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Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! Learning new skills can be frustrating: The natural ups and downs on the path to progress can cause learners to feel stuck, encounter mental blocks,…
In this quick tutorial I’m going to show you how to make an SVG-ready arrow graphic using Adobe XD. Watch Screencast [embedded content] I’ll be using a website design which is part of a new course called “Code Friendly Design With Adobe XD”. It has the main content area at the top of the page…
It seems that the development community is more active lately as there have been quite plenty of new tools released in the last few months. In this round of the series, I’ll highlight some of the tools that are worth mentioning. Among the list of tools, there is a JavaScript library to generate dummy data,…
Get the Syllabus to Our Brand New UX Professional Blueprint Learn more about our exciting new UX Professional Blueprint course with this comprehensive syllabus! Over and over, I find myself having conversations with people who ask themselves: “Am I creative?” and answer with a resounding. . . “Meh.” Maybe you’re one of those people, doubting…
Learn how to use 3D graphics in your web design projects in our new short course, Three.js: Beyond the Basics. What You’ll Learn In our introductory course, 3D on the Web With Three.js, you were introduced to the world of 3D web graphics using the Three.js framework. In this new short course, Craig Campbell will help…
Get the Syllabus to Our Brand New UX Professional Blueprint Learn more about our exciting new UX Professional Blueprint course with this comprehensive syllabus! Wherever you are in your UX career—whether you’re starting at square one or have been working as a UX designer for years—drawing inspiration from the world around you is crucial if…
In this post, we compare 5 popular options to help you find the best WordPress RSS feed plugin for your site. RSS feed plugins make it easy to import content from any RSS feed to your site. Depending on the plugin, you’ll be able to either display a simple RSS feed using a shortcode or…
Get the Syllabus to Our Brand New UX Professional Blueprint Learn more about our exciting new UX Professional Blueprint course with this comprehensive syllabus! As an aspiring UX designer, your portfolio is the most important asset you have in your job hunt. A well-researched, focused, and comprehensive portfolio can help to show employers your unique…
Get the Syllabus to Our Brand New UX Professional Blueprint Learn more about our brand new UX Professional Blueprint course with this comprehensive syllabus! In the quest for high paying, flexible, and creatively fulfilling work, tech can be a direct pipeline to all three qualities—but it’s a much more inclusive pipeline than people sometimes think….
Since the introduction of the Simple Payment Button, we’ve been looking for more ways to streamline payments on WordPress.com and Jetpack-enabled sites. Today, we’re introducing a new variant of the Simple Payment Button, available to WordPress.com Premium and Business plan subscribers and to Jetpack sites on Premium and Professional plans. Take payments anywhere on your…
Movement has long been one of the most powerful ways to make a website stand out. It has evolved to the point where designers now have a wide variety of options, ranging from simple microinteractions all the way to full-screen video backgrounds. Along those lines, motion graphics have become a popular way to bring a…
Get the Syllabus to Our Brand New UX Professional Blueprint Learn more about our brand new UX Professional Blueprint course with this comprehensive syllabus! Like many print designers over the last ten years, graphic designer Tish Gance found herself needing to transition from the world of print to digital design—a career change she made three…
Stefan Blicker is the best email marketer you’ve never heard of. In the emails he writes for Last Bottle, a daily purveyor of fine wine, he uses way too many exclamation points. He also uses the caps lock key with reckless abandon and doesn’t really care about being grammatically correct. If you want to flaunt…
Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Remote Job You Love Say goodbye to the 9-to-5. Learn the steps you can take TODAY to get a remote job. So, your boss is asking too much of you and you’re not quite sure how to tell them that you’ve already got a laundry list of assignments…
If you need to design a corporate website, you can save yourself a lot of time and trouble by using a UI kit. What is a UI kit, and how do you use one? Our new course, Design a Corporate Website Using UI Kits in Sketch, answers those questions in detail. Instructor Adi Purdila will…
Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! It’s easy to define remote work as work that doesn’t take place in a traditional office—in other words, a remote job means you won’t be…
Dealing with change isn’t easy, especially if users have become adjusted to a particular way of doing things. Introducing change through UI updates or even a wide reaching design overhaul can be tricky. Here are a couple of things to expect when introducing change to your user base. ? Change Aversion Definition: the negative short-term…
Social media is a great tool for any company to expand its business through digital advertising. Facebook used to be the obvious front-runner among the different social media platforms, but users are beginning to turn to platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat for their digital communication. Utilizing Instagram and Snapchat is vital for companies hoping…
In this article, I’m going to walk you through how you can find and manage content writers. We’ll be talking from the perspective of outreach, which is our area of expertise, but most of what will be covered can be used for content writers in other areas of SEO and digital marketing. We’ll cover where…
In our previous article we discussed the basics of design thinking. In this article we’ll learn how to handle the first stage in that process: empathy. So let’s first remind ourselves where it sits in the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design’s proposal: Image source: Interaction Design Foundation An Exercise in Empathy Here’s a scenario: imagine you’ve…