Passive income is the money you continue to earn from a product or service with little or no maintenance. And while it requires some work to get started, a passive income plan can be a great addition to a designer's income stream. There are so many things you can do - create a design e-book or…
Creating and launching your own exclusive application does not require genius. Well, we need a template instead. The ready-made UI template will complement your application with an attractive design and improved interface. Today I will introduce some of the best app templates of this year. Why do you need an application template? If you want to use an application template, you will get a full set of settings. You can easily...
Have you ever met people in your life who would admit out loud that they don’t understand anything about design? No to me. You may not understand the theory of Schrödinger's cat, or what Dharma is, but about design, what is there not to understand? “You either like him or you don’t like him” - people think something like this. However, from the point of view of the psychology of perception,...
An acclaimed creator of creatures in his magnificent career of chimeras and cuties. 2019 was the year of new design conferences that left their mark on the creative calendar. For example, in September the US illuminated gold at the Lightbox Expo, and in October the Department of Arts organized the largest playground festival in Eindhoven and Berlin. The success of both can be explained by how...
What is a battle? This is a unique format of interaction between the customer and the contractor. The client creates an arena, describes what graphics problem he needs to solve, and reserves the amount. Freelancers offer creative solutions. Then the customer selects one concept and receives it “as is”. The freelancer does not need to modify or redo anything, and to participate, he does not need anything other than a bank card.…
While there are plenty of fantastic color palette generators online, in this post we thought we'd share our favorite color tools specific to UI design. It's important to remember that choosing colors for user interfaces requires a different set of requirements than, for example, a graphic design project. Not only does UI design require a full range of colors with different...
Creating a website for yourself or your company can often seem like a daunting task. However, it may not be as difficult as you think. Create beautiful, functioning websites today with these comprehensive web design training packages, now with an extra 40% off through October. Simply enter code 40LEARN40 on any of the following courses to receive additional…
In design, as in many fields of activity, the desire for self-development plays an important role. There are no limits to perfection, but you can get closer to the ideal if you constantly become better. It is extremely important to get first-hand information from a person who has achieved a lot in this area, because the advice of professionals is based on practical experience.
We have selected the most useful sites, channels, blogs and communities that will help the designer gain invaluable experience and become better professionally.
Design blogs
Many designers write blogs in their spare time to share their views, which can be useful for both beginners and professionals. The best of them are included in our top.
Here you will find a video about web design, about the life and work of Marina herself. The videos will be of interest to designers and freelancers.
Video tutorials on web design and website creation. Very interesting and informative.
Channel about graphic design and vector graphics. Video lessons and tutorial on CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop programs. Lessons on illustration, creating characters, icons and logos. HTML, CSS and JavaScript training.
Answer the question: "What color would you choose, without limitation, to paint the walls of your home?" As a rule, most people choose colors such as white, beige or shades of gray. And no one names their favorite color. Ask why? The answer is most often associated with the fear of the reaction of relatives and friends, the fear of creating an interior that is too provocative.
Interlight Russia 2019
Lighting of public spaces will be a key topic at Interlight Russia. The International Exhibition of Lighting, Security Systems, Building Automation and Electrical Engineering celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and is celebrating this date with significant updates.
Design and technology: audio-video solutions based on the search for new impressions and emotions
How do new technologies affect the design of premises and the perception of reality? The global trend of using visual solutions makes its own adjustments not only to the appearance of familiar places (cafes, restaurants, hotels), but also makes it possible to experience previously unknown sensations. Let's try to learn and understand more by studying examples from world practice. The material for international interactive solutions in the restaurant business was selected in collaboration with Luxury Engineering.
In the design article section you will find publications of a predominantly theoretical nature, which in one way or another relate to the topic of design. For example, this could be some kind of excursion into the history of web design or a review note that discusses certain trends and styles of web design. In principle, these design articles can be used both for general development and for improving your skills - some notes contain practically tips and tricks. By the way, such articles for designers will be useful not only for beginners, but also for experienced professionals.
Web design is a direction where time does not stand still, there is constant development, new trends appear, styles and trends change, you need to not only follow this, but also be able to competently apply it in practice. The web design section of the article will allow you to keep abreast of what is happening and expand your horizons.
Does it take only 50 milliseconds for a user to form an opinion about any website? Web developers and designers really have very little time to make a good impression on a person when visiting a resource. This is why the correct design of the main page + site header, which everyone sees first, is so important. Many web projects on the Internet are united by one common way of attracting the attention of the audience - the use of bright colorful designs, in particular the placement of a large background...
We recently posted a series useful tips on creating effective registration forms on the site, and today we want to talk about the authorization/login block. Recently, quite a lot of annoying and too “abstruse” implementations of it have appeared on the Internet. It's good when designers try to make unusual and beautiful shapes login (see our selection), fitting them into the overall concept of the web project, but it’s a completely different matter when they overdo it with functionality. Sometimes it comes to the point...
Developers often lose sight of the fact that the footer for a website is one of its basic elements. It can provide more complete information about the company, and also performs various useful functions: it facilitates navigation, helps visitors to the web project navigate, and is useful for some commercial purposes. Earlier in the blog we looked at the development of the site header, and today we’ll talk about the footer. Here you need to competently approach the selection of control components that...
Design Mania has already had several publications with similar topics: in the article about color selection services for websites, in addition to inspiration resources, we looked at a couple of useful web tools; there was also a post reviewing palette generators and the like. However, without understanding the logic of how to make a color palette, all of them may turn out to be ineffective. Today we will try to fill this gap and clarify some theoretical points well described in this note. Those of you who have already used newfangled online generators are aware...
Typography is style, layout and appearance printed letters/texts on the page. Currently, it has already become an integral element of web design. A bunch of interesting articles on the topic you will find in the corresponding section of our blog, which has been updated with another publication today. Let's consider what is relevant for this direction design trends that emerged and took hold in 2018. The material would be a great addition to a post about web typography. The post is a translation of this note. The goal of any website is to attract...
On the Internet, we encounter the registration procedure as often as the authorization form on websites. You have to register: in all sorts of web services that help you search necessary information, free distributions of materials, online stores, social networks, etc. At such moments, the feeling of joy from an interesting find instantly disappears due to the need to fill out endless input fields (and sometimes completely unnecessary ones). As a rule, all this is inconvenient, takes a lot of time and looks too intrusive. Plus…
If you want to create a website, the main rule to follow is not to overdo it. The so-called minimalistic design has been helping web designers with this for several years now. By the way, he is now at the peak of his popularity. Today we will try to figure out what this style is and what its main advantages are. What is minimalist design? In general, this concept can be defined as the most concise style, characterized by simplicity and precision. Basic...
Immediately after publishing a post with the best examples of furniture websites, we came across an interesting English-language article on a similar topic. It contains a selection of tips and nuances for creating furniture websites with visual illustrations of typical solutions, as well as descriptions of mistakes that you definitely don’t want to repeat. Projects in this category have always been interesting to work with, since they are closely related to interior or architecture, and the products themselves, as a rule, have exquisite taste. Relying on the…
Last year's post about logo trends 2017 was well received by readers, so we decided to continue this “tradition” and look at the main trends in logo design 2018. Despite the fact that changes occur at lightning speed in the field of web design, some points from that article remained the same and “migrated” to the current year. Perhaps website design trends are more fleeting compared to the logo development niche, or it’s been…
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