Articles by Design Modo from January 2014

As freelance designers, we rely on many tools and resources to assist in our day to day activities and to plain and simply put make life easier. From the software we use to the various sites that all...

A little while ago I met Sacha at a bar in San Francisco where I got to chat with him and a bunch of other awesome people about design and other things like life outside of it, yes there is such a thi...

A little while ago I met Sacha at a bar in San Francisco where I got to chat with him and a bunch of other awesome people about design and other things like life outside of it, yes there is such a thi...

Now that 2013 is in the books, many companies are releasing annual data reports. From annual reports to year in review documentation, company reports are likely an important resource for your company,...

The web is crowded with UI solutions that weve inherited from the past, but are still applied because everybody else does. It is time to reconsider all of them, but especially registration forms. When...

Designmodo is pleased to announce the winner of the Startup Design Framework contest. The contest, which started with the new year, allowed one small business website owner to share the story of their...

I wanted to welcome the New Year by bringing about a collection of amazing fonts from fellow designers. I personally love browsing Behance and finding freebies, so I figured I would create a list of a...

Being a basic photo effect for a long time, blurred backgrounds only recently have become a quite popular tool among web designers that had noticed its remarkable ability to help elements to stand out...

Now that you have gone through a series of tutorials with David East to create a custom mail app, he is back in this lesson to show you how to add jQuery functionality to it. The videos in this tutori...

There is a lot of talk out there on the interwebz about great user experience. But what does it all mean? What makes an experience great? In the recent, the new buzzword is actually delightful and tha...

Navigation is a highly complex concept and of course, an integral component of every web project. Being some kind of a gateway into main sections, basically it is a list of links that is responsible f...

To help make 2014 the most awesome year for you yet, here is a collection of amazing Photoshop plugins for you. Im not saying you should download them all as they do a variety of things but browse thr...

With 2013 being over now, we can look forward to an amazing 2014 which will be surely filled with amazing conferences on topics that interest us such as design, user experience, programming, social me...

It seems like everyone is using a white background these days. Gone are the dark and patterns that have been a big part of the design process for a while. And while using a white background may seem l...

It seems like everyone is using a white background these days. Gone are the dark and patterns that have been a big part of the design process for a while. And while using a white background may seem l...

David East is back with another great video tutorial using components from Designmodos Flat UI Pro. In this video, he takes you step-by-step through the process of using LESS and HTML to create a cust...

Typography is one of the most important elements of a design, if not the most important. Content can be put in focus by many elements or design laws, but if it is not readable, there is no way users w...