A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.The what how why cycle of every new technology wave Every time a new trend starts to get traction amongst designers and devschatbots, artificial intelligence, design sprints, augmented reality, responsive design, react native, hamburger menus, design thinking, you name itthe same pattern happens.A/B testing fo...

In a nutshell, a digital product designer solves problems through design. To become a good product designer, youll need a mixture of qualities that will serve the product lifecycle.Naturally, you already possess stronger and weaker qualities for the role (congratulations, You are a human being!). Im happy to tell you that you will get better and better with practice and time.We cant speak about p...

Whether youre designing a unique website background, a poster, sketch, or creating an artistic photo composition, using a watercolor Photoshop action can make your design stand out from the crowd. A watercolor effect its not an easy effect to master when created from scratch. It takes a lot of work, time, and skill to achieve […]

The average life of a website is three years. And design elements such as color and typography often get updated more frequently than that. Thats why it is so important to keep up with web design trends. Doing this allows you to make small tweaks to your design today so that it wont […]

A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.Everyone is a design lead Youve finally scored that Design Lead title. Exciting, right? Until you look around and see that everyone else has a similar title. When everyone is a lead, is anyone a lead?Do I have to add a dark mode now? Drawbacks and benefits of adding a dark mode to an app or website.Why isnt th...

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, […]

Not everyone can afford to buy premium PowerPoint templates to create their slideshows. But, that doesnt mean you have to settle for a default template. There are dozens of incredible free PowerPoint templates to try out! A great thing about the design community is that there are designers out there who willingly share their amazing […]

Serenity BDD is a library that makes it easier to write high-quality automated acceptance tests, with powerful reporting and living documentation features. It has strong support for both web testing with Selenium, and API testing using RestAssured. Serenity strongly encourages good test automation design, and supports several design patterns, including classic Page Objects, the newer Lean Page Ob...