Productivity tips always make for a popular topic for an article, as everyone is looking for the silver bullet, that one weird trick that turns you into a productivity machine. However, the tips that work well for one person may not work so well for another. We asked the community on Twitter and Facebook to share their best productivity tips, and in this article I’m going to round these up alongside some things I’ve learned that work well for me.

Starting off the new month with an inspiration boost, that's the idea behind our monthly wallpapers series which has been going on for more than nine years already. What makes it special: the wallpapers are created by the community for the community, and everyone who has an idea for a wallpaper design is welcome to submit it -- no matter if they are experienced designers or aspiring artists. For this April edition, people from across the globe once again took on the creative challenge to cater for some variety on your screens.

Access All Areas members have a great collection of camping and outdoors themed patch and badge designs to download this week, courtesy of Evgen Radchenko from JeksonGraphics. Inspired by National Park badges, these outdoor and adventure inspired designs featuring camping, hiking and mountaineering graphics in a retro style. Edit the text to create custom artwork […] The post Retro Camping Badges & Outdoor Patches for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

We all know that web design is a very dynamic art and, as with any art form, it changes and morphs through different styles over time. So, how do we utilize this change in order to know what will be beneficial to us not only now, but in the future as well? Watching trends throughout the year will give us ideas and hints as to what will be popular in the upcoming months, so we've decided to help out and do that for you! Here are Top 4 Design Trend Predictions for 2017! Better Lazy Loading The implementation of this … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com

90% of all the information on the web is in writing. That means that typography is a skill that dictates that 90%. That's a staggering figure that highlights just how important typography is. It's absolutely everywhere: blog posts, social media, magazines, reports, books, and so much more. What this means for you as a designer […]

Let's say you have a part of an interface that the user clicks and something happens. Sounds like a button to me, but let's call it a "clicky thing" for now. I know, you're confident that it's a button too: It's rounded and stands out with a nice tomato color, asking to be interacted with. But let's think about it for a moment. It'll save time in the long run, I promise.

Apple Keynote is one of the most popular apps professionals use to create presentation slideshows. Although, there may come a time when you'll want to edit a Keynote slideshow in PowerPoint because not everyone has access to the same app. For example, you may run into problems when you’re collaborating on a team presentation or […]

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Introduction For me, even after having pushed the deploy button many times, deploying to production keeps being dreadful. Accidentally pushing an unwanted feature that sneaked in somehow is one of the many things I am afraid of. In this blog post I show you how we reduced our deployment anxiety with a script using git log for listing all the features that go live after pushing that deploy-to-pro button. In this blog post I first introduce you to the way we work and provide you with the necessary information to… The post Know what you deploy – a script using git log for listing all features that go live appeared first on bol.com Techlab.

I thought a nice all-around learning resource would be to build your own PHP fiddle. It takes many attributes into account to build a fully functional fiddler. IA?AEURA(TM)m not going to use any type of framework, just to keep it simple and easy enough for anyone else to follow and repeat. So for those ...