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A/B Testing: Usability From A to B

A/B Testing: Usability From A to B

Usability is an often discussed part of design, but it seems to be very poorly understood. While most people understand the concept of usability, many people don’t know how to use it in their workflow, how to get… Read More

Inspiring Drinks Labels: Positive Reasons for Turning to The Bottle

Inspiring Drinks Labels: Positive Reasons for Turning to The Bottle

It makes sense that if you’re designing a website, you take inspiration from other websites. This explains the popularity of so many web design and CSS galleries. Sometimes though, getting inspiration from the same sources can get a… Read More

50 Clean & Minimalistic Web Designs That'll Inspire You

50 Clean & Minimalistic Web Designs That’ll Inspire You

This time we’re having a look at some web designs that are examples of true art: keeping it simple. Making a simple and clean design can be quite a challenge for any of us, and it usually needs… Read More

15+ Community Based Portfolio Websites to Showcase Your Work

15+ Community Based Portfolio Websites to Showcase Your Work

Being involved in creative industries like graphic or web design requires talent and good marketing, especially if you are a freelancer. With the common internet connection and social media these days, sharing anything online is just as easy… Read More

35 Free WordPress Themes For Personal Bloggers

35 Free WordPress Themes For Personal Bloggers

WordPress is already a widely used blogging platform. One of the reasons is the ease of customizing its look to suit your needs and preferences. Many bloggers have designed their theme to stand out among others while there… Read More

Exploit Your Strengths to Become an Expert in Your Field

Exploit Your Strengths to Become an Expert in Your Field

We all have our own strengths and weaknesses, and each of us varies in how good we are in one area over another. Design and development are very talent-driven fields, and because of this, there seems to be… Read More

How Music Can Positively Influence Your Designs

How Music Can Positively Influence Your Designs

If you’ve ever had trouble getting a certain style down while designing, or you’re thirsty for some fresh design inspiration, then use music to positively influence your designs. Music and visual design have a lot in common. See,… Read More

How to Use The Pencil Tool and The Paintbrush Tool to Pimp Your Picture

How to Use The Pencil Tool and The Paintbrush Tool to Pimp Your Picture

In this tutorial, I will use a treasure chest for a quick Adobe Illustrator CS4 tutorial to show you how to polish a simple picture with mostly the Pencil Tool (N) and the Paintbrush Tool (B). I won’t… Read More

Pixel Art: Create a Better Favicon For Your Website

Pixel Art: Create a Better Favicon For Your Website

Favicons are small pixel-size icons which are short for Favorite Icons, or icons that are intended to be viewed next to a website title when bookmarked. They also show up in the URL section of a web browser… Read More

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