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8 of the Best Design Handoff Tools

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.

15 Color Schemes From Disney Heroes and Villains

Nadya extracts 15 color schemes from well-known Disney heroes and villains and beautifully illustrates how they affect the way we view these characters.

7 Astonishing Artists and Designers to Follow on Behance

Our #1 design writer, Gabrielle, talks about the most astonishing artists and designers to follow on Behance when you need an inspiring creativity boost.

5 Fast Tools For Generating Polished Product Mockups

Product mockups are used to showcase web/app designs in a device frame, but can we accomplish this without Photoshop? Yes, and today, Alex shows us how!

How to Master Nostalgia Marketing in Web Design

Suzanne explains the user psychology behind nostalgia and how we can utilize nostalgia marketing in web design for higher conversions.

4 Photoshop Styles to Lift Your Photos Above the Crowd

Duotones, Muted Black & White, Targeted Blur Effect, and more. Gabrielle has four fresh Photoshop styles to spice up to your repetoire.

7 Famous Design Hacks You Can Steal From Star Wars

For all its sci-fi modernism, Star Wars used a lot of classic methods. Nadya has extracted 7 sure-fire design hacks that you can apply to your projects.

SVG Tip: Create a Bold Vector Halftone Graphic in Under 2 Minutes

6 Clever SVG Pattern Generators for Your Next Design

Though SVG Patterns aren't super widely understood, they offer a lot of really interesting design options – once you get your head around them.

How to Optimize and Export SVGs in Adobe Illustrator

SVG is a powerful format but you need to make good decisions to get great results. Ivalyo walks you through exporting SVG in Adobe Illustrator.

12 of the Best Dribbble Designers to Follow

Despite being invite-only, Dribbble is crawling with talented designers. Gabrielle narrows it down to the 12 best Dribbble designers to follow.

Podcast: Behind the Facebook Logo – A $100 Million Story

Getting paid for your design talents in equity is romantic – but rarely actually pays off. But what if you happened to design the Facebook logo?

How to Boost App Downloads by A/B Testing Icons

Roman Rudnik shows us how to boost app store downloads by A/B testing multiple icon designs in this step-by-step walkthrough.

Design Tricks with SVG Filters: A Masked Blur Effect

SVG might be a vector format, but it has some amazingly powerful pixel-based tricks up its sleeve. Follow Alex's journey – if you dare.

6 Free Web-Based SVG Editors Compared

SVG is more important to web design than ever before. Today we no longer need to leave our web browsers to create it. Ada looks at the options.

Catching Frontend UI Design Tricks with SnappySnippet

Often the key to understanding complex things is to understand their simpler parts first. SnappySnippet is a tool that can help you with that.

Kerry Ellis Shares Her Passion for Book Cover Design

What makes a good book cover designer, and how can you work with one? Kerry Ellis, one of 99designs' top designers, shares her advice.

Dark UX: Dirty Tricks and Tactics to Avoid in 2017

Often our goals and those of our user are in alignment – but not always. Sometimes you have a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other.

5 Ways to Delight with UX Details Combining GIFs and CSS

The GIF format has been around for so long that sometimes it's easy to overlook its usefulness. Tim wants you to reconsider the power of GIFs and CSS.

How to Hack Brains with Cinemagraphs

Cinemagraphs are like the snow globes of the web – simple yet strangely mesmerizing. Here's how to use them in your web design.

Web Layout 101: Making the Most of the Top Right Corner

The top right of screen is a difficult area of the screen to design for. Michaela shows you how to select the best images for your layout.

The Best Way to Create Fantastic ‘Invisible Pen’ Effects in SVG

Watching an SVG image drawn onto screen is powerful effect. Ivaylo shows you how to create the 'Invisible Pen' Effect in SVG using Vivus.js

How to Create More Fun, Playful Typography

While crafting type can sometimes feel stiff and overly mathematical, workerbee wants  to help you find the joy in creating more playful typography.

‘Reskinnable’ SVG Symbols: How to Make Them (..and Why)

How can you create a single SVG graphic – maybe a logo or icon – that can be easily restyled and recolored in any setting or device? Massimo has a solution.

How to Stop Designing Square Layouts by Thinking Outside of the Box

Websites are so often boxes in boxes in boxes. Daniel has 5 different ways to break your habit of rectangular website designs.

Prisma: The Rise and Fall and Rise of the One-Trick-Pony Filter

'Push button' image filters have developed a bad reputation with design professionals. But perhaps a new image filter called Prisma can change their minds.

Review: Is the New and Improved Google Fonts Better?

Google fonts revolutionized web fonts by bringing them to the world. They've just released the services' biggest overhauls since 2010. But is it better?

How to Find Cool, Quirky, Copyright Free Photos on Flickr

Think you know Flickr? Did you know they store a vast reservoir of copyright free photos imagery from the world's great libraries, museums, & archives?

Let’s Talk about Sketch, Baby! With Sketch Guru, Daniel Schwarz

 We think it's important to connect you with subject matter specialists and give you a chance to say hello and ask them a question. Last week, we caught up with Daniel Schwarz for a chat about Sketch 3.

Why SVG Image Hosting is Hard (… and How to Do It)

SVG is powerful, but finding a place to put your image is harder than it should be. Here's a scalable, reliable, free SVG image hosting method.