A Design Workflow Comparison: Photoshop vs Illustrator vs Sketch

A Design Workflow Comparison: Photoshop vs Illustrator vs Sketch

The ever-expanding world of design can be tough to comprehend as a newcomer. With so many tools and techniques available it’s hard to know where to start. Three of the most widely used design programs are Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, …

Emotional Intelligence and the Uncomfortable Side of Design

Emotional intelligence and uncomfortable side of design

In March 2016, Twitter celebrated its 10th birthday. It was a day filled with pride for the company and many of its followers. In order to make the day amazing for its users, Twitter released a delightful like/heart button animation. …

Linux Foundation Launches JS Foundation

The Linux Foundation launches the JS Foundation

JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, untyped and interpreted programming language used in most modern day web applications. With thousands of modules in NPM, the JavaScript ecosystem is the largest open source platform. And while the language is standardized in a …

Typography Cheat Sheet [Infographic]

Understanding type can be one of the most difficult elements of design. There’s a lot of terminology and lingo that type designers (and designers, in general) use when talking about lettering. Sometimes it can be tough to decipher it all. …

How to Create Seamless Subtle Patterns in Adobe Illustrator

How to Create Seamless Subtle Patterns in Adobe Illustrator

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 30 minutes In this Illustrator tutorial, we will take a closer look at the process of creation of the seamless patterns and the techniques which make this work easier. These techniques are …

Essential Skills To Become A Great UI/UX Designer

Essential Skills To Become A Great UI/UX Designer

It’s frustrating to find job offers looking for a UI/UX designer. While these two skillsets are closely related, their skills don’t always overlap. A quality UI designer may not understand user experience psychology. Just like a top-tier UX designer might …

Virtual Reality and Web Design: Everything You Need to Know

Virtual Reality and Web Design: Everything You Need to Know

How will the web look in virtual reality? The 2D web could become immersive, interactive and tangible. Imagine Wikipedia as an extensive multimedia library. Instead of reading about the Egyptian pyramids, you could wander around them, explore the inside of …

Google and Monotype Release Noto Font for All Languages

Google and Monotype Release Noto Font for All Languages

Font lovers around the world rejoice! After six years of intense collaboration between Google and Monotype, Noto Font, the universal font, is here. With support for 800 languages, 100 written scripts and more than 110,000 characters, Google’s Noto is like …

Intro to Variable Fonts in Web Design

Intro to Variable Fonts in Web Design

There’s been talk for years of creating fonts that come with adjustable sizes by default. And for years this was just a pipe dream. But it seems that variable fonts are finally here and they’ll only gain support over the …

Vue 2.0 is Here! The Progressive JavaScript Framework

After six months of intense development, eight alphas, eight betas and eight release candidates, Vue 2.0, “The Progressive JavaScript Framework” is finally out. Being the 26th most popular JavaScript project on Github and one of the fastest growing libraries on …