What we printed this week:
How a lot do you actually find out about graphic design? Take our ten-question quiz to search out out.
Our greatest concepts for using video in your electronic mail advertising campaigns.
Private story of the week: author and UX designer Danya Azzopardi on the glory and the power of the hackathon.
Blogger & designer Paul Boag on whether or not the entire notion of ‘embracing failure‘ is known as a good factor.
Shade-coded: 8 color scheme trends in cell app design.
“Designing an intuitive, stunning but practical expertise for a consumer is much like the method you undergo in your head once you’re shopping for a present for somebody” – MSTQ founder Yazin Akkawi on how to create great design.
For those who’re a world traveler, it's best to positively obtain this interactive map to indicate the place you’ve been.
Glad December!
Moving into the vacation spirit, net design-style:
- 5 brilliantly ugly Christmas sweater patterns.
- A curated record of Hanukkah designs.
- We will’t look forward to UXmas, an creation calendar for UX designers.
- Graphics, colour schemes, countdowns: 9 methods so as to add holiday cheer to your web site.
Featured graphic designer of the week: Coderthemes
Our featured design crew of the week is Coderthemes, a small growth studio. Hottest merchandise: the Ubold Responsive web app kit, a Bootstrap-based admin template that’s responsive, easy, and practical.
P.S., the header picture for this text is from our featured graphic designer of the week, miumi, a designer from the Czech Republic who has a stellar assortment of fruit & vegetable patterns (amongst different designs!)
Design information and inspiration
AWS launches a deep-learning bot framework named Alexa. Cloth wall artwork and too many phrases: the worst design trends of 2016. The best portfolio we’ve seen this week: Adrian Zumbrunnen’s chatbot-based website. Attractive kinetic architecture & paper tasks. On attempting to determine why internet commenters trouble to remark in any respect. A information to why site structure is essential, from Yoast. 6 methods to enhance your logo design. And, a cool job alert: Vox Media’s Storytelling Studio is on the lookout for a programmer-slash-journalist to push the boundaries of conventional net journalism.
Freelance information
Are you extra Berlin or Chiang Mai? Try our information to the best destinations for freelancers on each continent.
From job boards to freelancing networks, right here’s 20 unexplored places to search out freelance work on-line.
Pollwp CEO Collis Ta’eed picks out a number of of his favorite logo designs from the freelancers at Pollwp Studio.
