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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Exclusive: 7+ SEO Tips for Designers
Before starting your descent into the depths of the SEO business, you should know that your design itself has a massive impact on the search engine viability. You’ll always fall ...
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Icon Design: 5 Essential Tips to Get You Started
Just scribble down an icon real quick. What’s so hard about that? Well, it’s definitely not easy. We’ll show you what you need to look out for when starting with icon ...
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Lorem Ipsum 2018: Dummy Text is Very Much Alive
Just yesterday, I got my hands on a design suggestion with text passages that were filled with dummy text from the Ipsum spectrum. Lorem ipsum is still alive.
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Forgiveness: Your Design Has to Handle Mistakes…
Humans make mistakes, a lot of mistakes. Thus, designs of all kinds have to expect mistakes and react with forgiveness.
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Never Forget These 5 Principles of Design Psychology
Never underestimate psychology. After all, it explains pretty much all our actions.Take the following principles of design psychology to your heart.
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What Are Progressive Web Apps and Why Should You Care?
It’s spring of 2018. This is the year where progressive web apps are expected to finally establish themselves. If you have yet to look into the topic, it’s about time you do ...
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Fade to Grey: Will Headless Browsers Kill Web Design?
Is the browser as we know it today a phase-out model? Can we use the web without it? The answer to the second question is a clear yes. Will headless browsers kill web design?
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Typography for Everyone Makes Texts Much Easier to Read
If you, as a page owner, think you didn’t have to care about typography, you’re wrong. The legibility of your texts also depends on the typography. Thus, in the following ...
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Design: These Prototyping Tips Prevent You From Losing Your Customers and Your Mind
It doesn’t matter whether you call it prototyping, design draft, mockup, or proposal. It’s the same topic. The customer wants to see what his digital product will look and ...
