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Your Design Work is Suffering Because You're Afraid of the Wrong Answer
"Why?" One of the best tools a designer can have. Why is a powerful thing to ask if you really want to get to the bottom of something.
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Fresh Design Resources For Your 2015 Projects
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Ease into Design Projects with These Great Free Resources
Creating design resources is definitely tough. But creating design resources that everyone uses is tougher. Every designer loves to have his resources being used and talked about. So what is it that makes designs usable? One absolute metric that speaks for itself is “the time spent by the user” on the site. To put it in simple words, if a user is hooked to the website, implies that the site is usable. To put it simply, your user interface design should be so brilliant and beautiful that it keeps a person hooked to the page they are using, be it on any platform – mobile, website, application or software.
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5 Simple Steps to Designing a Perfect Footer
Learn how to engage your visitors more with these 5 Simple Steps to Designing a Perfect Footer! (and check out my custom footer on my website at http://bkmacdaddy.com)
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Choosing and Creating Backgrounds for Design Projects
From patterns, to videos, to images, there are a lot of things to choose from when it comes to selecting the perfect backdrop to any design project. While the texture or image you choose is not necessarily intended to be a main part of the overall message, it can have quite an impact. Today we’re sharing a few tips and tricks for how to choose an effective background.
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50 fantastic freebies for web designers, December 2014
We’re back with yet another gargantuan collection of free resources to fill up your toolbox and keep you rolling out awesome work well into the new year.
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Freebies for designers
Mockups, business cards, UI kits, icons, web tools, HTML templates and other elements that will bring your A-game when doing your latest piece of work.
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The Ultimate Guide to Color Theory for Designers
Color theory involves the techniques of picking a matching color series. In this ultimate guide, read how color theory is applied to web and graphic design.
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A Designer’s Guide to Gift Giving
Follow all five principles and you’ll give the perfect gift. But there’s just one absolutely essential principle that you have to follow to give a great gift, and it turns out it’s also the easiest.
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A Collection of Minimal Icons for Subtle Design Work
Minimalism is definitely the go-to style in the modern web, and icons help you clean up the interface, putting quicker information at the user’s disposal. This time around, we have a series of elements that take advantage of both things: Minimal icons. We’ve put together some of the most inventive, fresh and useful elements all around the web, all for free and ready to be applied within your next project. Check it out!
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New Web Design and Development Resources: #2 December Edition
Hello, fellow designers and developers! Here we have a new collection of elements for your following projects. You will find templates, mockups, vectors and code snippets for all your creative needs.
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Aaron Draplin Takes On a Logo Design Challenge
Most logos aren't designed in fifteen minutes, but most designers aren't Aaron Draplin. Aaron's a Portland fixture by way of the Midwest, the owner of Draplin Design Co., and an advocate of "blue collar" design: design that works. Here he takes our logo design challenge, creating a dozen iterations of a logo for a fictional construction company.
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Line Icons To Use In Your Modern Design Projects
If you are a designer who is aware of the fact that icons are a vital part of any interface design, then you should download these icon sets.
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5 Web Design Trends in 2015 That Matter
As 2014 draws to a close, it’s time for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small businesses to prepare for the coming year so they can gain a head start over their competition. The same can be said of web designers who want to cut through the job market by preparing for the popular trends of 2015. That said, here are five most important design trends that they should watch out for.
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50 Free Resources for Web Designers from 2014
In this post, I have collated my top 50 FREE resources for web designers from this fantastic year, 2014. There are libraries for quickly creating CSS charts and animating SVG icons, tools for converting image files to data URIs, web-based apps for creating icon fonts from SVGs, jQuery plugins for touch-enabled and lightweight sliders, JavaScript libraries for creating animated GIFs from any type of media, generators for creating Flexbox layouts… and much, much more.
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40 Free Corporate Identity & Stationery Mockup Templates
Having a good collection of some mockup designs and templates is very important for the designers as it can save their time and let them communicate effectively
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#LIVINGOFFTHEWALL - Aaron Draplin & The Art of the Side Hustle Pt 1
We meet Aaron Draplin at his day job as a designer at his studio, Draplin Design Company in Portland, Oregon. The tour quickly devolves into a discussion of his vast collections of well-organized junk, and includes a trip to an estate sale where Aaron picks up an ancient bag of peanut butter chips.
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Aaron James Draplin: The DDC 50 Point Plan to ruin Yer Career
Aaron James Draplin at CreativeMornings Portland
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10 awesome free flat icons packs
One of the most popular trends in web design field is the flat design. Flat design is basically a minimalistic design approach which is focused on a minimalist use of simple elements, colors and typography. It is completely a new revolution in web design which believes in simplicity rather than any stylistic choices that gives 3D illusion such as gradients, drop shadow, textures and many more. Here are 10 awesome flat icons packs which you can use freely for your any design purpose.
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8 Useful Subreddits for Designers
A list of design-focused subreddits.
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