UI & UX Manifesto

The thing about social media metrics is that today, they just aren’t enough. If you have metrics in your hands but don’t know what to do with them, well then why even bother with them in the first place?

Metrics aren’t perfect; they’re just a piece of the puzzle. You need to know how to use Google+ for improving marketing. And if you’re among those people who immediately run in the other direction when it comes to numbers and statistics, it’s best for you to do study about social media marketing insights.

web design can be incredibly ethereal – it can be a big challenge to figure out what a website needs to make it work just right. One of the things that’s most difficult to pinpoint is movement, and scrolling is the most dominant movement on a website.

We all go through periods of creative blockage. But instead of sitting around and waiting for inspiration to strike you out of the blue, you can instead pinpoint what interrupts your creative activity and just deal with it. Here are 10 thinking habits which are powerful creativity killers – identify them and you’ll stand a chance at moving past any creative blockages that make it your way.

Over the past few years, most brands have taken the online marketplace very seriously. Companies are seen to be taking a strategic decision to shift from the conventional website design to a trendy and user- friendly one. While their focus primarily revolves around generating huge traffic to their website; lead generation and conversion however, remains the ultimate goal.

 Building apps is becoming a new popular hobby of enthusiastic people in the modern world. However, navigating through the turbulent market of thousands of different applications and customer needs in pursuit of creating a unique successful product may be quite a challenging thing. Asking how to easily make an app, inspired entrepreneurs sometimes don’t even realize how complex this process is. Even so, it is usually divided into simpler steps that, if correctly understood and followed, make the whole procedure quite clear.

7 UX Design Trends : That Will Rule The Roost in 2016

As users’ expectations for a seamless, simple experience continue to grow—especially for products or services with complex functionality—UX becomes an increasingly critical component for success.

We all find cool stuff online that we want to save for later – but we never remember it and most bookmarking systems on browsers become messy and cluttered very quickly. This is where bookmarking tools shine; they allow you to keep track of anything you find online, organize it and store it for you, being ready to access anytime and from any device with internet access.

JavaScript is a powerful language which brings websites to life with interactivity, until that dreaded moment when JavaScript is disabled in the browser, out of the blue. In this quick tip we’ll look at providing fallbacks with the <noscript> element.

In the first article of this series, we covered the fundamentals of AJAX. In thesecond, we looked at a working example using vanilla JavaScript.

In this tutorial, we’ll walk through a few of jQuery’s AJAX-related functions and methods. More specifically, we’ll take a closer look at the shorthand loadmethod and the generic ajax function.

I was a really bad designer when I was just getting started in the mid 2000s.

Really, there’s no other way to say this.

And it’s not that I was completely useless with the tools or anything. The problem, as I see it now, was somewhere else.

Colors.

To summarize my shortcomings in one sentence; I used certain colors not because they were in tune with the goals and the audience that the site was trying to reach, but because I simply liked them.

For instance, I’ve liked shades of green most of my life. So guess what … my early designs were predominantly green. No other thought went into it.

“Hey, I like green, people like green, so the site should probably be green!” – is not a good way of thinking about color … go figure.

But then I realized that perhaps the choice of color deserves a little more thought when working on a new site. Perhaps it’s not something that should be decided upon during a three-second brainstorming session. Perhaps it shouldn’t automatically resemble the color scheme used in the site’s logo either. Perhaps this is a more complicated issue.

More so, perhaps color is one of the most effective and powerful tools that a designer has at their disposal after all.

And the science seems to confirm this. Various studies indicate that color arouses specific emotions. And if that wasn’t enough, it turns out that different colors are connected to different emotions in different cultures.

So how to find your way around all this? How to use the right colors that will help you achieve a specific goal on a specific website, targeted toward a specific audience? That’s a lot of questions. Let’s try answering some of them today.

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Learn how to use Dreamweaver’s DOM panel to place page content

Many times you may have a good start on a page design, but would like to experiment with reordering some of the page elements. This is very easy to do with the DOM panel and Live view.

Online advertising is evolving, becoming more complicated than ever. Today’s advertisers are looking for more effective campaigns with detailed statistics, tracking and targeting.

This new world of online advertising requires the right tools for the job. Gone are the days of simple “Ad Rotators”; today’s campaigns demand the use of a full featured ad server. If you’re not using one you may be leaving money on the table.

Just as airlines use advanced booking software to maximize their revenue, top publishers use third-party ad servers such as AdButler. Here are five strategies will start you off on the right foot when it comes to optimizing your advertising infrastructure.

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by Tanya Akhmett in Graphics  Patterns

This useful trick for using pseudo elements should save you time on your projects: http://adobe.ly/1Nhjqpu