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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
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
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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
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Negative space is most commonly associated with logos or compositions where the empty space creates a unique shape or represents something - like the arrow in the Fe
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Your design should be inviting and allow your users to sit down, relax, hang out and maybe look around a bit and the best way to achieve this is through visual balan
By Patrick Cox on
In design, rhythm is created by simply repeating elements in predictable patterns. This repetition is a natural thing that occurs everywhere in our world. As people,
By Mary Lou on
Making a web design with contrasty colors will allow for a better focus on certain areas of a web site. With a minimal color scheme, more contrast can be achieved an
By Gisele Muller on
Choosing the best way to display products is a really important step of web design, since the way you display your products can drive attention to it and make users
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Wikipedia tells us that "thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a nor
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Following the recent trend of using big background images in web design, we decided to gather a list of websites using portraits in their layouts. So at this showcas
By Patrick Cox on
Implied textural designs are not new to the interwebs. Most of the time texture is used as a design device to add depth, dimension, or just used to spice up a bland
By Mary Lou on
The use of the parallax effect or parallax scrolling effect in websites can add a nice three dimensional depth illusion to the design and make the visit very interes
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The more comfortable users are with your website the more likely they are to enjoy their experience and come back for another visit. Make them feel at home with a fa
By Gisele Muller on
Designing the perfect navigation for a website it's one of the main keys to have a good outcome, to have a website that gets users attentions and make them want to b
By Mary Lou on
Image sliders and sideshows have become an essential element in web design. They are a great way to display information and visual content in an interesting way. Fro
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Of course we all love the basics when it comes to web design, we like columns, grids, organized and well disposed content... but that doesn't mean we don't like crea
By Mary Lou on
An interesting way to spice up a web design is to add some depth to it. Instead of making a design flat, certain elements and techniques can stimulate the depth perc
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When designing a website we have a lot of elements to worry about: menus, navigations buttons, forms, header, footer and many other important details that make our d
