The What, Why, and How of Mockups

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The What, Why, and How of Mockups

Before we get into how to make the most of your mockups, it helps to know what exactly they are — and what they’re not. As discussed in The Guide to Wireframing, mockups, wireframes, and prototypes can be confused with …

How to Create a Moto 360 Smart Watch in Adobe Illustrator

How to Create a Moto 360 Smart Watch in Adobe Illustrator

If you’re into smartwatches, now this is the tutorial for you. With the use of some basic shapes and some tricks here and there I will guide you step by step so that in the end you will have created …

How to Choose the Right Monitor for Web Design

Having the right equipment can make working on a web design project delightful or downright miserable. This is especially true when it comes to choosing the right computer monitor. (You are going to be looking at that screen for hours …

Best Website Designs from the United Kingdom: Keep Calm and Design

Best Website Designs from United Kingdom

“Keep Calm and … Design” is one of many variations of the original slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On,” a motto dating to 1939. Recent it has become quite popular around the globe again but also stimulates the creative crowd of …

Designing a Great Photography Website

You’ve got a pile of great images. Now, what can you do with them? Designing a website to showcase all that great photography is not as simple as just dumping all your images into a package made with CSS and …

Effective Web Typography: Rules, Techniques and Responsive Design

Responsive Web Design isn’t just about columns, grids, images and icons. All of this will not make sense without text for content. As Bill Gates once said “Content is King.” When it comes to content, we need to talk about …

How to Set Clear Terms That Will Get You Paid

How to Set Clear Payment Terms That Will Get You Paid

You can be the best designer or developer in the world, but if you don’t know how to invoice, you’re going to have problems getting paid on time — or at all. The best way to get paid on time …

How to Create a Coding Page Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

How to Create a Coding Page Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

With all the flat style madness going on in the design community, we can quickly see how this is the direction of the future. Whether it’s icon design, mobile design, or web design, beautiful playful colors, lines and shapes are …

Wireframing & Prototyping: The Past, Present, and Future

Wireframing & Prototyping: The Past, Present, and Future

Knowing the origins of wireframing and prototyping will help you put everything into a historical context, allowing you to comprehend the practice and predict how it will evolve in the future. This piece will be somewhat of a modern history …

Best Website Designs from France: The Citadel of Fashion and Art

Best Website Designs from France

France is considered to be the citadel of fashion and a cradle of numerous art directions and movements. Web artists, who live in such a fertile and inspirational environment, are destined to come up with original ideas, exquisite designs and …