Graphic Design

example » Free Concrete Textures Download!

Thursday 5 May 17:45:00 UTC 2016

Concrete textures can be extremely useful and versatile for web and graphic designers. They can be used to create grungy and urban backgrounds, or they can be used subtly to create a soft texture… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Product Design: Sled™

Thursday 5 May 17:25:22 UTC 2016

We can't say that we don't appreciate when creatives decided to work with their hands at making products and also with a background in design. We experience as much the daily routine and some of us will ask the question: "What if" I am to make that "thing/idea" to make my life or process better. From the sketches, concepts, prototypes, … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Top Reasons For Opting For PSD To HTML Conversion

Thursday 5 May 17:10:45 UTC 2016

With responsive design becoming the latest trend setter, the entire web development industry is looking for ways to come up with websites that are cross-browser compatible. This calls for the requirement of PSD to HTML Conversion because it permits a website to get accessible on all major devices and screens. The primary reason for converting a PSD file into HTML is … [Link]

Line25.com » 40 Interactive Community Website Templates

Thursday 5 May 15:34:15 UTC 2016

Bring your visitors together with these comprehensive and flexible community themes! Some of the interactive community website templates in the list below are premium WordPress themes, while others are free WIX templates. These useful community website templates have been designed as foundations for your online community. They will help you bring together people and offer social networking, messaging, forums, events, … [Link]

WebDesignDev » Web Visitor Psychology: 13 Things You Should Know

Thursday 5 May 15:16:21 UTC 2016

When you design a website, you do so with the aim of connecting with as many members of your target audience as possible. This connection needs to be more than just that they understand what you offer, you need to make an emotional impact on them. In this piece, we will take a look at some psychological pointers from web … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » Reading minds: the psychology behind UX design

Thursday 5 May 14:54:31 UTC 2016

If we were to gather a hundred different designers into one room and ask them one-by-one how they approach UX design, we would get approximately one hundred different answers. It’s frightening to admit, but UX design isn’t an exact science. There’s a wealth of psychology behind every element of the user experience, but knowing these elements, we can use them … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » UI Inspiration: Mobile Interactions

Thursday 5 May 10:47:52 UTC 2016

In one of my previous articles, I mentioned that we will see more and more subtle interactions in the upcoming weeks and year. For this week's showcase, we had fun handpicking and looking at Mobile Interactions. The thinking behind Mobile First is not quite new but still strong enough for us to think about this perspective first in any of … [Link]

example » Call To Action Design: Trends and Best Examples

Thursday 5 May 5:01:25 UTC 2016

Every great landing page or guided web experience has some call to action element. This could be a button, signup form, settings menu, or anything that gets the user moving through a predetermined… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Cruel Restaurant Branding

Thursday 5 May 4:55:53 UTC 2016

Designing the visual identity of a business is always very challenging, there are so much to consider and tons of subtleties. I feel that for some industries that task can be even more daunting, one of the I believe it might be designing the branding of a restaurant. Ines Vieira shared a good example on her Behance profile. The project … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Daily Inspiration #2378

Thursday 5 May 1:41:00 UTC 2016

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo. … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » 9 reasons hand-coding always beats site builders

Thursday 5 May 1:14:14 UTC 2016

If you use any kind of social media like Facebook or Twitter, you won’t have been able to avoid the merciless onslaught of ads promoting WYSIWYG website development. I’m not talking about those fancy software applications like DreamWeaver, but actually hosted site building applications that offer drag-n-drop website building systems complete with predefined templates. You could easily think that this … [Link]

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