Everyone has had the kind of clients that you wish you could punch – the scope creepers, the micromanagers, the non-payers. It’s very aggravating, but it is a long-established part... The post Dealing With a Panicky Design Client appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Everything is designed, whether we make time for it or not. Our smartphones and TVs, our cars and houses, even our pets and our kids are the products of purposeful creativity. So why not our lives? A great many of us are, currently, in a position where we might look at our jobs — or even our relationships — and wonder, "Why have I stayed here so long? Is this really where I want or even need to be.

Access All Areas members have a useful collection of Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of Hydrozi. These Vintage Lightroom presets are designed to make a photo feel more emotional and nostalgic by giving the image an old-fashioned appearance. Apply your chosen effect with a single click, then tweak the individual settings if necessary […] The post Vintage Lightroom Presets for Access All Areas Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Sunday. I don’t really know why, but on Sundays, I’m usually looking for beautiful and useful things. Bone-dry scripts and tools might be helpful, but they can’t impress me today. In contrast to the gigantic icon set which I just came across, and definitely wanted to recommend to you. The boys and girls behind TheSquidInk offer 1,000 concisely drawn, free icons in many different file formats. The catch? There’s none. 1,000 Free Icons Cover All Aspects of UI Design Of course, around the web, there are more icons than you can ever use. Nonetheless, this set is something special. Not only does it come with the massive amount of 1,000 pictograms, but with that, it also covers the most important application categories that you could have in your design. What’s the point in 100 free social media icons when they don’t suit your overall layout language? The value of an icon set is increasing with the range that it covers. This is where the “Free Mini Icons Pack” by TheSquidInk shines as if it was polished with wax. You don’t need to continue searching when straightforward, monochrome pictograms fit into your concept. These symbols are just what you need. The […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesBrandnew App for Mac OS: 2,800 Free Icons for DesignersMap Icons Designer: 200 Map Symbols plus 10 Location Pins Free for…Halloween Icons: 50+ Brand-new Scary, yet Free PictogramsPictograms Galore: Three Huge Bundles Totalling 2,500 Vector Icons ForExclusive Freebie on Noupe: 50 Funny Icons Out of The OrdinaryExclusive Freebie for Noupe's Readers: Freepik’s 200 Beautiful

An increasingly common question — now that people are using CSS Grid Layout in production — seems to be "What are the best practices?" The short answer to this question is to use the layout method as defined in the specification. The particular parts of the spec you choose to use, and indeed how you combine Grid with other layout methods such as Flexbox, is down to what works for the patterns you are trying to build and how you and your team want to work.

Editor's Note: Some people simply have the magic touch for digging up design goodness. Today, we are proud to present the brilliant gems that Veerle Pieters has dug out, letting us explore a fresh breeze of photography, art, type, print as well as web design projects. As designers, we have our good and bad days. Some days ideas come naturally. Other days we struggle or have moments where we are really stuck. We are in urgent need of inspiration. Let me help you get through these moments of pain and suffering. Let me nurture your creativity. Sit back, relax, and feed your appetite. Here's your monthly dose.The post Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration (April 2016) appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

There can be many special occasions and holidays for which your brand requires a dedicated landing page as part of advertising or marketing campaigns. The holiday season is an exciting time of the year. It brings new enthusiasm and opportunities for business and individual professionals. Whether it’s for engagement, lead, or additional reach, a well-designed […] The post 13 Highly Creative Seasonal HTML Landing Pages first appeared on Line25.

Now if that word didn’t sound so negative. From a purely phonetic point of view, design critique sounds devastating. In the following article, we’ll bravely move past details like that, and find the pearls hidden within the oyster. What’s Design Critique? Some people get dizzy just from hearing the word “critique”. Though properly executed, design...

I’ve been busy crafting a series of geometric pattern shapes for my latest free resource giveaway. These vectors are made of an array of circles, triangles and polygons that are neatly laid out into symmetrical compositions. They’re fun elements to work with when creating posters, album art or wallpaper, just like the artwork I created […] The post 16 Free Geometric Pattern Shapes in AI, EPS & PNG Format appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

In Episode 24 Eric, John, and Oscar discuss some of the articles in the September 2019 issue A?AEURAoeMaster of PuppetsA?AEURA?. Topics History of PHP, celebrating A?AEURAoe25 Years of PHPA?AEURA?, and the Impact Awards at php[world] Using Puphpeteer to automate Chromium browser tasks and testing. Code s...