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You're reading Designing Airbnb’s Website: An Interactive Mockup Exercise, originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! When you think of a good website design, what comes to mind? For me, it’s Airbnb. I like its design not just because it has a pretty color palette or an eye-catching video on the front page, but because it was built with good user experience in mind. But how do you define good user […] View the full article

You're reading Freelancers, this is How you Could Increase your Income, originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! Studies conducted last year show that 50% of the freelancers questioned expected their income to continue to increase, and a third of them reported an increasing demand for their work. What does it mean for you? That 2016 is the perfect time to be a freelancer, especially a web design one, since the demand for […] View the full article

You're reading Prototyping in the Browser: Tips and Tools for Designers, originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! The task of prototyping a website is an extensive process of creating a basic wireframe with interactive features. While a wireframe may be static images or sketches, a prototype is often interactive with functionality for all the major pages. Graphic editing programs have always been the most popular choice for prototyping. But in recent years […] View the full article

You're reading Crafting a Successful Onboarding Experience for New Users, originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! The term onboarding comes from the HR department. It was originally used to refer to new hires and having them “acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders.” If you replace the aspect of new hires with new users the idea is exactly the same. Think of it as […] View the full article

You're reading JavaScript Unit Testing For Beginners, originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! Developers should love the security of unit tests. Nobody loves writing unit tests, but the peace of mind they bring can easily be worth the extra work. Unit tests check blocks of code to ensure that they all run as expected. This is very common for traditional software development and now very common in web […] View the full article

You're reading How to Create a Perfect Color Scheme [Infographic], originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! Nothing can make a project stand out or identify your brand or business like color. Just think: What would the “Golden Arches” of McDonald’s be without the signature red and gold? When it comes to creating the perfect color scheme, there are plenty of things to consider. Established branding is important and should be honored […] View the full article

You're reading 20 Great Examples of Website Gamification, originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! Modern web technologies open up new horizons for the creatives. If you still mourn the death of Flash, then you are likely to miss unique and ample opportunities provided by WebGL, HTML5 and other advanced libraries and languages. The time has come to leave past in the past and embrace cutting-edge solutions that bring to […] View the full article

You're reading Principles of Chatbots Design, originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! Are chatbots in the future of website design? These little bits of artificial intelligence are starting to pop up everywhere – whether you notice them for what they are or not. Here, we’re going to take a look at what makes chatbots work and how to make the most of including one in your website […] View the full article

You're reading Bootstrap 4 Tutorial: Working with npm, Grunt.js and Sass (Part 2), originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! Firstly read the Bootstrap 4 Tutorial: Working with npm, Grunt.js and Sass (Part 1). Bootstrap 4 comes with an official Sass port for the framework. If you are not familiar with Sass, implementing it via Bootstrap can be a little tricky. In the previous article, we installed, configured and customized npm and Grunt.js setups for […] View the full article

You're reading Bootstrap 4 Tutorial: Working with npm, Grunt.js and Sass (Part 1), originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! Bootstrap 4 offers a variety of options for installation making it easy for developers to install using package managers such as Bower, Composer, Meteor and npm or manually using source files. In previous tutorials, we worked on source files in Bootstrap 4. But on this two part series tutorial we’re going to look on how […] View the full article

You're reading The Complete Social Media Icons Set [EPS, PSD, CSS], originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on Twitter, Facebook, Google+! Is it time to mix up the social media icons on your website? Try Candy, a new social media icon set from designer Ahmed Kaludi. The set has everything you need to help users engage and share on dozens of social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Vine, LinkedIn, Reddit and more. The set comes […] View the full article

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