Is Minimal Design the Best Strategy for Your Site?

Is Minimal Design the Best Strategy for Your Site?

One of the buzzwords of modern marketing or design work is “understanding your customers.” Before you jump on board with a trend or design style, it’s good to research how…

Consistency Please! Style Guides in Sketch

Consistency Please! Style Guides in Sketch

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

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…

9 Useful Services to Get Your Web Designs Coded

9 Useful Services to Get Your Web Designs Coded

While there is no shortage of web design conversion services that are capable of doing good work at competitive prices, an attempt to zero in on the very best of…

Popular High Definition Web Design Tactics for 2016

Popular High Definition Web Design Tactics for 2016

Sure, there’s some time left before high definition becomes universal, but looking at the statistics, it’s not that far off. As HD displays grow more affordable, so too does the…

15 Free Themes & Templates for Creating eCommerce Stores

15 Free Themes & Templates for Creating eCommerce Stores

The popularity of electronic commerce is growing at a breakneck pace due to the enormous potential of web technologies. If you open a brick-and-mortar store, you will have to limit…

What Stage is Your Freelance Career at?

What Stage is Your Freelance Career at?

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…

The Seven Best Strategies For Using Photos in Web Interfaces

The Seven Best Strategies For Using Photos in Web Interfaces

A memorable photograph on a website can single-handedly shape a brand’s entire identity, As sight-based creatures, we process visual data much better than any other input method (a lot better,…

Tools, Tips and Tricks for a Blazing Fast Website

Tools, Tips and Tricks for a Blazing Fast Website

Who does not want a fast website? After all, most Internet users are an impatient lot. If your website does not load at a satisfactory rate, you will end up…

Exploring the Latest Trends in Web Typography

Exploring the Latest Trends in Web Typography

In the early days of the web, typography tended to be an afterthought. Come to think it, how could it have been anything more? There were just a few standard…

How to Create an Interactive US Map Using jQuery & FusionCharts

How to Create an Interactive US Map Using jQuery & FusionCharts

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

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…

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

A lot of time and energy is required to build mobile iOS/Android apps. Aside from the coding and UI design you need to plan functionality ahead of time. This way…

Is Drupal Good for Design?

Is Drupal Good for 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…

10 Key Ways to Secure a Typical WordPress Installation

10 Key Ways to Secure a Typical WordPress Installation

In over a decade, WordPress has evolved from a fledgling content management system to the most-used solution online. This notoriety, generally speaking, is good for the entire community and has…

The 5 Most Overused Design Elements You Should Retire

The 5 Most Overused Design Elements You Should Retire

Everybody has their design pet peeves. Some of them are pretty universal. We have all cringed when opening the website of an otherwise respectable company only to find that the…

What Direct Response Marketers Can Teach You About Designing Pages That Sell

What Direct Response Marketers Can Teach You About Designing Pages That Sell

Direct mail marketers – and increasingly, designers – live and die by results. If the design is beautiful, but doesn’t sell – it’s scrapped. If the copy’s clever, but doesn’t…

Sketch.app & Craft: A Match Made in Real Data Heaven

Sketch.app & Craft: A Match Made in Real Data Heaven