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I’m going to tell you the story of two cooks: David and Jenny. Both are equally talented in the kitchen, and both are about to prepare a 6-course meal for a table full of rowdy dinner guests. They’re hungry and they’re hungry now. David gets his pots and pans out, pulls what he needs from the fridg..

As a freelance web designer, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients. And it’s likely that some of them will want to enter into different types of working arrangements. One common example is billing. You may run into a client that prefers to pay a flat monthly fee rather ..

Jumpstart your next design project or speed up a workflow with some of these new tools and resources. With so many new tools being developed all the time, you are almost certain to find something that can help you with projects. Here’s what new for designers this month. Everypixel Patterns Everypi..

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..

Sass – the extended arm of CSS; the power factor that brings elegance to your code. With Sass, it is all about variables, nesting, mixins, functions, partials, imports, inheritance, and control directives. Sass makes your code more maintainable and reusable. And now, I will show you how to make yo..

Why it’s good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages – Separating structure, styles and interactivity isn’t so bad, after all. Viral – A free typeface that bills itself as a “recipe for quarantining in 2020”. Download it, if you’re into that sort of thing. Atkinson Hyperlegible – T..

It’s that time again: the self-fulfilling prophecy that is the Pantone Color of the Year has been announced for 2021. For 2021, we’re getting two colors of the year. The colors selected to grace museum gift shops, and end-of-year blog posts are Ultimate Gray (a mid-range gray somewhere around #9395..

Great typography can elevate any project and make it look more polished. But when you take text and apply creative and unique text effects, you create a completely different work of art. In this roundup, we’ve gathered the best Adobe Illustrator tutorials for designing highly creative text effects...

Disney is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Whether it’s through their animated features, theme parks, Marvel movies, Star Wars films or their many video games, Disney is known to everyone around the globe. Their presence has had a viable and undeniable impact around the world, and m..

(Note: Unfortunately, e-mail and RSS don’t support advanced layouts and features. If the graphics in this article look strange, you may want to read the article in your web browser.) Providing the right kind of product images is essential to users’ ability to understand key visual details and make a purchase decision about a particular product. During Baymard’s large-scale usability testing across desktop and mobile, we observed that, for certain products, simple “Cut Out” images of the product against a while background are simply not enough for users to get a sense of their physical qualities. Specifically, products designed to be worn — apparel; accessories such as bags, jewelry, or watches; and cosmetics — require the context of a human model in order to get the truest sense of the product. Without this context, users must estimate the suitability of a product based on other less helpful images and product information, resulting in lower confidence and lower likelihood to move ..