Find out how to cut down your IT business expenses and outsource your IT tasks smartly with staff augmentation and project outsourcing models. The post Staff Augmentation vs Outsourcing: Which One Is Right for You? appeared first on SCAND.

The duotone palette has been used in design for quite a long time, but not so much in web design - until now. Whether or not Spotify has started a... The post Exploring Dual-Toned Color Schemes in Web Design appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Often, when designing a website or branding, it is easy to get wrapped up in the details-typography, graphics, color, the grid-and lose the bigger picture. Of course, these things are vitally important, but they are building blocks that go together to form a greater whole. A good website creates an impression; it tells a story. […] The post 20 Best New Sites, August 2021 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Figma is slowly becoming one of the most popular user interface design apps available today. With the ability to use the tool entirely online, it's also an easily accessible tool for UI design collaboration and prototyping. Whether you've been using Figma to design mobile and desktop user interfaces or if you're new to the app, […]

If you aren't using responsive mockup templates to showcase your website and app design projects, you’re missing out! A mockup template provides a realistic or stylized shell to highlight a design, and choosing a responsive template can beautifully show your design’s versatility. Most designers use a mockup template to place a website design into a […]

What is TestCafe? TestCafe is a non-selenium-based open-source JavaScript End to End Automation Testing Framework built with NodeJS. TestCafe supports JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and TypeScript. TestCafe is nowadays very popular since it is very stable and follows an easy setup.TestCafe does not depend on Selenium or other testing software. TestCafe runs on the popular Node.js platform and makes use of the browsers that you already have.

Have you been thinking about starting a design business? With all the outstanding reasons to do so, we can certainly see why. You might be drawn by the independence, the... The post Things to Remember when Starting a Design Business appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The SVG format has turned into a contemporary alternative to Flash in many regards. Not only is it vector-based, but it also renders animations and interactions possible. Due to the different ways to create animations and to integrate SVGs into a web project, you should keep the following tips in mind to make sure that everything works the way you want it to. Animations Via JavaScript, CSS or SMIL? There are three options when it comes to setting SVGs in motion. Certainly, the easiest one is using SMIL: “Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language”. Here, unique elements like “<animate>” are available, allowing you to tween and morph any SVG shape. However, Google has marked it as “deprecated” in its Chrome browser, which is why you should probably forgo SMIL. <rect x="0" y="0" width="50" height="20"> <animate attributeName="x" from="0" to="100" dur="5s"/> </rect> Using CSS, you get to animate elements in a way similar to how you do it in combination with HTML. The attributes “transition”, “animation”, and “@keyframes” are available. However, here, you only get to change values via animation that can be defined via CSS, meaning position and color, for example. The shapes of a polygon or a path can not be altered […]

Portable Document Formats (PDFs) are a big part of modern business life, used for exchanging electronic documents. Regardless of the business industry, everyone must have come across a PDF file, at least once in their life. PDFs are mostly preferred as they can keep the format as is since they are mainly designed for viewing...

In my previous post, I examined video trends on the web today, using data from the HTTP Archive. I found that many websites serve the same video content on mobile and desktop, and that many video streams are being delivered at bitrates that are too high to playback on 3G speed connections. We also discovered that may websites automatically download video to mobile devices — damaging customer's data plans, battery life, for videos that might not ever be played.