Articles by Design Modo from February 2013

2012 has truly been the year in which many companies finally adopted responsive website design. Web Design is a fast evolving craft and it had its share of many trends which come and go. But unlike ma...

As an owner of online resource whether it is a simple blog, a magazine, a small news portal or e-shop we are tend to make it as popular and successful as possible. There are a plenty tricks and tips t...

All of you know that Designmodo sells high-quality and large UI Kits. Some time ago, we crossed the milestone of 10,000 sales and 1,000,000 free downloads. We are excited about these milestones and wa...

Doing freelance work is simply the best way to improve your skills and build up a portfolio if you are a student or a new designer. Therefore I have been spending a lot of time on the internet doing w...

All of you know that Designmodo sells high-quality and large UI Kits. Some time ago, we crossed the milestone of 10,000 sales and 1,000,000 free downloads. We are excited about these milestones and wa...

All of you know that Designmodo sells high-quality and large UI Kits. Some time ago, we crossed the milestone of 10,000 sales and 1,000,000 free downloads. We are excited about these milestones and wa...

Whats old is new again. Thats the way most trends seem to work anyway. Retro color palettes are a great example of how an old look is being reborn in web design. Retro color styles are popping up in a...

jQuery, is it a popular buzzword or an effective JavaScript, what to say and how to define it? Yes, they both add values to the word jQuery. It is a popular JavaScript and a rocking word in the web in...

Traditionally whenever you click a link on a web page it might do a request on the server for that URL and the complete page will be fetched from the server. This is fine in some cases but in some cas...

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 15 minutes Your knowledge of basic functions of transformation and duplication in Adobe Illustrator can save you a lot of time....

Square UI Kit is an absolutely new PSD User Interface Pack including a set of beautiful and pure components, which you can use in creating the design of any project: small startup projects, sites, iOS...

Used mainly in online stores in order to increase conversion rates, progress indicators make users pass the required procedures which are necessary to complete the purchase. Along with a shopping cart...

Today, we are pleased to share a new and beautiful UI Kit for designers featuring the flat design trend. Square UI is our latest PSD User Interface Pack including a set of beautiful and pure component...

How scientific is your approach to design? Could the look of your site benefit from a little research? By learning more about how people read and look at websites, designers can make smarter decisions...

jQuery, is it a popular buzzword or an effective JavaScript, what to say and how to define it? Yes, they both add values to the word jQuery. It is a popular JavaScript and a rocking word in the web in...

You should be paying attention to stencil. First, I recommend you throw away the image of ugly fonts sprayed onto industrial shipping crates and used for all sorts of army themed media. The stencil st...

Topic: HTML / CSS3 Difficulty: Beginner Estimated Completion Time: 35 mins On almost every website, blog, magazine or business you come across on the internet; it has some kind social media content or...

The mobile user experience is one of the hottest design topics to date. What do mobile users want and expect? How can designers and developers better create great sites for users on smaller screens? C...

WordPress is a big project with a lot of developers working on it. It also has a huge amount of themes and plugins which are written by teams of developers or individual developers. When a project gro...

Do you know what exactly is Retina? Do you know what makes it amazing or what makes it a nightmare for designers and developers? Well read on to understand the technology and the various ways you can ...

In this tutorial I will teach you the basics of the Photoshop Pen tool, which allows you to create your own, custom shapes. Well pass through the basics of the tool, and we will pass through a series ...

Pricing table is one of the few components that in their structure and purpose remain unchanged since the time of its occurrence. It is usually used as a tool that aimed to pull together data and show...

TYPOGRAPHY is the balance and interplay of letterforms on the page, a verbal and visual equation that helps the reader understand the form and absorb the substance of the page content. Typography play...

Adobe Fireworks CS6 is an ideal tool for creating prototypes. There are several advantages of using Fireworks over its sibling Photoshop, but the one I want to share with you in this article is the Pa...

Are we about so see more snakes and s-curves trending in design? According to the Chinese calendar, the year of the snake begins on Feb. 10, and in many years the animal represented gets more attentio...

Polygonal art along with the Metro style began to agitate the minds of designers in the past year. Whereas style of Windows 8 immediately found itself in web design, Poly thoroughly settled in print i...

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 15 minutes Today we will be talking about objects alignment using the Align panel and combining them with the help of the Pathf...

At Designmodo we want to give you the best tools to be creative. Today, were quickly rounding up the most notable fonts that were released last month: 16 paid fonts, and as many free ones as we could ...

Polaris UI Free is a set of beautiful free UI components, which includes Edit Boxes, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Page Navigation, Menu, Buttons, etc. You can use this UI Kit in any of your projects, a...

Linecons Free is a set of remarkable free vector icons. The set contains 48 fully scalable vector icons with outline styles. You can use these icons when creating web and mobile interfaces. They will ...

WordPress widgets give the developer a tool to create functionality for the site. Then these widgets can be displayed on any widgetised area of the theme by the site admin. These widgets can have a wi...

In the last few weeks the debate over skeuomorphism has been getting more and more heated. I would like to make two points for you in this post. First, what skeuomorphism actually is as Ive seen so m...

Even if youre an experienced designer, its never a bad time to refresh your memory a little with the structure of serif typefaces, a few recommendations and a little history. Yes, theres history. Its ...

Even if youre an experienced designer, its never a bad time to refresh your memory a little with the structure of serif typefaces, a few recommendations and a little history. Yes, theres history. Its ...

Flat design a concept popular many years ago in design is making a comeback. With many redesigns and new websites employing a flat design scheme, the trend is appearing almost everywhere, both on we...