For Professional Web/App Designers and Developers
All modern browsers support the SVG filetype and it’s quickly becoming a favored choice among web designers. You can design beautiful icons as SVGs and scale them to any size without quality loss. This is one of the biggest benefits of the SVG format considering retina displays are on the rise. If you’d like to animate or manipulate your SVGs that’ll take a little more work. But these free...
Animation is one of the key trends for 2018, but you don’t have to reinvent the wheel to add movement to your sites. We look at the best free animation libraries for web projects. You can build some crazy things with UI animations on the web. This is quickly becoming the norm for modern websites where user engagement is a big deal. If you look around you’ll find plenty of code generators...
What only a few and most daring dreamers could have imagined two decades ago, when the Internet was only grasping at the surface of our daily lives, it now has become a reality. eCommerce accounts for more than $2 trillion in sales today and it is expected to jump up to $4.5 trillion in 2021. Online sales have a huge market share and now that most of the people are always connected to their...
Too many developers rely on JavaScript as an essential resource. We look at a range of sites that are modern, interactive, and feature great UX, without the need of JavaScript. Gather ’round, ladies, gents, and children. Lo, before your very eyes, we shall reveal several freaks of the Internet! Behold! Websites that don’t need JavaScript to display their god-given content! Oh, you think I’m...
Creating a good app icons design is challenging. The icon is a key visual element and it’s the first thing the users interact with. It should be beautiful, memorable, detailed, and the most important, it should reflect your design style. App icons is not a logo, but it has branding purposes. App icons should be placed into a square-canvas with specific size and context. Here we have put...
All three of this month’s essential design trends have to do with typography. And the trends showcase some pretty stellar ways to use beautiful type to create user engagement and make a great first impression. One common theme among these designs is that all of the typography styles are highly readable. If you plan to work with a more trendy or funky text element, choose a typeface that users...
Every website should be designed with a responsive approach. To keep you on the right track, testing early and often, with any of these responsive testing tools, will ensure that your design looks right on all browsers, and at all viewport sizes. Every modern website needs a responsive design. This does require more effort but the end result is worthwhile. I actually recommend testing your ideas...
Web developers are always ready to pack with fresh, trendy and latest tools and resources which help them in their work and save time. For the web developers another latest and fresh resources have come out. All these fresh and wonderful resources are fully packed with superb and useful tools like JavaScript libraries, frameworks, plugins, best practices guide, productive apps, tools and much...
We seen an up-and-coming trend in design that will definitely bleed into 2016 for animation incorporated into UI. With the opposite trend of static websites emerging as well, some would argue otherwise. However, with the development of CSS3 and JavaScript, we see more and more developers embracing interactive animation in their programming. The development of clever little Javascript engines...
jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application. If you’re developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Some developers believe that jQuery is protecting us from a great demon of browser incompatibility when, in truth, post-IE8, browsers are pretty easy to deal...
For Professional Web/App Designers and Developers