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Revealed: the top 30 UK design studios in 2019
www.creativebloq.com Oct 11, 2019
It's that time again! After canvassing creative directors, studio founders and design course leaders from all across the UK, Computer Arts magazine is delighted to reveal the results of the sixth-annual UK Studio Rankings. You'll need to buy the...
Adobe warns users not to upgrade to macOS Catalina
www.creativebloq.com Oct 10, 2019
Do you run Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom Classic CC on a Mac? Maybe you're even working your way through our Photoshop tutorials. If so, you might want to hold fire before you update your machine to macOS Catalina. That's because both pieces of...
A Guide To New And Experimental CSS DevTools In Firefox Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Oct 10, 2019
Over the last few years, our team at Firefox has been working on new CSS tools that address both cutting-edge techniques and age-old frustrations. Were the Layout Tools team, a subset of Firefox Developer Tools, and our quest is to improve the...
15 tips for better lighting keys
www.creativebloq.com Oct 9, 2019
Lighting keys show exactly how a scene will be lit, and express the scene's emotional story, while storyboards tell the narrative story. A good lighting key comes straight from the heart and requires empathy and poetic thinking. Youll also need a...
Design Systems Are About Relationships Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Oct 7, 2019
Design systems can be incredibly helpful. They provide reusable elements and guidelines for building a consistent look and feel across products. As a result, users can take what they learned from one product and apply it to another. Similarly,...
Editorial Design Patterns With CSS Grid And Named Columns Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Oct 4, 2019
Many websites, in particular those which display long-form content, have a fairly straightforward repeating pattern of components: a full-width area for images, a central content area, and perhaps a split view of two half-width blocks. These...
Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Oct 3, 2019
Even if you didnt study graphic design at art school, you might know a few famous names. With over a century of commercial art direction, there are plenty more names to discover. People who have done astonishing work which can encourage and...
How To Ensure Your Design System Helps To Achieve The Purpose Of Your Product Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Oct 1, 2019
(This is a sponsored post.) Design systems help product teams to approach design with a system in mind. But not all design systems are equally effective. Some design system help product teams create coherent experience; others produce confusing...
Common image file formats and when to use them
www.creativebloq.com Oct 1, 2019
Images, and therefore image file formats, are a big part of many creatives' lives. As a designer, one of the most common questions I get asked is, 'what file format do you want?' closely followed by, 'will this do?' With such a diverse array of...
Beneath The Autumn Leaves (October 2019 Wallpapers Edition) Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Sep 30, 2019
Misty mornings, pumpkins, leaves shining in bright red, yellow, and orange hues these are just some of the things about October that inspired artists and designers to participate in this months wallpapers challenge. The monthly challenge has...
How to kitbash on the go with Shapr3D
www.creativebloq.com Sep 27, 2019
Learn how to use Shapr3D to kitbash on an iPad Pro with this handy tutorial. Shapr3D is a great tool for kitbashing. It helps to literally bash out ideas and produce useful pieces of kit. Its fast, clean and its interface is very intuitive; this...
Create a scene with RenderMan for Maya
www.creativebloq.com Sep 26, 2019
In this RenderMan for Maya tutorial, we'll cover a variety of topics starting from creating a compelling composition all the way through to shading, lighting and rendering a production-quality image. We'll use polygon modelling techniques to create...
Frankenstein Migration: Framework-Agnostic Approach (Part 1) Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Sep 26, 2019
Migration, according to Oxford Learners Dictionary, is the slow or gradual movement of something from one place to another. This term describes many things and phenomena in our world both with positive and negative tint. In software...
Subject Line Ideas for Black Friday and Cyber Monday Emails - Designmodo
designmodo.com Sep 26, 2019
The busiest season for emails is looming. The weekend after Thanksgiving promises to be special. Whether you are a buyer or a seller, Black Friday and Cyber Monday is a period of great deals for sellers and shoppers. While customers will be full of...
The best new UX books of 2019
www.creativebloq.com Sep 25, 2019
UX is a profession that never stands still, but the latest theories, practices and sub-disciplines can take quite a bit of explaining, and can't just be summed up in a quick tweet or Facebook post. To keep your UX skills up to date, then, new and...
Creating Tables In Figma Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Sep 25, 2019
In this tutorial, we will talk about how tables can be created in Figma by using components and Atomic Design methodology. We will also take a look at the basic elements of the table layout and how components can be included in the component...
Designing Complex Responsive Tables In WordPress Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Sep 24, 2019
(This is a sponsored article.) Mobile devices can be problematic for displaying complex tables and charts that would otherwise stretch the entire width of a laptop or desktop screen. This may leave some of you wondering whether its even worth...
SEO tricks: 16 ways to outrank your competitors
www.creativebloq.com Sep 24, 2019
A competitive analysis is a critical part of any businesses marketing plan. A well-reasoned competitor analysis will structure your whole marketing strategy and position your business for future success. Having a better understanding of the...
Email Marketing Tips to Help You Generate More Sales - Designmodo
designmodo.com Sep 23, 2019
Have your email marketing campaigns failed to deliver the results you were after? If youre scratching your head wondering how to get email marketing right, let me tell you: when it comes to the email marketing copy, theres nothing a bit of...
Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Social Proof? Smashing Magazine
www.smashingmagazine.com Sep 23, 2019
Its very easy to start a business these days. But succeeding in that business is another story. There are just too many people who want to escape the 9-to-5, do something with their big idea and make a better life for themselves in the process. I...
Pantone launches a whopping 294 'trend relevant' colours
www.creativebloq.com Sep 20, 2019
You might've thought that we've discovered every single colour under the sun by now. But no, colour expert Pantone has stumbled across 294 new shades and added them to its popular Pantone Matching System. The new spot colours are the first...
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