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Consistency Please! Style Guides in Sketch

Consistency Please! Style Guides in Sketch

UI Design

Product design is a team sport. The best teams tend to have lots of moving parts: designers and developers and managers and researchers all working in concert on a single,…

Exploration of Single Page Navigation Systems

Exploration of Single Page Navigation Systems

Inspiration / UX Design

The navigation of most books is linear. You start at the beginning and flip pages until you reach the end. Perhaps reference books are slightly different, and (for those born…

What Stage is Your Freelance Career at?

What Stage is Your Freelance Career at?

Freelance Design

Some freelancers tend to effortlessly attract clients and business opportunities. They don’t have to push sales, clients seem to call incessantly and they hardly have any time to fit all…

How to Create an Interactive US Map Using jQuery & FusionCharts

How to Create an Interactive US Map Using jQuery & FusionCharts

Web Design

jQuery is no doubt one of the most popular JavaScript libraries. According to Libscore, around 70% of the top one million websites use jQuery. So there is a good chance…

How to Create Your First JavaScript Chart

How to Create Your First JavaScript Chart

Web Design

In one form or the other, data visualization seems to come up quite often in the work life of a designer or a front-end developer. Be it an analytics dashboard…

Is Drupal Good for Design?

Is Drupal Good for Design?

Web Design

Drupal has a reputation for being strong in functionality and having a strong community, but weak when it comes to design. In deciding which cms to use, it is important…

Improve Productivity by Properly Organizing Your Folders in Photoshop

Improve Productivity by Properly Organizing Your Folders in Photoshop

Photoshop

In the digital world, organising files is an essential part of efficiency. This practice even goes down to the smallest details, like organising every Photoshop layer and each line of…

A Quick Look into Black & White Typography

A Quick Look into Black & White Typography

Inspiration

Black-and-white typography was the first featured in printed books. It’s been around since ancient times, and everybody has seen some example of it first hand at some point. Why, especially…

Worried About Typography? Check Out This Simple Five-Step Guide!

Worried About Typography? Check Out This Simple Five-Step Guide!

UI Design

Whenever I browse a website or read a book, the first thing I notice is the font. If the font or typography is not proper, I’m hardly motivated enough to…

How Flat Design Increases Conversion Rates

How Flat Design Increases Conversion Rates

UX Design

There are many arguments for and against flat design, so in this article I wanted to take a quick look at how flat design can actually affect your bottom line….

Designing for Drupal

Designing for Drupal

Web Design

In a perfect world, it wouldn’t matter to a designer what content management system a site uses. But for most of us, projects are actually a combination of design and…

Guide to HTML5’s Media Tags – Audio and Video

Guide to HTML5’s Media Tags – Audio and Video

Web Design
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