove that IKEA can be a part of the solution, Swedish agency Åkestam Holst came up with a campaign titled Retail … [Read more...]
Web Design Psychology: How To Create A Site That Influences People
"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent." - Joe Sparano. An effective website is one that builds trust with its user and influences him/her to take your preferred course of action. From layout and typeface to colors and CTAs, each element plays an important role in engaging users and creating profitable conversions. … [Read more...]
10 Great Google Font Combinations For Your Next Design Project
Designers often spend a lot of time deciding which typefaces to pair up and most sites just give one-sentence examples that don't offer a real preview of what the text will look like. To make life easier for everyone, the team at Milo Themes has created a set of mock-ups that show different Google Font combinations for headline and body copy. They've used filler text from … [Read more...]
5 Things Every Designer Should Know When Dealing With Clients
If you're making changes to a project in front of a client, you're doing it wrong. You might think you're saving time, but you end up making the design process look simpler than it actually is. Here's a handy infographic by Basekit and Josuedric that shares five such important tips you should keep in mind when dealing with design clients. … [Read more...]
Tips To Make Your Website User-Friendly For People With Disabilities
A website should be user-friendly for everyone, including those with poor vision, dyslexia, autism or physical disabilities. UK-based interaction designer Karwai Pun has created a set of six infographics that highlight the dos and don'ts of designing for accessibility. … [Read more...]
The 100 Best Web Design Tools And Resources
As a designer, it's imperative that you know your tools like an artist knows their paintbrushes. But with so many new apps and resources around, which ones should you bookmark? … [Read more...]
15 Great Google Font Combinations For Your Next Design Project
Designers often spend a lot of time deciding which typefaces to pair up and most sites just give one-sentence examples that don't offer a real preview of what the text will look like. To make life easier for everyone, the team at Milo Themes has created a set of mock-ups that show different Google Font combinations for headline and body copy. They've used filler text from … [Read more...]
20 Funny Comic Strips That Designers Will Love
Award-winning cartoonist Jerry King draws a weekly comic series for Web Designer Depot that focuses on the funny situations designers and developers face in their daily lives. Check out a few good ones below. … [Read more...]
After Working With Difficult Clients, This Designer Turned Their Comments Into Funny Posters
In the design business, if you put a nickel in a jar every time a client says something stupid, you'll have a jar full of nickels by the end of the week. After receiving his fair share of nonsensical client feedback over the years, Jonathan Quintin, founder and creative director of UK agency Studio–JQ, decided to collate a few of them into a poster series titled "The Client … [Read more...]
Funny Posters Dedicated To Our Friendship With Our Favourite Software
Good friends know each other inside out and make life easier for each other. With Friendship Day around the corner, Mumbai-based digital agency Pixel Fox Studios thought of paying tribute to the work buddy we all have - software. They've created a series of posters dedicated to the friendship between different types of professionals and their most used softwares. What's also … [Read more...]
How To Structure URLs To Make Your Web Pages Rank Higher
Short and clean URLs don't just improve usability and user experience but they also help your pages rank higher in search results. Keep your URLs to under 60 characters, match them to their page titles and avoid keyword repetition and stop words like 'the', 'and', 'but', 'of', etc. FME Modules has created a handy infographic that offers URL structuring tips and suggestions to … [Read more...]
A Closer Look At Web Designers And Their Funny Habits
We web designers are a peculiar species. We like to do things with <style>. We refuse to eat at restaurants where the <table> layout sucks. We search for the Ctrl/Cmd Z button every time we spill our coffee. Our relationship with developers is similar to Donald Trump's relationship with immigrants. We like to keep 'other' humans at a distance, unless they know the … [Read more...]
32 Creative Loading Animations That Are Worth The Wait
47% of users expect a webpage or an app to load in 2 seconds or less. After 4 seconds, the average user starts getting frustrated and after 8 seconds, they leave. In fact, a one second delay in your site speed can result in a 7% reduction in customer conversions. Loading time is crucial to the success of your site, app or program and if you can keep the user engaged for … [Read more...]
5 Color Choices You Must Avoid When Designing For The Web
When it comes to web design, colors play a vital role in increasing conversions, reducing bounce rate and ensuring a smooth user experience. We often see websites compromising on readability by using light-colored text on light backgrounds. Also, it's never ok to use red and green in excess, even if you're making a Christmas-themed website. … [Read more...]
What Different Colors Mean And How To Use Them
Did you know that blue is used for corporate and business designs because it represents dependability, trustworthiness and security? Orange is used to give a friendly impression without being overpowering. Darker shades of purple characterize wealth and luxury. TechKing has come up with a handy infographic that covers the psychology of different colors, their appropriate … [Read more...]
8 Dos and Don’ts Of Creating Pixel Icons In Illustrator
Chennai-based UI/UX Designer M.A. Kather has created an eight-point visual guide that covers some basic dos and don’ts of creating pixel icons in Adobe Illustrator. Kather’s visual comparison of Photoshop vs Illustrator was previously featured on our site. This new series offers a few tips and tricks that’ll come in handy for design students, beginners and professionals alike. … [Read more...]
The Amazing Ways Color Can Alter Your Mind (Infographic)
Whether you're a painter, a graphic designer, or just doing up your home, it's essential to know the significance of various colors and the effect they have on our mind and moods. Here's an interesting infographic by Vanessa Arbuthnott Fabrics that shows us what different colors represent, their effects, usability and more. … [Read more...]
12 CSS Puns On Donald Trump
Previously, we featured 34 CSS puns that made everyone from designers to non-designers chuckle. To add to that series, here's an epic list of Donald Trump CSS puns by Pittsburgh-based web designer Brad Frost. … [Read more...]
15 Graphic Design Terms That Most Designers Get Wrong
It's cool to use design jargons with clients and co-workers but not if you're getting them wrong. Here's a brilliant infographic by Creative Market that helps you remember the differences between 15 common design terms like font and typeface, opacity and fill, px and em, trim and crop, etc. … [Read more...]
8 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project
Milan-based creative director Duminda Perera has created a series of minimalist color palette posters that are both handy and beautiful. Not only do they give you color ideas (with hex codes) for your next project, you can use these posters to decorate your studio, office or home. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
45 Awesome Logo Animations
They're smooth, they're slick, they're cool and they're quick. Check out these 45 brilliant logo animations that pop right off the screen. … [Read more...]
10 Things That Make Every Designer Panic
With Halloween around the corner, Creative Market has created a series of funny posters titled 'Designer Fears'. From software bugs to irrational clients, the list covers common phobias that give sleepless nights to every designer. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
36 Brilliant User Interface Animations
Animated interface elements reveal the process and functionality of a UI much better than static text. They enhance user experience and help guide user flow. Like any other element of good design, UI animations should have a purpose. They should be functional without being overly flashy. … [Read more...]
Designers Are Sharing Their Everyday Problems On Twitter, Here Are The Funniest Ones
Designers across the globe are using the hashtag #DesignerProblems to share their funny everyday problems, quirks and experiences on Twitter. From 'slow loading time' and client feedback to typography and OCD, the design Twitterati is letting off steam big time. Here are a few of the best ones. … [Read more...]
45 Cool T-Shirts For Designers And Creatives
Show some love to a designer today by gifting him or her one of these cool t-shirts for a job well done. Even better, gift these before the project starts and watch them burn midnight oil willingly and turn your logo/website/ad/brochure into the next Mona Lisa. … [Read more...]
19 Inspiring Quotes Every Designer Will Relate To
There are good days and there are days when you just can't get those creative juices flowing. Wether you're a rookie or a seasoned professional, every designer needs a little inspiration from time to time. Today's post features 18 inspiring quotes that are meant to get you back into the driver's seat, incase you're facing designer's block. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
11 Fonts That Designers Love To Hate
Every design project is unique and requires a typeface that matches the visual aesthetics and compliments the content. However, there are some typefaces that designers try to steer clear of, because they find them ugly, outdated or overused. Today's post showcases a cool series of posters by Creative Market titled "Fonts designers love to hate". Bear in mind that some of … [Read more...]
20 Lies Designers Tell Their Clients
Have you ever given a client two "options" of the same design just because you weren't able to decide which font was better? Have you ever force-fitted the golden ratio on to a logo just to impress the client? If yes, then know this - you are not alone. We've all done the same at some point or the other. Creative Market has compiled a list of funny lies that designers often … [Read more...]
How Humans React To Different Colors
Did you know that green is used for night vision goggles because the human eye is most sensitive to, and able to recognise most shades of that color? Pink makes us crave sugar. Red increases enthusiasm. People are often more productive in rooms painted blue. Grey represents non-involvement, giving it a formal authority. Ript Apparel has created a comprehensive infographic … [Read more...]
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