The goal of every design is to successfully communicate a message. Visual hierarchy enables you to organize information and elements so that the message can be communicated easily. Hierarchies also enable the design to tell a story to communicate the …
Believe it or not but the checkout process starts much earlier than when someone is literally making a purchase from their online cart. In order to improve checkout conversions, you need to ensure that the whole shopping experience is wonderful; …
Material Design is a new visual language Google created to unify its various products. When Google announced the material design concept, it also released some documentation to allow curious minds to browse through their visual guidelines. The Material Design document …
When it comes to contact pages, they should have a wonderful user experience. Contact pages are the gateway to getting people to, well, contact you. If the page is not informative nor inviting it will be hard for a potential …
In the simplest of explanations, Google developed Material Design to unify the experiences users have across various Google platforms. Additionally, this unification is to bring improved overall experience a user has with technology by making the interaction easier, simpler and …
Forms are the gatekeepers of the internet. They are often filled out as a starting point for one’s journey – such as signing up for an account. They are also filled out in order to get to one’s account – …
The best way to enhance an experience, or to actually make it great, comes down to making the entire process simple for the user. There are many different things you can do to improve the login process. Here we’ll discuss …
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 …
“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 …
Over the last couple of years we saw such a change in web design that it is unbelievable to anticipate what could possibly the next hot things. However, I have a few hunches of my own as to what trends …
I have taken the liberty of asking the awesome Justin Mezzell for an interview to get inside his creative head. Who is he? A designer and illustrator currently living in Orlando, Florida with his wife, daughter, and an incredibly pampered …
Many websites out there use favicons for bookmarks in a browser. What about when they are bookmarked on an iPhone’s home screen? Favicons can be used to set the icons for when your website or web app is saved onto …
A little while ago I met Sacha at a bar in San Francisco where I got to chat with him and a bunch of other awesome people about design and other things like life outside of it, yes there is …
There is a lot of talk out there on the interwebz about great user experience. But what does it all mean? What makes an experience great? In the recent, the new buzzword is actually ‘delightful’ and that is the type …
To help make 2014 the most awesome year for you yet, here is a collection of amazing Photoshop plugins for you. I’m not saying you should download them all as they do a variety of things but browse through these …
There are so many different things that come to mind when you take a look at the examples below in terms of how or why they use square – or rectangular – elements. To just list a few some are …
In the daily world, we live in, and especially so in design, color influences us greatly. When it comes to design, color is a very meticulous thing that can make or break your whole design if you choose the wrong …
I have here a collection of interesting looking websites. The various elements, whether it is text, links, images or dictation they are misaligned, one on top of the other with lack of symmetry. They are most certainly something else. I …
With the recently launched iOS7 many websites and apps have been busy redesigning to match the newly set flat and thin iOS7 design style. Icons can be a tricky thing to get done right – especially if we are talking …
Honestly, this topic sounded a little bit strange to me when I first learned about responsive iconography, as we have recently adapted icon fonts in order to make sure they scale well for various device. However, the idea of responsive …
I took the liberty of interviewing an amazing designer, Marc O’Brien who calls himself a social designer and creative facilitator. He prides himself on leading workshops which address challenges through unique exercises which result in unexpected solutions that achieve a …
Today it is tougher and tougher for eCommerce website to stand out from one another as there are simply so many of them. However, some find a way to do any anyhow by implementing modern and cutting edge designs that …
I’m sure you have seen Rally Interactive’s amazing work on one inspiration glary if not another. Their work has provided me personally with so much inspiration and motivation, I had to get to know their way of going about design. …
Daryl is an awesome designer from United Kingdom, who many of you may know as the guy with the Batman avatar. I kid you not, he just might be him. However, on a more serious note, he is one hell …