You are ready to go solo. You have the talent and experience, but where do you begin? This is a good question. There are certainly a lot of freelance job... The post A Collection of Sites for Finding Freelance Design Work appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The idea that designers are bound to be servants of other people's and companies' products is extremely pervasive. Sure, you may build your own design agency but, in the end, that agency is simply a collective effort to serve someone else. From my perspective, though, the world is waking up to the idea that designers can be founders of a product and not just create the beautiful wrapping around some engineering core. A recent study by Boston's Design Management Institute showed that design-driven businesses have outperformed the Standard & Poor's 500 by an astounding 228% over the past 10 years. These were companies that had design embedded within the company's organizational structure, design leadership present at senior levels, and a commitment to design's use as an innovation resource. The post From Fledgling To Founder: How Designers Can Push Their Creations Into The Real World appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

The Internet would be a very bland place without images. Photographs, graphics, and animations are vital to enhance websites and applications in order to attract the attention of users, provide visual information, and even invoke emotions. Images aid in user experience by making an application easier to view and navigate, giving depth and context to articles, providing visualizations of products or services, and getting noticed in social media feeds or other websites.

As a web designer, you're responsible for a lot of things. Your client is relying on you to ensure that their website is user-friendly, accessible, eye-catching, and even good enough on the back-end to capture the attention of the search engines. However, what many business leaders and clients don't realize is that they also have a […] The post Protect Your Design Clients From These 6 Easy Mistakes first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

We share some highly creative CSS and JavaScript code snippets that you can use for free to improve the pagination on your own website. The post 8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Creating Paginated Navigations appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Access All Areas members are being treated to more exclusive goods from RetroSupply today. The Irvington High vector brush pack is one of the latest additions to the lineup of RetroSupply products and has already received a great early response. It’s a mixed bag of 20 weird and useful Illustrator brushes with high school nostalgia. […] The post RetroSupply Vector Brush Pack for Access All Areas Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

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Advertise here with BSA Odds are you’ve seen the “hamburger menu” in the top corner of many of today’s mobile websites. It’s three lines stacked together to roughly form the shape of a hamburger.... Advertise here with BSA The post Analyzing the Effectiveness of Hamburger Menus in Web Design appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Procreate is one of the most popular digital illustration apps that creative designers find quite unique owing to its excellent features and free & premium brushes that are sufficient for every need. Improving your drawing experience and staying on top of professional design is made possible with sophisticated features of Procreate. Even though working on...

In the modern working world, people wear the overworking habits like a badge of honor, however, your knack for staying in the office until 9pm