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Making a Design Decision with Desinion

Screenshot of Desinion website

Here’s an interesting website to practice your design decision-making and help fellow designers at the same time. It’s called Desinion, a website where designers post incomplete designs and/or vote on their favorites.

Posted in Web Design

Wanna Build a Logo

Wanna Build a Logo

If you’re like me, making a logo is a curious thing. Essentially a great logo captures the spirit or key message of a organization and condenses it into an recognizable, graphical form that lasts the test of time. Weird, yeah?

Posted in Logos

Make Photoshop Faster

Photoshop logo on a photo of pit crew

If Photoshop is a part of your workflow, you’ve probably experienced slow downs at times (no bueno). So let’s fix that with some optimizations.

Posted in Apps

7 UI Rules for Newbies

Screenshot of 7 Rules UI blogpost

Good UI design feels right and seems to magically makes sense. Creating it can appear mysterious; but UX designer Erik D. Kennedy pulls back the curtain in two blogposts to reveal 7 principles that you can follow to build simple,

Posted in Tutorial, Web Design

Free Icon Sets

Screenshot of Ash.guru blogpost

Dude, free icons! Nice ones, too. These are even available for commercial use.

Posted in Web Design

Colors from Google’s Material Design

Screenshot of MaterialPalette website

Google’s material design for its apps and Lollipop Android OS made waves for its lovely flat design and slick animations. Now you can easily get its colors for your project with MaterialPalette.com.

Posted in Web Design

Video Freebies

Screenshot of XStockvideo

Video is a great medium to share a story or for setting the stage, but high quality videos can be really pricey… until now. Here are 2 websites that generously offer high quality videos for free or very low cost.

Posted in Web Design

Design Lessons from 2014

Screenshot of 2014 design lessons blogpost at Co.Design

2015 is here! Today we’re taking a look back. A blogpost at Fast Co.Design website cherry picks some great design lessons from 2014 to implement in 2015. Have a gander.

Posted in Web Design

Typecast is Free

Screenshot of Typecast blogpost

Well, just in time for the holidays; Typecast is now free! For those unfamiliar with it, Typecast is an online web app that makes it much easier to compare fonts from a large library and prototype your web design’s typography.

Posted in Typography

Explaining Responsive Design with Gifs

Animated gif of Responsive vs Adaptive design

Responsive web design has enabled many websites to become more adaptable to the smorgasbord of Internet-capable devices. But some of its terms can be hard to explain to someone who’s not a designer. Thankfully a blogpost by Sandijs Ruluks has

Posted in Web Design

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This here fine blog is a collection of shiny things I've curated on my web travels. I'll be sharing a weekly nugget on—web design, marketing, cool tools, tech—and maybe a screencast or two.

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