Best Practices: Leading Brands and Promotional Websites

Website ExamplesNataly Birch • May 16, 2014

Though it seems that such powerful, famed and instantly-recognizable brands as McDonalds, BMW or Samsung don’t need extra publicity since the names speak for themselves, they do face competition. They are fighting for the same potential customers as you are …

How to Create Guidelines and Standards for Websites or Applications

App Design, Website DesignEelco Guntlisbergen • May 14, 2014

Creating guidelines and standards for websites or applications

While some methods may vary one of the most important starting points for any project is a set of guidelines. Creating guidelines and standards for every project (even if it isn’t originally in scope) can increase your workflow and will …

What are HTML Imports and How Do They Work?

CodingPaula Borowska • May 07, 2014

Have you ever noticed that including another HTML page inside another is like a foreign concept? It’s something that should be easy to do but you don’t see it often. It’s not impossible but tricky. However, HTML imports makes placing …

UX and Content Strategy: The Complete Guide

UX DesignArmen Ghazaryan • May 05, 2014

What is more important: User experience or content? I hate this type of question and to me they don’t make sense. It’s like asking a kid who he loves more — mom or dad. Or even worse, trying to figure …

Primer on Types of Navigation in Mobile Apps

App DesignNataly Birch • May 01, 2014

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Navigation patterns can vary, even when it comes to prototyping mobile application interfaces. Even though they may seem to impose tight restrictions, because of small sizes and necessity to compactly arrange lots of data, there are a variety of options. Once there …

Using backface-visibility and CSS Animations

CodingJoni Trythall • April 28, 2014

There are so many fun and interesting design possibilities with backface-visibility. When you turn an element over, what do you want to see? By default, we see a mirror image of an element when it is turned over. While this effect …

5 Key Elements of User-Friendly Notifications

UX DesignArmen Ghazaryan • April 23, 2014

Have you ever paid attention to the number of notifications and alert messages you receive on a daily basis from various web services and apps? How many of those notifications do you actually care about? These questions are becoming more …

The Power of Microcopy in Web Design

UX Design, Website DesignPaula Borowska • April 17, 2014

“Copy” has turned into a buzzword. Have you noticed it? People are putting more and more importance onto the words you use on your website. They are trying to put value in copy and it’s a wonderful idea! Words are …

5 Essential Elements for E-Commerce Websites

Website DesignEelco Guntlisbergen • April 16, 2014

Step-by-step e-commerce websites are quickly becoming a better alternative to the more traditional retail shop. The list of benefits is endless, even though actual retail is hard to replace because of the experience of shopping in a physical store. Regardless, …

How to Create a Splash Screen Illustration

Adobe ToolsBenedikte Vanderweeën • April 10, 2014

In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of creating a splash screen illustration using vector elements created in Illustrator and applying them to a template in Photoshop before exporting for the web. Splash Screen What exactly is a …