Articles by Design Modo from May 2013

E-mail marketing has been very popular in the past ten years and it still is, most likely because of its relatively reduced costs, low amount of work required and quite large potential audience. E-mai...

Flat design the design community just can’t stop talking about it. And feelings are strong. Most designers either can’t get enough of this trend, or absolutely hate it. I am somewhere in ...

Undoubtedly, mobile applications are at the peak of its popularity nowadays. Developers contrive to please us not only by great idea or advanced technical side, but also with gorgeous truly remarkable...

I want to talk to you about Josef Albers. Albers was a teacher of art and the study colour. He was arguably one of the most influential art teachers in the 20th Century. He developed influential progr...

Just in time for Googles annual I/O developers conference, the web giant launched a pretty dramatic redesign to its Google+ social networking arm and Google Maps. And Google is on-trend. The design sc...

We are gradually getting used to the fact that professional designers dont have limits; they just simply push boundaries of general conceptions and recreate whatever comes to their minds. One of the b...

Today, we launch the first important update for Flat UI Pro, (v. 1.1). Exactly two weeks ago, we made the official release of Flat UI Pro, and even on the first day, there was a huge flow of users who...

Today, we launch the first important update for Flat UI Pro (v. 1.1). Two weeks ago, Designmodo officially released Flat UI Pro, and even on the first day there was a huge flow of users who were inter...

Ive admired Danns work since Ive started in this industry; I found his work to be simply amazing and Ive always wanted to achieve such sexy designs myself. Im sure I am not the only one as Dann is a v...

Topic: CSS3 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 45 min In this tutorial, we will be creating a flat style navigation with a search box and dropdown menu from the Square UI. HTML Code T...

Quality website is based on three fundamental postulates: design, development and content. The latter has a greater impact on users rather than the first two since its changeable nature, at first plac...

Part of my job is consulting with web designers to help them make more money. I get to hear about a lot of pain within the web design community. It never fails. The #1 painful comment that I hear more...

I like big type and I cannot lie OK, thats not exactly how 1990s rap anthem by Sir Mix-a-Lot goes, but you get the idea. Big typography is trending in a major way. And thats a good thing. The point o...

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 15 minutes In this tutorial we will deal with some combination of gradient fills with the help of Blending modes, gradients wit...

Every day we stumble upon marvelous websites that overwhelm us by creative truly unique designs, wonderfully incorporated animations and high-level technical side. However, generally majority of them ...

On May 6th 2013, I read that Adobe had decided to stop development of Fireworks. A sad news especially for me as I have been using it since 2001. I developed interest in the web thanks to a book title...

Prototyping just got easier and faster with Designmodo’s release of Flat UI Pro, a user interface kit made in the flat design style. The stunning kit contains basic components, glyphs, icons and...

Recently we have made a collection dedicated to food-inspired website designs that replete with stunning color schemes, massive use of textures and patterns, well-thought typography treatments, and, o...

A software however good has to improve continuously or will be outdated very soon in this time of fast technological change. WordPress is highly popular and a strong community around it also is enhanc...

Numerous types of art have penetrated into digital designing. Many conventional art forms received its second rebirth; a prime example of this is watercolor technique that has become really popular in...

Fred is another one of the well known faces within our industry thanks to a few of his projects getting very popular on online communities especially Behance. He is a great inspiration for many inclu...