UX Collective

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If you’ve been in the web design industry as long as I have, you know one thing is imminent, the only constant is change. Just about every 10 years or so, there’s a fundamental shift in how we do things that are paramount to leapfrogging what we’ve done before… and we are about to leap in to the next phase once again. How it started?—?Fixed Screens At the turn of the millennium we first started crafting interfaces in single view screens that made up the popular screen sizes at the time?

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SpeckyBoy

OCTOBER 13, 2021

If you are working on a new website, service, or app, you should consider getting a jump start on your marketing campaigns by having a presence online that you can show to potential users or buyers, so that when you do launch, you can hit the ground running. Coming soon pages are the first step in that process. You certainly aren’t showing the finished product – but it’s enough to start building up a social media following, gauge product interest, or even to get users to register for

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Spoon Graphics

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In today’s tutorial I share my process of designing a business card and highlight some important considerations when designing for print. It’s super important that you get things like bleed, color mode and resolution right when you’re creating your artwork, otherwise you might end up having your files rejected by the printer, having to start again from scratch or even worse, receiving hundreds of prints back that look nothing like your design!

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I Love Typography

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Calligrapher, designer, educator, and artist, Seb Lester has attracted a huge and devoted following — both for his talent and wit. On Instagram, a million followers get to see Seb at work, penning everything from famous logos to exquisite copperplate and formal gothic scripts. Undoubtedly, part of his broad appeal is a combination of his […].

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Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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Creative Market

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It’s hard to believe that Creative Market is almost a decade old. While so much has changed in this marketplace and the design industry over the last 9 years, this community has remained passionate, creative, and ever-inspiring. Since October 18, 2012, more than 25,000 shop owners have uploaded over 6 million design assets that have sold to 2.4 million customers — and the best is yet to come.

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Eye on Design

OCTOBER 14, 2021

During a quick scene in The French Dispatch , Hermès Jones, a magazine illustrator played by Jason Schwartzman, gets an earful from Arthur Howitzer, Jr., the editor-in-chief played by Bill Murray. Pasted on the wall next to Jones’ desk are 12 past covers of The French Dispatch , showing an assortment of imagined stories; in one, the Statue of Liberty in Paris waves to the one in New York, and in another, a group of men in suits break into a dance.

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Creative Review

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New York-based photographer Rochelle Brock describes her work as “all over the place but not in a bad way” With an interest in fashion, editorial, beauty, documentary and fine art photography, Brock has encapsulated elements from all of these approaches to create a style that is bold and inviting. “ My style is inspired by my environment, the people I’m surrounded by, and heavily influenced by all the things I kind of wanted to create but never thought that I could becaus

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Shillington

OCTOBER 7, 2021

After a degree in Business Administration and Marketing, Shillington New York graduate Anuja Shukla harnessed the power of empathy spurned through travel and employment abroad to shape a meaningful career in graphic design. Anuja forages for vintage goods, advocates for diversifying the outdoor adventure scene—all while building her photography portfolio!

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Envato Tuts+

OCTOBER 19, 2021

On the hunt for some fresh graphic design ideas? Looking ahead to 2022, there are plenty of graphic design trends to stimulate your creative juices. For devoted minimalists, the Japandi design trend balances sleek, calligraphic typography with clean, understated layouts, while brand enthusiasts will be delighted by a new wave of logos brimming with movement, colour, and symbology.

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Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.

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Creative Market

OCTOBER 1, 2021

We recently asked designers in our community to share their favorite time-saving Photoshop tricks. These are the kinds of game-changing little tweaks that accelerate your workflow and you wish you knew about sooner. If Photoshop is home to you, read on and start saving time today. 1. Shortcuts. Designer Lu Amaral swears by keyboard shortcuts, saying they “are everything when you use Photoshop all day long, every day.” To define your own shortcuts, go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Polish designer Jaros?aw Dziubek created a unique brand identity for agency 5A Format. Jaros?aw Dziubek is a Polish graphic designer specializing in a wide array of projects ranging from branding to packaging. For agency 5A Format, he produced a stunning brand identity based on simple graphic shapes and unique typography. Below you can see a few images of the successful result.

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Eye on Design

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The following is an adapted excerpt from Briar Levit’s new book, Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History. The story of graphic design is not tidy and linear, as it is often presented. Our dominant narratives of one art and design movement leading seamlessly to the next can make conceiving the passage of ideas and events more palatable, but can keep us from understanding what is true.

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Creative Review

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Described as the ‘hug’ logo, the new wraparound appearance of the identity was inspired by its positioning on packaging including cans and bottles. The new campaign was created by Wieden + Kennedy London with KnownUnknown, a global network of independent talent, brought in by Coke to craft the visual look, including all photography, animations and illustrations.

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Smashing Magazine Graphics

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges. Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges. Cosima Mielke. 2021-10-14T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-14T16:11:06+00:00. It’s incredible to see what we can do with CSS today, especially if you still remember how difficult it once was to figure out stacking contexts or why margins collapsed and why top: float didn’t work.

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Envato Tuts+

OCTOBER 15, 2021

If you're a big fan of 1960s design and are always looking for opportunities to incorporate its aesthetic into your own projects, then you're in luck. . Today, we're highlighting 1960s graphic design and showcasing some terrific resources from Envato Elements and GraphicRiver that you can use to give your projects that wonderful retro 60s look. Major Design Influences of the 1960s.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Recently I was given the task to “Modernize” my current companies app UI on Android. The terms modern, young, cool, etc., are all quite vague. What makes a design modern or old? The meaning changes from person to person. But I couldn’t just say that and leave it ??. So I spent an entire day looking at various examples of apps that we commonly perceive as modern, young, and cool.

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this halftone raster set will help you to create stylish retro effects in Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Stock contributor @Marcel created this easy-to-use halftone raster set for Adobe Photoshop. Optimized for an extremely high resolution of 10211 x 4497 px, the set contains six design options. Please note, photos or design elements shown in the preview are for display only and are not included in the downloaded file.

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Eye on Design

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A couple weeks ago, we hosted a workshop at the AIGA Design Conference called Design Writing 101: How Writing Is a Lot More Like Designing Than You Think. When we started planning for the event, we had lots of ideas around what that statement meant. At their core, both writing and design are about storytelling — they are about forming ideas and giving ideas form, though those forms often take very different shapes.

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Creative Review

OCTOBER 13, 2021

One of the biggest benefits of NFTs is the financial freedom they provide to artists. Take a scroll through ‘NFT Twitter’ and you’ll see a myriad of posts celebrating the ability to earn a living from art that hadn’t existed pre-NFTs entering the mainstream. It may sound like the market has provided a silver bullet to the longtime issue of artists being fairly compensated for their work, and in a way it has.

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SpeckyBoy

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Mobile devices have taken over the web. Thus, so much designer attention has (rightly) gone towards ensuring that the websites we build are compatible. We are constantly refining how we implement responsive features so that they work flawlessly on small screens. While this is a worthwhile endeavor, there are other screens to think about. Large viewports are also a pretty important consideration.

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HONGKIAT

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Opera is one of the most underrated browsers out there. Even though it usually pops up in the most-popular browser lists, only a fraction of total users use it ( W3schools puts the figure at around 1% for 2016). Still the numbers add up to about 60 mil users on desktop and twice that on Opera Mini for Android. Despite its lower usage numbers, many of the awesome features you use in your favorite non-Opera browser are either introduced by Opera or turned mainstream by it.

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Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Let’s find out together how the product design discipline has evolved and how managing design is more of a coaching and mentoring exercise. Figure 01: Image of Day /Night It’s late at night. Staring at the latest piece of the design system in Figma, I start seeing the pattern that I have not recognised before. I got it; this is it! It will save my team and me a significant amount of time.

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Photographer Helene Havard created a series of images in the streets of La Habana in Cuba. In 2016, Helene Havard created a series of photographs in the streets of La Habana in Cuba. She strolled through streets at random places and took dreamy images of buildings and used pastel color to depict this city. Below you can see a selection of photographs.

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Eye on Design

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This is part I of the Processing oral history. Part II will publish next week. Computers and design have long been intertwined. This relationship dates back to the 1960s, when computational pioneers used code to create novel forms. Since then, programming’s grip on designers has only tightened, even as it’s been obscured by the user-friendly interfaces of modern creativity software.

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Creative Review

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Based in Accra, Ghana Sianeh A Kpukuyou (known as ASKphotos on Instagram) was first introduced to photography through her mother. “During my senior year at American International School, I was asked by my friends to take their senior pictures,” Kpukuyou tells CR. “When I shared those images with my mother she got extremely excited and told me she saw a future in photography for me.” Kpukuyou’s own interest in the medium grew when she realised she could have an impac

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Speaker: Michele Berdinis

This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?

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