Tag: Web

Including high quality blogs and other forms of useful, interesting content is a great way to boost SEO and encourage repeat visits to a website. However, with everyone playing the same game, getting visitors flowing to a new site can still be touch and go — even if you do everything right. Increasingly, targeted advertising on Google and social media helps bring new eyes to every lovingly crafted website, and companies relying purely on SEO struggle. The drawback is that this puts a business’ hard-earned cash straight into the pocket of the Internet giants. That’s why they’re worth billions while small businesses struggle. There is a way, however, to get free advertising and introduce thousands of new surfers to your site: by guest blogging, you can showcase yourself — and by extension y...

UX And HTML5: Let’s Help Users Fill In Your Mobile Form (Part 2)UX And HTML5: Let’s Help Users Fill In Your Mobile Form (Part 2) Stéphanie Walter 2018-08-27T14:00:31+02:00 2018-08-27T20:14:44+00:00 In this second part, I want to focus more on mobile-specific capabilities. HTML5, for instance, has brought us a lot of really cool features to help users fill in mobile forms and format their data. We will see in detail how HTML5 attributes can help you with that. Then, we will go beyond “classic” form elements and see how to use mobile capabilities such as the camera, geolocation and fingerprint scanners to really take your mobile form experience to the next level ...

While this tends to be the time of year when things start to slow a bit in the design world, there are still trends that are worth paying attention to as you plan future projects. One element that stands out quite distinctly is the use of the color purple in projects. This trend deserves a mention of its own (see No. 3) but also note the use of the color in examples from other projects in the other featured trends as well. Here’s what’s trending in design this month: 1. Elaborate Illustrations There’s just something about an elaborate illustration that draws the eye into a design. There’s a need to see all of the details and understand the intricacy of each line. Whether it’s a “designer thing” or not, illustrations are an interesting way to draw users into a website design. The more elab...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that were posted, so don’t miss out and subscribe to our newsletter and follow the site daily for all the news. The Case for Slow Design   Why We Redesigned Our Website … Again   Ode to Gray   Introducing Ghost 2.0   WordPress is at a Crossroads   How to Grow as a Junior UI Designer   Thing...

Making Distributed Product Teams Work More Efficiently With monday.comMaking Distributed Product Teams Work More Efficiently With monday.com Nick Babich 2018-08-23T14:00:26+02:00 2018-08-23T12:23:54+00:00 (This is a sponsored article.) The way that product teams work is changing: The software industry is quickly moving to remote work. In the US alone, 43% of employed Americans have spent at least some time working remotely, and that number has steadily increased in recent years. Many successful digital products on the market today were designed and developed by a distributed team. Such teams don’t have an office in the traditional sense. Everyone chooses to wor...

Let’s not beat around the bush, local SEO is hard. If you represent a business in a large city and you’re aiming for a top 3 maps business listing (the Snack Pack), then it’s even harder. You can spend many stressful hours tailoring every little aspect of your site, trying to achieve this and lose sanity along the way wondering where you’ve gone wrong. It can be a very lonely place. An important thing to do to retain your sanity is to be realistic and confront a few honest truths. no one knows with full certainty…who will make it into the coveted snack pack One of those truths is that no one knows with full certainty, how, or who will make it into the coveted snack pack for any given search query. Not the best SEO specialists, not the people working at Google—I’m not even convinced Google...

Onboarding Users Of Your Product: From Trial To PaymentOnboarding Users Of Your Product: From Trial To Payment Joe Leech 2018-08-21T14:20:21+02:00 2018-08-21T13:33:03+00:00 (This is a sponsored article.) In part one of this series, we looked at the Attraction phase of the customer lifecycle. This three-part series outlines the three phases of the product lifecycle, the future for UX, and the skills and approach you’ll need to design modern digital products. Part 1: AttractionGoing out there to get users to evaluate your product. Part 2: ActivationSigning up, onboarding users, asking for payment. Part 3: RetentionEncouraging users to come back and keep using an...

Crello is an innovative design tool from Depositphotos that’s simple to pick up and use, and outputs high-quality results. In an increasingly saturated design tool market, it could be the best tool you’ve never tried. Now, after the popularity of Crello, Depositphotos are releasing Crello Animation Maker. A brand new set of features that enable anyone to convert design assets into engaging animation for the web, in just a few clicks. Introducing Crello Animation Maker Crello Animation Maker is designed to enable anyone to quickly and easily convert Crello designs into animated assets for use on social media, or in adverts. It’s an incredible tool for marketing teams, who can take existing designs and create new campaigns in minutes, without having to pull the design team away from other ...

Welcome to our roundup of the best websites launched (or relaunched with significant updates) this August. The Summer’s almost over, vacations are less frequent, and we’re starting to see businesses gearing up for the Fall. This month we’ve included some great e-commerce, some design agencies with a difference, and some products with marketing challenges. There’s a huge trend for bold color, subtle animations, and scrolling effects this month. And not before time, big type is making a comeback. Enjoy! Epicurrence The creative conference for creatives that don’t do conferences, Epicurrence 2018 takes place in Yosemite later this month. The accompanying site uses stunning illustrations and subtle parallax to draw the user into the spirit of the event. Angelo Sanvito Angelo Sanvito is an il...