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Related: User ExperienceUX for Mobile: The Rise of Fat-Finger Design We already know that users are turning to mobile for all kinds of needs: from simple-search to shopping, to the use of financial apps. And we also know that mobile-friendly websites are better ranked. But at the beginning of 2018, Google announced the mobile-first indexing since a lot of user searches are made on a mobile device. 30 Useful Responsive Web Design Tutorials So we’ve reached the end of our "Responsive Web Design week", tonight’s post will be the last of the series. We are going all out to help you hone your skills in manipulating those codes to respond at will when displayed on different devices. And to do this, we are featuring 30 Responsive Web Design Tutorials found online. This list is not meant to be an exhaustive one but it will get you started on understanding the basics of designing an adaptive website that will cater to all sorts of screen sizes. We’ll start off with introductory tutorials in ‘Breaking the Ice’, something like an RWD: 101 class you should attend to get the hang of the concept before we move on to ‘Start Building’ exercises.
Design for Fingers, Touch, and People, Part 1 Capacitive Touch Now, in 2017, when someone talks about touchscreens, they mean capacitive touch. This is the type of touchscreen on all mobile phones, tablets, entertainment systems, cars, kiosks, and increasingly, other small devices that are currently in production.
15 Nice Solutions for Free Contact Form Services There are many free options from which you can create a contact form for your website. The services usually offer both free service plans with less features and the paid ones which will remove the limitations and offer extra features. In this round-up, you’ll find the range of 15 free contact form services that allow you to create contact forms easily even without knowing much about PHP programming. Note that some of them may additionally have advanced premium options that actually require a monthly fee. Need contact form builders?
Design for Fingers, Touch, and People, Part 2 Few people hold their phone with two hands and two thumbs on the screen. At least, they don’t usually hold their phone that way. But people shift their grip when typing, and 41% of users hold their phone with both hands and tap using their thumbs when typing. Summary
Checkerboard, striped & other background patterns with CSS3 gradients You’re probably familiar with CSS3 gradients by now, including the closer to the standard Mozilla syntax and the ugly verbose Webkit one. I assume you know how to add multiple color stops, make your gradients angled or create radial gradients. What you might not be aware of, is that CSS3 gradients can be used to create many kinds of commonly needed patterns, including checkered patterns, stripes and more. View demo (Works in Webkit, Firefox 3.6+, Opera 11.50+ and IE10+) The main idea behind the technique is the following, taken from the CSS3 Images spec:
Carousels on Mobile Devices On desktop, the carousel has always been a popular way to stick multiple pieces of content on the front page without taking up too much space. On mobile, carousels increased in popularity when the iPad was first introduced. (Original iPad designs were fascinated by the etched-screen aesthetic and wanted to control the layout in the tiniest detail. 11 Background & CSS Pattern Generators A good pattern can make all of the difference for some designs. I myself just upgraded my web design, and started using a wooden background pattern, which I think has made a huge difference on the overall experience of the site, and in a positive way, of course. My most recent post – prior to this – that involves colors was the post about color scheme and palette generators, which for more experienced users can be the same as a pattern generator.
9 tips to improve user experience A designer is like an architect that builds a website’s foundation and makes it aesthetically pleasing for users. From the moment of a website concept’s birth, designers must consider user-friendliness and how each little element comes together in the eyes of the consumer. There are dozens of elements that play into the overall feel of a website for the end user, and user experience (UX) is impacted by all the parts—big and small. Around 88 percent of consumers state they’ve had a bad mobile experience on websites, and 30 percent won’t return to a site after a bad UX experience. Similarly, in a brick-and-mortar store, the user experience impacts the overall impression the customer has of your brand and whether they want to visit your store again. Clearly, user experience has a crucial impact on the success of your site or store, so it’s important to get it right.
30 Pure CSS3 Tutorials & Examples CSS3 contains several new important features to enhance your designes, it has completly opened new posibilities for designers. With CSS3 and HTML5, one can now create extremely modern and very stylish web designes, loaded with effects and animations. But CSS3 selectors are relatevily new and are not supported in older browser, especially the older Internet Explorer versions. Click here to see visual display of HTML5 and CSS3 support.
Finding hobbies tailored to your needs — a UX case study A few weeks ago, a friend of mine expressed how frustrated she was because she had to stop practicing one of her favorite hobbies. She just didn’t have time for it anymore. Her studies and her job were increasingly taking more time from her. Moreover, having a 2-hour commute every day was not helping her. I discussed this topic with a few more friends, and I was surprised to find this was a common issue. People were frustrated because they had to abandon some of their hobbies and had issues keeping up with the rest of hobbies that they still tried to practice.
Master CSS gradients | CSS3 | Creative Bloq Knowledge needed: Intermediate HTML, good CSS Requires: Text editor, recent browser version Project time: 4-6 hours Download source files This is an edited excerpt of Chapter 11 of The Book of CSS3: A Developer’s Guide to the Future of Web Design by Peter Gasston. The word gradient has many different meanings, but in CSS, a gradient is strictly defined as a gradual transition between a range of (at least two) colours. CSS gradients are a fairly recent development but have already been through a number of changes. They were originally proposed by the WebKit team in April 2008, modified from the syntax proposed for the canvas element in HTML 5. The W3C’s CSS Working Group later proposed a modified syntax, and this syntax is in the latest revisions of the Image Values Module.
2019 UI/UX Design Trends You Should Know – Akveo Engineering The designer needs to stay on top of the latest design trends. The work style should change and evolve to keep work fresh and resonate with clients and products. The 2019 year collected a lot of trends from the last year and also add some new ones. So take a look at the juiciest trends for this year that I’ve picked out. Colorful and custom made illustrations