Photoshop actions are a great tool for creating and recreating sequences of edits or tasks. You can save actions to reuse later and even "export" actions to use on another computer. Here’s how! If you have tasks that you perform regularly, such as edits to images or cropping and saving to a certain location, actions […]

I recently created some artwork for my free subtle grunge brushes where I overlapped some text to make it look like the letters interweaved. I thought it looked like a cool effect so why not make a tutorial?! So in today’s video I’ll take you through the process of creating a fun design that combines […] The post Video Tutorial: Interweaving Text Effect in Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Just yesterday, I got my hands on a design suggestion with text passages that were filled with dummy text from the ipsum spectrum. Lorem ipsum is still alive. The most interesting dummy text generator I was able to find on the web is Loremipsum.io. However, this is not just because the generator sticks to the...

Today, I am sharing with you a large list of paper texture resources. Most of them are free and some are paid. However, they are all of amazing quality.... The post The Ultimate List of Free and Paid Paper Textures Resources appeared first on Onextrapixel.

It is amazing to think of how far web typography has come. Back in the day, designers were relegated to just a few "web safe" choices. Today, we have access... The post Getting Started with Variable Fonts: Tips and Resources appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we're talking about micro-frontends. What is a micro-frontend and how is that different from the sort of approach we might be taking at the moment? Drew McLellan finds out from micro-frontend pioneer, Luca Mezzalira. Show Notes Weekly Update "Adding Dynamic And Async Functionality To JAMstack Sites," Jason Lengstorf "Quantitative Data Tools For UX Designers," Adonis Raduca "Creating Voice Skills For Google Assistant And Amazon Alexa," Tris Tolliday "Beyond Sprint 0: An Alternative For Integrating Teams," Shamsi Brinn "Helping Browsers Optimize With The CSS Contain Property," Rachel Andrew Micro-Frontends Luca Mezzalira's website Luca on Twitter "Micro-Frontends, The Future Of Frontend Architectures" on Medium More of Luca's writing about micro-frontends can be found on his Medium account Luca's book "Front-End Reactive Architectures" Transcript Drew McLellan: He's a Google developer expert on web technologies and manager of the London JavaScript community.

Brand awareness on social media is crucial for all businesses, as it's all about the reputation of the brand and getting the name out there. With brand awareness, you need to build a brand first, and give it its own identity and make it different to competitors in the same industry. Building a brand includes... The post Try These Strategies to Build your Brand Awareness on Social Media appeared first on noupe.

If you're looking for a different type of a font to make your design stand out, a cursive font can be a great choice. Cursive and script fonts aren’t new, but they’re a less common choice for many designers. This gives you a chance to use cursive fonts to add some originality to your next […]

When it comes to UX, how often do you connect it to privacy? It's a big part of the design process. From connected apps to e-commerce to forms, data collection is happening all the time. Users are accustomed to it and generally ok with these practices unless something goes wrong. It's your job to include […]

One of the things that makes this new, tooling-heavy era of front-end development so seemingly hard to understand at first is that, while we often call things by a singular name, they tend to be actually comprised of several different … What the Heck Does "npm" Mean? originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.