It seems like iOS apps are coming out left and right now-a-days. It’s amazing how many of them are well executed and interesting apps. I’ve scoured the web – mostly Product Hunt – to collect as many as landing pages …
It’s interesting to think about how design has changed over the years. Each time a new design is published it, there is another genius and gorgeous unveiling. Or what about point of view where you look at old designs and …
Startups are an incredibly interesting business model with employees that have ambition, work hard and have great ideas. Personally, I’ve worked with a number of them and I love the high pace environment. But the thing I loved the most …
Onboarding can take on a few different shapes. Sometimes it’s as simple as account creation or logging in. Sometimes it’s more extensive where it includes a walk-through or a tour of your app. No matter how extensive your onboarding process …
There are so many apps within the App Store and there are so many more on Google Play. It’s hard to tell what the up and coming design trends are but it’s significantly easier to pick five current trends and …
Often we show off websites with great typography or just great websites in general. This time around, I wanted to create a slightly different list. Here is a list of 16 gorgeous websites that also happen to have gorgeous typography. …
The goal of every design is to successfully communicate a message. Visual hierarchy enables you to organize information and elements so that the message can be communicated easily. Hierarchies also enable the design to tell a story to communicate the …
If you read through Google’s material design documentation you know how detail oriented and extensive it is. When you look through the document you can learn many things. One of the greatest lessons is that it proves that it’s possible …
Believe it or not but the checkout process starts much earlier than when someone is literally making a purchase from their online cart. In order to improve checkout conversions, you need to ensure that the whole shopping experience is wonderful; …
Material Design is a new visual language Google created to unify its various products. When Google announced the material design concept, it also released some documentation to allow curious minds to browse through their visual guidelines. The Material Design document …
When it comes to contact pages, they should have a wonderful user experience. Contact pages are the gateway to getting people to, well, contact you. If the page is not informative nor inviting it will be hard for a potential …
Material Design is Google’s new visual language. Google wants to combine great visual design with technology in order to make a better user experience. The concept of material design is so new that a lot of documentation is not out …
In the simplest of explanations, Google developed Material Design to unify the experiences users have across various Google platforms. Additionally, this unification is to bring improved overall experience a user has with technology by making the interaction easier, simpler and …
Forms are the gatekeepers of the internet. They are often filled out as a starting point for one’s journey – such as signing up for an account. They are also filled out in order to get to one’s account – …
The best way to enhance an experience, or to actually make it great, comes down to making the entire process simple for the user. There are many different things you can do to improve the login process. Here we’ll discuss …
A/B testing is a term use to compare one design with another in order to maximize conversion rates. The method has been popularized by the marketing world for emails, ads or fliers to see what yields the best returns. Now, …
Have you ever noticed that including another HTML page inside another is like a foreign concept? It’s something that should be easy to do but you don’t see it often. It’s not impossible but tricky. However, HTML imports makes placing …
“Copy” has turned into a buzzword. Have you noticed it? People are putting more and more importance onto the words you use on your website. They are trying to put value in copy and it’s a wonderful idea! Words are …
CSS filters have been around for a while. They originated thanks to SVGs – Scalable Vector Graphics – in order to apply different image effects to vectors. Today, CSS filters are not limited to SVGs but can be used for …
Over the last couple of years we saw such a change in web design that it is unbelievable to anticipate what could possibly the next hot things. However, I have a few hunches of my own as to what trends …
I have taken the liberty of asking the awesome Justin Mezzell for an interview to get inside his creative head. Who is he? A designer and illustrator currently living in Orlando, Florida with his wife, daughter, and an incredibly pampered …
Many websites out there use favicons for bookmarks in a browser. What about when they are bookmarked on an iPhone’s home screen? Favicons can be used to set the icons for when your website or web app is saved onto …
A little while ago I met Sacha at a bar in San Francisco where I got to chat with him and a bunch of other awesome people about design and other things like life outside of it, yes there is …
There is a lot of talk out there on the interwebz about great user experience. But what does it all mean? What makes an experience great? In the recent, the new buzzword is actually ‘delightful’ and that is the type …