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  Nataly Birch • January 27, 2016

  Gesture Icons Inspiration and Free Packages

  With the growth of mobile app designs, symbols that visualize various standard commands have become one of the sought-after kinds of graphical tools. They are used to enrich presentations of products and serve as accompanying material for multi-touch devices. There …

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  Nataly Birch • January 13, 2016

  Splendid Websites that Greet Users with Hello

  Taglines, slogans and other welcome messages are one of the most common instruments of verbal communication with users in website design. They untiringly mark front pages and set the tone of the project. Although we are accustomed to images and …

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  Nataly Birch • January 06, 2016

  List of Bootstrap Button Generators

  Everyone knows the point of using bootstrap generators, though maybe not everyone uses this help in their workflows. Some prefer to design/develop everything from scratch, and others opt in favor of saving time for other important things, deriving benefits from …

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  Nataly Birch • December 23, 2015

  Incredible Space-Themed Website Designs

  Planets, asteroids, stars, galaxies, black holes, satellites, aliens, rockets, astronauts, moons: We begin our incredible space odyssey. Let’s take off the ground and explore uncharted regions of the universe brought to life by gifted web designers and developers. The cosmic …

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  Nataly Birch • December 14, 2015

  Best Website Designs of 2015

  As we wave goodbye to 2015, it’s a good time to look back on some of the great design this year has had to offer. Many of the trends of 2015 showed up in the best website designs (and redesigns) …

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  Nataly Birch • December 07, 2015

  Black Website Examples: The Dark Side of Web Design

  In terms of color psychology, black is associated with mystery, aggression, evil, authority, elegance and strength. It can convey a broad range of feelings and emotions, covering both bad and good, and producing a high effect. It is widely used …

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  Nataly Birch • December 02, 2015

  Bold, Graphic and Delightful Material Design Icons

  As Google stated, the material design icon is an integral part of visual language used in web and app UIs; icons must be clear to all. To speak to any user, these tiny illustrations not only should be intuitive and …

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  Nataly Birch • November 20, 2015

  Best Practices for Websites with Looped Video Backgrounds

  Loop is a Boolean attribute of the video tag in HTML5 that is supported by the latest versions of modern browsers, including IE 9.0. It specifies a series of short movie clips that start over and over again. This feature …

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  Nataly Birch • November 13, 2015

  Collection of Free After Effects Mockups

  Using After Effects for user interface animation prototypes is a huge trend among designers. Dynamic gifs that vividly reveal workflow of upcoming apps has taken the community by the storm. Whether you showcase a primary navigation center that should slide …

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  Nataly Birch • October 16, 2015

  Embrace Minimalism – 3-Tone Icon Examples

  Some say that with three-tone coloring it is quite difficult to go wrong. This number of colors is considered to be the golden mean creates beautiful and eye-pleasing aesthetics while staying vibrant and vivid. This rule can be safely applied …

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  Nataly Birch • September 28, 2015

  Ripped in Half: Websites with 2-Column Layouts

  It is quite difficult to break away from a standard grid structure, with a system of well-organized columns and rows placed at regular intervals to provide a stable and responsive framework for multimedia and content. Sometimes the foundation is entirely …

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  Nataly Birch • September 14, 2015

  Interfusion – Best Australian Website Designs

  Creatives of world’s smallest continent have never suffered from a lack of stimulation, just take a glance at the best Australian website designs to see it yourself. Being inspired by mind-blowing indigenous aboriginal masterpieces, and at the same time, having …

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  Nataly Birch • September 08, 2015

  Visual Walkthrough: Examples of Tiny Animated Icon Gifs

  Who would have thought that a popular approach for mobile app developers would come in handy with iconography? Designers are eager to apply this trick even to the tiniest things — user unterface icons. To be completely honest, keeping icons …

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  Nataly Birch • August 28, 2015

  Best Practices for Line Icons in Website Design

  With highly popular flat and solid icons, line style glyphs rule the roost this year. They have found their place not only in traditional control centers, navigation bars, social media widgets or pagination but also in an inner structure such …

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  Nataly Birch • August 07, 2015

  GUIs, Wireframes and Sketch Templates for Apple Watch Apps

  Apple Watch is one of the hottest products of the year. Designers are going wild with their concepts for watch apps and mockups. Behance and Dribbble are filled with incredible, sophisticated and pioneering UI designs for the Apple Watch. If …

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  Nataly Birch • August 03, 2015

  List of Free Food Icons for Restaurant-Themed UIs

  Rigorous attention to detail is what converts a simple design into a real masterpiece. Although it seems that regular users will not notice the difference, however, as practice shows they not just feel but also see it. It is like …

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  Nataly Birch • July 23, 2015

  Trend Breakdown: New Ways to Use the Hamburger Icon

  Meant to be really simple, functional, intuitive and memorable like any “road sign,” the hamburger menu icon stole the show last year and became an integral element of any modern website and mobile app design, though it has been with …

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  Nataly Birch • July 19, 2015

  Progress Indicators as an Essential Part of Website

  Used mainly in online stores in order to increase conversion rates, progress indicators make users pass the required procedures which are necessary to complete the purchase. Along with a shopping cart, it is the basis of quality and thought-out site. …

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  Nataly Birch • June 26, 2015

  Fresh Trend in Navigation: Full-Screen Menus

  As with any integral detail of a user interface, menu design is changing with current trends. Some metamorphoses bring about positive results that refine user experience, but others can destroy favorable impressions. Following trends, especially when it comes to navigation, …

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  Nataly Birch • June 22, 2015

  Best Website Designs from the USA: Diverse and Racy

  No one can argue with the fact that United States is a unique country, where numerous ethnic groups, races, nationalities, as well as different cultures and religions coexist; just as our list of the best USA website designs fascinates online …

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  Nataly Birch • June 09, 2015

  Free UI Kits for Sketch App and Website Designers

  Sketch App has a great number of fans who take delight in giving stuff to their colleagues. Sharing is caring and the community tirelessly follows this ideology. Regardless of your level of knowledge, skills or experience, you can achieve great …

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  Nataly Birch • June 01, 2015

  Clever Use of Maps in Website Design

  When it comes to using of maps in website design, the unwritten rule is that regular contact pages are populated with Google maps to display location of a company/agency/shop/hotel etc. With just a little imagination and powerful helping hand provided …

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  Nataly Birch • April 29, 2015

  Best Website Designs from Japan

  An atmosphere of harmony, integrity and serenity is highly prevalent in Japanese-based website designs. Even if the project gets its flawless appearance from extravagant visuals or is driven by ultra-modern features or dynamic effects that should add some chaos and …

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  Nataly Birch • April 17, 2015

  Free Plugins for Sketch App in Help to Improve Workflow

  While the team at the Bohemian Coding continues improving its leading product, constantly revamping and reinforcing list of features, the designer/developer community does not just sit around, it also makes its significant contribution. Some give away pre-made graphic stuff that …