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Review: Apps for Creating Online Graphs and Charts
Most of us -- even techies, marketers and other 'non-designers' -- at some time need to produce a diagram to help explain our views and ideas. For the purposes of this article, I'm going to...
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Push It! Making Your CTA Buttons More Clickable
Design bias. We are all perpetrators of looking at something and automatically coming up with an opinion simply based on colors, layouts, word choice and so on. I know I am. Shiny, glossy buttons are a...
View Article3 Painfully Public Site Redesign Disasters
(and what we can learn from them) It’s an old story: After years of the same musty, old site design, trumpets sound, angels sing and a glorious, new, cutting-edge redesign is unveiled by proud site...
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What Makes Ecommerce Design Different?
It’s no surprise or secret that ecommerce has gained popularity and expanded in the last ten years or so. Companies like Amazon and Alibaba are now global monoliths and it seems that there’s a new...
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The Big Web Design Trends for 2015
When thinking about web design, you must consider the full spectrum of possibilities that the internet presents. Done boldly, designers can push the limits of human interaction and imagination on a...
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UI Patterns: What’s in a (User)Name?
When learning to design for the web, there are two lessons that I hold very dear and important. The first one is - Everything is a rectangle It helps to think of everything as rectangles. Take any web...
View Article5 First-class Free Fonts For Your Next Project
Finding the right font for your project can be a challenge — especially if you are not a dedicated ‘type nerd’. This task becomes even more difficult if you decide to limit your selection to free...
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3 Good Reasons To Use Sketch App
Let me start by saying that I am a long-time Photoshop user. It’s a mighty tool that hasn’t quite managed to outgrow its focus on image editing, while still maintaining a firm stance as a multi-purpose...
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The Big Social Media Design Trends In 2015
Younger generations have officially begun choosing to avoid or least maintain a low profile on Facebook and Twitter -- for many years seen as the two most used and relevant social networks. In fact,...
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Getting to Grips with Basic Image Editing in Sketch App 3
I've been talking a lot about Sketch App lately. I never forget to mention that it’s an excellent tool for mobile application and user interface designers. I've also said that I think comparing Sketch...
View ArticlePrototyping for Android with Material Design
Google caused a lot of publicity when it released its new design language, "Material Design" in 2014. Its inception in Android 5.0 Lollipop aimed to cross bridges between various devices and create a...
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14 Rules for Creating CTA Buttons That Work
With another year well under way, a lot of us are likely doing one of two things. Either creating a new website, or improving our current site/s. No matter which path you're following, there will...
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The Ancient Sumerians, Tablet Computing and HTML Tables
This is a 5,000 year old clay tablet from ancient Sumeria (modern Iraq). It counts among some of the earliest known human texts. So what are we looking at? Is it poetry? Maybe a love letter? Perhaps a...
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Canva Tutorial: Create a Slick Infographic in 15 Minutes
With a whopping 800% increase in search traffic for the word “infographic” between 2010-2012, it is no surprise that infographics are a hot ticket item in 2015. Online applications like Canva are...
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New Web Layout Ideas for 2015
Every year new web design concepts emerge as some older trends recede. In the next months we will no doubt see a temporary increase in the popularity of video backgrounds, tiles and animated...
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My Balsamiq: Wireframes on the Web
No matter whether you are a design veteran or more of an enthusiast, chances are you remember your first client like your first love. Although rather inexperienced, you'd jump into the cold water by...
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Choosing the Best Typography for Your UI
Communication plays a vital role in design. Whether you design websites, mobile apps, or wearable UIs, your creations have to clearly communicate their intent and purpose. And since text does a lot of...
View ArticleLayout Secret Weapon #1: The CSS Table Property
Right now Flexbox is arguably THE hot new thing for layout building. Flexbox's almost miraculous abilities to adapt to the available space has left many of us wide-eyed with possibility. Nevertheless...
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Top 5 Material Design Frameworks to Use in 2015
Google's Material Design has taken the internet UI world by storm. Since it's implementation on Google's Inbox and then slowly on other websites of Google, a great deal of web applications like...
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Become a Sketch Guru in 3 Easy Steps
Do you know what is really, really comfortable? Your comfort zone – and we all have one. Each of us has those four or five applications that we could almost use in our sleep. Those hundreds of hours...
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