Improve Productivity by Properly Organizing Your Folders in Photoshop

Improve Productivity by Properly Organizing Your Folders in 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…

Custom Web Design Is the Way of the Future, Not a Relic of the Past

Custom Web Design Is the Way of the Future, Not a Relic of the Past

Websites are critical for businesses to succeed, so web design is more important than ever. However, the advent of hundreds of design platforms and web builders has sparked a debate…

A Quick Look into Black & White Typography

A Quick Look into Black & White Typography

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…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 3

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 3

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) well be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward*’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Just in…

The Design Principles of Simplicity

The Design Principles of Simplicity

We live surrounded by millennials that are growing up with extensive access to mobile devices and laptops. It is a common thought that millennials are not brand loyal. Nonsense! In…

Common CSS Errors Made by Beginners

Common CSS Errors Made by Beginners

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With so many new web designers and committing themselves to creating standards-valid website with deep stylesheet formatting, a few patterns have emerged in terms of common errors. Whether it’s the…

How Building an App with My Friend Is Changing My Life

How Building an App with My Friend Is Changing My Life

I used to be a happy man five months ago. Five months ago, I watched TV shows and had a few beers on Fridays. Five months ago, I didn’t even…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 2

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 2

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) well be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward*’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. If you…

The Next Step in the Evolution of Responsive Web Design: Responsivity Analysis

The Next Step in the Evolution of Responsive Web Design: Responsivity Analysis

Beyond any question, responsive web design (RWD) has become the standard for anybody who wants to make a strong presence on the internet. With the passage of time, rules, best…

Concepts & Design Trends for Modern eCommerce Web Design

Concepts & Design Trends for Modern eCommerce Web Design

eCommerce websites are especially unique in that designers must focus on product showcases within the layout. User interfaces are not much more complex, but they do require lots of additional…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch

Designing an iOS App in Sketch

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) we’ll be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Before we…

Does Your Portfolio Give Clients What They (Really) Want?

Does Your Portfolio Give Clients What They (Really) Want?

Hands up… Who loves their portfolio? If you’re like most designers, your arm is high in the air. After all, your portfolio represents your best work — and it probably…

10 Reasons Why Web Projects Fail

10 Reasons Why Web Projects Fail

Nowadays every project uses some sort of CMS. Instead of painting a canvas in the old days of HTML, the requirement is to build software applications that need to follow…

A Web Design History Lesson: 20 Years in Web Design

A Web Design History Lesson: 20 Years in Web Design

It seems almost crazy. I began my journey as a web designer in 1996, working for my local newspaper. If my math is right, then I’m just about to enter…

30+ Amazing Free Tumblr Themes

30+ Amazing Free Tumblr Themes

Twitter is the number 1 in the war of the microblogging apps, does it deserve its place there? Maybe. What about the others? Do you remember Tumblr?

Tips on Writing a Services Page that Sells

Tips on Writing a Services Page that Sells

Your Services page can be just… well, a list of services. Or it can help you reassure buyers who are close to hiring you to do their website – becoming…

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

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

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…

20 Highly Creative Contact Form Designs for Inspiration

20 Highly Creative Contact Form Designs for Inspiration