We have a fantastic collection of Photoshop actions that greatly simplify the process of creating the bokeh effect. One-click and stunning bokeh results! The post The 10 Best Photoshop Action Sets for Creating the Bokeh Effect appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Every morning, designers wake up to happily work on their products, be they digital or physical, with an inner belief that people will want to use their products and will have a blast doing so. Perhaps that is a slight generalization; however, as designers, we tend to have a natural desire for each project we work on to be the best it can be, to be innovative and, most importantly, to make a difference.The post Nobody Wants To Use Your Product appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

A new roundup of the most impressive UI interactions and animations we encountered on Dribbble in the past couple of weeks. The post UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #18 appeared first on Codrops.

Creating an HTML email can feel like stepping back a few years as a web developer. All of our new layout functionality is unavailable to us &mdasj; email clients render the same layout in completely different ways. Just when we think we have it all fixed, another email client shows up with a new set of bugs. Not too long ago, Remi Parmentier, an HTML Email developer, ran a session with practical front-end techniques for building modern, cross-client emails.

In case you're still not quite familiar with Angular 7, I'd like to bring you closer to everything this impressive front-end framework has to offer. I'll walk you through an Angular demo app that shows different concepts related to the Router, such as: The router outlet, Routes and paths, Navigation. I'll also show you how to use Angular CLI v7 to generate a demo project where we’ll use the Angular router to implement routing and navigation.

Live chat was first introduced in the market in 2002, fairly new, right? But still, a lot of businesses were unaware of this for a long time. And you’ll be surprised to see how much it has grown in the market now. It’s almost become a trend. Live chat is expected to continue to grow [...]

There's so much you can learn from startup "unicorns". The companies that generate billions in revenue. The one who revolutionized industries. And changed how you work and manage your day-to-day life. The way they solve common problems. The strategies they use to stay relevant. The business models they use to generate billions in revenue are […]

Using mobile phones, these artists are bringing highly unusual weather to the cities of the world. Neon blue clouds and purple fog have descended on urban centers in these seven luminescent dreamscapes. While you might think that these effects require sophisticated skills in one of the powerful pixel editors, such as Photoshop, we are about to surprise you. Read on. The artists below all used the free mobile photo editor, PicsArt, to create double exposures that combine clouds with pictures of skylines. Though they're using the same simple features, each artist used a unique approach to putting their creative stamp on this psychedelic trend. If you also have a creative itch to scratch, check out their excellent images and draw inspiration from their various techniques. Now for the goods. Hop aboard a purple cloud and set course for neon paradise. 1. Miami in the Clouds By keeping the clouds low, this artist created a perspective like we're descending from the sky and breaching the clouds to see a vibrant city sprawling below. 2. A Radioactive Glow Increasing the contrast to accentuate bright patches of concentrated light can make a city look like it's so radioactive that it's glowing. 3. Mist […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesPhotography Trends That Will Rock 2016Lightroom 2.0 For Android is World’s First RAW Photography AppSaving Big Bucks: 200 Premium Photoshop Actions for 17 instead of 243…Adobe Lightroom Mobile: Image Processing on the Go (including Android)Fotor: Free Image Editor for Everyone and Any DeviceNovember or Never: 20+ Free WordPress Themes to Make Your Blog Shine

Sketch has just made a new best friend, and it’s called Craft. In the past I’ve been a great advocate of a couple of Sketch plugins that have saved me... The post Sketch.app & Craft: A Match Made in Real Data Heaven appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

When high potential projects fall apart, it's often a failure of collaboration and alignment. The tools, the assumptions, the opportunity, and the intentions may line up, but if people don't communicate or don't have a clear map to help them move in the same direction, even the best projects falter. Communication failures are human problems, so they're messy and hard to solve. They involve feelings and a willingness to have uncomfortable conversations.