According to the Agile manifesto, the highest priority of Agile development is to “satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.” Any designer can appreciate this goal, despite some hesitancy about doing what it takes to get there. But designers who want to stay relevant in a fast-evolving industry should take note: the traditional Waterfall approach is outdated, and Agile is here to stay.
Every business website should have a clear goal. In most cases, the goal should be one of two things: either converting visitors into leads, or converting visitors into actual customers. The former generally applies to businesses that sell larger products or services like swimming pools, while the latter applies to businesses that sell products that can be purchased online and then shipped.
User experience fuels the success of web design. Like it or not, functionality trumps a pretty design every time. Internet users most often browse websites with some kind of goal in mind: to find information, buy a product, read reviews, find contact information, etc. The quest to achieve that goal is easily and often met with friction on websites that are slow, require long registration processes and have a messy design.
In recent years, an increasing number of American workers have been leaving corporate cubicle gigs and starting freelance careers. It’s not just the freedom and flexibility that inspires people to branch out on their own. Many of today’s independent contractors didn’t exactly opt for a freelance lifestyle, but rather, started working at home after their employer closed shop or reduced their workforce to save money.
Cloud computing (using a network of remote servers hosted on the internet to store, manage, and process data) is changing the design process for the better. It maximizes efficiency by making collaboration simple, and giving you access to hosted apps and data that allow you to work like never before.
It takes a lot for a social media site to compete with Facebook and Twitter. Pinterest is doing just that, and it’s with the help of designers. It’s no secret that people are photo-driven, and nothing is more engaging than a stunning or shocking photo. That’s the basis for Pinterest, and it’s why you have to be on there.
Any good web designer knows that every decision they make is a balance (or occasionally a struggle) between aesthetic and functional requirements. Each small decision – like the choice to make a clickable link slightly larger, thereby decreasing the difficulty in clicking it – gets tallied up into a sum total of the user experience.
Photography adds something to a website that even the most sophisticated of vector design and illustration can’t replicate. A photo can add depth and interest, a sense of humanity, and interaction with other elements in ways that are endlessly changeable and interesting. There are a lot of ways that your images can be used, but for maximum effect, try out a few techniques that will take your photos to the next level.
As a Search Engine Marketer, you know how hard it is to get backlinks to your website. You put so much time and effort into getting new links, but once you have them you just copy and paste the links into a Spreadsheet or Notepad and forget about them. We need an easy way to monitor these backlinks so that we know if the links are still active or not.
The busy team of designers over at Designious.com have prepared a cool meerkat vector illustration for you guys. It’s hand-drawn from scratch, with amazing colors and detail and on top of everything, free. Here’s a preview of the illustration below. Simply click the image to download the source files.
Tuesday February 3, 2015
Now that you have a great business idea, how do you make it into reality in a highly competitive world? The answer lies in the internet revolution, which will enable you tap into a 2.4 billion customer-market. To operate an eCommerce website, you need a reliable content management system (CMS) and this is where WordPress […]
Tuesday February 3, 2015
Contrary to popular misconception, intelligent and successful web design is not about having really witty content and some stunning graphics. There is a lot more to it than that and it concerns strategy. The foremost point about web design is that the designers have to understand what it is that the website needs to achieve […]
Tuesday February 3, 2015
Bootstrap is offering progress bar feature we will discuss about that in this article. The function of bootstrap progress bars is to show that how much the process has been done and how in progress.
Tuesday February 3, 2015
This tutorial is about Bootstrap Panels. While not always necessary, sometimes you need to put your DOM in a box. For those situations, try the panel component.
Tuesday February 3, 2015
Medicio is a free Bootstrap landing page template designed for medical & health industry such as doctors, clinics, dentists and another medical & health service company.
Tuesday February 3, 2015
You know why each planner says Adobe Photoshop is extreme device for each sort of outline assignments and a large portion of the architects think about making configuration library and this gathering committed for those as “Photoshop is presently Pretty Easy Using Sparkle Brushes” Photoshop gets to be to distillate on brushes there could be […]
Tuesday February 3, 2015
In today’s reality, computers and mobiles are not simply advanced gadgets any longer. They have turned into a part and bundle of our lifestyles and have their impact in all that we do. Like we embellish and outfit our homes or rooms as stated by our decision and taste, we have a tendency to do […]
Tuesday February 3, 2015
Today we are going to work on Delicious Pie Design in Photoshop, in this Photoshop Tutorial we are going to use some of the basic tools and commands. We will be covering Pen tool, Ellipse Tool, Rectangular Marquee Tool, Bucket Tool etc. We will also be studying the use of Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Pattern […]