How to Design and Sell Themes (with Success)
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Designing and selling themes can be a lucrative business, but there are plenty of pitfalls. Dan's guide will help you avoid the big traps.
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Choosing The Best Fonts For Your Next Project With Fontcloud
Design & UX
By Roemie Hillenaar,
Fontcloud is a tool designed to help you browse, choose and manage you fonts – and their licensing – through your browser. Roemie takes you on the tour.
Web Layout 101: Vertical Rhythm is a Drummer
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Vertical rhythm is often worshipped or ignored. But perhaps its at its most useful when we treat it as a trusted advisor to our layouts.
10 Web Design & UX Trends for 2017 That Can Boost Conversions
Design & UX
By Claudia Elliott,
Trends are interesting, but more important is how these 2017 web design and UX trends boost conversions.
5 Ideas to Improve Your Website UX in Under 2 Hours
Design & UX
By Saad Al-Sabbagh,
Sometimes small changes can make a big difference to your UX. Saad has 5 relatively simple ways you can improve your UX in a morning's work.
How to Overcome All Your Fears Without Being Brave
Design & UX
By Jason Lengstorf,
Why are we afraid of safe things, and cheerfully cavalier about things that are actually dangerous? Science (and Jason) has some useful suggestions.
Catching Frontend UI Design Tricks with SnappySnippet
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Often the key to understanding complex things is to understand their simpler parts first. SnappySnippet is a tool that can help you with that.
6 Email Hacks Guaranteed to Boost Results from Your Efforts
Design & UX
By John Stevens,
According to the Direct Marketing Association, you can expect an ROI of $38 for every $1 you spend on email marketing. Small tweaks can be big money.
The First Rule Of Good Software Design? First, Do No Harm!
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
We design features with the idea that they are helping our users – but sometimes these same features can be damaging to users with different needs.
Dark UX: Dirty Tricks and Tactics to Avoid in 2017
Design & UX
By Aja Frost,
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.
How To Really Get To Know Your Users with Analytics
Design & UX
By Luke Hay,
Designers can look at Analytics as tools for marketers and SEO people. Luke shows us how design is about understanding, and understanding is about data.
5 Ways to Delight with UX Details Combining GIFs and CSS
Design & UX
By Tim Brown,
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.
4 Killer Typography Tips from the World’s Biggest Brands
Design & UX
By Andrew Tiburca,
Successful global brands can become so ubiquitous that we don't almost don't notice them. Andrei shows they have some valuable typography tips to teach us.
Adobe XD or Sketch: Which Will Result in the Best UX?
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Adobe have finally offered a genuine competitor to Sketch. The big question is: Adobe XD or Sketch? Is the new kid on the block a real contender?
UI Motion : Can You Tell a Story with Movement?
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
We all think carefully about choosing a color, but – as Heider and Simmel show – the way an object moves can have a profound impact on how we feel about it.
Web Layout 101: Making the Most of the Top Right Corner
Design & UX
By Michaela Freeman,
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
Design & UX
By Ivaylo Gerchev,
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
Is Figma a Serious Option for Sketch Designers?
Design & UX
By Adam Rasheed,
There's a lot of social buzz around 'Figma' , a new Browser-based UI Design tool. But is it a serious alternative? We look at Figma for Sketch Designers
26 Steps of Product & Dashboard Design
Design & UX
By Jan Losert,
Jan Losert has spent 4 years refining his refining his design product dashboard design – now he's ready to share his insights and secrets. Read on.
I’m a Designer: How Do I Deal with a Cease and Desist Letter?
Design & UX
By Adam Hatch,
There are few things more disconcerting than getting legal notice from seemingly nowhere. But if you receive a cease and desist letter, Adam has your back.
How to Lift Your UX Out of the Ordinary with Micro-Interactions
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Micro-interactions are subtle “moments” centered around accomplishing a single task. Daniel shows how they count for UI designers.
‘Reskinnable’ SVG Symbols: How to Make Them (..and Why)
Design & UX
By Massimo Cassandro,
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.
What if Your Icon Choices Ruined Your Work?
Design & UX
By Catarina Borges,
Icons are about communicating meaning but meaning isn't fixed – it moves. Catarina looks at the icon choices that are causing problems for users.
Form UX: Sometimes Even Apple, Google and Amazon Make Mistakes
Design & UX
By Jessica Enders,
Jessica Enders looks at how even the giants of digital media can slip up in their web form UX.
How Constant UX Benchmarking Helps You Avoid UX Nightmares
Design & UX
By Stephen Moyers,
Every day the world changes – so does your audience. UX benchmarking is the most effective way to track and identify potential disasters.
How to Take Advantage of the Psychology of Speed Perception
Design & UX
By Claudia Elliott,
We know that users are less patient and we need to reduce waiting times. But there are also tricks to help us 'bend time' in our favor.
The Great Prototyping Debate: Software vs Hand-coding
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Visual prototyping tools are fast but lack the flexibility of hand-coded HTML prototypes. Why not both? Pingendo is a visual tool based on Bootstrap 4.
How to Stop Designing Square Layouts by Thinking Outside of the Box
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Websites are so often boxes in boxes in boxes. Daniel has 5 different ways to break your habit of rectangular website designs.
3 Clever Psychology Rules for Making Better UX Decisions
Design & UX
By John Stevens,
Today I have three more innovative ideas from psychology involving human reactions to color, change and attention spans that take things to another level.
5 Most Common Wireframing Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
Design & UX
By Saad Al-Sabbagh,
Wireframing is a key component of modern frontend design but often overlooked in design and development courses. Saad can help.