Learnability in Web Design: 5 Best Practices
Design & UX
By Michiel Mulders,
Michiel introduces five best practices you can use to provide a more learnable interface to your users, from consistency to familiarity and storification.
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Why Developers Should Design Their Own Niche Portfolio Sites
Design & UX
By SitePoint Sponsors,
We look at seven WordPress themes covering a wide range of niches that provide the perfect launching pad for designing your own, unique portfolio sites.
SVG 101: What Is SVG?
Design & UX
By Ivaylo Gerchev, Maria Antonietta Perna,
Learn why SVG is superior to pixel graphics in terms of scalability, responsiveness, interactivity, programmability, performance, and accessibility.
Meet Flipsnack, An Easy Design Tool for Incredible Magazines
Design & UX
By SitePoint Sponsors,
Flipsnack is a design/layout tool similar to InDesign and Affinity Publisher that helps you easily create professional layouts online.
Fonts and Colors Used by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google and More
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
A cheatsheet of the fonts and colors used by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Messenger, Snapchat, Whatsapp and YouTube, with links to official brand assets.
How to Design for Screen Readers with Adobe XD CC
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Daniel Schwarz offers tips on designing for screen readers, and walks through how Adobe XD CC’s design handoff and voice prototyping features help with this.
Remove a Background in Photoshop Quickly & Easily
Design & UX
By Tomas Laurinavicius,
Learn how to remove a background in Photoshop. Learn how the magic wand and the background eraser tool can be used to remove different types of background.
How to Use Bannersnack to Generate Amazing Banners in Seconds
Design & UX
By Gal Shachar,
Gal Shachar introduces Bannersnack, an online, drag-and-drop interface that lets you design banner ads quickly and efficiently, saving time and money.
8 of the Best Design Handoff Tools
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Without design handoff, devs are forced to make guesses that can result in mistakes and bad UX. Daniel Schwarz looks at the best design handoff tools currently available.
7 Cross-Browser Testing Tools You Need in 2019
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Though browsers are arguably more reliable than they've ever been, we still can't forget about cross-browser testing tools. Here are 7 top options for you.
15 Top Prototyping Tools Go Head-to-Head
Design & UX
By Dave Kearney, Daniel Schwarz,
Dave Kearney compares the top 15 prototyping tools disrupting the design tool market today, with video overviews of each one.
How User Research Turned a Good App into a Great One
Design & UX
By Jodie Moule,
Jodie Moule tells the story of how she came to launch her successful Cook app, and how user research was all-important in making it the best app it could be.
Working with Design Thinking, Lean and Agile
Design & UX
By Amanda Stockwell,
Amanda Stockwell explains Design Thinking, Lean UX, and Agile, and how to implement elements of each for your team. Each approach is meant to solve a particular problem, and elements of each may be useful, so you’ll have to find what works for your team.
5 Simple UX Principles to Guide your Product Design
Design & UX
By Clark Wimberly,
There were 5 Jacksons and 5 gold rings but Clark Wimberly has 5 golden principles that guide his product design. Read them. Recite them. Remember them well.
Customer Journey Maps: A Day in the Life of a Customer
Design & UX
By Mads Soegaard,
Mads Soegaard introduces customer journey maps, explaining how to measure customer engagement, how much customers feel they’re in a relationship with your product, business or brand, and the best tools for getting the job done.
7 Awesome Wireframing Tools You Should Be Using
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Daniel Schwarz introduces wireframing — a design exercise that can radically improve user experience — and looks at the best wireframing tools.