Principles of Color and the Color Wheel
By Carrie Cousins on
Add the right feeling and mood to your site using the color wheel, mix and match hues and create effective color schemes. ...
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.
Establish a Mood with Typography
By Carrie Cousins on
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 on
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 real ...
Type Effects and Modification
By Carrie Cousins on
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 on
Let's talk about some ways to design and build better email creatives and campaigns. ...
Modular front-end development with LESS
By Delwin Campbell on
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 ...
Be Less Annoying: Reduce Bounce Rates through Better Web Design
By Patrick Cox on
A properly designed site can reduce bounce rate and increase engagement significantly. In this article, six important elements are introduced that are important for ...
5 Things Every Mobile Design Should Have
By Patrick Cox on
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 de ...
Jumping the Hurdles of Brainstorming
By Patrick Cox on
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 ...
Examples of Fresh Effects in Web Design
By Mary Lou on
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 thro ...
How Often Do You Try New Things?
By Patrick Cox on
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 interactivi ...
25 Examples of Perfect Color Combinations in Web Design
By Gisele Muller on
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 ...
Design It to Build It: What to Consider When Designing for the Web
By Patrick Cox on
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 constructi ...
6 Questions You Should Ask Yourself When Choosing Fonts
By Patrick Cox on
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 desi ...
Inspiring Examples of Symbol and Metaphor Use in Web Design
By Mary Lou on
There are many creative ways of showing what a website is about: the use of images, videos, descriptions and more. Symbolic graphics and metaphorical pictures are a ...
Top 10 Reasons to Use HTML5 Right Now
By Patrick Cox on
In order to further demystify HTML5 and help these knuckle dragging designers and developers to jump on the bandwagon I've put together a top ten list of reasons why ...
20 Examples of Centered Website Designs
By Mary Lou on
Centering elements in a web design is a very effective way of creating visual balance. Centered designs can also make responsiveness easier, a property that is becom ...
Communication, Mood and Meaning: Lines in Web Design
By Patrick Cox on
Lines, lines, lines. Lines are everywhere in design, they are used to divide space, direct the user's eye, create flow, create emphasis and organize all design eleme ...
25 Fresh Examples of Beautiful Typeface Combinations in Web Design
By Gisele Muller on
Typography is a very important part of design and choosing the right type for your design can be very challenging. From print to web layouts, typography is the cente ...
25 Inspiring Examples of Texture Use in Minimal Web Design
By Gisele Muller on
Today we decided to gather a few examples of minimal sites using texture to add detail to their layout. From really subtle and delicate examples to complete textured ...
Be More Creative through Design Constraints
By Patrick Cox on
For a lot of designers constraints are kryptonite or a barbed wire fence that is a prison for their design freedom. But design constraints shouldn’t be viewed as p ...
Developing Unity in Web Design
By Patrick Cox on
In the previous "Developing {blank} in Web Design" articles I've discussed Rhythm, Balance and Emphasis. But we are missing the last main principle of design — Uni ...
Architecture in Web Design: Applying Vitruvius’ Principles
By Patrick Cox on
Let's make a real world comparison: buildings are very much like web sites. So are we (web designers and developers) essentially just architects? When you compare we ...
25 Examples of Emphasis Applied in Web Design
By Gisele Muller on
Last week Patrick wrote a nice article about Developing Emphasis in Web Design, and today, based on that article, we decided to show you some examples of emphasis in ...