20 Free Photoshop Layer Styles for Creating Beautiful Text Effects
Create beautiful text effects in Photoshop by downloading any one of these layer style PSD templates in this stunning collection.
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Convention for sorting within a sort on grids
The convention of a sort-able grid seems to be well established. A user sorts on a column by clicking on the header and an arrow appears indicating the direction of the sort. However when the column that is sorted contains many duplicates …
How to Find Out What a Web Design Client Really Needs
Do you have a client that doesn’t know the process of developing a website? There are some things you can do to help them.
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Creating an accessible, animated, and responsive navigation system
I’ve been struggling for the past couple weeks to design the perfect navigation (menu) system for my personal website which I am designing.
First, I need a system that is completely accessible as I am trying to reach compliance with the …
WCAG AA Compliance and Card Patterns
Question on product cards and WCAG AA compliance.
We are specifically questioning the link styles of this clickable cards—which take you to a new page.
Each card you see has a focus + hover state for the title to underline.
Callout A:…
The 5 Traits of an Ethical Freelance Web Designer
Ethics are often very personal, and what I find acceptable may not sit so well with you and vice-versa. But there are some general traits that most designers can agree on.
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When to ask for login?
I own an online store for video games and use the Stripe API for handling payments.
This is the current order of events: Add to cart → Checkout → Enter Card Info → Charge → Download Item. To battle piracy, I recently installed a login page…
8 Free Resources to Help Web Designers with GDPR Compliance
We have a selection of helpful resources that you can use to bring your websites up to GDPR compliance. Remember, GDPR applies to everybody.
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Distinguishing aria-live speech from UI accessible names
We just ran our first user test of an accessible UI prototype with blind and partially-sighted testers. In spite of my efforts to follow the various recommendations and WCAG specifications, there were major issues.
By far the greatest of …
What do you call tooltips that stay on hover?
I am trying to create a style guide and have two types of tooltips and am having a hard time finding a semantic naming for them.
Type 1 – Stays if you hover over the tooltip, so that you can include links. This type is to include informat…