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The Designer’s Guide to Color Contrast
The colors you choose while designing a website, poster, or any other type of image, ...
5 Techniques for Engaging Display Type
Sometimes your typeface needs to convey feeling as much as meaning, and for that function more designers are turning to dramatic typography. This type of typography is used for more than just legibility and readability (although that is still the primary purpose). Dramatic typography stands out. It reaches through the device screen, demands the viewer’s […]
How to Draw a Monkey Step by Step
What You’ll Be Creating Do you want to draw your own monkey? In this tutorial I will show you how to draw one step by step from scratch. We’ll sketch the pose, and then we’ll add body volume, the details of the face, and all the fur. No special skills required—the instructions will be very […]
Popular Design News of the Week: September 11, 2017 – September 17, 2017
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, […]
Comics of the Week #407
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world […]
4 Tricks to Make Load Times Feel Faster
No matter how well-designed your user interface may be, at some point or another, people using it are going to have to wait for something to load. The loading time could harm the overall experience. Making users wait too long for your app to load can make users impatient. If users get that feeling, they’ll […]
How to Create a Quirky Birthday Illustration in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating Birthdays are among the most fun events of the year. We all get excited about finding that perfect gift for our loved ones, accompanied by the perfect greeting card. So why not create a personalized birthday card instead of using the generic ones we can easily find everywhere? For this task […]
What 3D UIs Will (Probably) Look Like
Okay WDD readers, this one is going to get real conceptual. I’m here to talk about leaving two-dimensional user interfaces behind. Ditching the screen. Going 3D in the real world. Well, you know what I mean. You know, the stuff of science fiction that always ends up looking sort of fun, but really tiring and […]
Where Are They Now? Catching Up With Veteran Tuts+ Authors
Design inspires us all, and you never know where it might take you. Today, we’ll catch up with five amazing authors from Envato Tuts+. In celebration of ten years of Design & Illustration tutorials here on the site, we’re looking into their first tutorials, original inspirations, and recent design adventures. How did it all start […]
Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS On-Boarding, Part 1: Sign-Up Forms
SaaS Customer On-boarding is the process that users have to experience while initiating their journey as a customer on a company’s software application. Customer on-boarding initiates from the experience that employees previously had to undergo while joining a firm. The on-boarding process sets the tone for a good user experience. Long story short, special emphasis […]
How to Create a 3D, Shiny, Inflated Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating This is a very special tutorial as it celebrates ten wonderful years of Envato Tuts+, and what better text effect to celebrate with than one inspired by balloons and confetti? This tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop’s 3D tools and settings, along with brushes and adjustment layers, to create […]