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5 Common Portfolio Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
As a designer, you know your portfolio matters, but sometimes it's hard to see the wood for the trees. In our no nonsense guide, Tobias van Schneider talks us through five of the most common mistakes he encounters—from missing case studies, to redundant navigation—and offers simple advice on how to remedy them. It's a must-read for every designer.
Affinity Turns On Spotlight
You know a software company has reached maturity when it hosts its own design community. That's the story for Affinity, who have just launched their Spotlight community. With inspiration, tips & tricks, and some behind-the-scenes secrets from professionals, it's a great resource for designers no matter what tools you choose to work with.
The Only Way to Align Your Logo
How you align your logo is an essential component of how memorable your brand is. Many designers break the mold and either right align, or—especially on mobile—center align in an effort to stand out. The Nielson Norman group has conducted a UX study on logo alignment and found that left aligned logos increase brand recall by an average of 89%.
Lifefaker
Looking enviously at the amazing lives other people post on their social media? Would you like to buy some images to help improve your profile? Lifefaker is a service offering to sell you images of a fake happy life…or is it? Try buying an image and you'll discover Lifefaker is an innovative attempt to make you think about SM and your mental health.
What One Designer Learned at Google
Hardik Pandya started work at Google six months ago, he's keeping track of what he learns on his journey, and sharing it with the web. From not getting married to a single solution, to not discounting the value of getting things done, there's a ton of great advice here for anyone who aspires to work in a large company environment.
CSS Blocks
Released by LinkedIn, CSS Blocks calls itself a blazing fast approach to CSS. It's inspired by CSS Modules, BEM, and Atomic CSS, and aims to be the next step in best practices for CSS. Using one CSS file per component, with build-time CSS errors, OOP, and a tiny runtime size of around 500 bytes, it's a tool front-end developers will want to check out.
Clickbait Works, Here's How to Use It
Everyone claims to dislike clickbait. It can be irritating, occasionally insulting, and frequently misleading. But there's something you can't escape: Clickbait works. John Lincoln looks at how to hook readers with the right words, and provides nine examples of super-successful titles that will boost your click-through rates.
How Blade Runner 2049 Was Designed
While we can argue over the various merits of Blade Runner 2049's plot, there's no denying that the film was visually stunning. Sarah Dawood reports on executive creative director David Sheldon-Hicks' D&AD presentation, covering the challenges of designing for the film and the analog solutions that were ultimately employed.
Particle Effect for Buttons
Buttons are an essential component of almost all websites, but there's a limited amount you can do to add character to them. To counter that, Luis Manuel walks us through an amazing particle effect for buttons that either shows or hides the element in a burst of pieces. With a demo, and simple to follow steps, it's a great project to try out.
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