20 Addons, Extensions and Applications for Discussion Forums

20 Addons, Extensions and Applications for Discussion Forums

Discussion Forums are a great way of ensuring active participation from your website’s visitors. Of late, many established blogs and websites have been running forums wherein their users can interact…

50 Beautiful Mobile App Icons for Design Inspiration

50 Beautiful Mobile App Icons for Design Inspiration

In this showcase I have put together 70 full @2x mobile app icons. Each icon was designed and published on Dribbble with a direct link back to the source. I…

Enterprise Productivity Apps for Remote Teams

Enterprise Productivity Apps for Remote Teams

It’s an exciting time to be a designer. With almost unlimited connectivity, designers and firms can work together without needing to inhabit the same space. Many designers and web professionals…

Managing an Organized Freelance Work Schedule

Managing an Organized Freelance Work Schedule

It takes a lot of time and dedication to build a freelance career. The hours are long, work can be tedious, and often you need to multitask like crazy. But…

How Profile Photos Can Affect the User Experience

How Profile Photos Can Affect the User Experience

Social networks have grown into the norm in today’s sophisticated Internet. Modern web pages have become very personalized over the past decade including some user interface features. One such example…

30 Fantastic Examples of Fixed Navigation Menus in Web Design

30 Fantastic Examples of Fixed Navigation Menus in Web Design

Looking at the navigation bar can give you a snapshot idea of what a site is offering, as well as what it’s expecting in return. It’s an abbreviated definition, a…

Say Hello To WebRTC

Say Hello To WebRTC

In the world of real-time communications reliability and ease of use are two of the most important factors to building enriched applications that engage your audience. Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)…

Acquainting Yourself With the Specifics of the Printing Process

Acquainting Yourself With the Specifics of the Printing Process

For graphic designers in this day and age an increasing amount of the day’s workload is prepared for the digital medium. The move to a digital environment has elevated work…

The 8 Most Important Rules for Logo Design

The 8 Most Important Rules for Logo Design

There are 7 billion people on our planet, yet no two people are perfectly identical, so in actual fact there are several billion opinions about any given issue or topic….

Designing for the 3 Second Rule

Designing for the 3 Second Rule

3-5 seconds! Yes that’s all it takes to make a great first impression. I know this sounds like an atrociously low time frame to create an impression, but that’s the…

Creating a Good Design Brief for Your Mobile App

Creating a Good Design Brief for Your Mobile App

Understanding well what a client has in mind for his/her mobile app can be a slippery process. As a designer, you surely want to deliver to the best of your…

10 Useful Google Docs Templates for Web & Mobile App Designers

10 Useful Google Docs Templates for Web & Mobile App Designers

If I am honest, I don’t know how popular Google Docs is within the freelance community, but I have found that I have been using it a lot more recently….

Exploring Social Design Patterns For the Web

Exploring Social Design Patterns For the Web

Although many people are designing mobile products that are social in nature, few understand what that really means, how it works, or why it’s important. While social features are becoming…

Backbone vs. Knockout

Backbone vs. Knockout

If you are asking yourself, which Javascript framework should I use for my next application, then this is the article for you. When building for the Web, there is no…

The Importance of Navigation Design Patterns

The Importance of Navigation Design Patterns

In this article we discuss the importance of navigation design patterns using examples from some of the hottest websites and web apps. Once someone starts using your website or web…

4 Reasons Minimum Viable Products Fail

4 Reasons Minimum Viable Products Fail

It is common belief that roughly 80-90% of products fail. Although this figure defies logic, the myth persists. If over 80% of new products truly fail, does it make sense…

10 Massively Successful Minimum Viable Products

10 Massively Successful Minimum Viable Products

Today, lean startups and tech titans alike are increasingly using the minimum viable product (MVP) as a starting point for building successful software products. In the article 4 Reasons MVPs…

The Typographic Details Behind 10 Type-Driven Websites

The Typographic Details Behind 10 Type-Driven Websites