Designers
A collection of valuable articles for creative people who love to smartly make things nice to use.
Collection by Michael Musgrove
Chris Spooner
Video Tutorial: The “Step & Repeat” Trick for Creating 3D Text in Photoshop
· In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to create a colourful 3D type effect, which is ideal for making fun lettering pieces or quote designs. We’ll start by creating a custom type layout using a… · Shared by 8, including Michael Musgrove
Smithographic℠
Alphabet Ambigram Designed by Scott Kim
3 min · · This stunning beautiful Alphabet Ambigram Designed by Scott Kim is something I can't recall ever seeing before. · Shared by 6, including Michael Musgrove
Creative Market
Art Nouveau Design 101: Everything You Need to Know
16+ min · · Chances are you’ve admired Art Nouveau design without knowing it. Art Nouveau is French for “new art.” A “total art style,” Art Nouveau · Shared by 5, including Michael Musgrove
trendypalettes.com
Trendy Palettes | Beautiful Color Palettes
1 min · · Thousands of trendy color palettes in a curated collection that is updated daily. Get a fresh color palette for your next design project and save all the palettes you like. · Shared by 33, including Mike Taylor, Fabricio Teixeira, Michael Musgrove
yoksel.github.io
SVG Filters
· Shared by 30, including Michael Musgrove, sascha aßbach, José Rodrigues, Tableless
Speckyboy
10 Advanced Image Hover Effects Snippets
3 min · · Hover effects have long been one of the easiest ways to add an element of interactivity to a website. Most commonly, we see them used to highlight text links or... · Shared by 10, including Michael Musgrove
sparanoid.com
The Complete CSS Demo for OpenType Features
20+ min · · Shared by 43, including Matteo Fogli, José Rodrigues, David Hellmann, Alligator.io 🐊, Tableless, Rodrigo Noales, Chris Coyier, Michael Musgrove
nucleoapp.com
Icon Transition Generator
1 min · · Nucleo is a beautiful library of 20000+ icons, and a powerful application to collect, customize and export all your icons. · Shared by 24, including Michael Musgrove, Marius Bleuer, kp, Niklaus Gerber
LogRocket
Advanced effects with CSS background blend modes
7 min · · Learn about background-blend-mode and how you can use it to create eye-catching backgrounds and photo effects. · Shared by 68, including Alligator.io 🐊, Chris Coyier, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Michael Musgrove, sascha aßbach, Tableless, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷
UX Collective
The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX
20+ min · · Nowadays it’s hard to impress or even surprise with an interface animation. It shows interactions between screens, explains how to use the… · Shared by 499, including Joe Lencioni, Gabriele, Matteo Fogli, AJ Ghergich, Fabricio Teixeira, ITNEXT, five5star // Design Graphique, laugri, designshard, Luca Longo, Michael Musgrove, Nick Babich, Alligator.io 🐊, Mohamed Azazy, von Moerenburgh, Kohei Asai, David Dias, Martin Stabe, David Hellmann, James Young
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
Best Practices For Mobile Form Design
20+ min · · Users can be hesitant to fill out forms. That is why it is our goal as designers to make the process of filling out a form as easy as possible. In this article, I’ll share a number of practical techniques that are bound to help you design effective forms. · Shared by 183, including Mark Kaigwa, Chris Love - PWAs 📳📱& SEO 🔎, Daniel Bentes, Michael Musgrove, Leslie D, Thomas Eichmann, Jacob Jarnvall, Kohei Asai, Matt, fernand0, Tableless, Dirk Spannaus, Thomas Kaul, Christian P. Stobbe, Kim Schläpfer, David Hellmann, Casey Smith, Gabriele, Nick Babich
betterwebtype.com
Web Typography Resources for Web Designers and Web Developers
4 min · · A growing list of web typography related apps, tools, plugins and other resources for web designers and web developers. · Shared by 35, including ThomNagy, Kam, Michael Musgrove, Niklaus Gerber, Scott Williams
blog-en.tilda.cc
Common webpage design mistakes
17+ min · · Simple layout and design tips to help you create a stunning webpage · Shared by 98, including Matt, Joona Tuunanen 🇫🇮, Bernhard Huessy, Clemens, Thomas Kaul, Selim Imoberdorf, Atul Pradhananga, David Hellmann, Dominik Grolimund, Michael Musgrove, Andreia Costa 🇵🇹, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
play.typedetail.com
Font Playground -- Play with variable fonts!
2 min · · Font Playground {{ tab.name }} Font Playground is built for three groups of audiences. The first group of audience is typographers and designers, who would like to play with fonts that are built with… · Shared by 10, including Michael Musgrove, Marc Hinse, Benny Schudel
InVision
A Comprehensive Reading List for and by Designers
· Being big bibliophiles here at InVision, we asked some of our favorite designers to recommend the book that inspired them the most this past year. Check out the 75 most popular answers and the top designers who recommend them, plus 5 inspiring periodicals. · Shared by 103, including Christian Hartmann, Michael Musgrove, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Courtney Bolton ★, Thomas Kaul, Dominik Grolimund, Arin Basu
A List Apart
Never Show A Design You Haven’t Tested On Users
20+ min · · User testing is a necessary part of the design process, not a luxury. · Shared by 158, including Florian Hanke 🍎, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Daniel Lawniczak, amandakern, Alligator.io 🐊, Matthias Sala, Balthasar Glättli🌻 🕊, Davo ⚡, Michael Musgrove, Thomas Kaul, Reto Laemmler, Courtney Bolton ★, stephtara@octodon.social, Dominik Grolimund, Greg Meyer, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Jacob Jarnvall, Stephanie A Kowalski, designshard, mastodon.social/@renestalder