Tips to Send Engaging Newsletter for a Successful Marketing

Tips to Design Engaging Newsletter Layouts

Newsletters still offer the best way to reach your audience directly and increase sales. But if you’ve never managed an email list before this can be an intimidating process. Once you have a list you’ll need to send out emails …

Interview with Designer: Ivan Tolmachev

Interview with Designer: Ivan Tolmachev

Eager to learn about the biggest UX trends in the UK and the inside secrets of the industry, I quizzed Ivan Tolmachev, a senior Product Designer at Onfleet. Onfleet is a logistics software company in San Francisco that helps delivery …

Designing Content Upgrade Signup Forms that Grab Attention

Designing Content Upgrade Signup Forms that Grab Attention

The best email opt-in forms use a lead magnet to draw attention and gather emails. You can spend weeks tweaking a signup form but the biggest factor is usually the content offer. There’s a special type of lead magnet called a content upgrade which …

After an App Redesign, Skype Gets a New Logo

After an App Redesign, Skype Gets a New Logo

Do you wonder how Fluent, Microsoft’s new design language, will look in real life? Look no further than Skype, Microsoft’s chat app. It’s got a new logo and the bubbles are gone. Well sort of, because you’ll still find the …

Web Design Usability Tips For Billing Forms

Web Design Usability Tips For Billing Forms

Each ecommerce site has its own checkout flow moving the user from a shopping cart to the final purchase. This differs based on what the user is buying and their intentions, but finalizing payment is always the toughest part. Your billing fields …

Best Free JS Adblock Detection Scripts For The Web

Best Free JS Adblock Detection Scripts For The Web

Adblock plugins are on the rise as more Internet users shy away from obtrusive ads. Unfortunately this mostly hurts publishers who rely on advertising to keep their websites online. Thankfully there are solutions to detect adblock users and encourage them …

How To Manage White Space in Mobile Responsive Layouts

How To Manage White Space in Mobile Responsive Layouts

White space is a crucial design tool whether you realize it or not. Many designers adjust page elements until they “look good”. Most often this leads to a natural balance of white space between page sections just from gut instinct. …

Desktop-First Design Tips for Responsive Websites

Most web designers know about mobile-first design and how it has dramatically affected responsive design. But there is another technique that may be less popular but can solve problems in a clearer fashion. With a desktop-first approach you can build …

The Ultimate UX Design of: the Sign-Up Form

The Ultimate UX Design of: the Sign-Up Form

A typical sign-up form contains a couple of form fields (it seems like the most popular number nowadays is 3: e-mail, password and a peculiar “repeat password”) and a button. Is there anything to design in this minimalistic structure? Isn’t …

Best Free JS Libraries for Custom Radios & Checkboxes

Best Free JS Libraries for Custom Radios & Checkboxes

Default HTML form elements work well but they sure aren’t pretty. And web design has come far enough that we don’t have to settle for just functionality. Why not build working inputs that also look gorgeous? With these JS libraries …