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22May By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 593

Building a Personal [Origami] Website in 2021 – Useful tips for those who want to create their own personal website. Storybook addons for CSS – Tools that streamline the CSS debugging process. Iconoir – A free, open-source collection of 900+ SVG icons to use in your projects. UX Lex – Stay up-to-date with this evolving, interactive glossary of UX research terms. Breakpoints – Use this Figma plugin to preview your responsive page layouts. Signflow Free WordPress Theme – A free startup & technology WordPress theme that could be used for building startup web sites, web services, businesses, internet services, and so much more. As a Freelance Designer, What Is Your Unique Selling Point? – How designers can harness the power of a USP (Unique Selling Point). 5 steps to faster web fonts – Tak...

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18May By Hongkiat LimNo Comments

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10 Best Podcasts For Web Designers in 2021

Designing and development are one of the most common professional fields in today’s world that are ever changing and updating their technology and have multi-talented individuals working in it. Owing to the ever-evolving nature of their field, designers and developers are always looking for support from useful resources. Podcasts are one of the resources that can help designers through their professional journey. So, here’s a list of some interesting podcasts for designers, developers, and creative professionals featuring interviews from experts in the field and tips and tricks to brush up design knowledge. Take a look at the brief intro for each podcast to know which one so you want to start with. 21 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers 21 Productivity Tips for Freelanc...

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8May By Hongkiat LimNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (February 2021)

HTML, JavaScript, and CSS are three wonderful languages. Thanks to the advancement of the frameworks around these languages especially Electron, we are now able to develop a full-fledge desktop application more efficiently that could run on several different operating systems and platforms whether it’s on Windows, macOS, Linux, or mobile applications. In this round of the series, we are going to look into some of these frameworks along with some great examples of apps as well as other cool resources for the month. Let’s jump in for the full list. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (January 2021) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (January 2021) We've finally made it to 2021! Wishing this year will bring joy, love, peace, and happiness to everyone....

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1May By Paul AndrewNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 590

FigJam Simple Wireframe Templates – A free library that adds missing wireframing components to Figma’s new online whiteboard FigJam. Why Web Designers Should Learn Multiple CMS – A few reasons why we think learning multiple CMS can be a good thing for every web designer. Profiling Site Speed – This article explains how to use the Chrome DevTools Performance tab to profile your site and interpret the results. The Making (and Potential Benefits) of a CSS Font – This is “just” HTML controlled with CSS, but still, it is software and it gets the message through. Yoome Free WooCommerce Theme – A free WooCommerce WordPress theme for creating stunning online shopping stores. Checklist to Starting Your Freelance Graphic Design Business – To help set you up for success, Dribbble have shared a comple...

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28Apr By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (April 2021)

A great product these days relies on the ecosystem. Imagine iPhone without the apps or WordPress without the plugins. They won’t be as useful as they are now. In this round of the series, let’s take a look at some of the resources that support popular tools or libraries. Here we have quite a handful of React.js libraries, a couple of WordPress plugins, some VSCode extensions, and a lot more. Let’s jump in for the full list. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (March 2021) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (March 2021) JavaScript is a wonderful language. You can build nearly anything with JavaScript; from a simple website, desktop application... Read more Mesh Gradient A Figma plugin that allows you to generate a beautiful Mesh Gradient. It ...

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19Apr By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (March 2021)

JavaScript is a wonderful language. You can build nearly anything with JavaScript; from a simple website, desktop application to a mobile application and what not. In this round of the series, we are going to explore some useful resources related to JavaScript. The post contains a list of utilities, tools, and overall resources built with JavaScript. For example, we have a full-stack framework for development and deploy an app, a JavaScript bundler, and a handful of VSCode extensions. Let’s jump in for the full list. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (February 2021) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (February 2021) HTML, JavaScript, and CSS are three wonderful languages. Thanks to the advancement of the frameworks around these languages... ...

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28Mar By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 585

100 underline/overlay animations | The ultimate CSS collection – Use this collection to find the perfect CSS animation for your project. Why Thinking Ahead Is Crucial in Web Design – Learn how to design websites with the future in mind. Charts.css – Check out this modern CSS framework that styles HTML elements as charts. Conditional animations with CSS properties – Make your website more accessible by loading animations based on a user’s “reduced motion” OS settings. Evergreen CSS Flex Layouts With Live Demos – A collection of common layouts that you can copy and paste right into your own site. 5 Common WordPress Myths Debunked – Some of the things you read about WordPress just aren’t true. This post will set the record straight. Foont. – How well do you know fonts? This quick game will pu...

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13Mar By Carrie CousinsNo Comments

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27 Exciting New Tools For Designers, March 2021

Looking for something new to get you excited about design work? This list is packed with all kinds of goodies to help you feel inspired and ready to work. Here’s what new for designers this month. Top Picks for March Same Energy Same Energy, in beta, is a visual search engine. You can search with a minimum number of words or an image. The website is designed to help you find art, photography, decoration ideas, and practically anything. It uses deep learning and algorithms to create images on the home page, and you can create feeds in the same manner. The coolest part of this tool is that it tries to match the visual and artistic style you ask for with image mood and objects. SVG Repo SVG Repo is a collection of more than 300,000 SVG vectors and icons that you can download and use in proje...

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1Mar By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (January 2021)

We’ve finally made it to 2021! Wishing this year will bring joy, love, peace, and happiness to everyone. To start 2021, we’ve gathered a number of fresh resources for our fellow web developers. In this round of the series, we have gathered some self-hosted applications that you can easily manage on your own such as an app for social networking, an SVG editor, and an app for marketing automation to name a few. Without further ado, let’s see the full list below. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (December 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (December 2020) We are finally at the end of 2020, an unprecedented year of the decade, and with that we... Read more Coding Fonts A list of fonts for coding that shows each font with HTML, CSS, and ...

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11Feb By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (December 2020)

We are finally at the end of 2020, an unprecedented year of the decade, and with that we are also back with bring fresh resources for our fellow web developers. This year specifically, I’ve seen Laravel ecosystem thrived with new packages, libraries, and tools. In this round of the series we will explore Laravel ecosystem more such as the latest new tool to spin up a localhost environment with Docker and a couple packages that makes creating web application quicker and easier, along with other type of resources. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (November 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (November 2020) We are almost at the end of 2020. Many things unprecedented have happened this year, but it does... Read more DevFonts A collectio...

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8Feb By Carrie CousinsNo Comments

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23 Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2021

We’re going to try something a little different this month; with this roundup of tools and resources for designers, we’re going to pick a few of our favorites and group everything else in a manner that makes it even easier to find elements that will work for you, and your projects, right now. Here’s what’s new for designers this month… February’s Top Picks Pika Pika is a new Mac app that is an open-source color picker. It helps you find color swatches on-screen, saving time and design headaches. Plus, it’s packed with bonuses such as the ability to confirm accessibility compliance for colors, compact size and style, easy to access from your desktop, and format-friendly with plenty of color code options. Iconduck Iconduck is a searchable database of more than 100,000 icons in one place. (N...

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6Feb By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 578

Pika – Download this easy to use, open-source, native color picker for macOS. Luxa CSS – A minimalist CSS framework to help you design and build quickly. KTRZ Monokai – Coders, check out this minimal Visual Studio Code theme with the Monokai color scheme. Where Two-Factor Authentication Falls Short – 2FA’s dependence on a mobile device can cause all sorts of problems. Uniwidth typefaces for interface design – Examples of how to implement this handy type technique. Measuring, Defining and Improving Productivity: The Design Productivity Blueprint – An inside look at Spotify’s tool for measuring designer productivity. How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts – Real-world solutions to keep typography from causing large shifts in page layout. Are High-Quality Free WordPress Themes a Thing...

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30Jan By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 577

Video Tutorial: How to Create a Stained Glass Window Effect – Craft a stunning effect in Adobe Illustrator with this tutorial. The State of Design in 2021 – A survey of over 1,000 designers, asking them how they work, what they value, and what kinds of challenges they’re facing. 8 Examples of Icon-Based Navigation, Enhanced with CSS and JavaScript – Some interesting examples of how icons can improve website navigation. VISIWIG Vector Pattern Generator – Create seamless patterns and export them to your favorite editing software. Doing Away With Bad Design Ideas and Moving on to the Good Ones – A few strategies creative professionals can use to quickly do away with all those bad design ideas, and move on to the good ones. On-Scroll Letter Animations – A small set of examples showing how lett...

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3Jan By Paul AndrewNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 573

Our 50 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools from 2020 The Rules of Margin Collapse – Joshw Comeau unravels the mystery that is known as “margin collapse.” 50 Best Websites of 2020 – Here’s a collection of the websites that Webdesigner Depot loved in 2020. Typography Principles – The Obys Agency shares some of their typography principles that help improve your experience. Reducing Motion in Animations – This article will demonstrate how to use the prefers-reduced-motion media feature in both CSS and JS to offer alternative interactions for users. Infinite Scroll: What Is It Good For? Uisual – A collection of minimally designed free HTML & CSS (no JS) landing page templates for startups. Deadlines – A simple, offline deadline tracker made with Vue.js and localForage. 10 M...

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27Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (June 2020)

PHP turns 25 this month, and the alpha-stage of PHP 8 will be released this year. PHP was once developed as merely a tool to create a “Personal Home Page” and its developer never intended it to be a programming language. But today PHP is a full-fledged programming language that powers more than half of the websites, services, tools, and servers on the planet. To celebrate its birthday, in this round of the series, we put together various PHP resources. From WordPress plugins, an MVC framework, tool to run automate testing with a browser to a couple of references to create PHP extensions. Let’s get started. How to Upgrade PHP to Latest Version How to Upgrade PHP to Latest Version PHP7.4 has been released with a handful of new features — like the arrow function array_map(fn (F...

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27Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2020)

At the time of this writing, Google has just completed web.dev live webinar. A 3-day event featuring the latest of web development, performance, and tools to build the web. So, in today’s post, we’ll feature a couple of the interesting outputs of the event as well as a number of handy tools to ease your work and workflows as web developers. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (June 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (June 2020) PHP turns 25 this month, and the alpha-stage of PHP 8 will be released this year. PHP was... Read more Core Web Vitals An overview of Google latest performance metrics for the Web called Core Web Vitals. The Core Web Vitals feature metrics such as as Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), and ...

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27Dec By Hongkiat LimNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (August 2020)

While we tended to focus our list on specific fields in the previous installment of this series, our list for today will be more diverse. In fact, we’ve put together, not only some handy tools, but also sites where you can find more references and various tools within design and web development fields. So, let’s take a look at this month’s list of fresh resources. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2020) At the time of this writing, Google has just completed web.dev live webinar. A 3-day event featuring the... Read more DesignResourc.es A collection of resources for designers. Here you can find tools, websites, and inspiration for any category related to design, both paid and free. For ex...

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27Dec By MonsterPost EditorialNo Comments

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Ideas of Christmas Presents for Graphic Designers

Picking out Christmas presents for graphic designers is always thrilling for me, especially if I sincerely love a person. Maybe I am too serious and worry too much about things that should bring nothing but joy and happiness. In any case, I can do nothing about it and start preparing for a coming event beforehand. Hate grabbing some useless stuff at the last moment and presenting it to the guest of honor taking an educated guess and squealing “Surprise!” How do you choose presents for your friends? Do you have any secrets to share? I take person’s occupation and passion into consideration. As I work for the IT company, it’s quite understandable that most of my friends and acquaintances are designers, artists, and simply creative people. That’s why this blog post is actually a compilatio...

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27Dec By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 570

Why it’s good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages – Separating structure, styles and interactivity isn’t so bad, after all. Viral – A free typeface that bills itself as a “recipe for quarantining in 2020”. Download it, if you’re into that sort of thing. Atkinson Hyperlegible – This free font provides greater legibility for low vision readers. Examining the Evolution of the Typical Web Design Client – A look at how clients have changed since the early days of web design. Native Aspect Ratio Boxes in CSS thanks to aspect-ratio – Learn how to define a preferred aspect ratio for your design elements. Avoiding ‘Wasteful’ CSS in Your Projects – Tools and techniques that will help rid your site of unused CSS styles. Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts – Why self-hosting your fo...

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26Dec By Carrie CousinsNo Comments

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Exciting New Tools for Designers, December 2020

Jumpstart your next design project or speed up a workflow with some of these new tools and resources. With so many new tools being developed all the time, you are almost certain to find something that can help you with projects. Here’s what new for designers this month. Everypixel Patterns Everypixel Patterns solves a common design problem: Creating seamless patterns with graphic editors is such a long and exhausting process. That’s why some people choose to get patterns from stock websites but that can be a challenge too (and difficult to search). This tool makes getting patterns less time-consuming. It includes a gallery of well-designed content, which you can customize and edit as needed.  Multiavatar Multiavatar is a free and open-source multicultural avatar maker. Type something in th...

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26Dec By byNo Comments

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A Designer’s Life with Color Vision Deficiency – A List Apart

So, what is it like to be color blind and also work in the web design and development industry? I’ll answer that question throughout this article, but it’s something that’s always factored into my thoughts, given my passion for design and now my career. I wonder if having “normal” vision would have made me a better artist growing up. Would it make me better at my job now? Would I have pursued a more design-oriented career, as opposed to one that’s more dev-focused? These are just some of the things that pop into my head. Article Continues Below As to my job and my color vision, no, colorblindness doesn’t affect my work as much as you’d think. During design meetings, I can quickly point out areas where we need to reconsider our color palette. While reviewing layouts, I’m able to e...

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26Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (October 2020)

Even though that the website would mostly consist of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it is built with many languages on the backend. We can also build website with Ruby, PHP, Python, Go, Java, etc. So, in this installment of the series, we are going to try widening our coverage of the list. You will find an e-Commerce platform built with Ruby, a end-to-end web testing tool with Python, and let’s jump in to see the full list. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (September 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (September 2020) We've seen a tremendous activity from the PHP as well as the JavaScript community, especially on Twitter. There... Read more Playwright for Python Playwright is a tool to automate interacting with browsers . DiagramPlus A ...

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26Dec By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 571

How to Help Your Clients with Website Content Strategy – How to get the processes of creating and organizing content moving in the right direction. Devbook – A new kind of search engine made just for developers. What Makes CSS Hard To Master – Thoughts on what frustrates some developers about CSS. The Grumpy Designer Looks Ahead to 2021 – The definitive tongue-in-cheek look at how the new year will impact the web design community. 10 new rules of design – Leading experts say that it’s time to move past “Eurocentric” ideas. Do you agree? Adobe just released the last Flash update ever – The last update for the venerable app. Official support will stop at the end of 2020. Horizontal Smooth Scroll Layouts – Some ideas for horizontal smooth scrolling layouts powered by Locomotive Scroll. How to...

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26Dec By SpeckyboyNo Comments

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Weekly News for Designers № 572

2020 Web Design Year in Review – A look back at some important and interesting developments that impacted web designers this past year. Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF) – Use this handy reference to solve your most tedious SEO issues. Wavelry – Create your own custom wave graphics with this browser-based tool. You can export your work in either PNG or SVG format. Radix UI – An open-source UI component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps. 8 Ways for Bringing Creativity to Hyperlinks with CSS & JavaScript – Dress up your links for better user experience and accessibility. Sticky CSS Grid Items – Learn the technique behind making an element sticky within a CSS Grid layout. Fluent Icons – Grab this huge library of open-source icons from none ...

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26Dec By Editorial TeamNo Comments

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22 Amazing Gifts For Designers – 2020 Edition

We have collected 22 fantastic Christmas gifts for all your creative web designer and graphic designer friends out there. While not exhaustive, these are some of the best gifts for designers available right now, just in time for your holiday shopping. Ready? Let’s get started with our 2019 gift guide! The Rocketbook notebook provides a classic pen and paper experience, yet is built for the digital age. Although it feels like a traditional notebook, the Rocketbook is endlessly reusable and connected to all of your favorite designer’s relevant cloud services. When your designer friend writes using any pen from the Pilot Frixion line, their writing sticks to Rocketbook pages like regular paper. But add a drop of water… and the notebook erases like magic. Designed for those who want an endle...

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26Dec By Thoriq FirdausNo Comments

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (November 2020)

We are almost at the end of 2020. Many things unprecedented have happened this year, but it does not stop us to share fresh resources for our fellow developers. In this round of the series, we’ve put together resources that can help developers to improve their understanding of the Web such as a guide on DOM (Document Object Model), JavaScript, and Hacklang as well as tools to make them more productive. Let’s jump in to see the full list. Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (October 2020) Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (October 2020) Even though that the website would mostly consist of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it is built with many... Read more Understanding the DOM DOM is an API provided in the browsers that allows you to access HTML ...

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