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The Essentials of Designing Hotel Reservation Interfaces

The Essentials of Designing Hotel Reservation Interfaces

Much like the shopping cart and checkout processes for e-commerce, the room reservation process is a critical part of any hotel’s online presence. Due to the key role it plays,…

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…

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…

Exploring Current Web Design Trends

Exploring Current Web Design Trends

The funny thing about current web design trends is that they are both helpful and detrimental. Trends set the standard for design elements and styles that are popular for a…

50 Inspirational Examples of Bright Colors in Web Design

50 Inspirational Examples of Bright Colors in Web Design

The web design examples below not only show no fear of using bright and powerful colors, but they are also all beautifully designed. They demonstrate that color, within the skilled…

30 Examples of Beautifully Oversized Website Layouts for Inspiration

30 Examples of Beautifully Oversized Website Layouts for Inspiration

When sitting down to plan a website you will likely consider a number of factors. These revolve around your general target audience and what they might be looking for. As…

A Look Back at the Popular Web Design Trends from 2013

A Look Back at the Popular Web Design Trends from 2013

This year has brought powerful new UI concepts, open source projects, and new hacks/tricks for web designers and developers. Those who are interested in what makes good web design have…

UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications

UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications

Mobile iOS devices were a step towards popularizing the idea of web applications. Web developers could build pages with HTML meta tags creating app icons to be saved onto the…

Flat Design – The Next Step Forward in the Evolution of Web Design

Flat Design – The Next Step Forward in the Evolution of Web Design

Flat design is nothing but simplicity put into practice. The fact that simple shapes such as rectangles and circles are being preferred over gradients and drop shadows shows that the…

Why Is This Here? Why You See Weird Prices Online

Why Is This Here? Why You See Weird Prices Online

Pricing isn’t an art anymore. It’s a science with some well-documented and researched principles on how people think and compare when offered multiple options. Here’s the good news: although pricing…

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

Web designers and developers have been practicing the art of landing page layouts for over a decade. The refined techniques we use in modern websites have been crafted from years…

My Essential Design Resources

My Essential Design Resources

Great tools make a huge difference in how quickly you can complete a task. I’d like to share a few tools and essential design resources I use when designing web…

The Benefits of Teamwork in a Startup Environment

The Benefits of Teamwork in a Startup Environment

Working to build a startup from the very beginning requires dedication and seemingly endless weeks of hard work. There are very few success stories revolving around a single entrepreneur, as…

Key Elements for a Successful Mobile User Experience

Key Elements for a Successful Mobile User Experience

Many graphics designers are moving towards the popular trend in mobile apps. You can design some incredible native applications and mobile web interfaces by working with well-deserved techniques. The best…

Creating a Mobile Web Application with Meta Tags

Creating a Mobile Web Application with Meta Tags

Advancing trends for the mobile web are slowly blurring the line between Internet websites and native applications. Lately there have been many updates to mobile operating systems and web browsers…

How Much Code Should Web Designers Need to Know?

How Much Code Should Web Designers Need to Know?

This is an interesting topic which isn’t often discussed between web designers. Getting started in Adobe Photoshop is difficult, and you feel an exhilarating rush when you complete your first…

Examination of Japanese Website Design Trends

Examination of Japanese Website Design Trends

Japan plays host to some very impressive website designers. Their skills in the arts cannot be compared and demonstrate a powerful digital force among Internet readers. Luckily, understanding how to…

Getting Started Building iPhone Apps in Xcode 4.2

Getting Started Building iPhone Apps in Xcode 4.2