10 Guidelines for Better Website Background Videos
Design & UX
By Angus Russell,
Background videos: when they're good, they're very, very good, but when they are bad, they are horrid. Angus has some tips to keep you out of trouble.
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What I Learnt About UX from Being a Digital Nomad
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
What can McDonalds teach us about the creating a great UX? Daniel's travels has given him some interesting insights.
Tom Cruise, Sci-Fi and an Eye-Tracking Future
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
While Tom Cruise energetically 'vogued' his way through in the UI in Minority Report, low-energy eye-tracking interfaces look more promising in the future.
Simple Fundamentals of One-Page Site Design
Design & UX
By Gabrielle Gosha,
If the 2000's were all about 'the quest for the three column layout', you could call the last 5 years 'the rise and rise of the One-Page Site'.
Sketch App: 10 New Enhancements that Will Make You Giddy
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Sketch App has become a viable graphics option for many designers, but it has its... quirks. Daniel looks at some big improvements in the latest update.
How a 5-cent Eye-Patch Created a Million Dollar Story
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Often it's the small, random details in a story that make it feel authentic. Advertising great David Ogilvy understood the value of great storytelling.
3 Pro Tips For Finding the Perfect Image
Design & UX
By Angela Molina,
The hardest part of finding the perfect image is there are just too many options. We've got three tips to help you save time and narrow down your search.
9 Ways That Design Trends Are Holding You Back
Design & UX
By workerbee,
Design trends have a natural ebbs and flows and it's hard not to get sucked along with the new wave. Workerbee has some smart methods to find your own path.
Puppies (Or Fun Ways to Get Sued for Copyright Infringement)
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Designers have always borrowed from other sources, but 'fair use' is a hard idea to pin down. Jeff Koons thought he had an air-tight defence. He didn't.
Hacking Your UX Research
Design & UX
By Charles Costa,
Using data for lean UX development can save you money and enable your teams to focus on being productive rather than constantly reinventing the wheel.
3 Ways to Prevent Your Web Design from Becoming “Generic”
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
We all love to be efficient, when does efficient become lazy? Daniel looks at some of the ways we can take our design from generic to fully realized ideas.
Can You Use Photoshop to Tell a Story?
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Sometimes you can create something new by taking away. Here are 2 great examples where a new story is created by photoshopping out parts of the original.
4 Expert Tips for Getting the Most Out of Google Fonts
Design & UX
By Monty Shokeen,
It's easy to forget how difficult, hacky and expensive custom typography used to be. Today Monty delivers four tips to help you use Google Fonts like a pro.
Creating a Perspective Mockup in Sketch with MagicMirror
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Now MagicMirror gives Sketch App users access to some of the same features to create a perspective mockup.
Mobile Accessibility Fails: Do we need a WCAG3?
Design & UX
By Gian Wild,
Mobile devices present a whole new range of accessibility challenges. Gian looks the successes and failures of WCAG2.
What Do Super High-Res Displays Mean for Your Website?
Design & UX
By James George,
Screen resolutions keep increasing and so do the challenges of front-end development. James George looks at the current state of play.
How to Create a Web Style Guide You’ll Be Proud Of
Design & UX
By Gabrielle Gosha,
Getting a 'single view' of all the design elements on a website is often impossible. That's why a web style guide can be super-important for designers.
Is a Designer a Storyteller?
Design & UX
By Vinay Raghu,
Filmmakers are storytellers, and so are poets and songwriters. But is UX another occupation for storytelling?
Web Trends 2015: Brush up on the Watercolor Design Trend
Design & UX
By Kelsey Bryant,
The world is not flat! Or doesn't have to be. Kelsey gets your imagination bubbling with some design employing beautifully loose watercolor tones.
How to Liven up Your Flat Design with Dirty Dots
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
Has the flat design revolution left you feeling a little... flat? Sometimes a teaspoon of gritty, printy goodness can give a clinical design a lift.
Are Users Ready for the Desktop Hamburger Icon?
Design & UX
By Wes McDowell,
The hamburger menu icon was invented to solve a space problem on phones. But are we limiting ourselves by only using it there? Wes has some ideas.
Origami: How to Build Terrific Prototypes in Minutes
Design & UX
By Mateo Prifti,
Prototyping apps is hard. The easier they are to use, the more control you lose. Mateo shows you how to create rich prototypes with Origami without coding.
Using Brandisty to Host your Brand Assets
Design & UX
By Elio Qoshi,
We all need to share branding assets at some time, but emailing ZIP can be ungainly and inefficient. Brandisty offers an alternative way to manage assets.
7 Fantastic Plugins to Level-up Your Sketch App Powers
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
People love Sketch App because of its simplicity. But that doesn't mean we can't tweak it to our own workflows.
7 MORE Photoshop Master Tips to Speed up Your Workflow
Design & UX
By Ivaylo Gerchev,
Ivaylo has returned from silent meditation to deliver 7 more tips on being that Photoshop guru that everyone wishes they could be.
Indiana Jones and the Lost SVG Map Editor
Design & UX
By Alex Walker,
From Casablanca to Game of Thrones, maps have been used to help tell stories. AMCharts Pixel Map Editor lets you create customized SVG maps with ease.
Saving Bandwidth by Using Images the Smart Way
Design & UX
By Monty Shokeen,
We all know about image formats – or do we? Monty looks at the old standards with fresh eyes and does some testing.
Create Elegant (but Easy) Interactions Using Sketch & Atomic.io
Design & UX
By Daniel Schwarz,
Interaction design is an interesting blend of science and art. Daniel shows you how to prototype top-notch interactions combining Sketch & Atomic.io
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to User Testing
Design & UX
By Vinay Raghu,
I know what it's like: You know you should be doing more user testing, but there's so much to catch up on. Vinay has a shortcut for you.
The Trick to Writing Fun, Engaging Article Intros
Blogs
By Alex Walker,
Alex Walker explains what he looks for in an article intro and details how to write one for yourself together.