Designing for Retina Displays, Optimize Website for @2x Images

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Designing for Retina Displays, Optimize Website for @2x Images

Do you know what exactly is Retina? Do you know what makes it amazing or what makes it a nightmare for designers and developers? Well read on to understand the technology and the various ways you can optimize images to …

Polygonal Art in Web Design

Polygonal Art in Website Design

Polygonal art along with the Metro style began to agitate the minds of designers in the past year. Whereas style of Windows 8 immediately found itself in web design, Poly thoroughly settled in print industry representing as different illustrations that …

Alignment and Combining Objects in Adobe Illustrator

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 15 minutes Today we will be talking about objects alignment using the Align panel and combining them with the help of the Pathfinder panel and Shape Builder Tool. What you read here …

Polaris UI Free – User Interface Pack

Polaris UI Free - User Interface Pack

Polaris UI Free is a set of beautiful free UI components, which includes Edit Boxes, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Page Navigation, Menu, Buttons and more. Use this UI Kit in any of your projects, and even learn with it, by …

A Quick Guide to Serif Fonts

A Quick Guide to Serifs Fonts

Even if you’re an experienced designer, it’s never a bad time to refresh your memory a little with the structure of serif typefaces, a few recommendations and a little history. Yes, there’s history. It’s painless I promise. Humanist and Old …

Retina Ready Images and Responsive Web Design

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Retina Ready Images and Responsive Web Design

I want you to clearly understand what Retina Display is. In the simplest of terms, it means a high definition display, that’s it. Also, Apple products are not excusive to this type of display. Retina Display is simply Apple’s term …

Characters and Mascots in Web Design and their Role

Characters and Mascots in Web Design and their Role

What is your first action as soon as you visit a website. You explore its graphics, user-interface elements, the logotype (branding) and the content is last. But have you ever thought what makes you remember the site except for the …

How to Use Icon Fonts in Your Website

How to Use Icon Fonts in Your Website

Icon fonts are quickly becoming a web design trend and there is a good reason for that. Creating icons with icon fonts gives designers the ability to manipulate the icons with CSS. The days of creating two different icon images …

Creating Objects Using Basic Geometric Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

Creating Objects Using Basic Geometric Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 10 minutes The shape of most objects represents a combination of simple geometric shapes. Therefore it is very important to learn how to work effectively with the tools that create such objects. …

Create a Simple Contact Form in Adobe Photoshop

Create a Simple Contact Form in Adobe Photoshop

Software: Adobe Photoshop Difficulty: Beginner Estimated completion time: 40 minutes In this tutorial we will show you how to design a Contact Form with Adobe Photoshop. When using a website, users have a particular goal. If designed well, the website …