Interview with Designer: Justin Mezzell

Interview with Designer: Justin Mezzell

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 …

Compact and Elegant Side Menus in Website Designs

Compact and Elegant Side Menus in Website Designs

Last summer we published the article dedicated to use of vivid vertical navigations in mobile apps, and surprise-surprise, during this period of time this solution has managed to migrate into website design, carving out its own distinctive niche. Nowadays you …

Creating Home Screen Icons for iOS and Android Devices

Creating Home Screen Icons for iOS and Android Devices

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 …

Interactivity, Dynamics, Animations: Fresh Examples of Non-Static Websites

Interactivity, Dynamics, Animations: Fresh Examples of Non-Static Websites

Non-static websites is totally not a brand-new concept. At the beginning, it was Flash-powered websites that impressed us with its fantastic animations and astounding effects, and today they “have passed the baton” to the next more sophisticated and lightweight HTML5-based …

Interview with Designer: Sacha Greif

Interview with Designer: Sacha Grief

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 …

Showcase of Annual Report Design Trends

Showcase of Annual Report Design Trends

Now that 2013 is in the books, many companies are releasing annual data reports. From annual reports to a year in review documentation, company reports are likely an important resource for your company, investors and clients. So how do you …

5 UX Tips for Designing More Usable Registration Forms

5 UX Tips for Designing More Usable Registration Forms

The web is crowded with UI solutions that we’ve inherited from the past, but are still applied because “everybody else does.” It is time to reconsider all of them, but especially registration forms. When designing registration forms, keep in mind …

Elegance and Refinement of Mobile Interfaces based on Blurred Backgrounds

Elegance and Refinement of Mobile Interfaces based on Blurred Backgrounds

Being a basic photo effect for a long time, blurred backgrounds only recently have become a quite popular tool among web designers that had noticed its remarkable ability to help elements to stand out. Such approach rather readily, unobtrusively and …

Flat UI Pro Tutorial: How To Use jQuery to Add Functionality to a Custom Mailbox

Flat UI Pro Tutorial: How To Use jQuery to Add Functionality to a Custom Mailbox

Now that you have gone through a series of tutorials with David East to create a custom mail app, he is back in this lesson to show you how to add jQuery functionality to it. The videos in this tutorial …

Making for a Delightful User Flow: Checkout Process

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Making for a Delightful User Flow: Checkout Process

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 …