5 Best Practices for Single-Page UX Design

5 UX Best Practices for Single Page Websites

Everybody loves single-page websites. There is definitely some chemistry with this design trend. It has been around for quite a while, but it’s still on the rise and too many websites opt for it. A long time ago, having a …

Hot Navigation Design Patterns for Mobile

Hot Navigation Design Patterns for Mobile

Once someone starts using your application, they need to know where to go and how to get there at any point. If they can’t navigate through your application easily, you’ll quickly lose them. Thus, designing effective navigation in your mobile …

How To Create a Web Icon in Adobe Illustrator

How to Create a Web Icon in Adobe Illustrator

Ever wanted to design an icon for the web? Today is your day. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to design web icons. If you’re an icon addict, you probably already know the power iconography (the careful use of symbols instead of …

Hot User Input Design Patterns for Mobile

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Hot User Input Design Patterns For Mobile

For any mobile application, nothing will ever happen without some initial and ongoing input from the user. It is, therefore, critical that mobile product designers, developer and product managers understand the best ways to allow them to do so. Although …

What is the Point of Material Design?

What is the Point of Material Design?

In the simplest of explanations, Google developed Material Design to unify the experiences users have across various Google platforms. Additionally, this unification is to bring improved overall experience a user has with technology by making the interaction easier, simpler and …

How to Use SVG Patterns

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SVG patterns are one of several paint options that we have for coloring the fills and strokes of shapes and text. While generally regarded as one of the more complex options, establishing a foundation and understanding the basic syntax can …

Design Trend: Ghost Buttons in Website Design

Design Trend: Ghost Buttons in Website Design

The biggest trend of 2014 is something I’m not sure we saw coming. And it’s all based on one of the smallest design components of almost any website – the button. Ghost Buttons – those transparent, clickable items – are …

Creating a Scalable SVG Infographic

In this tutorial, I’m exploring how to make a scalable infographic in the browser using SVG as a graphical format. I’m also using CSS3 animation techniques to animate most elements. The subject of the infographic is “Population growth on this …

5 Ways to Enhance Your Website Login Process

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5 ways to enhance your website’s logging in process

The best way to enhance an experience, or to actually make it great, comes down to making the entire process simple for the user. There are many different things you can do to improve the login process. Here we’ll discuss …

10 Ways to Promote Your Design Project

10 Ways to Promote Your Design Project

The life of a designer is not always an easy one. There are projects that you do for clients and sometimes projects that you do just because you want to create something new. Getting those projects out there can be …