This week's Designer News (N.362) includes CSS Visual Guide, Sketch Tools, Bootstrap Forms, CSS Spinners, Match Fonts, Scrolling in Web Design, Hover Animations, and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers (N.362) appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Editor's note: So you've attended a conference, listened to some truly inspiring talks, made quite a few valuable connections, maybe even attended a hands-on workshop and learned a thing or two. What now? How do you bring back the new knowledge and ideas and connections to your team and to your work? This article highlights a practical strategy of getting there without much effort. With SmashingConf Barcelona taking place next week, we thought this article would come in handy. Have you ever been to a conference with top speakers, awesome people to network with and such a great energy that you got fired up and couldn't wait to get home to start applying everything you've learned? How do things look two weeks later? Did you implement all of that learning into action? How about two months later? Were you still taking action on that knowledge? The post How To Transform Your Next Conference Takeaways Into Real-Life Results appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Sketch had brought totally new standards for file sizes. You no longer see 10 GB Photoshop files all over the place. Nevertheless, huge Sketch files exist, and they slow down Sketch. As a result, your productivity slows down as well. Let's be honest: It's not the design files that become bigger by magic. It's designers who fill their files with unused, unoptimized and hidden elements that take unnecessary space. We have faced this problem in our startup, Flawless App.

Headless architecture is trending now as it is considered the future of eCommerce. In this article, we will cover some points to tell Why Adobe Commerce Cloud is best suited for headless eCommerce?  Magento 2 is the most popular CMS for eCommerce Development. Also, it provides many features and tools which make the headless implementation [...]

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful vector based program that lets you create and customize vector-based shapes, text, and artwork. Even though it comes with many built-in features there are areas where it falls short. It doesn’t necessarily work with all programs and sometimes lacks the shapes and elements that designers often need. Plugins and add-ons can […] The post 11 Best Adobe Illustrator Plugins for Designers appeared first on Line25.

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Wish to boost customers retention & acquisition and drive sales? Group Buy app is all set to offer savings to customers that ultimately increase customer engagement on your Shopify store. Using the Group Buy app, you can allow the customer to create a group or join the existing group to buy the products at a [...]

Introduction The Advanced Review System for OpenCart extension enhances the review system for the products of your online store. Using this extension admin can allow image upload by customers during the review of any product. The admin can choose the file extension for the image upload and can even allow captcha for the reviews. This [...]

Sometimes, you just don’t want to do your work. It can be such a hassle to get up, start up the computer, fire up the software, and do what needs... The post What To Do When You Lose Motivation as a Designer appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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