Web Design
Desire Lines: Let Your Audience Shape Your Design
Designers try to anticipate what an audience wants. We try to control how people will interact with our designs. Desire lines show how people actually use your design and want your website to behave.
40 Fresh And Great Portfolio Design Interfaces for Inspiration
A collection of more than 40 fresh and great portfolio design interfaces. Maybe it’s helpful for you while you are stuck with the next portfolio design.
Create Mac-like multi-level dropdown menu
Webdesignerwall share with us, nice tutorial how to create a Mac-like multi-level dropdown menu that created using border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow.On this tutorial a white-transparent image is used to achieve the gradient effect.
Web Design: 40 Fantastic Examples
In many of my previous posts on website design I have always categorized the style of websites that I was showcasing. In this post, I have decided to compile some of the most visually appealing websites from all kinds of different design styles that are out there today. From retro inspired designs to the very [...]
Images Of Faces: What Do They Communicate?
How do we perceive images of people? How do they affect us and how do they affect the way your design is perceived? When choosing an image to convey a particular message are there certain facial features you should look for? Is there an ideal way to crop the image so it communicates best?
Cognitive Dissonance: How Contradictory Ideas Affect Design
Cognitive dissonance is a state of mental discomfort that occurs when a person’s attitudes, thoughts, ideas or beliefs conflict. When faced with cognitive dissonance, people are going to do something to reduce the conflict they feel. Understanding how this process occurs can lead some of your design decisions.
50 Awesome Website Design Galleries
For the longest time, one of my best sources of inspiration has been web design galleries. My favourite being The FWA: Favourite Website Awards which was founded in 2000. The FWA showcases the most cutting edge website designs. Since then there have been many web design galleries that have been popping up. In this [...]
How To Use Color To Enhance Your Designs
Color affects how your designs are perceived and while your design shouldn’t rely on color alone, your choice in color will be one of the first things people notice and could determine whether or not people leave quickly or stick around for more.
Website Design: 30 Beautifully Designed T-Shirt Sites
Everybody knows how trendy t-shirts are. There are some really creative and fun designs out there. Last November I wrote a post about t-shirt designs titled: T-shirt Design: 50 Awesome Examples. When coming up with this post, I said to myself why not create a post that focuses on both the design of the [...]
Color Theory, The Color Wheel And Color Schemes
A good design should work in the absence of color. It should work when viewed in grayscale. However color is one of the first things someone will notice in your design and color will go a long way in determining if your viewers think your design aesthetically pleasing.
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