I have a new set of messy design resources for you to download for free today! These 10 ink splatters can be used to add drips and stains to your designs, or even to produce blood effects for horror themed artwork. They come as a set of Photoshop Brushes, which can be saved directly in […] The post 10 Free Ink Splatter Photoshop Brushes and PNG Textures appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Using watercolor backgrounds and textures, with a watercolor painting effect, is a trend that took the world of design by surprise. These unique, colorful backgrounds can work beautifully with typography and simple design elements to give any design a fun edge. The background is an important part of any design project. Whether it's a website […]

Material Design is Google's design language for creating digital experiences. Initially developed in 2014, Material Design is a subset of flat design, or minimal UI design, while also flirting with skeuomorphism with its rules for surfaces and interaction. The latest iteration of Material Design, Material You was unveiled in May 2021 and is expected to […] The post The Mind-Bendingly Difficult Material Design Quiz first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

This week's Designer News - No 617 - includes The Start of a New Era for Responsive Web Design, Designing Facebook's New Company Brand: Meta, Material Design 3, Free Anron Icons, Web Performance Metrics Cheatsheet, A Small Guide for Naming Stuff in Front-end Code, terminal.sexy and much, much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 617 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Customers do not trust businesses. And why would they? There are reports of new security breaches on the news almost every day. And more commonly we've all experienced the terrible disappointment of opening up an order and not getting quite what we expected. The research backs this up. According to Salesforce Research, 59% of customers...

Are you passionate about something? Do you have a secret project? Not something that will change the world (though who knows?), but will definitely change you? Do you have a friend who complements your skills? Has anyone recently asked you for help with their project? Do you just have a digital dream, or is there also a plan to make it come true? Every professional has something in common. It's called the comfort zone. The first sign you're in it is when you see no challenge on the horizon. You know pretty much everything you need to perform well, and if anything unfamiliar comes your way it can be solved fairly quickly. It can take a while to realize you've stopped moving, and working on freelance projects seems like the only way to keep your brain busy. The post Find A Friend, Boost Your Creativity, And Make Your Digital Dream Come True appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

These testimonial page examples will show you how to offer social proof of a product's benefits. In other words, when you design a page that shows visitors the wonderful ways the product or service helped other customers, they're more likely to believe that it can help them too. "Above the fold" is the part of The post 4 Testimonial Page Examples for UX/UI Design appeared first on Studio by UXPin.

The Paragon Initiative has a recent post to their blog that's kicking off a new series of posts called "Slice of PIE". In these posts they hope to provide answers in a Q&A style, answering questions commonly asked of them via Twitter or other means. Astute readers have noticed that our blog posts have decreased in frequency this year. We put a heavy emphasis on quality, not so much on quantity. At the same time, we field a lot of questions on social media, where our answers (and, sometimes, the questions themselves) are difficult to locate, especially when people close or lock their accounts. With both of these thoughts in mind, I asked my Twitter followers if they'd be interested in a Q&A-style blog series. I expected maybe a 55:45 split on yes/no responses, but the final tally was overwhelmingly "Yes". So with that in mind, I'd like to introduce the pilot for our new series, Slice of PIE. In this inaugural edition they start by sharing how readers can get their questions answered and what kinds of questions will be answered. To kick things off they answer a question about the use of asymmetric encryption and comparing it to hybrid encryption.

Whether you are a freelance blogger, photographer or web designer, choosing the right content management system (CMS) for your freelancing business can be tricky. As a freelancer, you need... The post Top 5 Content Management Systems for Freelancers appeared first on Onextrapixel.

Tomas Votruba has posted the second part of his Reactor series on his site today. In part one he covered some of the basics of the Ractor package (a CLI tool that provides some handy helper functions for Symfony applications). In part two he covers some of the "founding fathers" and packages that he built the package on top of. You already know What Rector does and How it works from part 1. It's not that PHP didn't need to be updated until 2017. I surely could delegate hundreds of upgrade-hours for my whole career. So why Now? The post then talks about the idea of "codemod" functionality like the PHP CS Fixer that changes code to bring it up to PSR-2 compliance. It then covers the package that's one of the keys to the Reactor project, the nikic/PHP-Parser package. He talks about the read/write functionality, an example of a change it might make and finishes by thanking the "founding fathers" that made those packages available.