If you’ve decided to go solo and become a freelance designer, congratulations! There are certainly a lot of benefits to working for yourself. You’ve got the flexibility to set your own working hours and to choose who you want to work with and how. There’s also no annoying boss or co-workers and no stressful daily commute to contend with...
Habits are easy to fall into. When you’re trying to change how you do things and you’re incredibly busy, falling back into old habits happens quicker than you would expect. While most tend to be minor habits that don’t have an overall impact, there are some habits that can be damaging, make you look lazy, or seriously hinder a page’s growth.
Chances are you’ve visited a page that has done a variation of what’s listed below. Here are a list of the most common habits that will put users off your page for good.
Graphic designing is a difficult task, because it has a lot of branches. You have to take care of everything if you want to make your website look great. Typography is a very important part of web designing. It displays the beauty and grace of your website.
If typography is not done in a good way, then it will leave a bad impact on the appearance of your and consequently website people will stop visiting it. Following are some of the common typography mistakes that should be avoided by the designers to make their website accessible.
When I was younger I used to assume that if a sign was hanging up in a public space it must have passed a rigorous editing and testing phase before being let out the creative studio door. To my naive eye storefront signs, roadside billboards and corporate building logos were authoritative by virtue of someone having spent lots of money to have them professionally printed. I have since learned that my early thinking was quite misguided.
Nowadays I see graphic design in a different light. I recognize a clear distinction between sign material and sign content. A beautiful plank of expensive vintage timber can, sadly, play host to an unexceptional design.
I'm a big fan of great marketing. When marketing is done well, it really can help a sales team make more revenue. However, many marketing groups do things that can cost a lot of money but aren't very helpful. Here are nine of them...
Mobile has changed the landscape of consumerism in a few short years by becoming our favorite tool for reading the news, watching television, communicating, socializing, shopping, making decisions, navigating…for just about everything!
As a marketer, mobile is a very powerful place for you to connect with your audience.
However, with great power comes great responsibility. Since mobile is such a personal medium, it is the easiest place for marketers to make massive mistakes that will turn off a customer forever.
We’re here to help you avoid making those mistakes. Here’s what you should be looking out for and what you can learn from those who have come before you...
If you’ve decided to go solo and become a freelance designer, congratulations! There are certainly a lot of benefits to working for yourself. You’ve got the flexibility to set your own working hours and to choose who you want to work with and how. There’s also no annoying boss or co-workers and no stressful daily commute to contend with.
Update: Apple has shut down its "iForgot" password recovery page to deal with a security flaw, which is described below.
Original: Watch out, there's a security flaw that could let someone easily take over your Apple accounts, Chris Welch at The Verge reports.
If someone knows your email address and your date of birth they can reset your password. All it takes is a slight tweak of a URL on Apple's "iForgot" page.
Welch says there is a step-by-step guide floating around the Internet, though he didn't link to it to discourage people from actually doing it.
The user experience of websites has improved by leaps and bounds over the years, but there are still sites out there that may leave you asking, “What were they thinking?!”
From a design perspective, it’s easy to get caught up in internal squabbles (“No, no, THIS is the content that has to be front and center”) or distracted by tools or methods (“I say we use lean UX on this project”). When this happens, we often forget that at the end of it all waits a person who wasn’t in on all these decisions, and just wants to get the information they need, buy the product or be entertained for five minutes while waiting for the train.
In the hopes it will help us all avoid these pitfalls, here’s a list of the five worst UX mistakes that people still make in website design.
If you’re hiring in the coming months, you very likely have at least one eye on the newest crop of potential future employees: soon-to-be-graduating college seniors.
New grads can be a great resource for companies of any size—they’re full of energy and new ideas and willing to get their hands dirty in their first real-world job.
But as you’re thinking about recruiting new grads this spring, take a peek at what things look like from the other side of the table.
College recruiting has some interesting—and sometimes unfortunate—parallels to dating in middle school. Students are “flirting” for the first time, and recruiters are all too often making the big mistakes their parents told them to avoid during early courtship.
As you’re interviewing new grads for their first gig, there are three rules to follow to make sure you don’t jump into the wrong relationship (or lose a great candidate).
People who start their personal blogs to share their ideas are mostly creative persons who think little about technical realization. They fizz to spread their ideas and sincerely wonder why there are so little visits on their blog pages.
The reasons can be of any kind but today’s article is about web design concerns.
This is the face of the blog. And it’s a significant part of the work you should conduct to make your blog appear at the top of the search results pages. And if the layout is good and user-friendly people will come back to see more in your blog.
Images are a major part of any modern website. Images nowadays account to more than 60% of a website's total bandwidth. This is even more pronounced when dealing with cutting-edge web design. On an image rich social website employing a Pinterest-like layout, this number can reach upward of 85% (!).
Bandwidth is unfortunately a costly commodity. For high traffic websites, bandwidth will probably be responsible for the majority of your IT costs, easily surpassing hosting and storage costs. In addition, such a large volume of traffic takes time to consume, and so, when browsing your website, your visitors are likely to spend a lot of time waiting for images to load.
Looking at the IT costs from one end and visitor abandonment due to lengthy load times on the other, you would probably like to take a good look at how you manage your images online. When every second passing reduces your website's overall conversion and ultimately revenues - it makes perfect sense to want to optimize your image and image delivery as much as possible.
When creating your portfolio one of the first steps is working out how you want your portfolio to look. Most people overlook this stage which can make their work come across as disorganized and unimaginative. Having a presentation that is fluid and simple will help showcase your work as professional and high quality to your future employer.
British author Richard Benson and his publisher, Chronicle Books, surfed the web and asked teachers to share their favorite (real) wrong answers.
What resulted is two New York Times best sellers, F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers and its sequel, F for Effort! More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers.
With permission, we're publishing eight of the best bad answers.
Every startup entrepreneur has apprehensions about the start their business will eventually have. It is never easy to run a business. What makes it even more difficult for startup entrepreneurs is their lack of experience in running a trade, which could lead to a lot of confusion, questions and doubts. They will have doubts on whether they have invested enough, financially, in the project, or if they had chosen the right way to launch it – apprehensions never end for them.
As 2012 draws to a close it’s time for PSD to have a look back at some of the best disasters that you submitted. Thanks everyone for a great year!
Listen up, hiring managers. A study from research firm Development Dimensions International revealed yesterday that many employers often misrepresent the finer details of their company and the open position during interviews, leaving many recruits eventually disappointed with their new job.
Specifically, the survey found that only 51% of new employees "felt confident in their decision to accept the job." DDI found this figure after surveying 2,300 new hires with an average age of 35.
"…[H]iring is a high-stakes interaction and managers are not necessarily capable of discerning what a candidate can really bring to a company. So they base it on gut instinct and a lot of times that gut instinct is wrong," Scott Erker, DDI’s vice president of select systems and co-author of the study, told The Wall Street Journal.
We all have a common expectation in our hearts while our website is still concealed; majority of them is to score in terms of User Experience. Sadly, after heaps of encoding trouble, we still fail when it comes to offering a desired experience to a user, reason being some common design mistakes. Over the years, after analyzing expectations of my clients and fulfilling their every requirement, the definition of a perfect design I believe is a combination of usability, creativity and practicality. While paying importance to creativity and creativity only, web designers end up with common bloopers. Through this article, I would like to highlight those common mistakes and why these should be avoided to craft a perfect web design.
There are many mistakes that can be made when using social media as an outlet to market your brand and to connect with people. Many mistakes can be rectified in the eyes of your audience, fortunately mistakes only help humanize a brand and often many of us have damage control in place when it comes to any negative sentiment that may be displayed on your social networks.
This is beyond a few bad words towards your brand, the types of mistakes that can make a huge dent in the reputation of your business are...
They say that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and when you relate this to business, there are many different ways you can interpret this cliché. For instance, you could use it to refer to your employees and co-workers, the laziest and the most unskilled of whom can bring the entire team’s morale and productivity down. Alternatively, you could also use this quote to refer to how the failure of a single piece of equipment can bring chaos to the schedule of entire production lines. For the purpose of this article, though, let us work under the idea that a single mistake can lead to a chain reaction which would eventually lead to the doom of your business. Here are a few examples.
