One of the stickiest situations you can get into as a designer, blogger, or business person, in general, is grabbing a random photo or video from the internet and not giving credit to the person who created it. The same goes for other items like fonts and vectors. However, paying for an image or another asset like… READ MORE
A picture is worth a thousand words, so the saying goes, but maybe some pictures are worth more than others. Is it better to use photographs or illustrations? That’s the question this article will examine. As is so often the case, there is no definitive answer, however what is clear is that there are certain… READ MORE
It is interesting to note that many designers focus exclusively on traditional marketing sectors such as web design and advertising, while apparently ignoring the huge market potential of an industry that is much older than either of the others. What I’m talking about here is the publishing industry, a multi-trillion dollar business with more than… READ MORE
Want to know something that’s costing you visitors, money and time, but is easily preventable? It’s the myths your marketing team (and maybe even people higher up the chain of command) have gobbled up about site design and the user experience, believing them simply because somebody with a little bit of fame said them, and… READ MORE
Even after all these years, when the differences between operating systems has become increasingly blurred, the majority of designers are heavily entrenched in the Mac camp. Many of them will never leave it because they’ve fallen head over heels in love with the brand. Other designers use Windows because it’s what they started out with,… READ MORE
In the past, we’ve seen all sorts of customer rewards startups vying for attention. One roadblock to success has been that they try to get a little too fancy. Merchants struggle with setting them up, while customers don’t understand how to check-in or redeem rewards. But that’s not the case with the flok customer loyalty rewards… READ MORE
Redesigning a website is one of the more challenging tasks you can take on as a designer, and in fact many designers are not really up to the challenge because they don’t set about doing it in the right way. If you’re the kind of designer who really cares about always doing your best work,… READ MORE
Most websites using responsive design are using it incorrectly, which leads to problems. The general approach to responsive design is a lazy one, and if you take that approach, some of your responsive sites will work absolutely flawlessly, and many of them won’t. For those that do work perfectly, it will probably come down to… READ MORE
It seems like every profession eventually ends up needing to use a screen capture software. Whether it’s for simple screenshots or webinar videos, people need to make guides and all sorts of videos for internal or external use. Some of the more complex screen capture tools cost hundreds of dollars. And most of the time… READ MORE
