SpeckyBoy

JANUARY 2, 2021

Instagram stories are a great way to connect with your followers and give them a glimpse into your personal life as well as exclusive behind the scene updates. However, creating an Instagram story from scratch can be time-consuming. That’s where Instagram Story templates come in handy. In this roundup, we’re featuring the best Instagram Story templates that will allow you to create and share your stories in a consistent manner and get them published quickly.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2021

Our 50 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools from 2020. The Rules of Margin Collapse – Joshw Comeau unravels the mystery that is known as “margin collapse.” 50 Best Websites of 2020 – Here’s a collection of the websites that Webdesigner Depot loved in 2020. Typography Principles – The Obys Agency shares some of their typography principles that help improve your experience.

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SpeckyBoy

JANUARY 2, 2021

After you’ve spent dozens (if not hundreds) hours working on your next mobile app, carefully designing every feature and element, it’s important to showcase the quality of your work during your meeting with or presentation for your clients. Normally, app designers opt for screenshots and diagrams. However, for the majority of clients, this is not enough to fully comprehend how well the app is going to work.

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 2, 2021

South London based artist Jolie Goodman is publishing a book called “The Covid Drawings 2020” on 20 December. These are a selection of Jolie’s drawings from her series “1872 days of Tory Government”, which she posts on her Instagram account @jolie.goodman. Jolie has been making a daily digital drawing since 13th December 2019 when Boris Johnstone was elected Prime Minister.

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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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Interaction Design Foundation

JANUARY 2, 2021

Learn to design for the future, while balancing your design with your users’ present stage of skills and mindset. This is called the MAYA Principle and it’s the secret behind the industrial design of the Coca-Cola bottle, Shell Oil logo, and the Greyhound logo. Why not learn from the best design experts with the most impressive track record? Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) is often referred to as the father of Industrial Design and his track record is indeed impressive.

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Interaction Design Foundation

JANUARY 2, 2021

Learn to prevent negative emotions in the user experience of your product. As a User Experience (UX) designer, you want users to enjoy using your product by eliminating negative experiences and inducing positive emotion in your users. This article will teach you how to prevent anger and frustration from your users as you design the optimal user experience for your product.

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 2, 2021

It was the isolation of lockdown that focused designer Santa Kupca’s desire to create a series of pieces that reflected her removal from life as she knew it. A product of the pandemic, the series, became a decision to celebrate the necessity of needing to stay home. Entitled ‘Stuck-at-Home Masquerade,’ Kupca was inspired to work to her own brief that took into account the dichotomy of a need to stay entirely comfortable and cozy, while achieving a directional look that screams ‘king

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Interaction Design Foundation

JANUARY 2, 2021

One of the most challenging realms to conduct user research with is when you have to conduct research with children. There are, obviously, stringent ethical and legal protocols to be kept to if you work with children but it’s not just the moral aspect of this world. Children are not miniature adults and the way we develop and design research will play a big part in whether we get the information we need or whether “children will be children” and they’d rather play in the park than with your prod

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 2, 2021

Scientists from around the world submitted art grown in petri dishes for the American Society of Microbiology’s annual contest, which has announced the winners. Restricted access to labs broadened the remit, with traditional art on the beauty of microbes accepted for the first time. First place in the traditional general category was awarded to The Gardener by Joanne Dungo, from Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Northridge, California.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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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SpeckyBoy

JANUARY 2, 2021

Not every project includes the budget to capture video. Sometimes, you need to take your photos and create a video as the final product! The best way to do that is by using slideshow templates for After Effects. Instead of learning animation and transitions, these templates do the hard work for you. Just add your images, and you’ll create an After Effects slideshow in minutes, not hours.

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 2, 2021

In The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Anthony Hopkins delivers a stellar performance as the convicted serial killer Hannibal Lecter. His performance is in fact so good that it earned him an Oscar for Best Actor despite appearing on screen for only 16 minutes, the smallest screen time ever needed to win that award. h/t: vintag.es. Hopkins’ acting was superb and well deserving of the win, but it would not have been possible if it weren’t for the immense anticipation and aura built around the charact

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SpeckyBoy

JANUARY 2, 2021

Photoshop actions can take a lot of the guesswork out of editing and finishing your photos. However, but if you don’t have a handy set of resources on hand, it might be a struggle to figure out how to proceed. That’s why we’ve put together this collection of Photoshop actions that make it super easy to add artistic effects to your images.

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