Free Keynote UX Stencils

In the light of Keynote as a recently popular tool for creating wireframes, here comes another emerging stencil for all to use. By Wireframes Magazine

10 Popular Design Competition Websites

>The irony of any website design is that the name of the designer is relegated right down to the bottom of the page and that too in small font sizes that are barely legible. And in some cases, the name of the designer is simply not there or is taken over by the client. By Dzineblog

Blogging For Web Designers: Editorial Calendars and Style Guides

This article doesn’t cover “traditional” web design discipline as we know it, but goes a bit beyond it, exploring various writing, blogging and online publishing strategies. Apart from that, we present some useful writing style guides that may help you educate your clients on their copy for their upcoming project. By Jessica Bordeau

6 Link Building Tools for Better Online Visibility

Link Building Tools for Better Online Visibility has its own magical combination. When you create an authentic piece of content, it will bring value and worth to your company, and it will also attract many links over the course of internet time. By Tariehk Geter

Freelancers: How to Get New Clients For Your Web Design Business

You know how important getting new clients is for your business. Getting a constant new stream of clients is often the #1 challenge for most freelancers. By Darren

40 Creative Flash Preloaders for your Inspiration

Use of Flash in a website means heavy use of animation, images, videos and sound effects, this is why they take lot of time to load, therefore users must have abundance of tolerance and patience. By Taimur Asghar

Get Inspired: Beautiful Examples of Textures in Web Design

Whenever you visit website these days, every single one of them is trying to compete one and another. Despite the difference of products or services they offer, their mission remain the same: to engage their visitor or customer. By Ari Suardiyanti

5 Killer Ways to Streamline your Coding Efficiency

Apart from practice, how can you actually speed up your coding. Well there are plenty options out there to aid you in doing so. By Matthew Corner

Good Help is Hard to Find

One of the most fundamental rules of user experience on the web is that developers are rarely qualified to evaluate it. A person who has trouble using a website to accomplish a task will quickly grow frustrated. By Lyle Mullican

Apps vs. the Web

Pull the iPhone out of your pocket and look at the home screen. Likely, you’re seeing some well known brands on the web: Facebook, Flickr, and Google to name just a few. You’ll also see companies like Amazon, Target, and Walmart which sell a lot of products via the web. By Craig Hockenberry

In Defense Of A/B Testing

Recently, A/B testing has come under (unjust) criticism from different circles on the Internet. Even though this criticism contains some relevant points, the basic argument against A/B testing is flawed. By Paras Chopra

Defining Emotion, Personality and Relationship

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. These experiences help to forge relationships between the products we create and the people who use them. Whether you’re designing a website or a physical product, the formation of a relationship depends on how useful, usable and pleasurable the experience is. By Trevor van Gorp

10 Free Website Chat Widgets to Make Your Site Interactive

If you want to make your website livelier, then adding a website chat widget is perhaps one of the more effective solutions for increasing user engagement and growing your community. By Phong Thai Cao

Minimalism in Web Design: A Guide

Minimalism is a word that gets tossed around in a lot of different contexts. Whether it be a lifestyle or an art form, saying something is "minimalistic" can take on a variety of meanings. By Jason Gross

How to Use Illustrations to Spice Up Your Web Design Work

Graphic illustrations have become commonplace in today’s web design. They can add a unique branding element into an otherwise bland world of templates and corporate logos. By Jake Rocheleau

Corporate Website Design: Creative and Beautiful Solutions

What do corporate websites have in common with other people’s children? Three things: they have their charm, like finger-paintings on the refrigerator; they can be useful, if infrequently; they are usually admired only by the people who created them. By Bobby Foley

50 Best Websites 2010

From the helpful to the distracting, the big hitters to the unknowns, TIME offers a road map to the best of the Web.

A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable

There are well-known proverbs that imply (or state outright) that beauty is superficial and limited in what it can accomplish. “It’s what’s inside that counts” and “Beauty is only skin deep” are a few simple examples By Louis Lazaris

8 useful web tools you would not want to miss

Online web tools are great because they can save your time and you do not need leave your browser. As our daily lives evolve into online sphere, having right web tools on your hand can certainly be convenient. By Desizn Tech

Recreating YouTube search form and other buttons using CSS3

CSS3 could not get here any faster. Lately, there has been a lot of post about CSS3. It’s wonderful features are too good not to use. By Desizn Tech