What is design? Have you ever asked yourself this question? What was your answer? I’ve been thinking about this for the past several months, and … [Read more...]
Why Colors Can Make or Break Your Design
Color will be one of the first things anyone notices when visiting your site and it will be a large part of the initial impressions people form about … [Read more...]
Get your designs to pop: Part 3 – Colors
Though sometimes carelessly splashed together, colors set the “feel” of a design and convey an emotional message before the visitor has read one … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Approach Design Trends
One of the common types of posts that we see on various design blogs around the internet is a discussion of popular trends – whether in web design … [Read more...]
Get your designs to pop: Part 2 – Light & Shadows
You know how, often times, clients demand that your design needs to pop more? Well, welcome to part 2 of our 5 part miniseries filled with easy to … [Read more...]
7 Things Designer Can Learn From Girls
There are many things everybody can learn from girls, including designers. Whenever we see girls the things we first notice about them is how well she … [Read more...]
Breaking Down And Reviewing Important Blog Design Elements
There are a number of design aspects to your blog you should be thinking about. Each element on your blog has more going on than you initially … [Read more...]
Guideline for The Principles of Design
Design and visual art provide visual communication language between the artist and the viewers to deliver message or idea through the viewers eyes’ … [Read more...]
Design a Tropical iPhone Advertisement
The Apple iPhone was one of the revolutionary devices of the new millennium. Apple’s overall brand recovery and rebuilding process has been … [Read more...]
Most Important Design Conferences In 2010
A designer is supposed to be always on the top of any professional new wave and that’s why these conferences are supposed to have importance for all … [Read more...]
Tips for New Web Designers, Stop and Focus!
The Web Design community literally takes that old Nokia slogan “Connecting People” and makes it happen. Everyday, literally thousands of talks … [Read more...]
How to Kill the Design Community
Recently, the notion of killing the design community has come up on a few blogs (sometimes indirectly), creating many intense conversations on the … [Read more...]
How to Build a Footer That Doesn’t Stink
As the first thing visitors see, home pages and headers often steal the design spotlight. But above-the-fold thinking neglects the natural flow of … [Read more...]
How to Drastically Improve Your Designs
Design is everywhere. We see it in on billboards as we drive down the street. When we go to a restaurant and look at the menus, we see it. When we sit … [Read more...]
The One Design Tool You Absolutely Need to Use
I believe that there is a perpetuated myth out there in the design community. That myth is that today, with the vast array of software options that … [Read more...]
5 Things to Consider Before Designing Your Next Website
There are probably dozens and dozens of ways for approaching the initial stages of creating a website. You could sketch out the entire concept on … [Read more...]
Business Card Printing: Terms Every Designer Should Know
What is a “die cut”? We have been asked several times this week about this since we have been posting examples of different types ofbusiness … [Read more...]
15 Tips for Designing Terrific Tables
In a sense, they’re meant to be that way. A good table communicates a lot of information in a concise, easy to understand way. Because the emphasis … [Read more...]
Better User Experience With Storytelling – Part One
Stories have defined our world. They have been with us since the dawn of communication, from cave walls to the tall tales recounted around fires. They … [Read more...]