Category: Webdesign Tips

Designing and development are one of the most common professional fields in today’s world that are ever changing and updating their technology and have multi-talented individuals working in it. Owing to the ever-evolving nature of their field, designers and developers are always looking for support from useful resources.

Podcasts are one of the resources that can help designers through their professional journey. So, here’s a list of some interesting podcasts for designers, developers, and creative professionals featuring interviews from experts in the field and tips and tricks to brush up design knowledge. Take a look at the brief intro for each podcast to know which one so you want to start with.

1. Layout

Layout is an interesting podcast on the subject of design, programming, and different aspects of technology. Hosted by two designers Kevin Clarke and Rafeal Condo, this podcast comments on the things that are both relatable and informative for their fellow designers and programmers.

The most interesting thing about Layout is that the hosts have a witty funny way of discussing issues or design techniques. Apart from the technical stuff, there is a lot of talk about everyday stuff like work ethics, professional issues, and latest happenings etc.

2. Design Better

The Design Better podcast brings you some of the most interesting guest with an array of experience in the field of designing, programming, and production etc. Hosted by Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery, these podcasts deliver you deep and guide insights from industry experts.

The guests are carefully picked from the biggest organizations like Netflix, Apple, and other big guns of the Silicone valley who shed light on industry best practices and tips on enhancing your creativity. You can catch the podcast through Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and RSS.

3. Roots

A podcast hosted and produced by a Filipino designer, Roots features interesting and valuable stories of different talented Filipino designers all over the world. It is ranked no. 2 on Apple Podcast (Design, Philippines) and is among the top 200 on Spotify.

You will find the stories and experiences shared by these designers on Roots podcast to be inspiring and relatable – and of course, there’s always the topic of Filipino representation in the industry. Through their Facebook page, you can also suggest any good Filipino designers to be featured on the platform.

4. Design Life

As the name says, Design Life is a podcast from two successful women designers who talk about how they have achieved a balance their design life between a full-time job and side projects. The aim of the hosts is to motivate other individuals with similar circumstances by sharing their own life experiences.

There are many helpful topics discussed in the podcast including overcoming creative block, getting paid properly, time management, and other such issues faced by young designers. You can listen it on Apple Podcast, Overcast, Spotify, PocketCasts, and RSS.

5. Spec.fm

Spec produces high-quality podcasts by capturing the experiences of various industry experts, designers, and developers that help you brush up your skills. They seek to bring improvement opportunities to the global community of designers through enlightening podcasts about different stages of professional career.

here is a whole team of podcast hosts and producers working behind Spec to bring you all kinds of quality material. The producers regularly upload new episodes on latest resources and developments. You can access the podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Overcast, PocketCasts, and a few other platforms.

6. Rob Hope

Yo! is a podcast that features insightful interviews from people who are doing most incredible work in the field of designing in different companies. Hosted and produced by Rob Hope, puts up some interesting conversations from designers, developers, photographers, and content creators from around the world.

The host always tries to bring the most inspiring individuals. Also, his style is very original – he shared his research done on each guest and even gives out a details of his production checklist. You can catch the episodes on Apple Podcast and the Rob Hope website.

7. Opacity

Opacity is an educational and insightful podcast by two creative professionals Tom Cunningham and Craig Phillips sharing tips and experiences on working the design industry. Through a healthy discussion between the two hosts, different episodes highlight various topics on designing and everyday life.

There are also some interviews with experts in the design industry in which they share their experiences and offer useful tips on the subject. You can listen to the episodes on Apple Podcast as well as Spotify.

8. Whiteboard.fm

Whitebooard is a podcast series that features interviews of designers from around the globe who share their experiences about how they started their career in the field of designing. The podcast is hosted by Mayank Khandelwal and brings forward interesting people whose experiences might benefit the design community.

The interviewees in different episodes talk about their first internships and later job experiences giving real-world insights to novice designers. You can catch it on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, or through RSS feed.

9. Design Matters

This podcast is not just for designers. Design Matters brings wholesome interviews from versatile creative professionals from the field of music, arts, writing, brand strategy, curation, and many other themes.

Hosted by Debbie Millman – a successful and multi-talented designer – brings talented people and their vast experiences for the listeners. You can browse any podcast by discipline, year, or the last name of the guest and listen to it via Spotify, iTunes, or the website itself.

10. Google Design

An original podcast by the tech giant, Google Design podcast is produced with the help of a group of writers, designers, and developers at Google. It comprises of interviews of the talented folks working in different departments at Google as well as some super useful tips and guidelines shared by them on new techniques or tools.

Google Design also organizes certain events and brings creative and educational partnerships to help you brush up your skills. You can listen to the content through Google Play, iTunes, or RSS feed.

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One of the most important elements in an ecommerce website is the shopping cart. The design and functionality of the shopping cart plays a major role in ensuring a successful purchase. The easier your shopping cart’s interface and functionality is, the better the user experience will be.

Here is a comprehensive list of some absolutely creative and highly effective shopping cart UI. From dark to light and vivid to simple, there are many options to take inspiration from. You can even download, edit and use these UI designs for your own website or app. Let’s take a look.

#1 @panoplystore

#2 @hoangpts

#3 @angelbi88

#4 @buydesign

#5 @TempCraft

#6 @angelbi88

#7 @TanahAirStudio

#8 @brandio

#9 @ThemeAlien

#10 @Alexandr Gorbatov

#11 @Metin Kazan

#12 @Tati Pircxalava

#13 @urrweb UI

#14 @Piotrek Kosmala

#15 @Alexsander Barhon

#16 @Tran Mau Tri Tam

#17 @Aghna Fikrunafuddin

#18 @Shah Alam

#19 @Mahmudul Hasan Manik

#20 @Shah Alam

Note: This feature here requires enabling from the chrome://flags page for this CSS Tip to work.

If you have ever used a graphic or photo editor like Photoshop and Pixelmator, you should already be familiar with blending modes. Blending modes is a collection of modes that enables an object to blend with other objects, and thus producing contrastive output of the mix. If done correctly, Blending Modes could output a very enticing result, like this.

Blending Mode has been a feature found only in graphic and photo editors. Nowadays, you can find it in the CSS realm. Let’s take a look how it works.

Getting Started

It’s worth noting that CSS3 Blend Mode is an experimental feature. Firefox and Chrome are the only browser that ships with this feature at the time of the writing.

Note: In Chrome, before it’s able to render CSS3 Blend Mode, you will have to enable the Web Platform Features from the chrome://flags page.

Background and Mix Blend Mode

There are two newly introduced CSS properties regarding Blending Mode: mix-blend-mode and background-blend-mode.

The mix-blend-mode defines how the content of an element blends with other content underneath. While the background-blend-mode property, as the name implies, addresses the background color, background image, and the background gradients.

Like in Photoshop, we are able to apply the the following Blending modes to those CSS properties: normal, multiply, screen, overlay, darken, lighten, color-dodge, color-burn, hard-light, soft-light, difference, exclusion, hue, saturation, color and luminosity.

Blend Mode options in Photoshop Layer panel.

Using CSS3 Blend Mode

The Google logo is colorful, and has been shaped in many forms for the Google Doodle project. In this post, we will carry out the Blend effect on the Google logotype to illustrate how this new CSS3 feature works.

First, let’s set the markup: we wrap each letter with a span element so we will able to specify different colors as well as style rules for the letter.

<h1>
<span>G</span><span>o</span><span>o</span><span>g</span><span>l</span><span>e</span>
</h1>

Then, we add the colors for the Google brand, derived from BrandColors. Herein, we select the element by using the nth-child selector, letting us apply the styles without having to add additional HTML classes to each of the span element wrapping the letters.

.demo-wrapper .title {
	letter-spacing: -25px;
}
span:first-child {
	color: #4285f4;
	position: relative;
	z-index: 100;
}
span:nth-child(2) {
	color: #db4437;
}
span:nth-child(3) {
	color: #f4b400;
}
span:nth-child(4) {
	color: #4285f4;
	position: relative;
	z-index: 100;
}
span:nth-child(5) {
	color: #0f9d58;	
}
span:nth-child(6) {
	color: #db4437;
}

At this stage, here is how the logo turns out. The logo now looks more densed as we decrease the whitespace between the letter at -25px through added code.

Now we apply the Blend mode.

span {
mix-blend-mode: multiply;
}

The original colors of the logo as well as the colors of the intersected letters turns out more vivid.

We have applied the logo with both Opacity and CSS3 Blend Mode. The output, as expected, is distinctive; the colors of the Google logo with the opacity applied looks stale and faded. See a demo of their comparison in action below.

• View Demo
• Download Source

Further resources

• CSS Compositing and Blending Level 1 Documentation — W3C
• New CSS gradient possibilities with the background-blend-mode property

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JavaScript is a wonderful language. You can build nearly anything with JavaScript; from a simple website, desktop application to a mobile application and what not.

In this round of the series, we are going to explore some useful resources related to JavaScript. The post contains a list of utilities, tools, and overall resources built with JavaScript. For example, we have a full-stack framework for development and deploy an app, a JavaScript bundler, and a handful of VSCode extensions. Let’s jump in for the full list.

Ray

Ray is a small web application that allows you to generate code snippets into a beautiful image. You can choose the theme for the language, customize the background, the padding, the text, and save and share to social media or your blog post.

Conic Style

A collection of CSS conic-gradient() examples; a new CSS function to generate two or more colors rotated around a center point. With conic gradient, you can create presentations like pie charts or color wheels easily by just using CSS.

Browserosaurus

An app that allows you to select which browser to open a link in. It’s made specifically for macOS with a dark and light theme that automatically switch according to the system preference. No more manually copying and pasting the link on different browsers.

Loripsum

A tool to generate “lorem ipsum”. Not only the content, but it can also add additional formatting like heading, bold, italic, blockquote, and links. This tool also provides an API endpoint that you can utilize to generate content programmatically. A quite handy tool to generate dummy content for testing or prototyping.

WindiCSS

WindiCSS utility-first CSS framework. Designed as an alternative to TailwindCSS that provides faster load times. It only generates the CSS used and already integrates with several tools like the VSCode extension, CLI, Rollup, and frameworks like Vue.js, Nuxt.js, and Svelte.

VSCode Vite

An extension for Vite, a modern front-end development with a pre-configured build tool. If you’re using VSCode, this extension can help to streamline your workflows. You can start-up the dev server, debugging build, and preview right from the editor window.

VueUse

A collection of essential new Vue Composition API which helps to make Vue.js applications more maintainable and flexible. It provides a function for performing animations, communicating with browsers, managing states, and other utility functions.

Browse Lite

One of my favorites VSCode extensions. This extension adds a browser right into VSCode so you work and preview without leaving the editor. It runs fast with a clean design that blends perfectly well within the editor. It also has fully working DevTools just like Chrome and Firefox.

Min

Min is a very minimalistic browser that aims for performance and protecting privacy. Min browser provides the ability to stop ads, trackers, scripts, and images so you can browse faster and use less data.

Volar

A VSCode extension built specifically for Vue 3. It provides a language server for Vue.js and fully supports Type-checking with TypeScript. This extension is still in active development with more features coming.

Saruni

A full-stack web application framework with JavaScript. It provides the foundation features like authentications, emails, image uploads, and tools (React, TypeScript, GraphQL, etc.) to develop the app as well as to deploy the app with modern workflows.

WithFig

Fig is a macOS application that adds autocomplete and shortcuts in Terminal similar to the one in the code editor. It helps developers save time and be more productive. At the time of the writing, this app is still in early development. If you’d like to get your hands on the stuff, you can signup as beta users.

GrapeJS

GrapesJS is a web layout builder which aims to help you build an HTML template without needing to code. It comes with pre-built components like buttons, columns, images, maps, etc. where users can simply drag-n-drop to create the layout they like. You can also customize the styles such as the size and the colors. And you can also build your own custom components.

Rainbow CSV

A VSCode extension that provides syntax highlighting to CSV which helps you to scan and digest the CSV content easily. It’s a kind of small utility with big benefits. I think this should be added to the default feature in VSCode.

Text Power Tools

A VSCode extension that provides all-in-one text manipulation. You can transform the text case, filter lines and string using RegEx, remove duplicates, insert line numbers, timestamp, path, and a lot more.

VSCode REST Client

A VSCode extension that allows you to send a request to a URL and see the response from the editor. This extension provides quite comprehensive features; you can, for example, cancel requests, send GraphQL query request, SOAP, proxy and auth support, and many more.

Skyline

A nice little tool from Github to generate a 3D model based on your Github contributions in a year. You can share this 3D model on social media, print it, or view in VR. Pretty cool, right?

Snowpack

A JavaScript bundler designed for modern web applications and aims to be an alternative to heavier bundler like Webpack. Snowpack offers a better build process, fewer configs, more optimized output, and supports some frameworks like React and Preact out of the box.

Enlightn

An auditing tool that examines performance and possible security issues for your Laravel application. There are more than a hundred built-in audits from basic to advance security checks, best practices checks, and reliability checks. You can run it in a single line of command or run an automated check on your repository with Github bot.

Site Inspector

An auditing tool that examines your site for typos, grammatical errors, and broken links, and other typo errors. It’s built with Ruby/Rails, Vue.js, PostgreSQL and is fully open-source. You can host it on your own server.

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We’ve been running this series for several years now and feels like we are never running out of great new resources for designers and developers. In this round of the series, we have tools, articles and tutorials that both backend PHP developers and front-end developers.

We have got a resource to get dummy logo, a tool to generate image mockups, a GUI tool to scaffold your next cool application with Laravel, and a lot more.

Let’s jump in to get the full list.

Showcode

A web application to generate nicely prsent your code with image. You can customize the background color, the code editor frame, and the size. It supports many programming language such as PHP, JavaScript, as well as templating language like Twig. A handy tool to share code beatifully.

EventLoop

With PHP8, PHP got a boost of improvements including Fiber that’s coming to PHP8.1. This addition allows PHP manage concurrency operation natively, and developer to build framework on top of it such as to build “Event Loop”. Event Loop is a mecanism that will allow PHP to perform non-blocking I/O process. Not many reference for Event Loop on PHP, at the moment, but you can look into the same concept from the Node.js reference.

Laravel Storybook

This library integrates Storybook, a popular application to manage UI and design system, to Laravel. it allows that you can render unit of your Larvel components using the Blade templating and Storybook Server right within your Laravel app.

VSCode WebView UI

A UI and design library for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) editor. It contains of common interface for the editor like the button, select, textarea and input. A great resource if you plan to build an extension for VSCode and maintain consistency of your extension with the editor.

Laravel Initializer

A web application to generate a scaffold with Laravel. The app supports on generating the bare Laravel framework, “Breeze” that already bundled with some utitlies (e.g. user authentication, UI framework), and “Jetstream” which is a more advanced upgraded version of Breeze. On top of that, you can also set the stack such as the database — whether you’d like to choose MySQL or PosgreSQL, Authentication method, Storage, Cache, and even the Payment system.

PHP Flasher

A framework to manage a notification system with PHP. It allows you to show various type of notifications simultaneously, render notification from JSON, and even send notification to the OS system. If you’re a developer who is very comfortable with PHP, you will definitely will appreciate this framework.

LogoIpsum

A collection of free dummy logo you can display on your mockup, template, or dummy website and application. It has quite a handful of collection that’s designed to fit in any UI or graphic styles. You can customize the styles, color, and download each logo as SVG.

MJML

MJML is a markup that aims to make it easier when composing layout for email template. It’s abstracting the complexity of email template with its own HTML custom element. You can start adding the component. The doc is pretty comprehensive if you’ve just get started. And then you can compile the markup with the yarn build to get the real output you can send to emails.

Learn CSS

An initiaive from Google Developer to provide a comprehensive resource to learn CSS. It covers the very fundamental of CSS such as Box Model, Selectors, Cascade, and Inheritance and Specificity that gives a solid foundation of how CSS works. Whether you just got started or an advanced front-end developers will certainly level-up your CSS skills.

ViteBook

ViteBook aims to provide a alternative to Storybook — a popular open-source tool to manage UI and design system. ViteBook key focus is performance with it being built on top of Vite.js. ViteBook is currently in early WIP. I’m looking forward to how it will evolve.

Encute

Encute is a PHP library to load and manage scripts and styles on WordPress with Object-oriented Programming (OOP) pattern. So we get a nicer syntax plus it adds some additional features. For example, you can enqueu script with “defer” or “async” load, and load it as a “module”

Bootstrap Icons

Bootstrap used to include FontAwesome icon in its bundle. It’s now created its own official set of icons. The set contains more than 1.300 icons. Each icon comes in two different styles, outline and filled style, and comes with two format font icon, and SVG. Like Bootstrap, these icons are free forever.

Open-UI

An initiative and collaborative effort from web developers and engineers to create standard user interface with an open specification that developer can adopt and implment regardless of the platform used on the website. It’s currently still in a work in progress. I’m looking forward how this will affect the web development in the future.

Blurhash

An algortihm to generate a “blur” representation of an image. This gives you a small beautiful image that you can use as a placeholder while the real image is loaded fully. No more ugly empty boxes.

CORS

Have you encountered CORS error on your website? Are you wondering how that happens and how to fix it properly? This article provides all the answer with detailed in-depth explanation.

Mo

Mo is a handy CLI utility that allows you to find unused Node.js modules from, your computer system. It will also examine memory usage and provide you an option if you want to remove it from your computer. It’s great way to free up some disk space in your computer.

Bundlers Tooling Report

“Bundlers Tooling Report” provides a detailed report of features of a bundler. There are several on the list such as Webpack, Browserify, Rollup, and Parcel. If you’re not sure which one is would be fit in your application, this report should help you.

Mantine

A set of more than 120 components to build modern web and application with React. Aside of components, it also provides a list of custom React Hooks that can be handy in a lot of situation such as to accessing the DOM reference, perform “debounced” function, state management, etc.

KeystoneJS

An open-source Node.js based Headless CMS. It helps developer build appliation or site with custom datamodel faster. You simply need to describe the schema, It will automatically provide you the UI as well as GraphQL API to access the data on the front-end.

LoremSpace

A handy tool to generate dummy image or mockup. Instead of generating random image, it allows you to choose the theme of the image. Such as the “movie” will generate the list image movie poster image, “album” to generate music album cover, and “game” to generate game cover image. You can select that would fit in the theme of your website.

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Brand Identity for Omsom by Outline

Brand Identity for Omsom by Outline

Brand Identity for Omsom by Outline

Brand Identity for Omsom by Outline

Brand Identity for Omsom by Outline

Brand Identity for Omsom by Outline

A fiery, feisty food brand with a lot to say and even more to serve. Asian starters launched by two sisters in partnership with acclaimed chefs.

Outline’s work for Omsom was inspired by the change produced when forces collide, spark and create something new. Whether it’s an idea or your dinner – the whole becomes more (and different) than the sum of its parts. This cultural point of view, and the heat the founders put behind it, served as the concept for their bright brand identity.

The showpiece of the Omsom launch – the Sampler – featured Larb, Lemongrass BBQ and Sisig starters. The Sampler’s large format allowed us to keep telling the story of the visual brand’s fiery potential by letting the wordmark take over the space, replicating and distorting as it did so. The packaging is an oversized matchbox-style drawer with melting motifs framing the starters inside

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Gabriela Stencil Family (12 Fonts) – only $15!

Gabriela Stencil Family (12 Fonts) – only $15!

Gabriela Stencil Family (12 Fonts) – only $15!

Gabriela Stencil Family (12 Fonts) – only $15!

Gabriela Stencil Family (12 Fonts) – only $15!

Modern and elegant, Gabriela Stencil is a classic font based upon the Didone typefaces from the 19th century. This complete font family features 6 different styles, all in regular and italics versions, meaning it’s like getting 12 different fonts in 1! Highly legible, this typeface is perfect for all sorts of publishing projects featuring headlines, short text, or other branding.

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Branding & Packaging for Bianca Sciuto by Both

Branding & Packaging for Bianca Sciuto by Both

Branding & Packaging for Bianca Sciuto by Both

Branding & Packaging for Bianca Sciuto by Both

Branding & Packaging for Bianca Sciuto by Both

Branding & Packaging for Bianca Sciuto by Both

Branding & Packaging for Bianca Sciuto by Both

Branding & Packaging for Bianca Sciuto by Both

Brunswick-based designer Bianca Sciuto explores the intersection of interior, spatial and object design through her creative practice. When approached to create an identity for Bianca, Both was inspired to push the boundaries of a conventional identity to create something that would reflect Bianca’s experimental approach.

Moving away from the idea of what a logo is or should be, the typographic component of the identity revolves around the application of various letter widths, meaning each time the brand appears it is made from a unique combination of letters. The bold typography is contrasted with visual elements taken from within Bianca’s work, applied as a pattern to tissue papers and stickers. This creates a brand experience that can be tailored  depending on the application; from object packaging to client correspondence.

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Both (formerly Mildred & Duck) is a branding and visual communication studio co-founded by Sigiriya Brown and Dan Smith in Melbourne in 2010. Their approach is simple; a genuine interest in the people and companies with which they choose to work leads to thoughtful and relevant design outcomes.

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Molly Baz: Cook this Book by Violaine & Jeremy

Molly Baz: Cook this Book by Violaine & Jeremy

Molly Baz: Cook this Book by Violaine & Jeremy

Molly Baz: Cook this Book by Violaine & Jeremy

Molly Baz: Cook this Book by Violaine & Jeremy

Molly Baz: Cook this Book by Violaine & Jeremy

Molly Baz: Cook this Book by Violaine & Jeremy

Molly Baz: Cook this Book by Violaine & Jeremy

A modern guide to becoming a smarter, faster, more creative cook featuring fun, flavorful recipes anyone can make.

V&J designed Molly’s first cookbook, published by @clarksonpotter

They worked on the Editorial Design, Graphic Design and Custom Typeface for the Cover logotype. Editorial design was composed with V&J’S awesome typefaces, Kobe, Voyage, and Dida, and the text was set in Gt Haptik.

Food photography: Peden+Munk
Editorial Design: Malou Messien
Pictogram Language: Alexandra Tzaneva
Photography: Coline Vignaud

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Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

Brand Identity for Snob Hôtel by Asís

The Snob Hôtel is a four star boutique hotel in Paris. It was conceived as a bourgeois abode, created in essence, to pay homage to the Parisienne lady. This complex yet charming ideal of snobbery represents the Parisienne’s ‘Eternal holiday maker’ spirit as much as her ‘chic and chilled’ demeanor.

The theme of greenery is very present in the hotel, symbolizing the Parisienne’s desire for a touch of authenticity, which she so often lacks. She thus flees towards a universal value: nature, as is perfectly illustrated by the ground floor’s panoramic wallpaper. Enormous brass lamps which you can picture adorning the front of a summer holiday home, a reception desk which evokes an antique family heirloom, all within a warm, mellow atmosphere, enriched with lush frondescence.

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