Black Friday 2016 is here and to celebrate we've compiled a list of outstanding web development tools and services. Build a great website using an easy-to-use builder plugin or get... The post Celebrate Black Friday with These Great Web Products and Services appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

It is important for brands to have a distinct style. To create an effective brand, designers must keep a close watch on trends that populate the marketplace. They have to be able to get more creative with how they display their products and services. By studying trends, designers can get a better understanding of what […] The post Best Visual Design Trends of 2019 appeared first on Line25.

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.

(This is a sponsored article.) As designers working in an ever-changing field, it's important that we develop an understanding of the timeless design principles that underpin everything we do. In the second article in my series for Adobe XD, I'll explore the foundations that enable us to establish some universal principles of UX. These principles, which should sit at the heart of everything we design and build, are critical and will stand the test of time:

Access All Areas members have a cool font to download this week, courtesy of LovePowerDesigns. The Bearded Sailor is inspired by old-school tattoos that were popular with sailors. It’s a hand-drawn font with rounded strokes that pairs perfectly with both script and sans-serif fonts. The Bearded Sailor comes in two styles, a solid regular version, […] The post The Bearded Sailor Tattoo Inspired Font for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

VSCO is a popular photography app for both Android and iOS, known for stunning filters and effects. Today we’re featuring a selection of VSCO Lightroom presets, inspired by the VSCO app, to help you achieve similar results with greater power and flexibility. If you have a copy of Lightroom, you probably want to have more […]

Low Quality Image Preview (LQIP) and the SVG-based variant SQIP are the two predominant techniques for lazy image loading. What both have in common is that you first generate a low-quality preview image. This will be displayed blurred and later replaced by the original image. What if you could present a preview image to the website visitor without having to load additional data? JPEG files, for which lazy loading is mostly used, have the possibility, according to the specification, to store the data contained in them in such a way that first the coarse and then the detailed image contents are displayed.

We're all designers. Whether we do a layout, a product design or write code to design a product technically doesn't matter here. What does matter though, is that we always take the context of a project into consideration. Because as someone shaping a project so that it is appealing to the clients and works in the best way possible for the target audience, we have a pretty big responsibility. Imagine architects building a wall out of recycled material that also looks nice -- sounds pretty great, right? But seen in the context that this will be a wall that divides people and encourages racism and even more inequality in our society, our first impression of the undertaking suddenly shifts into the opposite direction. We have to make new decisions every time we start a new project, and seeing things in context is crucial to live up to our responsibility -- both in our work and our lives.The post Web Development Reading List #174: The Bricks We Lay, Remynification, And 0-RTT appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

If you're a professional designer or an illustrator who use Photoshop for design work you'll find this collection of free Photoshop brushes quite valuable. With the right set of brushes, you can go beyond your imagination to create unique graphic designs, illustrations, effects, backgrounds, and so much more using Photoshop. Of course, you don't always […]

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