5 Tips to Simplify Your Web Design

Simplicity rules!  It makes a websites look sleek, reduce nagivation confusion and it helps achieving desired goals and results (I.e., more signups, … [Read more...]

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Understanding Visual Hierarchy in Web Design

Visual hierarchy is one of the most important principles behind effective web design. This article will examine why developing a visual hierarchy is … [Read more...]

10 Awesome Solutions for Creating Your Online Portfolio

Every design enthusiast want to have a sparkling online portfolio for showcasing his/her work, but there are few people who can build an awesome … [Read more...]

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Designing a Mobile Stylesheet for your Website

It seems mobile is becoming more powerful with the younger tech audience. More kids and young adults are carrying around smartphones than any other … [Read more...]

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What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources

Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry’s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a … [Read more...]

Simple Flow: Minimalism in Web Design

There are so many techniques when it comes to web design, it’s hard to get a full grasp on all of them. Minimalism is one of the few which stand out … [Read more...]

The Science Behind a Single Page Website

We have all come across them whilst browsing the web, and many of the examples that exist are quite awe-inspiring, the single page website is a … [Read more...]

Take Your Web Designs to the Next Level

When you start out as a web designer, you do all you can to grasp the basic design principles so that you have a solid foundation to start your … [Read more...]

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Professional Structure and Documentation in Web Design

As designers we don’t commonly think in terms of structure. Unfortunately this can cause problems in design projects both personal and freelance as … [Read more...]

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The Different Elements that Bring Together Minimalistic Design

Minimalistic designs are trending in today’s world. The reason for that is designers are looking and aiming at creating designs that are lightweight … [Read more...]

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The Trend of Minimalist Graphic Design

Our rendering technology is unthinkable, yet we still study Mondrian. Great minimalist work is striking, elegant, and classic. Within the colorful … [Read more...]

Best Practices for Designing Usable Websites for Kids

Designing for young kids is something not a lot of designers think about until approached by a client who wants to target that age group. But the … [Read more...]

Ultimate Web Typography: Resources and Inspiration

What does the word “typography” usually make you think of? Cool logos? Posters? Tracking and kerning? Probably not web design–until now that is. … [Read more...]

The Future of Careers in Web Design

Web design and development is an ever changing industry, and as technology grows and develops, so does the job description. What is the future of web … [Read more...]

How to Create “Touchable” Web Designs

What are touchable web designs? When most people check out a new website, they sometimes think “yikes, this website looks like crap” or “wow, … [Read more...]

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How To Use Typography Effectively in Web Design

One thing that we can often overlook, or let slip our tired minds as we work ourselves late into night or early into the morning, is that the … [Read more...]

What the Future of Cloud Computing means for Web Designers

Cloud computing is an emerging technology which is revolutionizing the way we interact with the web. The ability to hold information anywhere across … [Read more...]

7 Tips for Designing E-Commerce Sites

More and more people have begun to do most of their shopping online in the past few years. When an Internet consumer visits your e-commerce site, … [Read more...]

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Web Design Nightmares and How to Avoid Them

The web brims with fly-by-night designers. Their web pages are erratic, loud, offensive, and difficult to use. They forget that web design is not … [Read more...]

Showcase: Textures in Web Design

Textured backgrounds in website design are common, especially in grunge designs. But they’re used in a variety of other design styles, … [Read more...]