7 Rules To Creating A Professional Portfolio Site If you decided to get involved in web design, no matter what your particular profession is about, sooner or later you will need a portfolio site where your expertise will be showcased. Why is it so important to have a portfolio? The point is that most clients only believe what they see, and your personal portfolio is the visual proof for them to witness your expertise, taste, and personality. But a portfolio site can be a double-edged sword. We summarized these principles into 7 essential rules for you to build or improve your portfolio site, so let’s just get started with rule #1, after jump! Rule 1: Keep Your Objectives Keeping a strong core objective is the key to every successful online portfolio as it lets you know what you have to do, and what the clients should expect. (Image Source: Fotolia) Below, we will explain to you that there are several purposes possible for a portfolio creation: Rule 2: Stick to simplicity Less is more. Rule 3: Be sure to provide ease at use Bonus: Be Unique
Go Physically Deeper in Yoga Poses If you're looking to go deeper in your physical asana practice, learning a bit about your body's mechanics is a great way to start. Try using the following in your next practice session and see for yourself it allows you to open up a little more and allow you to move a little deeper in your pose. There are a variety of spinal cord reflex arcs that regulate tension and muscle length during your pose. These arcs automatically occur during movement of the body on varying degrees as a protective mechanism to ensure that the muscle does not get hurt. The reflex arcs are similar to the one that I’m sure you have seen or experienced when a physician taps the front of your knee with a rubber mallet -- your lower leg moves forward, without you doing anything -- that is a spinal cord reflex. Ballistic Stretching On the other hand, passive stretching would be using one’s own body weight, gravity or props to create a stretch. Active Static Stretching Let’s use Janu Sirsasana as an example.
Designer: 8 Places To Build and Showcase Your Portfolio Designers are breaking barriers and going global with their designs and one of the best ways to showcase their talents is to have designer portfolios. An online portfolio is a must for designers who want to take their careers to new levels. From it, clients can have a better view of your advantage over other freelancers. If you don’t because you do not know how to code, know that this is no longer a problem. There are plenty of online platforms that allow you to build your own portfolio in a matter of minutes. Here are 8 such online platforms you can use to build your own portfolios. Recommended Reading: 8 Platforms To Build Photography Portfolios 1. Carbonmade is one of the best portfolio sites available online. The paid package offers a bunch of exciting services starting from domain binding, video & flash project and technical support for $12 per month. 2. 3. 4. Behance is an online platform to showcase creative work, making it easily accessible for designers to explore it. 5. 6. 7.
Hearts In Harmony | Love That Lasts Forever 20 Mobile User Interface Design for Your Inspiration Designers of mobile interfaces are becoming more prominent in today’s faced-paced web space. While mobile-optimized sites may lighten the burden on a site developer, some prefer building a full featured app instead. App designers and developers are in high demand now particularly in user interface. UI design focuses on user experience and interaction, and while being easy-to-use is important, an attractive yet still practical design is essential to the success of an app. Today I’d like to show you some mockups, sketches, buttons, tables, splash screens, and many more examples of iPhone app (UI) designs for your inspiration. If you’re familiar with iPhone or iPad designing, you’ll recognize all these terms above. Recommended Reading: Design Killer Mobile App Websites: Tips And Examples
How to Grow Your Own Lemon Tree From Seed Even in northern climates and in the dead of winter, a productive lemon tree can be growing inside of your home or garage. They are quite beautiful in appearance, both in regard to their dark-green leaves and their snow-white blooms, and they also emit a pleasant, refreshing fragrance. To grow your own lemon tree, you will need to obtain the following: An organic lemon since non-organic lemons often contain non-germinating seeds Fertile potting soil, preferably containing peat, vermiculite, perlite, and natural fertilizers A planting pot that is six inches wide and six inches deep A seedling pot that is about 24 inches wide by 12 inches deep A sunny, indoor growing location and possibly a grow lamp Follow these steps to grow your own lemon tree: Moisten the potting soil so that it is damp, but not soaked, all the way through. Eventually, your hard work will pay off with a fruit-bearing tree. Watch YouTube Gardener Mitchell Boyle's Technique For Growing Lemons...
20 Beautiful UI & UX Designer Portfolios For Inspiration A modern world requires new rules and you just can’t be a successful graphic designer without a personal portfolio website. Even when it comes to mobile user interface or user experience, without the ability to showcase your skills, you will have a hard time acquiring clients. In that thought, we have collected a showcase of breathtaking UI & UX portfolios by a few talented designers and carefully chosen a few work examples that bring out their true genius. Not only are they good with catchy mobile interfaces, they also take the cake when it comes to website design. Make sure to not only check out the samples of their work here, but also to check out their original sites for more of their work. Recommended Reading: 8 Places To Build And Showcase Your Designer Portfolio CreativeDash Design Studio Cosmin Capitanu Mariusz Cieśla Flamy Miro Hristov Vitor Pinho Aleks Faure Jordan Flaig Dave Keller Cody Sielawa Leo Drapeau Jeff Broderick Jackie Tran Anh Ramotion Nacho Guilherme Bento Julien Renvoye
How to Release the Stress stored in our Bodies Do you spend much time sitting in front of a computer, on a plane, in a car? If so your hips may be locked up which effects your ability to dance, but worse than that it may be causing you undue stress and fear. The Psoas Muscle, is a long muscle located on the side of the lumbar region of the vertebral column and brim of the pelvis, that is also known as the “muscle of the soul”. It is one of the largest muscles in the body and it is a place where we often store stress or trauma that can literally influence our mood and our outlook on life. In humans, the extremes of the two polarities might appropriately be described as LOVE (+) and FEAR (- ). If you spend long hours sitting, your hips may be locked up, causing you undue stress and fear How built up stress makes us easy to manipulate Being in a state of fear allows us to be easily manipulated. The effects of stress on the body Where is a majority of the stress stored? There are many yoga poses to stretch the psoas muscle
Top 5 UX and Usability Books you should have read by now Information architecture, user experiences, good conversion, user-friendly interfaces – every designer should know about the best practices and introduce them effectively in his work. Newbies, however, can be quite scared of all this. How to approach UX design and delight your customers? These books are not collections of tutorials that will help you make the best interfaces. Smashing UX Design: Foundations for Designing Online User Experiences Smashing UX Design is a complete record of the designing process while paying special attention to user experience, including competitor’s profiles, tests, creating user profiles, designing information architecture, model designing, prototyping, and finally, web page design. A part of the book contains analysis of the most important components used for designing web pages and Internet applications. Mobile Usability Mobile Usability is one of the very few publications devoted to small screen designing. Another book treating UX in a very broad context.