The Golden Ratio in Design: Examples & Tips

This might feel like a math lesson but hang in there. The golden ratio combines a little bit of math, a little bit of nature, and a lot of practical application for designers. Let’s take a look at what the golden ratio means for design, and a few tips for using it in your design […]
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How to Improve UX with the Right Front-End

These days, a lot of companies choose to hire a dedicated WordPress developer to create affordable and simple websites with interactive front-end components. The journey commences with finding someone you can trust at a rate you can afford. This typically translates into spending endless hours conducting conference calls, drafting long emails, and dealing with other …
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Having fun with link hover effects

A designer I work with was presenting comps at a recent team meeting. She had done a wonderful job piecing together the concept for a design system, from components to patterns and everything in between that would make any front-end developer happy.

But there was a teeny tiny detail in her work that caught my eye: the hover state for links was a squiggle.

Default link (top) and hover effect (bottom)

Huh! Not only had I not seen that before, …

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20+ Best Lightroom Presets for Portraits

You don’t have to be a pro photographer or a graphic designer to optimize and enhance your portrait photos. With the right Adobe Lightroom preset for portraits, you can apply stunning effects, all by yourself. In this collection, we feature the best Lightroom presets available for quickly optimizing your portrait photos, selfies, wedding photos, and […]
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Safari Ripper ☠️

Security researcher Sabri posted a bit of code that will “force restart any iOS device.” It’s interesting to see HTML & CSS have this kind of dangerous power. It’s essentially a ton of <div>s scaled to be pretty huge and then set over a repeating JPG image with each <div> blurring the background via backdrop-filter. It must cause such extreme and unhandled memory usage that it wreaks havoc on the browser as well as the entire operating system.…

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Content Marketing Strategies to Boost Your ROI

Content marketing is the techniques companies to create and distribute content in order to attract more visitors to their website. It is a very useful tool in not only proving you’re an expert in your field but also finding new ways to reach people. Here are some ways to up your content marketing game and …
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How to Optimize Your WordPress Site

While it can be incredibly simple to set up a WordPress website, what’s not so easy is making sure that it is properly optimized. WordPress is ideal when it comes to SEO. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a few changes that you can make in order to make it even better. Let’s discuss …
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