Online Courses and Resources where Anyone can Learn to Code

Online Code Courses

We are in the midst of a digital era of design. From websites to apps to wearables, understanding how digital design is written and comes together is increasingly important. That’s where learning and understanding code comes in. Your don’t have …

20 Most Rockin’ Behance Web Design & UI Case Studies

20 Most Rockin Behance Web Design & UI Case Studies

Behance: As designers we love it; it’s become entrenched in my daily online routine just as much, if not more than, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. I’ve been a member since 2011 and recently gained over 1,000 appreciations, which meant more …

User Experience and Credit Card Payment Forms

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The User Experience of Credit Card Payment Forms

Everybody loves shopping, until you get to the checkout and have to swipe your credit card. This is not the most pleasurable part of shopping, is it? And when you add in the painful user experience of payment forms, you …

Make the Most of Your Design with a Hero Header

Design with a Hero Header

One of the biggest trends in web design right now is the use of big images. And not just large, but completely oversized images that seem to come to life on screen. When used at the top of a page, …

How to Conduct a Usability Heuristic Evaluation

User experience works best when it’s incorporated into every stage of product development, starting from idea to development and testing. But usually things don’t happen that way and user experience specialists have to face the challenge of optimizing the existing …

Product Design Process & Documentation Essentials (Part 1)

Product Design Process & Documentation Essentials (Part 1)

From the zipper to apps like Dropbox for iOS, every product gets put to paper (or onto the screen) before they come to life. The design stage is a right of passage for all products — they’re either desirable or …

Helpful Tips to Improve Your Checkout Conversions

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Helpful Tips to Improve Your Checkout Conversions

Believe it or not but the checkout process starts much earlier than when someone is literally making a purchase from their online cart. In order to improve checkout conversions, you need to ensure that the whole shopping experience is wonderful; …

Primer on Web-Based Grid Systems

Primer on Web-Based Grid Systems

What’s in a grid? A grid-style framework is the backbone to almost any web design project, providing the structure for your site as well as a way to organize content, elements and images. There are a variety of grid systems …

Designing Website Text for Readability

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Text can be beautiful, simple, wild, engaging, exciting and a wide number of other things. It can stir emotion and helps users understand your message. Type can be a wide number of things but one thing is common – it …

Case Studies: Redesigning a Logo Can Be Tricky

New Logos

The logo is definitely the most important part of any brand. Its aim is to reveal the qualities of a product or of a society and to communicate what the company mission is. Logos should not be too processed or …