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Mobile Design Techniques
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Mobile Design Techniques

Remove unnecessary elements in your app and, instead, apply the following mobile design techniques: typography, colors, animation.

How to Design a Mobile App Without Paying A Dime
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How to Design a Mobile App Without Paying A Dime

How do you bridge the gap from developing an app to designing it? If you’re on a budget, here’s how to design a mobile app - without paying a dime!

How To Retain User Engagement After Website Redesign
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How To Retain User Engagement After Website Redesign

5 case studies of website redesign failures that will teach you how to retain user engagement when you roll out a new website design.

From Axure to Principle
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From Axure to Principle

90% of startups without prototypes fail. With prototypes, only 89% do. Jokes aside, I used to create prototypes for the last 18 years. My personal path was from

How Much Do Free Images Really Cost?
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How Much Do Free Images Really Cost?

Table of Contents [hide] 1 What Do You Need Free Images For? 2 What Is a Copyright? 3 Copyright Infringement – How Much Being Careless Can Cost? 4 Are Yo

Blind Method of Hiring a Software Developer
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Blind Method of Hiring a Software Developer

Table of Contents 1 How Come They Passed the Interview? 2 The Blind Method 3 Our Experiment 4 Step 1. Choose a Test Task 5 Step 2. Pick the Candidates 6 S

Career Tips: How to Become a UX Designer
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Career Tips: How to Become a UX Designer

In this post, Icons8 founder Ivan Braun shares his experience with a bunch of useful tips and links for newbies in UX design.

Best Practices for Website Header Design
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Best Practices for Website Header Design

The article lets you look a bit closer at the functions of a website header and recommendations for its design. Packed with UI design examples.

Essential Guide to SVG Icons – When to Use and How to Edit
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Essential Guide to SVG Icons – When to Use and How to Edit

Are you a beginning front-end developer? Would you like to get the most out of vector icons? Then this guide is for you!

What to Do If Someone Steals From You 7 Times a Day
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What to Do If Someone Steals From You 7 Times a Day

The Icons8 team share their experience on authorship abuse, infringements, and unpleasant side of creative business as stealing design results

How To Customize Folders on a Mac
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How To Customize Folders on a Mac

Check the easy guide on customizing and organizing your folders

How to Open Sketch File on Windows
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How to Open Sketch File on Windows

Sketch is a Mac App. But what should you do if you only have Windows, and this damned Sketch file someone sent you? Check the set of options on how to solve thi

How to Combine Icons from Different Sets in Your UI
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How to Combine Icons from Different Sets in Your UI

There is no problem in finding icons, the variety is huge. With that, however, comes a problem. Learn how to effectively combine icons from different sets.

Vibrant Colors For Apps and Sites
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Vibrant Colors For Apps and Sites

Color is one of the most powerful tools in the designer’s toolkit. Here you'll find some practical techniques on using vibrant colors in your designs.

How To Design Christmas T-Shirt For Your Friends and Family
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How To Design Christmas T-Shirt For Your Friends and Family

Check the simple video tutorial showing how to make a cool Christmas t-shirt and meet your winter holidays in style

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