Why All UI Designers Should Give Principle App a Try and How to Get Started
Why prototyping interaction is a valuable aspect of mobile app design, and why all UI designers should give Principle for Mac a try. Plus a quick tutorial on how to get started animating your static mockups....Read more
Quick Tip: Use Color Lookup to Create Dramatic Photo Effects with a Single Click
Color enhancements such as cross processing and various blending techniques can make a photo what it is by setting a tone and mood. While most color changes are quick and easy, they still take several clicks to accomplish. These days were all about speed and efficiency,...Read more
Bootstrap, Frameworks and the “Average Website”
Earlier this week, there was a provocative Medium post entitled “The Average Website”, an opinion piece intended to critique the “sameness” evident in many modern web pages. The targets will be familiar to most web developers and designers: drip widgets, welcome mats, a...Read more
How to Create a Custom Lettering Piece from an Existing Font in Minutes
Custom hand lettering has increased in popularity in recent years and is in great demand from clients. Creating the look by hand is a fantastic skill that one has to develop and refine for years. But a similar style can be created with a little bit of creativity and a g...Read more
Create a Vintage Press Text Effect in Photoshop
This tutorial will show you how to use Smart Objects, Filters, textures and Clipping Masks in Photoshop to a create a retro letter press style text effect....Read more
A Quick Primer On SVG
While you may only have recently started to hear people talk about SVG, or calable vector graphics, the technology has been around since 1999. For a variety of reasons SVG adoption has been slow, but as web browsers have added native support and trends in web design hav...Read more
3 Easy Ways to Create Vector Silhouettes
Creating vector silhouettes is an easy way to add simple illustrations to your design work. Silhouettes can be achieved in several ways. In this simple tutorial, Ill show 3 different ways to creating silhouette shapes using Photoshop and Illustrator....Read more
Should You Use Photoshop, Illustrator or Sketch to Draw Vector Icons?
Photoshop, Illustrator and Sketch are all tools capable of drawing vector icons and exporting them to SVG. But which tool should you be using to draw vector icons?...Read more