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Tint and Shade Generator
Easily make tints and shades in 10% increments.
How we all see colors differently—Color theory in design
Do you see that color in your mind the same way I see it?
Web Standards: The What, The Why, And The How
Web Standards, and the documentation to support them, provide huge insight into ‘the why’ and ‘the what’ of the world wide web. In this article, we take a look at the history of Web Standards, how to use them in your work and ways you can get involved in making them.
3 Mistakes you're making with your mockups
Are you making these HUGE mistakes when presenting web design mockups to your clients? Learn how to avoid mistakes and look like a pro!
Learning the basics of Adobe XD in one hour – DRILL
Understanding eXperience Design to carry out your own design projects
5 Ways to Design for Large Viewports
Web designers have typically always been big-picture people, in that they like having really big screens in front of them. It's convenient, and it makes you feel very professional. At this point in my life, I don't think I could go back to having just one monitor, either. And yet, I find that many websites don't live up to the potential promised by big darned screens, or even that presented by phones with HD resolutions. This is because we live in a mobile-first world, with mobile-first people. They go to far off and exotic places like "outside", so they have to carry their screens around w...
Is Design Valuable?
A year long case study of applying design to business outcomes
Design Style Guides to learn from in 2019
You don’t want to be ‘that designer’ who picks up elements from a UI kit or a free illustration. Fortunately there are a ton of style…
Why design systems fail, and how to make them work
For a short period of time I worked on a design system at WebNL, an agency specialised in web design, development and marketing based in…
2018: A round-up of all Codrops resources
A round-up of all Codrops resources of the year 2018.
Responsive design – Owl Studios
And the role of development in design
Embracing open design in 2019
From design systems to DesignOps, we're seeing some dramatic shifts toward more intentional systems and processes. Will 2019 be the year of open design?
Remove Background from Image
Remove Image Background: 100% automatically – in 5 seconds – without a single click
Find a Pantone Color | Quick Online Color Tool
Partner with Pantone for your color inspiration. Use this quick 'Find a Pantone Color' online tool - just enter #, name or choose from palette.
Refactoring UI: The Book
Learn how to design awesome UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view.
Front-end development is not a problem to be solved
HTML and CSS are often seen as a burden. This is a feeling I’ve noticed from engineers and designers I’ve worked with in the past, and it’s a sentiment
Hue - Free Website and App Color Palettes
Hue is a collection of hand-picked color palettes for inspire your design and make beautiful website and app.
Figma Partners with WordPress to Improve Design Collaboration
Figma, an online collaborative interface design tool, has donated an organizational membership to the WordPress project. The browser-based application helps designers and developers collaborate mor…
Only One Deliverable Matters | Big Medium
Too much design effort goes into artifacts that are not part of the working software. There’s a better way to work.
User flow is the new wireframe – UX Collective
An illustrated guide on the different ‘resolutions’ of user flows, and when to use them.
The most important design tool you’re not using
It’ll be love at first sight.
uizard
Uizard, the future of app development. Transform mobile hand-drawn wireframes automatically to Sketch and download the React Native code! Code less, create more.
You Might Not Need JavaScript
Examples of common UI elements and interactions with HTML and CSS alone.
Why we need to stop over-complicating UX – UX Collective
You’ve just finished an incredible course where the instructor has given you a huge range of tools and methodologies to put towards…
Designing design systems | Clearleft
This year I’ve been involved in a lot of projects to help large organisations improve the web experience for their customers.
Color Leap - History's Palettes
Search through 180 Color Palettes used throughout the last 4000 years.
Brandy - a brand assets manager
Why We Unfairly Judge Other Designers
We humans are quite adept at quickly assessing whatever happens to be in front of us. I’m sure it has something to do with that ancient “fight or flight” response....
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