How to Protect Your Design Work on the Internet

How to Protect Your Design Work on the Internet

Are you worried about people stealing your designs after you publish them on the web? Web designers are faced with a “catch 22” situation. To attract new clients, they must showcase their work and put it on display on the …

Blogs vs. Online Magazines: Differences in Design and User Experience

Blogs vs. Online Magazines: Differences in Design and User Experience

The design world is abuzz with the rise of online magazines. But the vast majority of these sites run on blogging platforms like WordPress, and they operate almost exactly like traditional weblogs. So where does someone draw the line between a …

How To Apply Consistency in Web Design

How To Apply Consistency in Web Design

There’s tremendous value in consistency of digital interfaces. People browsing the web encounter dozens of websites that all have different styles, yet most feature very similar page elements. Most designers don’t even think about these features. Page headers, navigation menus, …

10+ Free Alternative Open Source CMS Tools to Explore

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A content management system (CMS) is a monolithic software application or set of tools that are used to create and manage digital content. A CMS is used for web content management (WCM) or enterprise content management (ECM). It started in …

Premium Web Tools & Services Recommended By Professionals

Premium Web Tools & Services Recommended By Professionals

There is no secret that time is the most valuable resource that we have in this life. Most people say that there is nothing that we can do. It’s not true, every web designer, developer or the average guy using …

Best Practices of Hotel Website UX Design

Best Practices of Hotel Website UX Design

User experience is an integral part of any website design and there is no doubt about that. However if there’s a single industry where user experience matters more than anything else is, of course, hospitality. Screenshot of  the Conca Del …

Advice for Developers and Designers: Stop Chasing After Innovation – Now!

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Advice for Developers and Designers: Stop Chasing After Innovation – Now!

If you’re a web designer or developer, it’s always smart to keep up with the latest website building trends. That doesn’t mean that you have to be caught up in the “innovation” rat race.  Even though innovative work, ideas, and …

20+ Fresh Design and Development Books to Read this Summer

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. Woodrow Wilson

A few years ago when I first started learning computer science, paperback books were the primary source of information. I had to buy or rent them from libraries. The smell of fresh of typographic ink was priceless. It was a …

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 …