DESIGN

  • Book of Wisdom: 7 Things Web Designers Can Learn from Print

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    Although the knowledge in effective web marketing has increased over the last decade or two, there is still a great deal that web designers can learn from print designers. After all, print marketing has been around since the invention of the printing press and roughly five-hundred years of successful designs can’t be wrong.



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  • Efficiency and Economy: Responsive Design On a Budget

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    The word ‘budget’ is deemed in some quarters to be a dirty word with negative connotations suggesting shortcuts, unreliability and even lower quality. You’ll be pleased to hear the approach I’m suggesting doesn’t manifest in any of those shortcomings and in fact the ‘budget’ approach could actually improve the end product. That’s right, streamlining your design and build processes to produce cost effective responsive solutions might actually be the best thing that ever happened to you.



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  • Instant Inspiration: Niice.co, a Brand-new Search Engine for Designers Sparks Your Creativity

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    Did your muses sneak out the back-door without even leaving a message on the bathroom mirror? Didn’t you just have this wonderful idea for this next web project? No? I thought so. When the only thing running properly is your nose and the only sparks flying burn your skin, it is high time you visited Niice.co. This new search engine is here to serve you inspiration in packages tailored to your needs.



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  • uiFaces: Placeholder Service for Avatars in Design Mock-ups

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    We have been introducing you to placeholder services frequently. This new app by the name of uiFaces, that we want to show you today, does not stand in line, though. It covers a rather unique aspect of modern design, the integration of Social Media. With uiFaces you can easily integrate social network areas into your design mock-ups. With its ample flexibility, uiFaces covers any use-case.



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  • 44 Corporate Identities plus How To Create Your Own Using Photoshop

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    Corporate Design (CD) as a subset of the wider Corporate Identity determines how a company will be perceived in the public eye. Its logo or elements from it make up the outward appearance. Any means of communication, be it business cards or stationery and any means of advertising, such as flyers, brochure and of course digital representations in the form of a website or – growing more and more popular – apps derives from it.



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  • Agile Designers: A Collection of Resources for Web Designers

    Agile Designers by Webalys is a platform for web designers, currently in beta. Up to now already around 1,900 designers have registered and put up 740 resources. This is massive, considering that the service just launched on the 7th of November of last year. Reason enough to take a closer look at what’s in store.



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  • The Accessibility Project – How To Integrate Accessibility Into Your Daily Designs

    A few days ago we brought HTML_CodeSniffer to your attention, a bookmarklet for testing websites in terms of accessibility. Today we encountered a brand-new project, that aims at the average designer and is set to be the starting point for everything around accessibility. Community-driven and crowdsourced, A11Y as the project abbreviates itself, wants to support and encourage accessible web designs. The project is refreshingly different and growing rapidly.



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  • 50+ Fascinating Promotional Booklets to Inspire

    No digital format can compare to the unique impression that printed materials leave with an audience. In today’s era of computers and mobile devices, an excellent way for businesses to stand out is by printing booklets or other materials such as posters and postcards. In fact, an article on the PrintPlace.com blog points out that readers are much more engaged when reading print materials than when reading digitally. If you want your target audience to slow down and notice your products or portfolio in more details, then a promotional booklet may be your answer.



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  • Professional Website Optimization with A/B Testing: Tips and Tools

    As web designers and developers, we often have to take decisions related to user experience. Most of the time, we rely on data collected via surveys and analytics for this purpose. Of late, A/B Testing is gaining popularity among web creators and page operators alike. What is A/B Testing all about and how can it be done? We will answer these questions and provide you with some useful tools in the following article.



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  • The Psychology of Business Card Design

    We know you! We know that you are keen to know everything about business cards. At least that’s what Google Analytics tells us. You like design templates, sample designs for inspiration purposes and engage in games where you can win sets of cards of your own. This is why we’d like to point you to a brand-new infographic by our friends over at UPrinting. They know their ways around everything printable and have now put together some essential tips on the psychology of a business card. You will definitely want to take a look…



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