Useful UX & UI Tools and Resources
Before you take on your next web or app design project asking yourself the following questions might help enhance your productivity and make your work more cost-efficient: Am I using the right tools...
View ArticleLearn the Principles of Landing Page Design in Our New Course
As a web designer, I’m sure you’ve had to design a landing page at some point. If you haven’t, you will. So why not get a head start and learn the essentials of landing page design ? What You'll Learn...
View ArticleDesigning Navigation On Mobile: Prototyping With Keynote
The navigation system is often the most important and complex user interface component of modern websites. In recent years, small screens, responsive website techniques and ever-evolving hardware and...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on Designing in the Browser vs. Designing in Photoshop
Designing in the browser is becoming more and more popular with the rise of “designers who code”. But just because we’ve picked up some new skills does it mean we should ditch our paper, sharpies,...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on Designing in the Browser vs. Designing in Photoshop
Designing in the browser is becoming more and more popular with the rise of “designers who code”. But just because we’ve picked up some new skills does it mean we should ditch our paper, sharpies,...
View ArticleAssessing Mobile Usability With Google Webmaster Tools
Back in 2013, Google officially announced 1 that it would begin to penalize websites that provide a faulty user experience on mobile devices. Specific examples included redirecting inner URLs to a...
View ArticlePutting Mobile Back End As A Service Into Practice (Part 1)
In a previous article 1 I introduced mobile back end as a service (MBaaS) which aims at giving app developers the ability to create seamlessly new feature-complete cross-platform native and web...
View ArticleLocalizing Your Website or App for the Chinese Market
Localization, the process of optimizing a site or app across differing languages and cultures, goes far beyond basic translation. Actually, translation’s perhaps the easiest part. Sure, sometimes...
View ArticleDocumenting Your Projects With Daux.io
What You'll Be Creating Documenting a project can be a nuisance, but it needn’t be. There are quite a few tools out there to get the job done–I often use Daux.io because of its flexibility. In this...
View ArticleExtending WordPress With Custom Content Types
WordPress does some pretty amazing things out of the box. It handles content management as well as any other open-source solution out there — and better than many commercial solutions. One of the best...
View ArticlePopular Multi-Purpose WP Themes for Creating Websites
Most of the multipurpose WordPress themes you will see in this list have been included because of the flexibility, their multiplicity of features, and the overall quality that sets them apart. Most of...
View ArticleDesign an App Landing Page in Photoshop
What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial I will walk you through the design process of a simple and conversion-oriented app landing page. We’ll use the Tuts+ Android app for the demo, emphasizing its...
View ArticleDesign an App Landing Page in Photoshop
What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial I will walk you through the design process of a simple and conversion-oriented app landing page. We’ll use the Tuts+ Android app for the demo, emphasizing its...
View ArticleHow to Create a Beautiful Landing Page Fast
There are too many WWWs, too many work-in-progress websites, too many places to get lost. Building an eye-candy landing page is a must if you aim to keep your prospective users interested and start a...
View ArticleWeChat Does Your Laundry: Designing for China’s Biggest Social Platform
I have a hard time getting western designers to understand why I keep talking about WeChat (Chinese: Weixin ??) in the context of web design. In the west, social media and web design are considered...
View ArticleWeChat Does Your Laundry: Designing for China’s Biggest Social Platform
I have a hard time getting western designers to understand why I keep talking about WeChat (Chinese: Weixin ??) in the context of web design. In the west, social media and web design are considered...
View ArticleAn Overview of Material Design Lite
I have a feeling that CodePen is going to be absolutely filled with Material Design in the coming months. Why? Because Google have just revealed their eagerly anticipated Material Design Lite (MDL)....
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