How to Design Your Business Card
As web designers and developers, we often overlook printed marketing materials. But on occasion, they can come in very handy:…
Review and Giveaway: Radim Malinic’s Book #THREE
Book #THREE by Brand Nu is a unique book that serves as the portfolio of Radim Malinic, one of the…
Redesign vs. Realign
It’s been nearly five years now since the redesign vs. realign debate began. Many designers are still approaching website changes…
Browser Testing: A Family Tree
One task drives web professionals to distraction more than almost any other: testing whether their design works equally well in…
7 Personality Types of Developers Today
Developers and programmers are meticulous individuals, and developers sometimes stand out even among themselves. We introduced you to 7 types…
The Psychology of Web Design
Designers often don’t take the time they should to learn about how basic psychological principles can effect the experience their…
Creative Uses of Stickers in Advertising
The use of stickers in advertising is not only an innovative way to attract attention, it is also an extremely…
The One-Hour Block Technique
Being a designer is great. You get to spend all day being creative—that is, of course, if you have all…
Web Design Trends for 2010
Purists will say that great design is timeless. Yes, in an ideal world, we should ignore trends. Pragmatically speaking, though,…
Avoid “Perfect Photo” Syndrome
Sometimes, choosing just the right image for a website that does not yet have a defined visual theme can be…
Architecture vs. Web Design
As designers, it’s common to wonder what the differences are between our chosen discipline and others. After all, there are…
Winners of “TypeFaces” Playing Cards
For the past week, we’ve been running a great contest to win sets of awesome playing cards from Typefaces. These…
Designing for Over Twenty Million Users: WordPress 3.0
WordPress 3.0 is, without doubt, one of the most exciting updates to the platform in a very long time. As…
Creating a Logotype Depends More on the Means Than the End
The process of designing a type-based logo is similar to that of designing a shape-based logo. Both logos need to…
Win 10 Sets of “TypeFaces” Playing Cards
What are TypeFaces? They’re “top-trumps” style card packs featuring 20 well known designers. For each designer, a typeface was selected…
Beautiful Contact Forms for your Inspiration
Contact forms have evolved a lot since the days of simple bland html forms. This holds especially true for portfolio…
How to Overcome 20 Reasons Not to Become a Freelancer
We recently published an article covering 20 reasons not to become a freelancer. The idea was that there are already…
Winners of the Massive Iconshock Giveaway
Today we have the results of last week’s Iconshock Giveaway. We received over 451 entries for this super awesome contest,…