35 Free Time-Saving Web Apps for Web Designers from 2016 - Speckyboy Design Magazine All released this year, each of these free web-based apps offers a time-saving solution to many of the web design tasks you will need to perform from time to time. Without ever having to install anything, all you have to do is bookmark and save them for that day when they will be called upon. Some of these tiny time-savers will help to manage the performance budget of a project, organize code snippets, create professional design briefs, generate CSS animations, or even give detailed stats about CSS stylesheets. Whatever the time-saver you’re looking for, the chances are you will find them here. The Web Designer Toolbox Unlimited Downloads: 1,000,000+ Web Templates, Themes, Plugins, Design Assets, and much more! We’ve categorized all of the apps and tools into: Web Typography Tools, CSS Tools, Responsive Web Design Tools, Web Performance Tools, Checklists & Guides, Image Tools & Editors, Handy Directories, and finally a bunch of uncategorizable Miscellaneous Tools. Web Typography Tools
PSDCovers • Photoshop Mockups For Product Presentation Best Free Css Hover Effects As you know, Css Hover Effect plays as an important role in developing a website.In this post, I would like to give you some best free css hover effects which can help your site become more attractive and useful. Now, let discover these items with below css hover effect list. 1: Subtle Hover Effects Subtle Hover Effect is an inspirational collection which can make your site become more unique. For the structure Subtle Effects are simply used a grid with figures. With some general styles defined for the grid and its items, then specify the individual effects.Now, let come with Subtle 2: Caption Hover Effects In this section, I would like to introduce you other Css Hover Effects, Caption. 3: Direction-Aware Hover Effects with CSS3 and JQuery Hey guys! 4: Animated Text and Icon Menu with JQuery. To continue this collection, you will have a chance to know about Animated Text and Icon Menu with JQuery which helps you create beautiful menu with good animation feature on hover. 6: CSS3 Hover Effects
Correcteur Typographique En Ligne The Beauty of Ultra-Minimal Web Design - Speckyboy Design Magazine Over the years web designers have seen many trends come and go. While very few design trends will ever be thought of as evergreen, those that do move on generally leave a small impression on the next generation of trends. One timeless web design trend that has been around for quite a while and has imprinted its style onto many other popular trends is minimalism. Much like standard minimalism, to the untrained eye it might initially appear that all it takes to create an ultra-minimalist site is to strip away all of the non-essential elements and components, and merely replace them with whitespace. Every single pixel has to be carefully arranged to produce optimum results. What does a typical ultra-minimal website look like? Cole Townsend Sang Han Tim Brack Dennis Adelmann Brian Nathan Hartwell Velvet Hammer Kerem Suer Rob Wootten We ain’t plastic Ryan Paonessa Jessica Caldwell Buero Socket Studios Michiel de Graaf Alessandro Scarpellini Piet Oudolf
Life In Denmark By Numbers Here at Wimdu we love learning about living habits around the world, and finding out what is normal in one country but really strange or unusual in another. We recently looked at 150,000 Wimdu apartments around the world to see what patterns might emerge. This is what we discovered about Denmark! Denmark Is An Animal Paradise Britain might be a “nation of dog lovers” but only 11% of Wimdu hosts in the UK allow their guests to bring their four-legged friend with them. Smoking Indoors? Denmark seems almost strangely relaxed about letting people light up: a staggering 90% of Danish hosts said they would be happy to let their Wimdu guests smoke in their house or apartment. No Arguing Over The Dishes 78% of our Danish properties feature a dishwasher – leading to what we imagine must be a harmonious home life! And Finally… Keeping The Temperature Up Keeping warm is (perhaps not that surprisingly) a common concern in the Nordic countries! Looking for holiday accommodation in Denmark?
Top 10 Sites for Designers: September 2016 Edition Every month, HOW art director Adam Ladd curates a list of inspiring websites of particular interest to designers and creatives. This month’s selection includes a hub for UX design tools and resources, a quick and easy invoicing tool, a collection of motion graphics, and a few gorgeous sites for web design inspiration. 1. Sans Francisco sansfrancis.co A collection of digital tools for designers, this punnily-named website is one to bookmark for your next project. 2. teletype.online Teletype uses an endearing, subtly animated mascot to welcome you to their site. 3. foxcodex.html.xdomain.jp I’m hoping the full site for this one will be translated into English at some point, because it’s beyond helpful. 4. mixtheplay.britishcouncil.org It’s your turn to be the director: direct your own version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with this website from the British Council. 5. pricingpages.xyz 6. nowdue.ai 7. draft.co.jp 8. beyondthemap.withgoogle.com/en-us 9. wherecardsfall.com 10.
20 Incredible Book Covers Non-Designers Can Pull Off [with Free Templates] Judging books by their covers isn’t an uncommon thing. Turns out, 79% of people say that a book’s cover plays a decisive role in their decision to make a purchase. You don’t want to rely on that remaining 21% as your entire market — they’re just buying J.K. Rowling and Dan Brown. But what if you’re a non-designer and you can’t design anything complicated? Ready to be inspired? Close Not sure how to use this article? Click here to learn how Canva users all over the world are solving their real-world problems with the help of these articles. 01. If there’s one thing we learned from the Bauhaus (the pioneers of Modernist design), it’s that being bold pays off. Think about those Mad Men advertisements: Red, black, white and bold. 02. Drawing attention to one element cutting through space generates a fantastic sensory reaction from the viewer. Bonus points for the double meaning of “shedding a light on the ethics of interrogation practices”, and for making us feel like we’ll be in on a secret. 03.
Design Elements and Principles - Tips and Inspiration By Canva Design is an intricate, complicated, fun and exciting business. There’s always a lot to learn, a lot to do, and a lot to consider when you’re a beginner – not to mention the fact that technology is constantly evolving, new software is being released, and new trends are coming at you rapid-fire. Truth be told, it can get a little overwhelming. So, let’s slow things down a little bit. 01. I’m sure we’re all aware of what lines are, but just to be sure, lines can be defined as any linear marks. Lines can channel certain ideas too. A technique applied a lot in photography is the use of ‘leading lines’ which do just what they claim – they lead the eye. Lets look at an example of leading lines in web design. A strong use of line is a great way to stylise your illustrations. Lines are versatile, simple and effective graphic elements that you certainly should not take for granted! 02. Scale is a large part of design, sometimes literally. Scale can help us make sense of designs and images. 03.
10 Indispensable Typography Terms, Illustrated Have you created an incredible hand-lettering project or cleverly featured type in your design work? Enter your work into the PRINT Typography & Lettering Awards! Earlier this summer, Fontsmith put together a lovely and informative poster entitled “The A-Z of typographic terms” featuring an alphabetical visual glossary of typography terms, a project intended to publicize its new typeface FS Aldrin. See the full poster at Fontsmith.com Not only did we think it was a pretty clever marketing move, but the poster itself is gorgeous—we were quick to print a copy for our wall. Here’s what Phil Garnham, Type Design Director at Fontsmith, had to say about it: As type designers we can get immersed in an insular typographical bubble at times. Each of the individual typography terms is so nicely visualized that we thought we’d take a closer look at a few of them: Typography Terms from Fontsmith: Anti-aliasing Semi-transparent pixels along the edges of letterform outlines to smooth jagged edges Beak Glyph
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Cinco ‘apps’ de fotografía que te ayudarán a hacer más atractivo tu piso en venta — idealista/news Actualmente vivimos en un mundo predominantemente visual, especialmente si nuestro objetivo es conseguir miles de visitas en el anuncio de venta de nuestro piso o en nuestra web inmobiliaria. Enfoquemos entonces nuestros esfuerzos en captar y mantener esas miradas durante los primeros 4 segundos en los que un usuario o potencial cliente decide si le atrae la imagen y, de ser así, seguir leyendo el anuncio. Jugamos con los avances tecnológicos a nuestro favor. Ya no es necesario ser profesional de la fotografía para tomar buenas instantáneas. Snapseed: Es una aplicación para la edición de fotografía que cuenta con las mejores opciones de filtros con miles de diferentes combinaciones y es, además, de muy fácil manejo. LightTrac: Está disponible para los tres principales sistemas operativos, iOS, Android y Windows y ofrece ayuda para saber el momento del día en el que la luz será más adecuada para la fotografía, dependiendo del lugar exacto en el que se quieran tomar.
Spray and Pray Doesn’t Work: How to Identify and Target Micro Segments As marketers, we’re all trying to improve the customer experience and increase conversions. We have these things in common. However, some marketers are much better at doing so than others. What is comes down to is that delivering a single message to your entire customer base is an inherently flawed strategy. High-value customers, frequent browsers, seldom purchasers, brand enthusiasts and first-time visitors are all differently characterized and must be engaged uniquely. This is where customer micro-segmentation comes into play. The way to reach micro-customer-segments with resonating messages is by taking a two-pronged approach: Developing deep customer segmentsTailoring personalized or customized messages to each segment to guide them through their decision-making Segmentation and the Big Data Problem There’s a challenge to targeting micro-segments: taking vast piles of behavioral data garnered from customer interactions and coaxing meaning out of it is hard. Are these numbers useful? 1. 2.
Free PSD Mockup templates for Website, Application designs - YoArts If you’re a designer, this collection are a great resource to have on hand, you’ll be displaying your work professionally in no time! Responsive Showcase Free PSD Mockup It’s common use to showcasing our web design/app creations on Apple devices. With this resource I wanted to provide you a different version of Apple products: not realistic but minimal, following the flat trending in web and app design. Enjoy! Download link Here is the free PSD of the devices. Download This freebie contains PSD mockups of latest devices such as iMac, iPhone 5c, iPad Air and Mac Book pro. Size: 2300 x 1200 pixels (PSD) Smart Objects PSD: Yes Size: 23 MB (zip) License: Royalty-free, Free for personal and commercial use Download Responsive Showcase PSD Mockups Fell free to use it! Download the EPS from the attachment Free Flat Responsive Web Mockups including 4 Flat Devices: Macbook, iMac, iPhone and iPad. The PSD file is layered, easy to edit and ready for you to add in your mockups. Pay with a tweet Download here