This week's Designer News - No 557 - includes Beyond Media Queries: Using Newer HTML & CSS Features for Responsive Designs, Blade UI Kit, Component Driven User Interfaces, The Ancient Art of UX, lookup.design Design Library, What is CC:SS? and much, much more! The post Weekly News for Designers No 557 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

This week's Designer News (N.380) includes a Lightweight JavaScript Tooltip Library, a Tool to Export Sketch Designs to HTML Emails, a Font for Coders, a Guide to Reactive Web Design, the Full Stack Design System, the Ultimate Social & Digital Ad Size Guide and more. The post Weekly News for Designers (N.380) appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Introduction The creation of evolutionary applications with future-proof architectures is a challenging task. Given the number of organizations relying on modern frontend trends to develop and ship software products globally to millions of users, the need to choose an architecture that can scale and speed up development processes has become essential. More than creating a complex app with innovative features, building an app with a simple and decoupled codebase is the priority today. Why do you ask? The primary reason is that a quality application is imminent to obtain user growth. After a certain period, scaling up the app in terms of features, server capacity, and so on would be inevitable. However, due to budgetary limitations or ignorance through the attitude of "we will scale later", most organizations build apps with tightly coupled architectures where scaling becomes impossible in the future.

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Everyone working as a designer or author or in any other creative job knows it: the fear of the blank page or the blank screen – the creative block. There are moments where simply nothing comes to mind when trying to come up with a convincing logo or a captivating text. If creativity is your job, you can’t afford to have a lot of these moments. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to help ignite your creativity. Move to Spark Your Creativity: Escape the Everyday Routine It’s a good idea to take a step back from the daily routine when trying to come up with an idea. The least ideas are created sitting at your desk. A stroll, sports or simply walking your dog can get your creative juices to flow. Even though the beginning of an idea isn’t more than a blank page sometimes, creativity never comes out of the blue. Most of the time, associations and thoughts are what make us create something new. This works better when leaving behind all the things you are used to and know well for a short period. A stroll is not always enough, however. That’s why there is a multitude of […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesIncrease Your Productivity: How to Write FasterLinks of the Week 05/2015: Japanese in Chocolate, 5 Tips for Best…Instant Inspiration: Niice.co, a Brand-new Search Engine for DesignersBreak Free From SEO: Integrating the News_Keywords Meta Tag into…Tips for Designing Small Websites Faster and Cheaper without…Information Overload: A Great Infographic Is Worth a Thousand Words

Access All Areas members have a great collection of print design templates to download this week, courtesy of BrandPacks. These ready made poster, leaflet, business card and flyer templates all have a Farmers Market theme, but the rustic design and watercolour graphics could suit any food or fresh produce business. Each template comes in print […] The post Farmers Market Print Design Template Pack for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Access All Areas members have a fantastic pack of Black and White Photoshop Actions to download this week, courtesy of UnicDesign. These 50+ Actions turn your photographs into high quality black and white images with a single click. There’s three groups of effects, 21 BASE Actions, 11 ADJUSTMENTS, and 19 PRESET COMBINATIONS to provide an […] The post Black & White Actions Pack for Access All Areas Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Retro games still bring a smile to fans both young and not-so-young. That was evidenced by the wild popularity of 2016's NES Classic Edition and this year's Super NES Classic... The post 10 Retro Video Games Recreated with HTML5, JS & CSS appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.