Tag: design

Best WordPress Themes for Creative Agencies & Freelancers

May 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If you are creative freelancers or have a business of design agency, a web presence based on WordPress will be your best choice to give the potential clients an indication of your experience and expertise. Even if WordPress has been mostly used to create blogs, it can be well adapted to present your portfolios, demonstrate your work or projects, show off your skills and offer your services as a designer or creative professional in a stunning style. In this collection, we hand-picked the best WordPress themes for creative agencies and freelancers with superb visual design to get the visitors first impression. The themes will keep you up with the latest trends of design no matter you are freelancers, artists, web designers or photographers. It is worth …

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Best WordPress Themes for Creative Agencies & Freelancers

The ULTIMATE List of 24 Free eBooks on UX and Interface Design

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The ultimate list of 24 free eBooks on UX and interface design will help you be a UX rock-star. Study from gurus for free! Want to be a UX rock star like Nick Finck of Amazon Web Services, Dave Garr of UserTesting.com, Jan Jursa of the mighty @IATV or even Jacob Nielsen, the ultimate UX guru? Then you should study the UX subjects they and other smart UX practitioners know. But why pay for all that great UX and interface design information when you can get it for free? Yes, free! Many UX books, guides and research studies are now available free as eBooks. I’ve compiled the ULTIMATE list of free UX and Interface Design eBooks so that you have this handy list to help …

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The ULTIMATE List of 24 Free eBooks on UX and Interface Design

Ghost Buttons – The Brand New Design Trend

April 30, 2014 / Daniel / 0 Comments

Ghost is a mysterious and cryptic creature that triggers such associations as consternation, transparency, clarity as well as charisma and attractiveness. Though it seems that it has nothing to do with a website design, in fact, this frightening, yet adorable phantom manages to transfer its genetic traits into graphics, adding to integral elements its strong appeal and personal charm. The so-called ghost buttons are today’s talk of the office and are apparently a prevailing trend that is growing day by day. So, what actually does an almost translucent entity have to do with it all? Let’s figure it out. Ghost Buttons in Web Design Ghost button – that also can be called naked, empty or hollow – represents a basic …

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Ghost Buttons â€“ The Brand New Design Trend

How to Look at Your Website the Way Google Does

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

When you spend months or years on a website, not to mention thousands of dollars, it’s hard to step back and look at it objectively. Can you look at it through the eyes of your users? Can you look at it the way Google does? If you can look at your website the way Google does, you’ll probably discover areas in which your website needs work. So in that spirit, I’m going to teach you how you can see your website from Google’s perspective, and how you can then target the areas that need improvement. First, Google finds your website In order to see your website, Google needs to find it. When you create a website, Google will discover it eventually.

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How to Look at Your Website the Way Google Does

Why Users Aren’t Clicking Your Home Page Carousel

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

by anthony on 04/29/14 at 10:19 am

A website study found that out of 3 million home page visits only about 1% clicked a carousel slide. How could a large, graphical element on the home page get such few clicks? The reason most carousels do poorly might surprise you. Most carousels have multiple slides that rotate when users click the navigation arrow. The first slide always gets the most clicks. But the click-through rate for every slide after that will suffer a steep drop. The problem with the low click-through rate is not the carousel pattern itself, but the carousel navigation. The navigation arrows on a carousel don’t give users an incentive to click. It fails because an arrow affordance doesn’t describe the information users get …

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Why Users Arenâ€™t Clicking Your Home Page Carousel