A Quick Guide to Sans-Serif Fonts

A Quick Guide to Sans-Serif Fonts

If you go back and read my guide to serifs, you’ll notice a trend with the shape of serif type overtime. As you move from old humanist type to the slick Modern serif, the stroke contrast is more apparent, the …

Clean and Neat Outline Components in Website Design

Clean and Neat Outline Components in Website Design

Transparent outline boxes are quite rare components in a website design. In order to use them properly and effectively, the project should have a solid foundation that will provide a striking contrast between background and foreground elements. Certainly, such a …

Eye-Catching Mobile App Interfaces with Sleek Gradient Effect

Eye-Catching Mobile App Interfaces with Sleek Gradient Effect

With iOS 7 we took a fresh look at gradient effect that, to be honest, is one of the simplest embellishments in designers’ toolkit. It has numerous variations that can either liven up or, vice versa, ruin the design, crucially …

Touch of Perfect Shape Website Designs Featuring Circular Navigation

Touch of Perfect Shape Website Designs Featuring Circular Navigation

A perfect, some say ‘divine’, shape of a circle always captured the attention of designers that got used to sharp, hard-edged rectangular forms of buttons, frames of images, and columns that are quite often can be found in website layouts. …

The Battle of the Product: Communication in the Design Process

The Battle of the Product: Communication in the Design Process

In this article Marcin Treder of UXPin – The UX Design App explains the principles of optimizing design process and spreading a design-centered culture across the organization. If you want to learn more on theory and practice of delivering remarkable …

Modern Lock, Home, Start and Login Screens used in Mobile Apps

Modern Lock, Home, Start and Login Screens used in Mobile Apps

Today we are going to take a gander at various basic and fundamental functional screens that are intrinsic to the majority of mobile applications as well as a mobile operating system. Our discussion is particularly centered on the home screen, …

Glossy and Transparent Elements in Mobile App Interfaces

Glossy and Transparent Elements in Mobile App Interfaces

Transparency – is an effect that works well both on a large and small screen. It is skilled in creating contrast and a firm foundation for navigations, control centers and content, providing them with solid layouts. It is also able …

How to Control Gradient Mesh in Illustrator

How to Control Gradient Mesh in Illustrator

I met a lot of graphic designers who avoid working with a gradient mesh by a reason of the complexity of controlling the object. I also met real fans of gradient meshes that create real photorealistic artworks with their help. …

Tricky Balance: Great Examples of Content Heavy Website Designs

Tricky Balance: Great Examples of Content Heavy Website Designs

In the world of information overload, content-heavy website designs are slowly but surely becoming the usual thing. And this feature is not only typical for eCommerce and news-related websites, but also for a great deal of other regular websites such …

Sleek Charts and Graphs Mobile Apps featuring Statistics

Sleek Charts and Graphs Mobile Apps featuring Statistics

We are surrounded by a huge amount of information traffic that sometimes is difficult to comprehend in its pristine form. In order to skillfully interpret quite boring statistics designers to employ verily unique methods that generally involve simple but effective …