Best of the Web and Design In December 2015
- December 31st, 2015
- News
This is the final monthly round up of year. This round-up is certainly another great compilation of tutorials from illustrator to Photoshop. There’s some great web articles worth reading through about trends what was hot this year, and what to look out for in 2016.
How to Create an Isometric Pixel Art Factory in Adobe Photoshop
We’re continuing the work on our isometric pixel art world, and on this occasion we’ll add an industrial workplace to our library. It may be good to make it look dull, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be pretty as well.
Create a Double Exposure Effect in Adobe Photoshop
In is tutorial I’ll show you how to create a double exposure effect using several stock images, masking and layer modes.
How to Create a Luxurious Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create this gorgeous text effect in Adobe Photoshop. It’s one of a series of 15 Elegant Text Styles, as well as many other styles available to purchase on Envato Market.
Illustrator
How to Create Halftone Effects in Adobe Illustrator
Halftones are dots of varying sizes and spacing, put together to simluate a tone or gradient. Though it is a method connected to print, the aesthetics of it have made it popular to use even for digital content.
How to Create a Cute Gingerbread Man in Adobe Illustrator
Character design is always fun and creative. If you love it as much as I do, then jump into this tutorial and learn how to create a cute gingerbread man character in vector form.
Keep Cozy with a Knitted Text Effect Tutorial!
Get warm, stay toasty, it’s cold out there this winter! Play with texture in this knitted text effect tutorial.
Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes In Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, it will show you how to Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop. This is a simple and fun tutorial, aim to get you familiar with the Shape Tool in Photoshop. Have a try!
Create a Basic Shapes Little City Illustration!
Use simple shapes and lines to create a delightful tiny city illustration!
Web and design
The 10 Big Web Design Trends of 2015
2015 left its unique style on everything, including web design, which continues adapting this year to mobile browsing overtaking desktop. Based on my own discussions with the design team atUXPin, let’s explore the top ten trends and how to continue reaping their benefits going forward into 2016.
The Evolution of CSS
Happy Birthday CSS! You’ve certainly made a big impact in your relatively short life, forever changing the aesthetic of the web.
When It Comes to UX Design, Simplicity Is Overrated
IS SIMPLICITY A real thing? Or is design the pursuit of something else entirely? A Logic 101 professor once explained to the class I was in that a major factor in screaming matches between people is the lack of a shared definition of a key term. “Clean,” for example, can be measured in degrees. It can mean very different things to people depending on their standards of cleanliness. Then there’s a word like “simple.” Two people can have very different definitions of a word like that. Designers, in particular, most definitely do.
4 Things You can do with Screaming Frog that You Couldn’t do a Year Ago
In case you haven’t used it before, Screaming Frog is a web crawler which you can use to crawl a website the way a search engine does. While it does this it spits out pretty much every piece of SEO related data you could think of from each page.
The secrets to effective card-based design
So you want to get on-trend with a card-style interface? That’s probably a great idea; cards are a popular and user-friendly option for all types of digital design on varying device sizes.
An Introduction To PostCSS
One of the relatively recent tools introduced for styling is PostCSS. PostCSS aims to reinvent CSS with an ecosystem of custom plugins and tools. Working with the same principles of preprocessors such as Sass and LESS, it transforms extended syntaxes and features into modern, browser-friendly CSS.
