Graphic design has a rich and varied history. The word “graphic design” didn’t appear on the scene until 1922, when William Dwiggins created the word to describe the art of designing with graphics. In the earliest days of graphic design, professionals drew by hand. However, in the last 60 years graphic design has forged ahead, […]
Whenever you are trying to talk to your clients about actually attracting links (versus building them), there are always two types of excuses: either the niche is too boring, or there are no technical capabilities (in terms of a good design team and experience). I don’t believe in boring niches – neither do I believe
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Seven Tips for Eye-Catching Web and Social Media Design Psychology plays a crucial role in web design, and banking on these elements can help you win more customers over. For designing a website, the main role of psychology is on predicting how the user will react to a piece of content or a certain element.
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Email templates are great. They do most of the design work for you. But there’s one problem with templates: Many are just plain boring. They’re like the monotone voice of your high school physics teacher. The content may be important, but you can’t help but snooze. So I decided to take a look at the
Add value to your website by utilizing free resources from the design community. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from spring 2018. There are designer and developer apps, fonts, content tools, and more. All of these are free. Free Design Tools Launchaco is a simple way to build a website.
Tankfarm & Co. Facebook “The Profit” is back tonight! This week, Marcus Lemonis travels to Seal Beach, California to help Tankfarm & Co., a men’s apparel and supply company. The brothers behind the business “clash every day, mistakes are piling up, and morale is fading away,” according to an episode description. Will Lemonis be able
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When approaching a new website design or refresh, there are more aspects of the process that need attention besides design elements like color or type. Planning is required to ensure that your website design elevates your brand and gives the user a voice. I would venture to guess that a large fraction of designing for
While it may surprise those who view emails as an antiquated channel of communication, emails are still a crucial part of the way brands communicate with consumers. Just consider that in 2017, global email users amounted to 3.7 billion people, and, this figure is set to grow to 4.3 billion in 2022. While this sounds
The 2018 Digital Trends for Creative and Design Leaders report explores explores the priorities, opportunities and challenges ahead through the lens of creative and design professionals. For the first time our annual survey of digital professionals had specific questions for this cohort of respondents, to help us understand in more detail their opportunities and pain points. The research, conducted by
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Google is testing new variations of how it shows Google Posts from local businesses in the search results. In the past week, we’ve seen three different variations of layouts and functionality around how these Google Posts are displayed when a Google local knowledge panel is returned in the Google search results. 1. Google Posts with
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