How to Create a Great Portfolio Part 1: 3 Tips & Tricks
When working as a freelancer, your portfolio is your calling card. It's your résumé. It's the most important thing. Nobody cares about your studies or how long you've been at it. Everyone cares about the quality of your work. That's why it's important to have an awesome...Read more
How To Design a High-Conversion Homepage
If you personally make a lousy first impression, you might get a second chance to redeem yourself — but your website won’t. There are too many other sites out there clamoring for the same traffic. If you want better performance from your website, you have to put your be...Read more
What’s the Purpose of a Website, and Do I Really Need One?
"What does a website do?" That is the question that I was asked recently. A genuinely inquisitive question from a person who could potentially benefit from having a website for his business but had simply never considered it before. And it got me thinking about the purp...Read more
How to Design an Infographic for Maximum Success
The best infographics can be an incredibly useful tool for designers and marketers. They draw the reader’s attention more effectively than boring old grayscale text, and they allow for much more creativity than a straightforward breakdown using words. Infographics offer...Read more
Introducing the New Medialoot
For the past nine months we've been working on something huge at Medialoot—a complete redesign and rebranding of our entire website and image. We are extremely happy to announce that it is finally live and ready for your viewing pleasure....Read more
Beyond Photoshop: Finding the Perfect Design Tool
The market of applications to design user interfaces is a bit more crowded than it was just a few years ago. As a consequence, designers are expecting more from the software programs they buy, and they are starting to question if the tools they have been using for years...Read more
Style Guides: A Design Mock-up for the Responsive Web
Most designers follow a set process when creating websites, but now that we are in the world of responsive design, and websites are accessed on more devices than ever before. Using Photoshop to create design mock-ups is increasingly becoming flawed....Read more
Goodbye Fireworks, Hello Photoshop CC!
On May 7 Adobe announced their latest generation of creative tools now known as CC, and this week designers finally got their hands on the new and updated suite, including Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC. But as was also announced in May, Fireworks has not been included...Read more