How to Use Color in Design to Guide Your User

By Paulina Vargas on Nov 18, 2015 04:00 am

The colors you choose in your designs can really help guide a user through a site or application. The human eye is generally designed to perceive brighter colors to appear closer and, therefore, seems more accessible. A darker color tends to fall into the foreground and appear subdued. Foreground (Brighter) Background (Darker) You can apply...

Is Apple's Focus on Beauty Destroying Good Design

By Paulina Vargas on Nov 17, 2015 07:45 pm

Apple former UX and UI designers, Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini (wrote Apple's first human interface guidelines) and Don Norman (UX designer 1993 - 1996) wrote a feature with Co-Design stating "Apple is Destroying Good Design". The previous employees are critical towards Apple's design for IOS mobile devices. "Apple, you used to be the leader, why are...

Mobirise: Free Mobile-Ready Website Builder without Coding

By Nancy Young on Nov 17, 2015 11:36 am

If it were up to non-techies, there would be no need to learn coding in order to create beautiful websites. Fortunately for them, technologies seem to be heading in the right direction, as the market of coding-free website building solutions is only growing. Today we're going to introduce you Mobirise which is a free Bootstrap...

Designing with Great UI Style Guides in Mind

By Paulina Vargas on Nov 17, 2015 04:00 am

Committing to a UI style guide is one of the best ways to preserve great design. Some of the best brands maintain a great website and consistency after multiple updates through an impeccable UI style guide. Learn by example what a good UI style guide looks like from some of the best digital brands in the...

Websites Dedicated to Aid the Victims of Paris Attacks

By Paulina Vargas on Nov 16, 2015 12:35 pm

Supplying information below as a result of the tragic attacks that occurred in Paris on Friday night to share resources and ways to help. Even though you may be distant from the country's borders you can still provide aid, or get information on the status of your friends and family in Paris through social media....

A Positive Approach to Keeping Up With Design Tools

By Paulina Vargas on Nov 16, 2015 04:00 am

It feels like every day there is a new list of tools to implement, new software to test out, new updates to adapt to. New tools are great, they allow us be faster and potentially accomplish things that couldn't be done in the past. For designers and developers the amount of information associated with the...

ICYMI: The Weekly Ledger

By Paulina Vargas on Nov 16, 2015 04:00 am

Why Women Veterans Are the Fastest-Growing Group of Entrepreneurs The number of companies owned by female veterans has nearly quadrupled in the past five years. AI Startup Grades the Excitement On Your Website A virtual AI that teaches software to view web and mobile design the way people do. The Future of Web Design Again?...