Design
Mind Your Step: Flat Design Could Have Your Head
Huh? Wasn’t flat design supposed to be the best thing since canned beer? A new study shows that the opposite can be the case. And it makes perfect sense.
Themes
April 2018: The 10 Best Free WordPress Themes of the Month
Are you fed up with your website’s design? Great! Then take a look at our ten fresh and free WordPress themes. Maybe, you’ll find your new dream theme. This way, your ...
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Fonts.lol: The First Color Font Provider is Online
Color fonts are, as the name already tells you, colorful fonts. The usage of colors in fonts is not new, as it is almost a staple of graphic design. The new thing about color fnts is ...
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Compressor.io: Free Tool Reduces Your Image File Size by Up to 90 Percent
This web app by Stephane Lyver delivers automatic image optimization for the common formats JPEG, PNG, GIF, and SVG. The compression is able to either work lossy or lossless. The ...
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ShapeFactory: Design Tools for Logos, Colors, and Gradients
As a graphic and web designer, we’re faced with plenty of tasks and challenges every day. This includes the design of logos, as well as a harmonious combination of colors and ...
Business Online
AMP Stories: More Vivid Storytelling on Mobile Devices Made Easy
To Google, the open AMP project is one of the most important endeavors of the recent past. This is about nothing less than the supremacy on the user’s mobile devices.
Business Online
Design: Above The Fold is Dead
Long gone are the days where every web developer told their customers that all relevant information had to be visible at first sight, also known as “above the fold”, as the ...
Business Online
False Ambition: Am I a Designer, Developer, or Both?
I started out as a designer. At one point in time, I was forced to start developing. Now, it’s time for a reset.
Design
Design: What You Didn’t Know About the Color Red
There you are, in the first diaper you were put into, and look at the world. First, you only see black and white, and the world looks rather bleak. But, all of a sudden, there’s a ...
Design
Brain-Friendly Web Design 101
The human brain works in a way that you can’t ignore if you want your design to be successful. Brain-friendly web design is what determines success and failure, so don’t ...
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Helper Duo for Web Designers: Htmlreference.io and CSSreference.io
All of us have large references of our favorite tech publishers in our shelves, and we know the monumental guide sites à la SelfHTML and others. Oftentimes, we wouldn’t even need ...
Essentials
Future Fonts: Typefaces Under Development
The supply of premium fonts is increasing constantly. Aside from the big suppliers, such as Linotype and MyFonts, lots of new foundries with new, mostly unknown designers come to life. ...
Design
Tooltip Design: Useful Microinteractions for a Learning Effect
Microinteractions are your website’s most important UI elements. Tooltips are a part of that, but they require even more diligence in terms of conception and realization.
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DIY Tutorials (Not Just) for Web Designers: Create Explainer Videos Easily
You find creating explainer videos tempting, but don’t think you can do it? Well, you’re a web designer, and I’m sure you’ve already made a few animated design ...
Design
How WebP Increases Your Web Performance
Web performance is a ranking factor. Thus, you need to connect an appealing layout with high-speed delivery. Latency is your enemy. There’s a whole bunch of measures for that ...
Plugins
Reality Check: The Most Important WordPress Plugins Behind Noupe
Plugins are an important topic for every WordPress user. Before, we have presented new plugins every now and then. But we have never shown what our own installation runs with. Today, we ...