Primer on Types of Navigation in Mobile Apps

Types of Navigation in Mobile App Designs - List Grid Top Bottom Expanding

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 …

Easy Mobile Browser Testing with Chrome Emulation

Easy Mobile Browser Testing with Chrome Emulation

Testing designs across multiple browsers has always been a pain. When you add in various devices and their resolutions, you have quite the headache on your hands. How do you know that your navigation menu is responsive across all resolutions? …

Using backface-visibility and CSS Animations

Using backface-visibility and CSS Animations

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

5 Key Elements of User Friendly Notifications

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

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The power of microcopy in web design

“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

5 essential elements for e-commerce websites

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

How to create a splash screen illustration in Illustrator and Photoshop

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 …

Fresh Breath of Polygonal Style in Website Design

Fresh Breath of Polygonal Style in Website Design

Polygonal style has definitely found renewed interest. Amid extensive use of flat style graphics, visual storytelling solutions, rich content media approaches and a great deal of websites based on dynamic layouts, polygonal style — which was enormously popular several years …

5 Proven Ways to Make “No Results” Pages Work for You

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5 Proven Ways to Make “No Results” Pages Work for You

Nowadays you can hardly find a website that doesn’t have a search bar regardless of whether or not it really needs one. The idea of having all possible features installed on your website “just in case” may actually prove to …

35+ Free Abstract Background Pattern and Texture Designs

35+ Free Abstract Background Pattern and Texture Designs

Background pattern designs are pretty useful for web designers as they can really make a website stand out from the crowd. Some websites simply are in need of a neat background pattern, in order to get rid of the simplicity …