Add Impact to Type-driven Projects
In type-driven design, use varying type sizes, weights and color for impact and to create hierarchy.
Articles
In this category you will find articles about web design, web development and related topics. Here we also feature inspirational collections, opinions and articles about best practices.
More Examples of Fresh Effects in Web Design
by Manoela Ilic
Another set of websites that use some unconventional and fresh effects.
Condensed fonts: The good, the bad, the ugly
Condensed fonts can be tricky use and should be avoided for blocks of type, although they can work well when used sparingly.
Understanding and Using Type Categories in Web Design
Knowing how to identify and use fonts from different type categories can make your projects come together more easily.
Principles of Color and the Color Wheel
Add the right feeling and mood to your site using the color wheel, mix and match hues and create effective color schemes.
Establish a Mood with Typography
The typefaces you select for a project can impact what people think as much as the actual message you convey.
Overcoming the “User Designer” Disease
by Patrick Cox
I constantly struggle with design, it’s sort of a never ending three sided war: my imagination vs. design knowledge vs. design tool proficiency. But I came to a realization a while back that most of us rely too heavily on the last part — the tools — and forget what actually makes a quality design.
Type Effects and Modification
Understanding type modifications can help designers focus on readability for chunks of type or a hint of flair for a more artistic approach.
Keys to Email Creative Success: Marketing and Design
by Patrick Cox
Let’s talk about some ways to design and build better email creatives and campaigns.
Modular front-end development with LESS
I am constantly looking for ways to make my work as a front-end developer easier and more efficient, but it is only recently that I have paid my good friend CSS any real attention. This article will explore the benefit of organizing your code efficiently while keeping it reusable and modular.
Be Less Annoying: Reduce Bounce Rates through Better Web Design
by Patrick Cox
A properly designed site can reduce bounce rate and increase engagement significantly. In this article, six important elements are introduced that are important for reducing a site’s bounce rate.
5 Things Every Mobile Design Should Have
by Patrick Cox
As much as we think mobile web design is very different from full screen web design, it really isn’t. There are some considerations that you may wish to take when designing for mobile browsers. I’ve tried to boil it down to 5 main elements that every mobile site MUST have.
Jumping the Hurdles of Brainstorming
by Patrick Cox
Usually, brainstorming sessions happen within a group so that individuals can feed off each others ideas. However, for the majority of us, brainstorming and creative innovation is a solitary task.
Examples of Fresh Effects in Web Design
by Manoela Ilic
Having some fresh and maybe even unexpected effects on a website, can juice up the experience for the user. Be it a whole new and experimental way of navigating through the website or just a tiny surprising hover effect – fresh effects can spice up your design and bring some life to it.
How Often Do You Try New Things?
by Patrick Cox
Web design in complicated and requires a lot of time and knowledge — and patience. It’s no longer just embedded text background images and slices; it’s interactivity and dynamic content, it’s HTML5 and mobile development, it’s JSON objects and Local Storage.
25 Examples of Perfect Color Combinations in Web Design
Today we will show you some examples of websites that are using beautiful and inspiring color combinations that match perfectly and create an eye candy result. From delicate and smooth colors to strong duos and super colorful pages, we have several styles to show you.
Design It to Build It: What to Consider When Designing for the Web
by Patrick Cox
For me, Photoshop is becoming more and more of a prototyping or blue printing tool: it’s basically just a canvas for creation. When it comes to the actual construction of the site, the only things I really take from the mockup is anything that I can’t create with CSS, the rest is just a map to guide me.
6 Questions You Should Ask Yourself When Choosing Fonts
by Patrick Cox
If you’re like me, selecting fonts for your web design is going to be either easy or the most difficult task you’ll face. Fonts are a huge, powerful part of any design and they should be taken seriously so that your design can communicate its meaning and purpose correctly. Great font selections can make a web site, they can enhance your design and effectively communicate the message and goals of the web site to the user. Bad font choices can drastically alter your design and affect how your site is perceived by users.