7 Rules To Creating A Professional Portfolio Site If you decided to get involved in web design, no matter what your particular profession is about, sooner or later you will need a portfolio site where your expertise will be showcased. Why is it so important to have a portfolio? The point is that most clients only believe what they see, and your personal portfolio is the visual proof for them to witness your expertise, taste, and personality. But a portfolio site can be a double-edged sword. We summarized these principles into 7 essential rules for you to build or improve your portfolio site, so let’s just get started with rule #1, after jump! Rule 1: Keep Your Objectives Keeping a strong core objective is the key to every successful online portfolio as it lets you know what you have to do, and what the clients should expect. (Image Source: Fotolia) Below, we will explain to you that there are several purposes possible for a portfolio creation: Rule 2: Stick to simplicity Less is more. Rule 3: Be sure to provide ease at use Bonus: Be Unique
In case you were wondering, here's what's happening in your brain during a re... We’ve all been through them, some more than others, and it’s hardly pleasant for either party involved. The fact remains however that, unless you’re planning to remain in your first relationship for the rest of your life, a break-up is a natural event in life. The Nerve’s Drake Baer recently went through a painful break-up and was inspired to pursue an investigation into why we are able to feel such real pain over something that’s completely psychological. After consulting mental health experts and brain researchers he discovered that the ‘need’ we feel for somebody we love is as real as physical requirements like hunger and thirst. The oldest part of our brain, often called the lizard or reptile brain, operates this impulses unconsciously. So, when we are hungry for instance, this primordial piece of our biology excludes all conscious thought that isn’t directly related to satisfying that hunger. ‘It’s not the practice of success.’ Via The Nerve
Go Physically Deeper in Yoga Poses If you're looking to go deeper in your physical asana practice, learning a bit about your body's mechanics is a great way to start. Try using the following in your next practice session and see for yourself it allows you to open up a little more and allow you to move a little deeper in your pose. There are a variety of spinal cord reflex arcs that regulate tension and muscle length during your pose. These arcs automatically occur during movement of the body on varying degrees as a protective mechanism to ensure that the muscle does not get hurt. The reflex arcs are similar to the one that I’m sure you have seen or experienced when a physician taps the front of your knee with a rubber mallet -- your lower leg moves forward, without you doing anything -- that is a spinal cord reflex. Ballistic Stretching On the other hand, passive stretching would be using one’s own body weight, gravity or props to create a stretch. Active Static Stretching Let’s use Janu Sirsasana as an example.
Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley Designer: 8 Places To Build and Showcase Your Portfolio Designers are breaking barriers and going global with their designs and one of the best ways to showcase their talents is to have designer portfolios. An online portfolio is a must for designers who want to take their careers to new levels. From it, clients can have a better view of your advantage over other freelancers. If you don’t because you do not know how to code, know that this is no longer a problem. There are plenty of online platforms that allow you to build your own portfolio in a matter of minutes. Here are 8 such online platforms you can use to build your own portfolios. Recommended Reading: 8 Platforms To Build Photography Portfolios 1. Carbonmade is one of the best portfolio sites available online. The paid package offers a bunch of exciting services starting from domain binding, video & flash project and technical support for $12 per month. 2. 3. 4. Behance is an online platform to showcase creative work, making it easily accessible for designers to explore it. 5. 6. 7.
5 Yoga Poses that Make All Yoga Poses Better (Part 3 of 5) We all want to make our poses better…more integrated, less effortful, more sukha! Over decades of practice and thousands of sequences, I keep coming back to a handful of poses. Do these versatile yoga poses regularly and experience their transformative power on your practice especially when done in a creative, Iyengar way. Salambasana | Locust Pose My teacher used to say the prone backbends were “grunt poses.” So I choose Salambasana as my third choice for poses that help make all poses better. To use a prop or not to use a prop … that is the question! Perhaps the term 'yoga props' comes from the expression to prop things up which gives us yogis the association of props with 'the easy way out.' It can also facilitate staying in the pose longer, as it does in this example, so that one can achieve the physical benefits of the pose. Need a new relationship with Salambasana? Take a chair! © Cara Brostrom How to begin Is Salambasana a good prep pose for more advanced backbends? Photo: wikiHow
Hearts In Harmony | Love That Lasts Forever Making the Transition from Development to Design—My Experience and Advice A couple months ago, a person emailed me asking for tips for transitioning to design from a development background. As someone who had loosely gone through the same path (from programming to design to programming then back to design), I wanted to share any advice I could possibly give. After writing the letter, I thought it may be useful to a few other people out there. So if you are a developer looking to get into design, this is written specifically for you. To preface, this article is not why developers can be good designers. Remember, these are tips based on my personal philosophy and things that have shaped my approach. Tip #1: Don’t stop building things It will not be long before anyone designing software will require an understanding of how to make software. It is important to keep your development skills honed. Tip #2: Learn design in order of dependency Trying to tackle the entire universe of design at once will set you up for failure. Tip #3: Design everything you do
20 Mobile User Interface Design for Your Inspiration Designers of mobile interfaces are becoming more prominent in today’s faced-paced web space. While mobile-optimized sites may lighten the burden on a site developer, some prefer building a full featured app instead. App designers and developers are in high demand now particularly in user interface. UI design focuses on user experience and interaction, and while being easy-to-use is important, an attractive yet still practical design is essential to the success of an app. Today I’d like to show you some mockups, sketches, buttons, tables, splash screens, and many more examples of iPhone app (UI) designs for your inspiration. If you’re familiar with iPhone or iPad designing, you’ll recognize all these terms above. Recommended Reading: Design Killer Mobile App Websites: Tips And Examples