How to Use Social Media to Influence and Inspire Your Web Design Projects
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Pitch Deck Design: 10 Tips to Stand Out
A good pitch deck is designed for specifically one thing – to help your startup get funding from investors. But how do you stand out from the crowd, and make a memorable impression? There’s a delicate balance to creating a deck with just enough slides to entice potential funders, without providing so much information that…
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Weekly News for Designers № 608
Responsivize – Use this open-source desktop app to test your web designs on popular devices. Why do people hate redesigns? – A look at the factors behind redesign backlash. 3DPop – This online tool will help you generate awesome 3D text effects using CSS. How to Handle Losing Your Motivation as a Designer – Learn…
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45+ Best Minimal Logo Design Templates
Minimalist logo design is an art. How can you convey your brand with a professional logo, but keep the simplicity of a minimal, clean, and simple design? Getting that balance right is the key to crafting an iconic logo. One strategy is to try using a pre-designed minimal logo template to base your next logo…
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I completely ignored the front-end development scene for 6 months. It was fine.
Have you ever fretted that front-end web development moves so fast that if you stepped away for a while, you’d be lost coming back? Rachel Smith has: The hectic pace of needing to learn one thing after the next didn’t bother me so much because when I was 26 because I was quite happy to…
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If I work really hard on my Open Graph images, people will share my blog posts.
Zach did that thing where each of his blog posts has a special URL with the design of social image card that is screenshat by a headless browser (like Puppeteer) and used as a true meta Open Graph image, meaning it’s displayed on Twitter, Facebook, iMessage, Slack, Discord, and whatever else supports that card look.…
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Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers
Because this industry moves so quickly, learning new skills is a regular thing for most of us. Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and apps that can help you supplement your skills in different areas of web development. Whatever you want to learn from CSS…
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Everything You Need to Know About Design Tokens
Design tokens are a way to easily identify and understand the elements in a design system. As more designers and companies adopt use of design tokens, their value will continue to grow. The key to design tokens is that they facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration. More people on a team can understand and use design values without…
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Accessing Your Data With Netlify Functions and React
(This is a sponsored post.) Static site generators are popular for their speed, security, and user experience. However, sometimes your application needs data that is not available when the site is built. React is a library for building user interfaces that helps you retrieve and store dynamic data in your client application. Fauna is a…
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Typographic Posters: 100 Stunning Examples
Typography is all about delivering art and information in a beautiful medium. Designing typographic posters is no easy task, and arranging and modifying each individual component is a skilled task. Not only that, special care has to be taken when it comes to the legibility and aesthetics of the fonts being used in the poster, choosing a…
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