Illustration is a big trend in 2021. Every designer should have some ability to illustrate, whether thats producing icons, creating lettering, mocking up layouts, or crafting full-blown illustrations. Designers workflows are as varied as their work, and one designers favorite tool is a frustrating mess to the next designer. Most design apps have a free […] The post Ranked: Top 10 Illustration App...

Everyday design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories for web professionals is to subscribe to […] The post Popular Design News of the Week: March 22, 202...

In the digital world, everything is designed for a purpose. Every aspect of a digital design is decided after thorough brainstorming. When it comes to website design, we usually undermine the importance of typography. Fonts have a huge impact on our subconscious mind. The effects are subtle but intense enough to affect our behavior. Now, the question is: how to choose the best website fonts for y...

Creating a recognizable, memorable brand is challenging for nearly any business. Branding can make or break a company. If your brand is forgettable, you can kiss your customers goodbye. The stakes are high for creating a winning brand. However, web design companies have little-to-no room for error for their personal companys own brand. Would you...

Weekly curated resources for designersthinkers and makers.The differences in my mind are mostly those of scope, responsibility, and visibility.As a lead designer, your focus is the project, and your responsibilities are to ensure that you work cross-functionally with PM and Engineering to deliver high-quality work that meets deadlines and expectations.Staff designers have a broader scope. Their w...

Thanks to time and changing ideas about gender and identity, broader tones are afoot in childrens design. The post Emerging Color Trends in Children’s Design appeared first on The Shutterstock Blog.

In “What the heck, z-index??,” Josh Comeau makes the analogy of layer groups in design software like Photoshop or Figma to stacking contexts in CSS. If you’ve got an element in a layer group A in Photoshop that … The post It’s always the stacking context. appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

Today were bringing you a collection of Photoshop lighting and glowing effects that you can apply to your photos and graphics with just a few clicks. Whether you want to add a neon glowing effect to text or add a unique double-lighting effect to a portrait, this collection has many creative Photoshop effects that youll […]