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This morning, I saw a post on LinkedIn that shared a report put out by Bynder and OnBrand that gives insight into the State of Branding in…

After years of flat, material and completely minimal styles, the gradient has made a comeback. Everywhere you look, designers are using color fades to add visual interest, create user engagement and just design something that's worth looking at. If you aren't a fan of gradients, maybe it's time to rethink your stance on the issue. To help convince you, we've got 10 reasons to love and use gradients in your website design projects this year. 1. Backgrounds Create Interest A gradient creates visual interest and helps move users through a design. The eye will land on one area of color and the ...

I believe colour management is an essential feature for professional design tools — being able to rely on what you’re seeing when choosing colours, deciding on contrast, and assessing legibility is critical. In the last two articles, we covered the basics of colour management. In this article, we’ll detail the settings required for screen design in many popular design tools.

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What would a more honest and transparent Facebook look like? Here’s how NewDealDesign redesigned the social media giant.

Extending design principles beyond the dimensional space into the temporal

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), an international committee headed by an EPFL professor, has just unveiled JPEG XS. With this new format, the image-compression process uses less energy, and higher-quality images can be sent with low latency over broadband networks like 5G. JPEG XS will have applications in areas such as virtual reality, augmented reality, space imagery, self-driving cars and professional movie editing.

Planning is essential for most businesses and organizations. Unfortunately, when it comes to websites there is often a failure to plan properly or at all. This guide aims to change that.

CSS Gradient is a happy little website and free tool that lets you create a gradient background for websites. Besides being a css gradient generator, the site is also chock-full of colorful content about gradients from technical articles to real life examples like Stripe and Instagram.

Or “beware of euphemisms.”

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Color is an essential part of design, and choosing a color scheme is a step all web designers take. Here are 21 tools to help you find the perfect palette.

Planning is essential for most businesses and organizations. Unfortunately, when it comes to websites there is often a failure to plan properly or at all. This guide aims to change that.

The following manifesto represents my answer to the question — “As a UX or UI, designer, how do I know when and where to implement motion…

Developers and designers need to initiate a conversation about the ethics of web design, i.e. how do we define and measure goodness and rightness in the digital realm? It's important to discuss responsibilities, decisions, and consequences.

The #DesignGenome Project—explore the DNA of the world's best product design teams. https://www.invisionapp.com/enterprise/design-genome

Coercive tactics like Manipulinks and Please-Don’t-Go try to shame customers into doing what the company wants. Sacrificing long-term customer loyalty for short-term gains is shortsighted.

Nobody wants to create bad design, and yet it happens all the time. And while the cause of bad design varies, the final result is the same—bad user experience. Bad user experience frustrates users and often leads to abandoning the product. In this article, I'll focus on one particular aspect of bad design—using UI techniques that lead to bad UX. 1. Pop-Ups If I ask you to name the single most irritating thing on the web, the odds are that you'll reply, "Pop-ups." According to the NN Group pop-ups are the most hated web experience ever. We all know that feeling. You visit a new website, the ...

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Why popular thoughts about user experience are wrong and the reason we should share a concise understanding of the term instead.

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As designers and developers, we have an obligation to build experiences that are better than that. This article explains how unethical design happens, and how to do ethical design through a set of best practices.

A unique way to generate fresh and vibrant colors based on lighting and pigment, instead of math. Find a beautiful, free color palette in seconds to kick off your next project.

Does anybody know what are the RGB "equivalents" of the category colors that MS uses in the Windows version of Oulook 2010? Just starting to use a Mac "for real work" (vs tinkering with it as a se...